What makes someone "Suspicious"...

[MrScorpio]

If they're doing nothing more than walking down a sidewalk and quietly minding their own business?

Can anyone answer that?

[SwampG8r]

1. you are making me a little suspicious

the way you keep not looking over here

[Cali_Democrat]

2. According to Zimmerman:

“just walking around looking about.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/18/446768/what-everyone-should-know-about-about-trayvon-martin-1995-2012/?mobile=nc

[Cleita]

3. Well, in my rural neighborhood, it's anyone who doesn't live here and

who hangs around too long. It seems no matter what they look like, if there are strangers of any description around, who seem to be hanging around too much, it's cause to be getting phone calls from the neighbors alerting one to keep an eye on such persons.

[MrScorpio]

4. Loitering is one thing...

But what if they were just passing through?

[Cleita]

6. Passing through is permitted as long as they make it

pretty quickly or show signs that they are visiting someone in the neighborhood like parking in the driveway and disappearing into the house being visited. We do have many passer throughs who are taking walks, running or riding bicycles as long as they keep going.

[ileus]

5. some believe trust no one, some trust everyone.

Someone driving slowly past my house I consider suspicious. Someone standing on the wrong street corner...Someone out of place. Actions. Looks. Anything....everything...nothing.

Be careful out there...safety first, don't follow suspicious people be alert and aware but don't engage.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. A suspicious mind?

It's what keeps paranoids in business, after all. Aside from that, suspicions are based on prejudices, which leads to profiling.

[handmade34]

8. suspicion is often subjective

according to what the person deems culturally "normal"...

I often think of this because the nature of my job makes me often looks suspicious; but I am an old white woman so most of the time I am 'safe'. I do know that when I go into very poor neighborhoods or very wealthy neighborhoods to do my work, I know how people look at me and the way they confront (or not confront) me...

...in Trayvon Martin's case?... I understand (but absolutely don't condone reaction to his behavior). He is in a neighborhood that may be different from his own and he may be just merely looking at the different structures thinking about how and in what ways other people live... I do that all the time (but as I said, I am one of the 'privileged' )

the problem is that even when we don't know why a person is behaving a certain way, many of us form judgements without actual knowledge... Suspicion comes from fear and insecurity and lack of exposure to the "other"



...or is this just a rhetoric question??

[One_Life_To_Give]

9. Anything that appears out of the ordinary

Could be as simple as Dress Shoes and Jeans. A shade left either up or down. In one recent case it was failure to order Pizza for a couple days.

[gratuitous]

10. Anyone who refers to himself by a zodiac sign

Highly suspicious.



Highly.