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In reply to the discussion: I've never believed that Trayvon ran up on Z to throw the "first punch." [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)I stand by my assertion that it does us no service to twist the facts when making our 'cases' about the wrongness of what happened.
I actually misspoke myself above, it was not even a 911 operator Z was speaking to, it was a 311 operator (non-emergency), at least according to Randi on her show which I was just listening to.
To claim that GZ received 'police orders' to 'stay in his car' or the like is just simply not true, and we don't need to resort to untruths in order to make our argument here.
GZ was *informed* by a volunteer 311 operator, someone with zero authority and probably little training, who was doing nothing but covering their own ass ... that he was not *obliged* to follow Trayvon.
It's basically a meaningless factoid, yet I see people conflating it into a 'police order' all over the internet lately by TM supporters, a group I consider myself part of.
I just really feel like we don't *need* resort to BS, & we're just inviting people to reject our argument by doing so.