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Showing Original Post only (View all)Far too many people are missing the point: This is an attempted police coverup. [View all]
Without the local police doing their utmost to cover up for Zimmerman, this would be a relatively open and shut case. Self defense has nothing to do with it; Zimmerman's actions aren't protected by self-defense laws in Florida or anywhere else in the country. But not only did the police go out of their way to avoid doing all the normal things that would have been done in other cases--drug and alcohol testing for Zimmerman, interrogation, a more robust investigation--but they also have been reinterpreting witness statements to support Zimmerman's story, as well as blankly deciding that he wouldn't be charged. That's far more than incompetence, and reaches well into the territory of deliberate coverup.
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Far too many people are missing the point: This is an attempted police coverup. [View all]
TheWraith
Mar 2012
OP
I just commented on that on a different thread. Police are learning the hard way that this is not
appleannie1
Mar 2012
#1
There is probably a lot more of the cover up activity than we know...in this case!
murray hill farm
Mar 2012
#13
I tend to think its more like shoddy police work, they went through the motions based on a bias...
Historic NY
Mar 2012
#16
Was he at least taken to police headquarters to give a statment of what happened? n/t
patricia92243
Mar 2012
#49