re: #59 Obdicut

There’s still plenty of stuff to be concerned about in the way that the police acted; there’s still, obviously, the moral guilt of Zimmerman acting like a vigilante and following around a guy. It may not be illegal— and I think that she might be wrong about SYG not applying, since one of the things SYG did was to remove the need to meet force with proportionate force— but it’s still obviously wrong to try to be a vigilante in the way that Zimmerman did. There was no reason for him to profile Trayvon as a suspected criminal, and his doing so led to the encounter.

We have a series of burglaries in the local neighborhood, which had been serious enough that a watch was created that had the approval and support of the SPD. The members of it had been advised to report suspicious activity, which from all appearances GZ thought he was doing. It could be argued, I’d have to agree, that he was overzealous in his actions. But I’m not going to argue that I know what the man was thinking that night.