re: #644 Buck

I see no evidence that the police didn’t look at the evidence they had at the time. They took his gun and took him handcuffed to be questioned.
They also secured the scene with crime scene tape. They started a crime scene contamination log. They called the Major Crimes to respond. They obtained statements from all the witnesses on the scene, and canvassed the neighbours. They stayed and turned the investigation over to SPD Major Crimes.

However to say that you automatically arrest is simply not true.

If the Sanford Police Dept. did such a stand-up and competent job handling this case, why did Trayvon’s body sit in a morgue for three days before his parents were notified? Cops had the kid’s cell phone, but they couldn’t figure out who his parents were?

Actually it’s that sort of Barney Fife policing that brought the Feds down to Sanford in the first place.