re: #66 darthstar

I’ve known a number of Zimmermans personally, growing up in rural Northern California. They take their neighborhood watch, mall security, apartment night watch shit seriously. Each of the people I knew who was an un-armed security guard kept a gun in his car “just in case something big went down and he had to help the police.”

Maybe - but Zimmerman broke a number of basic principles of official neighborhood watch practice: being armed, getting out of his car, not being on the phone with other members of his organization, being alone.

I have to wonder if he was ever even trained by any kind of registered neighborhood watch program. Have you read anything about his affiliation with a specific neighborhood watch group? I heard interviews with neighborhood watch people who are pretty quick to denounce Zimmerman’s actions as being completely inconsistent with their practices.