And what you did was absolutely correct. In your building there is security whose job it is to help deal with these grey areas. You escorted him to security.
In Zimmerman's case, he initially did the right thing. He had suspicions and called 911. Good job. Still would have sucked to be Martin and get the cops called on you because you are a black youth wearing a hoodie. And I would have liked to have a scene where people don't call the cops on a black kid until the black kid in question actually does something...you know...illegal. But, still, I can understand Zimmerman's issue there, even if I would not do the same thing. The bit where he becomes a stalker with a gun is when he then ignores 911 instructions ( I know that they are not police), proceeds to stalk the kid, then gets out of the car to confront him. All without a single illegal behavior on the part of Martin. In Cam's case, the dude is in a private building. Escorting him to security is totally reasonable because it is private property. In the case of Zimmerman and Martin, there is no such reasonableness. Martin is squarely within his rights, walking independently, and Zimmerman is trying to detain the dude. You put Tim in the part of Martin, hoodie-wearing punk dude, and Zimmerman may have been in the hospital before he got a chance to draw his gun. And rightly so. The fact that Martin wasn't as good of a fighter as Tim is no reason to blame him for his own death, when he had no part in causing it. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > Trayvon Martin was not giving him shit. He was walking home with a bag of > > Skittles to watch a football game with his dad. He wasn't entering > anyone's > > building. He wasn't stealing anything. > > > This guy told me he was looking for a company and gave me the company name. > I did not witness him stealing anything. I did not know for sure that he > was going to steal anything. He may have even been telling the truth. I > really think he probably was fishing for things to steal, but I did not > know that for sure. That's why I escorted him to the security desk to "find > that company he's looking for" instead of accusing him. > > I am 100% sure that the building security as well as the police would tell > me not to do that sort of thing, just like the did Zimmerman. It could have > turned out in a similar "he said vs he said" or "he said vs "he's dead" > situation. I am not saying it's identical, but I am saying that sometimes > situations can spiral out of control. Mine did not. But it does make me > think - what if..... > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
