They drug tested Trayvon, but not Zimmerman

[Enrique]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/21/trayvon-martin-civil-rights-police-chief-resignation?newsfeed=true

Criticism of the police investigation is focused on the failure to arrest Zimmerman, but also on the failure to test him for drugs or alcohol, a common practice in homicide investigations, in particular because they tested the teenager after his death.

[TheWraith]

1. Alcohol is what I'd most suspect.

Although at this point testing for that is out the window.

[librechik]

2. maybe he didn't take the meds he should have

we'll never know, thanks to the blundering Florida croneys I mean cops.

[Booster]

3. Those cops couldn't have messed this up any more if they tried. Disgusting.

[rufus dog]

6. Maybe they did try

Seems the most logical conclusion.

[Mariana]

16. That's what I think.

Laziness and racism combined seems like the most likely answer to me. They didn't want to be bothered with all the hard work of a murder investigation when the victim was a young black male person, whom they probably figured deserved to be killed. I think if victim had been someone important, like a white person, they'd have busted their asses collecting evidence and getting incriminating witness statements.

[11 Bravo]

18. Lazy, small-town southern cop, suddenly in over his head also makes sense.

[CakeGrrl]

11. I think they did everything they could to OBSTRUCT justice.

Maybe if a couple of them roll over on others under Federal investigative pressure, we'll know why it was so blatant...or if it was just as obvious as it seems.

[SamG]

21. I would hope a FEW of them face charges of

obstruction.

They won't be police folks much longer.

[asjr]

4. Zimmerman must have been living in his fantasy

of being an undercover agent defending the city after dark.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. That's beyond outrageous. Really.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Also....they let Trayvon's body sit in the morgue for 3 days even though they had his cell phone

and could have easily contacted people on the phone. They never even questioned the girl he was talking to right before he was killed in cold blood.....probably didn't even check phone records. The parents reported him missing and called 911, yet it took the police days to inform his parents. They also showed a picture of Trayvon with blood coming out of his mouth to his parents. No decency to even clean up the blood before taking photos and showing them to the victim's family.

[Enrique]

9. I heard about the delay from Al Sharpton

the death happens within walking distance of his father's house, a number of people in the neighborhood saw it and saw the dead body, and somehow word doesn't get to the father for two days. How can that make any sense? Two days with a dead body in that tiny town, with a missing kid, and word doesn't get to the father.

[Mz Pip]

8. This was a failure on so many levels

Why was a person who repeatedly made 911 calls over often bogus things allowed to continue carrying a weapon? It seems so obvious after the fact that Zimmerman was itching to pop someone. He probably had fantasies of being hailed as a hero.

Not only should Zimmerman be investigated but the lack of some previous attention to Zimmerman should also be looked into.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Yup. Zimmerman called 911 simply because he saw black people he had never seen before

In fact, all the tapes have him reporting only black people. Also, in the tapes I heard, he doesn't even say they are committing crimes. He just says they look suspicious and he's never seen them before. That's it.

[Wait Wut]

12. This whole story is just making me sick.

I made the mistake of stalking some rw sites and became even more disgusted. The "it wasn't racially motivated" crap is common. Yes, Zimmerman is supposedly of Hispanic descent, and that means that his attack on a black teenager wasn't racially motivated????? I'm from Chicago. There's plenty of racially motivated attacks between Hispanics and blacks. I've also known several very bigoted Hispanics and blacks. Along with bigoted Italians, Asians, Native Americans, Europeans and...Americans. It isn't just racially motivated when it involves a white person. And, let's be totally friggin honest, it would still be a bigoted attack if it had been a homeless white person that looked "suspicious". Bigotry has gone beyond color, race and faith.

If their races had been reversed, the rw would still be defending the shooter. One more of any of "them" off the planet is a good thing in their eyes. To hell with logic and rationality.

I don't know how much more of this kind of shit I can take. Living in Arizona has made me terribly intolerant of stupidity and bigotry...not to be redundant.

This young man's face has been burned into my mind. He died terrified and confused. That's something that his parents will live with for the rest of their lives. Knowing they couldn't protect him.

[CatWoman]

17. I talked to a coworker from that area yesterday

and he said the Latinos were pissed at Zimmerman too because his actions has caused a rift between the two communities in Florida.

They had just healed/patched up that riff, and this asshole comes along thinking he's Wyatt Earp and screwed up that peace

[Wait Wut]

19. I hope he's wrong.

And, I think he is. Public outcry has reached beyond race and even politics. I'm kinda proud of this country, right now. I think the pressure is on to prosecute Zimmerman and it's coming from all directions. Yes, there are the idiots that are still crying for his innocence, but their voices are being shouted down.

[Faryn Balyncd]

13. The Sanford "Police" Dept's 1st & only priority was to manufacture a defense for the executioner.

They should be prosecuted for fraudulent misrepresentation by using the word "Police".

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Enrique.

[Quantess]

15. The investigation does appear very biased, doesn't it?

[fascisthunter]

20. WOW

the more that comes out, the worse this story gets. Racism is alive and well... also remember, the law that was just passed is also a motivating factor for law enforcement to seek any way to make this murder look justified. The gun industry has a lot of money... and unfortunately, too much influence.