Quote:
Originally Posted by J4Truth
Well Praxeus said follow. That's pretty neutral. Pursuit or pursuing indicates a means of intending confrontation or capture. Stalking nearly always have negative connotations. Following could be classed as stalking and pursuing as well as keeping a distance but keeping in view.
And again we don't know if Z was "actively pursuing" or, (after not knowing where TM went and the dispatch advising not to follow him,) was indeed heading back to his truck.
For me, who confronted who and how a fight or assault ensued is the most important aspect to the case. And considering that is the part everyone seems to be in the dark about, I can't really lean towards guilt or not guilty. And because our law states innocent until proven guilty without reasonable doubt...
|
If you looked earlier in the thread you would have seen the problems with follow and why I was looking for a more precisely descriptive word than follow.
I can follow a red car down the road and not actually be attempting to see where it goes. I can follow it simply by virtue of it being in front of me and me going in a similar direction. Zimmerman was not following Trayvon in this sense.
He was following him in the active sense and not the passive sense that I was talking about above. It's this active following or active pursuit that Zimmerman was doing.
We know the reason Zimmerman was actively following Trayvon too. He told the 911 operator why. He said these ******** always get away. That's the reason he was following trayvon so he didn't get away. I'm not saying Zimmerman killed him in cold blood so that he didn't get away. But I am saying that Zimmerman was in such a state of mind that he was going to do everything possible to make sure trayvon was there when the police arrived. Again he didn't intend to kill him to make this happen but he would have confronted him and tried to restrain him so that he wouldnt get away and that's the instagating act.
Threaded Mode
