Sanford Police aids in a cover-up to saves “wanta-be” cop image

Any person properly trained in the art of law enforcement knows that there is at least five stages of force.  The first is presence, second is verbal, third is physical, fourth is chemical and five is deadly.  Each of these stages should be given ample time to work and depending on the situation will determine how much time is ample.  According to the article by Matt Gutman, Olivia Katrandjian and Seni Tienabeso of ABC News it is reported that George Zimmerman was not a trained police officer so he might not have known but those who later responded should have and if nothing else took Mr. Zimmerman into custody until they could have properly explored the progression of force used by Zimmerman.  At least then it would have appeared that Zimmerman was arrested in the eyes of the witnesses.  But according to the above mentioned journalist’s and their article titled “Neighborhood Watchman Who Allegedly Shot Trayvon Martin Wanted to Be a Cop” responding Sanford Police had other priorities.

The only part that matters to support my assumption is “Witnesses told ABC News a fistfight broke out and, at one point, Zimmerman, who outweighed Martin by more than 100 pounds, was on the ground and that Martin was on top.”  Zimmerman, who was supposed to be the “defender of the neighborhood”, had his head handed to him by a 17 year old high-school student.  Mr. Macho ran into a frightened kid who did not know what was happening and was afraid of not making it home.  This is why now Zimmerman is claiming self-defense, because he was getting his butt kicked by a kid and the Sanford Police Department is attempting to help him by allowing him to return home without an arrest. 

Nothing burns me more than law enforcement officials trusted to serve and protect who tailor their style to suit either the people they are around or the situation that they find themselves in.  Either do the job or don’t but when you are caught not doing what you were hired to do, stop searching for excuses.  That responsibility for your actions and if there were some things you should have done but didn’t apologize and move on but stop attempting to play people for fools by lying about why you failed.

Zimmerman failed to listen to the dispatcher who instructed him not to follow Martin and stay in his vehicle.  When Zimmerman disobeyed those instructions he took it upon himself to answer for everything that happened after that.  Sanford Police Department had no right making excuses for Zimmerman; they only had to make an arrest.  One weapon belonging to Zimmerman, a young man shot dead, what else did you need to affect an arrest, nothing?