To: hdl who wrote (186031 ) 3/27/2012 1:43:07 PM From: bentway Read Replies (1) | Respond to You seem intent on presenting only one side of the evidence - a form of LYING. Why did Zimmerman pursue the kid in a car, against the advice from the 911 operator? He could have gone home and let the police deal with it, as he was TOLD to do. If he had, the kid would be alive today.Zimmerman 11 Comments Posted by Chuck Rudd on 03/22/2012Addendum: A good piece by Julian Sanchez arguing that Zimmerman was pursuing Martin based upon a different knowledge set than the one Martin would have had. In econ jargon – asymmetric information. The main takeaway – and my argument that follows – is that these are real-time exchanges based upon faulty premises, bad information, and bias. post about George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin I wondered if we might learn something about Zimmerman’s supposed racism by listening to other 911 calls he’s made in the past. Sure enough, theOrlando Sentinel has a small collection of such recordings .It is important to know what compelled Zimmerman to act in this manner. Is he an overt racist? Is he implicitly biased? It seems to me that those who support Martin – and there’s not a case to be made in which Martin isn’t the victim – are too willing to jump to the conclusion that Zimmerman is just an overt racist. Them hearing “fucking coon” in Zimmerman’s 911 call is an example of a post hoc justification for their intuition that Zimmerman is what they want him to be: a racist.Orlando Sentinel tacitly helps foster this interpretation. They present 5 or 6 of Zimmerman’s previous 911 calls reporting suspicious “black” individuals, but the important information to know at this point is whether Zimmerman called in to 911 only when he spotted blacks in his neighborhood. What are the demographics of his 911 calls? If he has called in for Hispanics and whites who he thinks look suspicious, then that might change the argument.Sanford, Florida does have a relatively high burglary/theft/robbery rate . The town’s property crime index is 2.3 times higher than the national average. On several calls to 911, Zimmerman makes it clear that his neighborhood had been recently burglarized. And Orlando, Florida – the metro area of which Sanford is a part – is the third most crime-ridden city in the U.S. Sanford itself has a relatively high crime rate for the rest of the country, the rest of the state, and for the metro Orlando area.
