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To: Brumar89 who wrote (656791)	5/27/2012 11:04:18 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1578134

Correcting the "self-appointed" watch captain claim in the media: ..... W-21 is the board president for the homeowner's association. He describes how the neighborhood watch started (after a string of burglaries), the police participation in getting it going, and that more than 50 people attended the first meeting, where George was appointed by the board to be watch captain. (The police representative puts the number at 25, but still, that's a far cry from only George and one or two of his buddies.) He says the watch group met the same days as the Board, just an hour earlier. He says George went around the neighborhood for a week or two asking people to support the creation of the board (not asking to lead it). Another example of misreporting by mainstream media, which continually referred to GZ as the "self-appointed" watch captain. (According to Lexis, the first use of the "self-appointed" meme came from a certain Miami Herald reporter, both in print and on TV, and seems to have spread virally from there. One night Diane Sawyer called him "the neighborhood watchdog" on the evening news which got spread by reporters from the Caribbean to Toronto.) .... Also according to Mr. Zimmerman, George went to the grocery store after dinner every Sunday night to get the groceries for the coming week. It had nothing to do with the neighborhood watch, but he was concerned about burglaries in the neighborhood. ........... http://www.talkleft.com/story/2012/5/27/41053/5361