# Florida neighborhood watch killing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495 "2012-03-22T13:20:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/1 "2012-03-22T13:20:14Z")

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When a police officer kills someone in the line of duty the case almost always goes to a grand jury (at least in NJ) in order to let someone other than the police make the determination of whether the killing was justif

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/2 "2012-03-22T13:25:29Z")

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The thin blue line strikes again!

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/3 "2012-03-22T13:28:47Z")

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The state attorney’s office is putting together a grand jury right now. I’d like to think they were going to do it anyway and it’s not a response to the public outcry.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/4 "2012-03-22T14:27:57Z")

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There’s a [thread in IMHO with nearly 1,200 posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14890929#post14890929) on this subject.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/5 "2012-03-22T14:51:29Z")

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I think it’s a interesting that, even though he didn’t finish, we pretty much know what he was going to say. Maybe we should start stopping posts as soon as everyone k

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**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/6 "2012-03-22T14:56:56Z")

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Ys, t’s lk w’r fllng n th blnks rslvs.

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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-neighborhood-watch-killing/616495/7 "2012-03-22T16:32:01Z")

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He was shot by a “watcher” while sitting on his front porch using his laptop and never got to finish the post. He left the computer on so I was just going to chime in under his handle. But then I looked the other thread and decided “Enough, already”.