# Time to officially Pit the Sanford Police Dept and their cover-up. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108 "2012-03-29T01:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/481 "2012-05-18T12:42:56Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Do you believe that [this picture](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120517105402-zimmerman-head-horizontal-gallery.jpg) is somehow faked or tampered with? When was the picture released to the public, and what is the source? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/482 "2012-05-18T14:09:26Z")
Man, that is one hell of a picture! Talk about positive proof! Look at that cut in the center. Absitively and posolutely says that Martin was clearly about to commit some crime, and Zimmerman had every right under the doctrine of citizen’s arrest to directly interfere. And that dribble of blood. Not that one, the other one. Clear evidence that Mr Zimmerman was not advised by the police dispatcher to stay out of it, but was directly informed that he should take immediate action to detain the perp until police arrived, by any means necessary. And the depth of that cut is irrefutable evidence that Zimmerman was entirely unaware of the racial identity of Martin, hence, no possible “profiling” can be deduced. Hell of a picture, **Brazil!** You should repost it a couple more time, in case somebody misses it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/483 "2012-05-18T14:16:17Z")
[Here is the CNN story that came with that picture.](http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) Gee-I wonder why **brazil84** dropped the content that came with the picture? ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/484 "2012-05-18T14:31:50Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > …And that dribble of blood. Not that one, the other one… Heeee! You stupid. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/485 "2012-05-18T15:26:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > When was the picture released to the public, and what is the source? In the last few days and I got it from CNN. Now how about an answer to my question: Do you believe that it is somehow faked or tampered with? It’s a pretty simple question. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/486 "2012-05-18T15:30:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Man, that is one hell of a picture! Talk about positive proof! > > Look at that cut in the center. Absitively and posolutely says that Martin was clearly about to commit some crime, and Zimmerman had every right under the doctrine of citizen’s arrest to directly interfere. I think that goes too far. However, it is strong evidence that those who believed that Zimmerman was uninjured are wrong. > [@](#): > > Hell of a picture, **Brazil!** You should repost it a couple more time, in case somebody misses it. Sure, here it is again: [![](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120517105402-zimmerman-head-horizontal-gallery.jpg) ](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120517105402-zimmerman-head-horizontal-gallery.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/487 "2012-05-18T15:33:24Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here is the CNN story that came with that picture.](http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) > Gee-I wonder why **brazil84** dropped the content that came with the picture? Lol, nice way to attack motivations. You may be emotionally invested in a particular outcome in this case, but you should not assume that others are too. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/488 "2012-05-18T15:41:10Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > You may be emotionally invested in a particular outcome in this case, but you should not assume that others are too. Says the guy who just got done laying a septuple-post on us… ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/489 "2012-05-18T15:49:13Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Says the guy who just got done laying a septuple-post on us… Heh - initially read that as “pustule” post. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/490 "2012-05-18T15:53:50Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Heeee! You stupid. Nunh-unh! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/491 "2012-05-18T16:18:16Z")
Is this thread still going on? Did I miss anything since page 7? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/492 "2012-05-18T16:34:11Z")
Yeah, the evidence proves that Zimmerman couldn’t possibly have raped Martin in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/493 "2012-05-18T19:40:58Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Says the guy who just got done laying a septuple-post on us… Lol, why not? 7 knuckleheads who each deserve an individual nose-rubbing in their knuckleheadedness. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/494 "2012-05-18T20:03:55Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Lol, why not? 7 knuckleheads who each deserve an individual nose-rubbing in their knuckleheadedness. Well, just on the pure level of competence, you could have multi-quoted them in one post. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/495 "2012-05-18T20:44:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, the evidence proves that Zimmerman couldn’t possibly have raped Martin in the shower. Oh thank God. And will my tax dollars be paying for his birth control? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/496 "2012-05-18T21:53:45Z")
Birth control with extreme prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/497 "2012-05-18T22:05:13Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > Oh thank God. And will my tax dollars be paying for his birth control? Yes, providing it is accomplished with paper towel tubes. ---
**Author:** ![Linguini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ab097/32.png) [@Linguini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linguini)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/498 "2012-05-19T01:21:37Z")
Day after day, week after week the liberals have spouted their nonsense and now the facts prove that Martin attacked Zimmerman and paid a hefty price for it. Will any of you have the maturity to admit you jumped to an emotional conclusion and were wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/499 "2012-05-19T01:41:32Z")
> [@Linguini](#): > > Day after day, week after week the liberals have spouted their nonsense and now the facts prove that Martin attacked Zimmerman and paid a hefty price for it. Will any of you have the maturity to admit you jumped to an emotional conclusion and were wrong? Do the facts show that? I haven’t been following very closely. Can you show me where the information about who started the altercation is? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108/500 "2012-05-19T04:09:24Z")
The oddest things stick in your mind, sometimes. For me, its like how many times I read about Zimmerman or hear him described, and how frequently the “neighborhood watch” thing gets into it. I think I originally hear him described as a “neighborhood watch captain”, then a “neighborhood watch volunteer”, I also recall reading reports that say he had no actual connection with the local neighborhood watch group, which forbade the carrying of firearms while “on duty”. But I only read it in passing, nobody seems to have thought much about this, except that everyone continues to thread that into the story line, about Zimmerman the neighborhood watch guy. Was this ever actually nailed down, or did a little meme crawl into our discourse and solidify without anybody paying attention? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108.md?page=26)