# Why hasn't the Neighborhood Watch shooter been arrested?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 12, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-the-neighborhood-watch-shooter-been-arrested/615504 "2012-03-12T00:53:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-the-neighborhood-watch-shooter-been-arrested/615504/4224 "2012-04-17T12:56:43Z")

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> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#):
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> Care to remind us what other evidence you had that made you join the lying whore chorus? As I recall, she had evidence of injuries and a story that was consistent with these injuries. What else did you have to go on?
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> Whatever it was, it certainly can’t compare in weight to a video that shows a spry, unbloody, unbandanged Zimmerman, a vague police report that mentions no specific wounds on his body, and a significant delay in the man getting himself to a hospital. None of this is consistent with a story of a man being brutally beaten. That you’re willing to bend over backwards to find ways to make his story square with these facts, even if it requires you to posit the most unlikely fanwanks to make it all fit, just confirms what is obvious to most people in this thread already. You are biased towards Zimmerman. Just own up to that.

You are, I think, reading my posts through some heavily tinted glasses – glasses tinted with your own bias.

I am happily proposing all sorts of theories. I notice you don’t mind (or, perhaps, even notice) when I do the same thing with theories that don’t help Zimmerman. Merely proposing a theory is intended to unseat you, and the people who are firmly in the “Zimmerman is innocent” camp, from their perches. Because I have said, and continue to say, that without Zimmerman’s statement, the autopsy report, the eyewitness statements – all of them – and the EMT report, any attempt to craft a story and say, “This is certainly what happened!” are ludicrous.

So if you say, “This is certainly what happened,” my response is to craft a hypothetical and ask you why it couldn’t be true.

Of course, your response to such challenges is to simply insist, over and over, that it couldn’t, no matter what evidence might support it.

To answer your first question:

My first post to the thread titled “Lying Whore,” was #182. It responded to another poster’s statement that false rape allegations were rare:

> [@Lying whore.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-whore/352153/182):
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> Pretty rare? 8%, [according to the FBI](http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/Cius_97/96CRIME/96crime2.pdf). That’s compared to 2% for overall crime.

My post went on to reply to another comment by the same poster, who expressed outrage that there was victim blaming going on; she said she had a friend who had been raped and was seeing a similar pattern. I replied:

> [@](#):
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> The woman in this case is getting ripped because the facts, as they emerge, do not seem to be supporting the story she initially told. Assuming your best friend didn’t change HER story, I fail to see what relevance your best friend’s rape has to this case.

So my initial post to that thread showed that my disbelief at that point had to do with contradictory factual elements in her story, and had nothing to do with her race.

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