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Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their eyes?

Are you George Zimmerman?

  • Yes-someone walking, breathing and using their eyes warrants a police officer response

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • No-these are normal actions of a human being

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • Total voters
    7

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Yes, literally using their feet & legs to move, using lungs to bring oxygen in the body, and using their eyes to look at objects.
 
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Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Yes!
When they were nonchalantly walking in the rain, on the grass between the sidewalk and homes, breathing the moisture laden air with their own lungs, and using their eyes to look into other peoples homes.
And Especially after they pulled their hood on after they saw me observing them.
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I have often heard that there is no dumb question, but my Gawd! Talk about an idiotic one! :slapme:


And if they had obviously been using someone else's lungs and eyes.
Hell yes!
 
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Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Yes!
When they were nonchalantly walking in the rain, on the grass between the sidewalk and homes, breathing the moisture laden air with their own lungs, and using their eyes to look into other peoples homes.
And Especially after they pulled their hood on after they saw me observing them.
:roll:   :roll:   :roll:


I have often heard that there is no dumb question, but my Gawd! Talk about an idiotic one! :slapme:

IF we are talking in regards to the Martin/Zimmerman case:

Looking <into>? That is a false claim. No one ever said TM was looking <into> homes.

Pulling a hood up because someone is looking at you and not because it was raining? Pure conjecture. If it was on a hot sunny day, then yes it would be suspicious.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Yes, literally using their feet & legs to move, using lungs to bring oxygen in the body, and using their eyes to look at objects.

Yes, I have. Someone walking all over a parking lot in between cars looking into them. I noticed him as I walked from the store entrance back to my car, so I had eyes on him for a few minutes. I called 911. Later called to find out what, if anything, happened. He was arrested on an outstanding warrant. For stealing cars, would be my guess.

Right after 9/11, I called the police about a suspicious suitcase I saw sitting on a street corner unattended in a residential neighborhood. Don't know what happened there.

Called the police when I saw three people loading up a moving van with the neighbor's furniture while they were on vacation. (They'd told us to watch the house, but hadn't told us their SIL would be taking some furniture. Ha!)

Called the police after a guy with a suspicious story rang my doorbell at 11:30 PM asking if he could syphon some gas out of my car.

I've called the police to report a car sitting for hours across the street from my house with someone sitting in it.

Edit: I didn't vote in your stupid poll. Democrat, are we?
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

I might depending on the circumstances. However, I wouldn't grab a weapon and follow them. That's not my job.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

IF we are talking in regards to the Martin/Zimmerman case:

Looking <into>? That is a false claim. No one ever said TM was looking <into> homes.
Wrong. This has already been established.



Pulling a hood up because someone is looking at you and not because it was raining? Pure conjecture.
You obviously need to read what was said again. It was not conjecture.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

I might depending on the circumstances. However, I wouldn't grab a weapon and follow them. That's not my job.
Zimmerman didn't grab a weapon and follow either.
He already had a handgun on him when he followed to keep the suspicious person under observation until the police he called arrived.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

In seriousness: I've called the cops on a guy who was slowly circling our block repeatedly after dark. He was not dressed in athletic gear and he was focusing intently (from my perspective) on the homes he was walking by. I did not recognize him as any of the neighbors who regularly walked/jogged the area, either.

I've also called the cops on people who repeatedly circle the block in their vehicles, and once I called the cops on a guy who seemed to be following me on the highway.

But here's the key: I never disobeyed the 911 or non-emergency operator's instructions and I never trailed anybody I thought was behaving suspiciously.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Respectfully, I've never posted in the Zimmerman/Martin case because there are many issues that only the courts can determine.

I think overall that Zimmerman was foolish to follow, with or without a weapon. Especially on foot when he was in a vehicle. Look at the results. One man dead, another man's life ruined. We have millions of cops, let them earn their money.

Zimmerman didn't grab a weapon and follow either.
He already had a handgun on him when he followed to keep the suspicious person under observation until the police he called arrived.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Trayvon Martin was NOT looking INTO anything. Obviously, if someone was looking INTO a home or car, then a police response may be required. Staying on topic though, just walking on a sidewalk/walking path and "looking" (i.e using one's eyes).
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

That is what Neighborhood Watch does.
They keep an eye on the neighborhood.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Yes, I have. Someone walking all over a parking lot in between cars looking into them. I noticed him as I walked from the store entrance back to my car, so I had eyes on him for a few minutes. I called 911. Later called to find out what, if anything, happened. He was arrested on an outstanding warrant. For stealing cars, would be my guess.

Right after 9/11, I called the police about a suspicious suitcase I saw sitting on a street corner unattended in a residential neighborhood. Don't know what happened there.

Called the police when I saw three people loading up a moving van with the neighbor's furniture while they were on vacation. (They'd told us to watch the house, but hadn't told us their SIL would be taking some furniture. Ha!)

Called the police after a guy with a suspicious story rang my doorbell at 11:30 PM asking if he could syphon some gas out of my car.

I've called the police to report a car sitting for hours across the street from my house with someone sitting in it.

Edit: I didn't vote in your stupid poll. Democrat, are we?

Once again, looking and looking into are two different things.

Looking around while walking is not the same as looking into a house.

One is suspicious and may require a police response, the other is a normal human behavior.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

I think it's hysterical how sides have been chosen in this case and the endless trials that are outside the courts.

Who cares what anybody was doing. Calling the cops is a right. The cops then make the judgement.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Wrong. This has already been established.



You obviously need to read what was said again. It was not conjecture.

I thought you would at least provide some evidence of your false claims.

According to George Zimmerman:

Trayvon Martin was "walking around, looking about". That means he was looking into houses to you?

George Zimmerman 911 call about Trayvon Martin UnRedacted - YouTube
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Once again, looking and looking into are two different things.

Looking around while walking is not the same as looking into a house.

One is suspicious and may require a police response, the other is a normal human behavior.

in this case it was specifically alleged that T was looking in and at houses.

At least we have established that you too would have found T's alleged behaviour suspicious.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Yes, literally using their feet & legs to move, using lungs to bring oxygen in the body, and using their eyes to look at objects.



This is an absurd question, really stupid, blinded by some pointless asserting Hawke is trying to rage about.

I guess what hawke812 is saying is that a person should never call the police on anyone unless the person is dead. In Hawke's view, the person who called the police on James Holmes, the "Batman" Colorado shooter, was stupid and wrong - because James Holmes was walking, breathing and using his eyes as he gunned people down - therefore no one should have called the police on him.
 
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I have had the cops called on me for sitting on my own back porch after dark.

But I think that last time I called the cops there were copious amounts of blood outside of the body it belonged in, some serious looking head wounds [and a bunch of screaming, yelling, etc] and a perp somewhere in the immediate vicinity.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

Until a few years ago when I changed my community, life style, employment, and associations to diametric opposites (ie "I settled down to become a family man"), as an adult the police were called on me or arrived with the ambulance(s) for which I was detained, cuffed, taken in for a statement and/or jailed more times than I can possibly remember. Certainly dozens of times, maybe 50 or 75 times or more. Hard to draw the line between being questioned and being detained. No trials and no convictions.

Once, an older couple called the police on me telling them a little girl was being assaulted in the motel room next to them - solely because I was not-white, big, very tough looking and looking much older than the really young looking cute little white girl - who happened to be the mother of our daughter that we co-owned a house and resided together with (ie significant other/wife). Yet, believing that might be happening they were right to call the police EVEN IF prejudices could be extrapolated out of their call reasons.

Never, not once, did I have any problems with the police who were just doing their job - as sometimes so had I been - and they never had trouble from me.

GZ saw a tall, young man hanging around townhouses in a GZ's low income, high crime neighborhood at night, in the rain, going nowhere and called the (non-emergency number) of the police. There is no legitimate controversy in that - though the OP tries to concoct one in his worthless OP.

For who-knows-what-reasons, many anti-GZ members here furiously rage about GZ calling the police on TM. So what if he called the police? But that is because they incessantly rage about GZ over anything they can imagine, don't like or can make up.
 
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I think it's hysterical how sides have been chosen in this case and the endless trials that are outside the courts.

Who cares what anybody was doing. Calling the cops is a right. The cops then make the judgement.

Sure, calling the cops is a right:lol:

Lady Calls 911 Over Wrong Burger King Order - YouTube

Cops never had the chance to investigate in this case:(
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

I don't have a problem with a person who decides to take the 5th, but it truly baffles me to see videos of someone screaming and raging at the police because the officer asked to see an ID.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

in this case it was specifically alleged that T was looking in and at houses.

At least we have established that you too would have found T's alleged behaviour suspicious.

No, specific words were "walking around, looking about" and "looking at". Big difference from "looking in". Glad to know you make up false claims to support your agenda.
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

No, specific words were "walking around, looking about" and "looking at". Big difference from "looking in". Glad to know you make up false claims to support your agenda.

At least now you acknowledge that T was looking "at all the houses" - which is kind of odd while walking slowly in teh rain - but, you may want to read the written statement given just an hour or two after the incident to continue your education..
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

At least now you acknowledge that T was looking "at all the houses" - which is kind of odd while walking slowly in teh rain - but, you may want to read the written statement given just an hour or two after the incident to continue your education..

Wait, looking at houses while walking near them is odd:lamo

Holy shat I do that all the time:lamo

You fanatics crack me up:lamo

I love this site:2wave:
 
Re: Have you ever called the police on a person walking, breathing and using their ey

At least now you acknowledge that T was looking "at all the houses" - which is kind of odd while walking slowly in teh rain - but, you may want to read the written statement given just an hour or two after the incident to continue your education..

Ah, the 911 call is irrelevant now. Gotcha:lamo
 
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