[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Rupert, I'm saying that, if my teenaged son left to walk to the store and back during a televised basketball halftime, and never came home, and three days later I found out he was murdered, and there was very little "police investigation" at all into why my child was dead - I'd be calling my Congresswoman, too.

I've said multiple times in this thread: if they had charged Zimmerman with anything - even unlawful discharge of a weapon - at least there may have been some investigation, some retention of evidence, and trying the case in public could have been halted.

The police, this department with a long history of racial profiling and community unrest, and incompetence, decided within an hour or so no charges at all need be filed, against the advice of the lead investigator. A seventeen-year-old kid is dead, and the police said, "yeah, well, it's okay, it was self-defense, carry on everyone". That's beyond absurd incompetence.

When a pedestrian walks across the 4-lane New Circle Road in Lexington, and gets hit and killed by a motorist (sadly happens a couple times a year), the motorist is given a breathalyzer, report taken, scene forensics, etc. done. The cops just don't say, "Oh, you say didn't see him in the rain? Okay. We believe you", and let it go after an hour or two. Even if zero charges are filed against the driver as they couldn't avoid it. The investigation leads to the truth. A thorough investigation of why a person is suddenly dead at the hand of another.

There was little to no apparent investigation of the murder of this teenaged boy.

BTW: re the Daily Caller "enhanced" video: an alleged "possible" two-inch skull laceration produced no blood on the shirt witnesses said he was wearing at the scene? No. I'm not buying that, unless police photos taken at the time show one bloody mess on the back of his collar and shirt.

Any skull laceration, even tiny, produces copious amounts of blood - ask the parent of any two-year-old. And a lac that large calls for immediate sutures in the ER. That was never done. If it (what the DC alleges possibly could be a strange vertical cut along the top of the scalp) is true, it must have left a huge visible bumpy scar, having been left to heal without any wound closure.

I agree with you. I think there should be a thorough investigation. But I don't think people should be convicting this guy before there is a thorough investigation.

I think you bring up good points about no blood being visible on his shirt. I can't explain why there is no blood visible on his shirt. But I also can't explain why numerous witnesses said his nose was broken and bloody. I guess it's possible that they were all lying. It will be interesting to see what the medical report says and what the paramedics say. Some people might discount the medical report and claim that Zimmerman inflicted the injuries on himself before he went to the doctor (or hospital or wherever he got treated) the next day. But I think it will be hard to discount the testimony of the paramedics.