07-20-2013, 06:32 PM
(07-20-2013, 06:10 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: Profiling?
Don't both of you really mean racial stereotyping?
As far as I know, an ordinary citizen is NOT prohibited from racially stereotyping -or- "profiling" another person.
No, I don't mean "racial stereotyping". I have no way of knowing if that was in George's mind. I didn't see any evidence to that effect. In any event, I've never suggested that citizens' profiling was illegal or prohibited.
I do think it's obvious that George assumed Trayvon was a "criminal/suspect" because Trayvon matched the profile of those fucking punk assholes who'd always gotten away in the past. IMO, that profiling is clear from George's own words, in evidence.
IDK, Tiki. If there'd been break-ins in the neighborhood carried out almost exclusively by Chinese punks, George Zimmerman may well have profiled Xian Chang in the same manner, under the same circumstances, as he did Trayvon Martin that night. Impossible for me to know.