Suspect is Caucasian and approximately 45 years of age wearing and orange T-shirt and jean shorts. Officers search the neighborhood on foot, using flashlights to see in the dark. Entering a wooden shed with guns drawn, officers locate the suspect and with authority in their voice, order him down to the ground, quickly hand-cuffing him. Suspect is extremely compliant and non-combative explaining to officers his intent was to do the right thing, but that he was very tired from working that day and simply wanted to borrow the bike to get home more quickly. Suspect explained that he would have given the stolen bike back when the police had left the area.
Trayvon Martin Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old African American male who was walking home from 7-Eleven when 28 year old George Zimmerman shot him at close range in the chest. Zimmerman was set free under Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws which allow the use of lethal force in self defense out in public spaces. This was not the case however because Zimmerman was on the phone with a police dispatcher reporting Trayvon for looking suspicious walking with his hood on when he went against the dispatchers advice and got out of his car to pursue Trayvon (City of Sanford). There was a massive public outcry and a call for George Zimmerman’s arrest which included marches and rallies full of people wearing their hoods in support of Trayvon and his family. Some people claim that Zimmerman was justified in his actions and was fulfilling his duty as part of the neighborhood crime watch.
When Mark is found in the bushes by the police officer. He is brought to a group of police officers, where he discusses what happened. Telling the officers that he is the one that called 911, and that him and Ricky where the ones who found the body. The officer doesn’t believe Mark’s story because he wonders why someone would come back to the scene and hide in the bushes to watch. The story also has some holes in it, Mark claiming that he didn’t give his name to the 911 Dispatcher because he was scared; making the officers suspicious.
What actually happened the night that the unarmed young man was shot and killed? On October 3rd, 1974, at about 10:45pm police were called to the scene of a burglary in process. When police arrived a young man was running to a fence. The officer called out and identified himself as the police and yelled for the suspect to stop. The officer used a flashlight and was able to see the suspect was unarmed.
Then he saw a white male who looked homeless, his clothes were filthy. Drake got out of the estate and approached the homeless man. He told the man to stop but he didn’t, then with his 38. Revolver he shot down the homeless man. Drake McCann called the police to investigate the scene and the rest of the CSI’s came
Though Tom had seemed a little flustered and uncertain about answering when asked what had happened after he fell, Tom continues after a sharp order from Judge Taylor. The court room burst out into harsh discussions and commotion once Mr Robinson declared that Mayella had jumped on him and hugged him around the waist, the clamour was immediately silenced by Judge Taylor and the defendant’s questioning is pressed on. Admitting that he had ran immediately from the scene once Mr Ewell came, has brought many people to believing that Mr Robinson was guilty because running from the act, was confirmed
As they were running, the man finally caught up to them and grabbed them by their jackets. The boys were expecting something really bad to happen to them for this man to chase them so far. Their expectations are crushed when all the man does is yell at
Since the town is so little news and rumors spread quickly through their community. Those stories included the ones created about the legend Boo Radley. Dill, a friend of the Finch children, stays in their neighborhood ever summer. He is very interested in Boo Radley and decides to investigate the Radley property. But, Dill’s idea gets Jem shot at by Boo Radley’s older brother Nathan.
Then they begin walking them back to a village they had just passed. Ishmael notes that the rebels, none of whom are over twenty-one, are wearing clothing, shoes and jewelry that Ishmael is sure must have been stolen from houses and shops the rebels have looted. The rebels talk quietly as they force the boys along and even though Ishmael cannot hear their words, all he can think about is death, and he struggles to avoid fainting. When two of the three rebels run on ahead, they leave only one boy guarding the six friends, but none of them try to overcome him, because he carries a semiautomatic machine gun and that makes him much more powerful. When they arrive in the village, the other two rebels have gathered everyone who is still there together with the six boys.
In the book, Tom Klebold said that his son, Dylan, suffered from being an outcast at his school, and that might have led to his participation in the massacre. The book also describes an arrest of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that took place the year before they went on a rampage. In that incident, previously reported in the media, the two teenagers were caught stealing equipment from a van, but authorities released the boys to their parents' custody, instead of keeping them in jail, and put them in a diversion program. Tom Klebold said that on the day after the arrest, he went for a walk with his son and found the boy to be angry and feeling his actions was somehow justified. "The morality of the whole thing escaped him," Tom Klebold said in the book.