Comments | ask_a_cop: Bogged Down by Definitions

dagonell in ask_a_cop

Bogged Down by Definitions

Jul 28, 2013 13:54

We've been discussing the Zimmerman case, and we're getting hung up on a definition. One party is insisting that Zimmerman wasn't stalking Martin, because stalking is something that takes place over several days, not just once ( Read more... )

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kaspurr July 28 2013, 18:36:08 UTC

This is not a serious question.

Is the girl creeping around my property? Is robbery a repeated problem in the neighborhood. Does she have issues with drugs? Is it late at night? Did she grab me from behind and start smashing my skull? Is the quality of her character completely twisted and scrubbed in the press into a girl significantly younger and wide-eyed?

imbecamiel July 28 2013, 20:32:00 UTC

Thank you. Seriously. More people need to actually look at the facts of the case, instead of the media-hyped circus things became.

rokeon July 28 2013, 20:31:38 UTC

Stalking in the legal sense is a pattern of behavior across multiple incidents. Assuming your Mr Creepy's gun is properly licensed/permitted, he hasn't done anything wrong.

Stalking is a very difficult crime to prove kenneycop August 12 2013, 08:58:07 UTC

STALKING - in order to prove stalking 1) a person must willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follow or harass another person; 2) The person following or harassing made a credible threat; and 3) The person who made the threat did so with SPECIFIC INTENT to place the other person in reasonable fear for his or her safety or the safety of the immediate family of such person(s ( ... )