# Neighborhood watch leader shoots FL teen **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 24, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127 "2012-03-24T12:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 73
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127/73 "2012-03-28T21:25:17Z")
> [@most SCENIC road in wny](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/most-scenic-road-in-wny/48851/21): > > Did I say you said that? > > Nope. > > If neighborhood watch is there to create escallations that wouldn’t happen without him being there to begin with, it’s defeating the purpose of the watch. They should react to situations, not cause them. Well Vlad, when you bring it up in conversation in a defensive manner like you did, people will assume that you were acting like they said it and were using it to prove your point (which is what exactly?). He was not escalating the issue, he was simply instructing police on where Trayvon was going so they could find them. That’s what a neighborhood watch does. They look out for lewd behavior and then either do something to stop it, or inform police. He was doing the latter, and reacting to the situation. He didn’t confront Trayvon about it, he was confronted by Trayvon. We can argue this til we’re blue in the face but with all the different sources out there, there’s no point in it as they’re all saying different shit and are what are turning this whole situation into the issue it has become. If they were both white or both black, this would’ve been on page 6 in the newspaper, not headline on the front page. The media has turned this into the race issue it has become, and race wasn’t even a part of the actual interaction between Trayvon and Zimmerman. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127)._