The neighborhood watch program has a web site with their guidelines posted right on it
http://www.nnwi.org/
Here is an description from their homepage
I have no beef with neighborhood watch, my beef is with people who think belonging to such a program elevates them to a level of authority over others.
As for the issue of age, yes I'm saying teens do dumb teenager stuff but I never said or implied that excused him from wrong doing. What I said and implied was that using that Martin did dumb teenager stuff against him posthumously in court was wrong as it had nothing to do with what happened with him that night. It was also wrong because since it came up after he was dead he never had a chance to even defend himself against the inferences made from that dumb teenager stuff. That night though he was doing nothing wrong until he was confronted by Zimmerman.
As for the actual fight all we have to go on is Zimmerman's account. When the fight occurred the phone became disconnected so the girl on the phone didn't hear the fight. She did apparently hear what happened just moments before the fight and from that testimony it sounded like George made the first physical contact. All the other witnesses were uncertain of who the aggressor was and who the victim was and none of them witnessed the onset of the fight each of them only saw from the point they were on the ground or after Martin had already been shot, Martin of course is dead and therefore can't give his version. I'm not inclined to just happily accept the account of the person who might be going to prison for life if it happened differently because his account is likely going to be designed to avoid prison, especially since there was nobody able to conclusively dispute his account.
As for the map there is no testimony I can find from Jeantel (Dee Dee) Rachel that conclusively puts Martin at the house he was staying at. The closest I could find was an interview conducted by the police where she indicates Martin tried to run from Zimmerman and at one point said he claimed to have lost him but then soon after said that Zimmerman was coming closer to him. There is no testimony that supports the path indicated by the map where it shows Martin had gotten so far from Zimmerman and then went back. Given the position you've been taking it's my opinion you got this from a site that was supportive of Zimmerman and someone created this map to paint a picture more favorable to Zimmerman. This also matches what was going on in public discussion of this case. It wasn't until long after the events of that night that people began claiming Martin made it to the house he was staying at and then circled back. If this was a known fact revealed there would have been questions to Jeantel as to if she knew why Martin decided to go back and confront Zimmerman after having escaped him. Since she was on the phone with him until the fight happened. So I'm not clear how you can challenge the accuracy of my account of reported testimony when there is no testimony that supports your account.
As for authority and rights and what neighborhood watch people can do it's not profile. In fact I bet if I bought their 32 page handbook I'd find information in it warning against profiling people, that's the job of people trained to do it and even then it's generally frowned upon. All a neighborhood watch volunteer has the authority to do is watch and report. I doubt there will be someone else doing the job since it's not a job but a volunteer gig. Also Zimmerman was a self appointed neighborhood watch captain which means nobody else was doing it because "captains" are general appointed by whomever organizes the neighborhood watch for a given neighborhood. So for Zimmerman to be a self appointed captain means there was no neighborhood watch there until Zimmerman decided there should be and therefore now that he no longer lives there people probably continued to not get involved just like before.
