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Originally Posted by Botnst
He was not confronted with a criminal. He saw somebody acting suspiciously.
"We don't need you to do that" is not the same as, "Don't do that". One is an implied suggestion, the other is a direct order.
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Wendy Dorival, who coordinated neighborhood watch programs for the Sanford, Florida, Police Department in 2012, testified Tuesday that
George Zimmerman was specifically told not to pursue suspicious people in the gated community where he lived.
See Zimmerman's neighborhood watch guide: PDF | HLNtv.com
http://cnninsession.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/watchpart1_rotated.pdf
The police department official who worked with George Zimmerman on establishing a neighborhood watch program at a gated community in Sanford, Fla., testified Tuesday that members of such groups were not supposed to follow suspicious people and were told to stand aside and allow the police to do their jobs.
Rules for neighborhood watch discussed in George Zimmerman trial - Los Angeles Times