Tracy police received 147 calls for service Monday, April 23. The following is a sample of those calls.
6:35 a.m.: A homeless camp was found near a church at 1981 Chester Drive. The personal belongings were bagged, and locals were advised to contact police if the homeless campers return.
6:43 a.m.: A car was burglarized on the 500 block of Heinz Avenue.
8:39 a.m.: A beggar harassed a woman outside Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road. She told police the man kept yelling at her for money, and he followed her until she gave him some. He was gone before police arrived. Police caught up to the man at Home Depot and advised him to move along.
9:36 a.m.: Someone took a woman’s purse out of a shopping cart on Sunday at Winco, 2850 Pavilion Parkway.
9:45 a.m.: An online report was made for the theft of a UPS package on the 500 block of Glenbriar Circle.
9:47 a.m.: Animal control impounded a loose dog that was captured after it tried to attack another dog on the 1700 block of Lloyd C. Gary Drive.
1:57 p.m.: A bike rider said a driver deliberately tried to hit him and then challenged him to a fight near Grant Line Road and Joe Pombo Parkway. He said the car almost hit him and chased after him after the bicyclist flipped off the driver. The cyclist said he wanted to press charges but changed his mind.
3 p.m.: A woman said a teen on a bicycle brandished a handgun at one of her students at the skate park at 299 W. Grant Line Road. Officers talked to the child’s father, who did not want to press charges.
4:13 p.m.: Police received calls about a gang fight at Slayter Park, 1405 Suellen Drive, involving three people surrounded by people watching.
7:12 p.m.: A renter at Townhouse Motel, 607 W. 11th St., was causing a problem after the management put a padlock on his door for non-payment.
9:11 p.m.: A caller said his stolen iPhone’s GPS was identifying a vacant house on the 1100 block of Hepburn Court. He said the phone was stolen in Berkeley. Police checked around the house and couldn’t locate a phone. The owner of the house said he would call if he found the phone.
• This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher’s daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. Charges may have been added or dropped as of press time, and all suspects are assumed innocent until proven guilty. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
"...if he was really schizo and you were really Charles Manson, you both would have probably hit-it-off."
Great effort at trying to connect dots. An 'F' for achievement.
"Not running around with un-permitted loaded firearms into everyone who looks "unfamiliar" or wearing a "hoodie."
"That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge and received concealed-weapons gun permits. In early December, another source close to them told Reuters, the couple bought a pair of guns. George picked a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, a popular, lightweight weapon."
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/25/11396690-george-zimmerman-prelude-to-the-shooting-of-trayvon-martin?lite
"Zimmerman is lucky to be having this case held in Florida; where one of the last hold-out states from the Civil War has the cops thinking that a deliberate stalking case..."
You are woefully ill-informed and need to wait for actual facts to be disclosed.
"after the plaintiff defends himself with skittles and an Arizona ice tea..."
because thankfully, nobody ever dies from a beating.
FYI. your plaintiff expired. The 'State' is now the plaintiff.
*How is The State going to represent the plaintiff, when the "plaintiff expired?" I'm stipulating that, and again these are still allegations, someone initiated contact, even after Zimmerman had contacted local PD and their response was "we don't need you to do that."
*If the voice yelling for help on a cell release is indeed Zimmermans' then apparently he pursued Martin and met with something he didn't expect.
As Tinfoil pointed out, "he thought that day would be like any other," I suppose doesn't apply to Martin -when you have a self proclaimed community watch person dogging you - a perfect stranger by all accounts. (How would you react being stalked, let's say by an unfamiliar black man?)
How is this all lumped into 'The Stand Your Ground'?
*My suspicions are this story will be spun from Zimmerman's account of things in order to justify his actions. And face a lesser charge of 2nd Degree dropped to manslaughter -even self defense.
Heck in these days of Jurisprudence he might walk completely..?
What crime did Martin actually commit to justify Zimmerman's initial concerns and why did he then pursue -instead of waiting for local PD? He had already given a Martin's descript?
Whom do you say initiated physical contact and why did that person do it ?
"(How would you react being stalked, let's say by an unfamiliar black man?)"
Already happened... a theft, then a fight, then a car jacking. One got away, one got 6 months.
"How is this all lumped into 'The Stand Your Ground'? "
Beats me... your question, nothing I've stated.
"Heck in these days of Jurisprudence he might walk completely..?"
Even if found not guilty by a jury of his peers ? or should we dispense with the trial and go straight to punishments. More cost effective.
Why is reasoned thinking disdained or emotions ?
"over" emotions
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8:39 a.m.: A beggar harassed a woman outside Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road. She told police the man kept yelling at her for money, and he followed her until she gave him some.