George Zimmerman wasn’t charged with murder last week; “neighborhood-watch captain” George Zimmerman was. Whatever the outcome of his trial, Zimmerman has given a decidedly bad name to the neighborhood watch — enough so that 20th Century Fox decided to pull the trailer for a comedy of that name.
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The image of Zimmerman as a gun-toting vigilante is a violent twist on the suburban busybody stereotype that the Fox movie plays with — and, indeed, a severe departure from the unarmed norm.
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