"I felt menaced by this and I had to tell them all of the creepy things that I had done".
They said they felt menaced by the protesters and sickened by unsanitary conditions in parts of the park.
Officials in Miami-Dade County called off their recount after they felt menaced by a crowd of angry Cuban-Americans and Republican operatives.
The neighbors said they felt menaced as much by the youths, who they said were often noisy, as by their reputations.
In court on Tuesday, Bernie de la Rionda, the prosecutor in the case, ridiculed the defense arguments, saying Mr. Zimmerman had courted publicity by appearing on national television and was now complaining that he felt menaced.
Though a vague sense of emergency hung in the air — as if Cathy might go mad tomorrow, or, more accurately, had gone mad yesterday — I never felt menaced by this possible loss of control.
Some felt menaced by the development of large-scale manufacturing enterprises; others resented the regulations that, for example, prevented journeymen from setting up their own shops in competition with privileged guild masters.
Though a vague sense of emergency hung in the air as if Cathy might go mad tomorrow, or, more accurately, had gone mad yesterday—I never felt menaced by this possible loss of control.
But neighborhood residents said it was often none of the above, with some saying they felt menaced by the Halloween crowds, some of whom were drinking despite a ban on alcohol on the street.
