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Yes, I remember reading in the news awhile back, I put it on a search and your site came up. I reposted the link to the site global grind. I want others to read this, and know. I have heard no politician speak of this childs heart ache. Or call his mom or his for the horrible mess he suffered. Where is his day?
I have also said the same thing. certain races can't have a group or organization to protect their rights and stand up for them. IF so we would be the worst of them all. I am sick of hearing the BP and NAACP. I am disgusted.
I agree, And the groups putting up a bounty I am sure a Lawyer somewhere can find a law to sock it to them. IF there is a lawyer with a backbone. To me that is intent, cause, harm, reason for murder.
I do see the old ways of some coming back and no one will see it coming. they say you don't know or learn you history you are doomed to repeat it. They don't want others to talk ugly or be racial. Well it comes a time you are putting people against the wall.
Well grief time is over. Time for mommy and her pimp Sharpton to geet paid.
Trayvon Martin’s family looks to trademark ‘I am Trayvon,’ ‘Justice for Trayvon’
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Senior Media Reporter
By Dylan Stableford | The Lookout – 9 hrs ago
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Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton is seeking to trademark phrases with her son's name.
According to applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the family's attorney last week, Fulton wants to trademark "I am Trayvon" and "Justice for Trayvon" for use in DVDs and CDs memorializing the slain teenager.
[Related: Shooting puts Wisconsin's 'castle' law under scrutiny]
In the wake of the news that her son had been suspended from school after traces of marijuana were found in his book bag, Fulton said Monday that those leaking information were trying to blame the victim. "They killed my son, and now they are trying to kill his reputation," Fulton said.
Fulton's trademark application could be fuel for critics who contend Martin's parents—and civil rights activists like Rev. Al Sharpton—are trying to capitalize on the killing for personal or financial gain.
But Martin—who was unarmed when he was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, in Sanford, Fla., last month—and the hooded sweatshirt he was wearing at the time he was killed, have become symbols of the country's racial divide and the pursuit of justice. Martin's family may simply be trying to gain some control over his name, which has been cropping up on t-shirts and hoodies across the country.
[Photos: Thousands march for Trayvon Martin]
Zimmerman's image, meanwhile, appears on a t-shirt that is causing even more furor in Florida. Zimmerman's face appears on the shirt under the phrase "P*** A** CRACKER." A photo of a Florida rapper—Plies—wearing the shirt was posted on Twitter, sparking outrage among Zimmerman's supporters.
The Sooper Guide to “White Hispanic” Skin Color for the Gringo Media!
It’s amazing the lengths of racebaiting that the Leftist Liberal News Media Industrial Complex will go to in order to re-elect their savior, Obama. They’re going so far as to call a Hispanic man “White Hispanic” in order to incite a race war! How tolerant and inclusive of them. Well, I thought I’d help them out and give them this easy to understand guide to classifying Hispanic skin colors! Enjoy gringos!
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The Sooper Guide to “White Hispanic” Skin Color for the Gringo Media! | SOOPERMEXICAN
Interesting that they are calling Zimmerman a "cracker". That is usually a slur word used to describe non-hispanic whites not hispanic whites. Zimmerman was a hispanic white so what's up with the usuage of the word "cracker"? Skin tone has nothing to do with it.
What Everyone Needs To Know About The Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)
By Judd Legum on Mar 26, 2012 at 6:59 pm
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Over the last 48 hours, there has been a sustained effort to smear Trayvon Martin, the 17-year old African-American who was shot dead by George Zimmerman a month ago. Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, said, “They killed my son, now they’re trying to kill his reputation.”Thus far these attacks have fallen into two categories: false and irrelevant. Much of this leaked information seems intended to play into stereotypes about young African-American males. Here’s what everyone should know:1. Prominent conservative websites published fake photos of Martin. Twitchy, a new website run by prominent conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, promoted a photo — purportedly from Martin’s Facebook page — that shows Martin in saggy pants and flipping the bird. The photo, which spread quickly on conservative websites and Twitter, is intended to paint Martin as a thug. As Twitchy later acknowledged, it is not a photo of Trayvon Martin. [Examiner]
2. The Sanford Police selectively leaked irrelevant, negative information about Martin. The authorities told the Orlando Sentinel this morning that Trayvon was suspended from school for ten days “after being found with an empty marijuana baggie.” There is no evidence that Martin was under the influence of drugs at the time of his death, nor would prior possession of marijuana be a reason for killing him. It’s unclear what the relevance of the leak was, other than to smear Martin. [Orlando Sentinel]
3. On Fox News, Geraldo said that Martin was dressed “like a wannabe gangster.” Bill O’Reilly agreed with him. The sole evidence is that Martin was wearing a hoodie. Geraldo added that “everyone that ever stuck up a convenience store” was wearing a hoodie. [ThinkProgress; The Blaze]
4. Without any evidence, prominent right-wing bloggers suggested that Martin was a drug dealer. Right-wing blogger Dan Riehl advances the theory, also advanced in a widely linked peice on a site called Wagist. There does not appear to be any evidence to support this claim whatsoever. [Riehl World View]
5. Without any evidence, a right-wing columnist alleged that Martin assaulted a bus driver. Unlike Zimmerman, Trayvon has no documented history of violence. This allegation continues to be advanced by a blogger on the Examiner even after the real reason was leaked to the police and confirmed by the family. [Miami Herald; Examiner]
6. Zimmerman’s friend says Martin was to blame because he was disrespectful to Zimmerman. Zimmerman’s friend Joe Oliver said that Martin would not have been shot to death if Trayvon had just said “I’m staying with my parents.” Of course, Zimmerman was not a police officer, and Trayvon had no duty to tell him who he was or where he was going. [NBC News]
The final part of the effort to smear Trayvon Martin is to link him and his supporters to irresponsible fringe groups like the New Black Panthers and marginal provocateurs like Louis Farrakhan. Threats by these groups are serious and should be investigated, but they have nothing to do with Martin or his supporters. The leader of the effort to associate Martin with these groups is Matt Drudge. You can see how he is framing the story today here.
Ultimately, whether Martin was a perfect person is irrelevant to whether Zimmerman’s conduct that night was justified. Clearly, there are two different versions of the events that transpired on February 26, the night Trayvon was killed. There are conflicting statements by witnesses and conflicting evidence as to who was the aggressor. Zimmerman has the right to tell his side of the story. But his opportunity to do this will come in a court of law after he is charged and arrested. In the meantime, Zimmerman’s supporters should stop trying to smear the reputation of a dead, 17-year-old boy.
What You Need To Know About The Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)
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Bobby Rush booted from House floor for wearing hoodie
The Illinois congressman and former Black Panther chose this occasion to make a statement on the Trayvon Martin case. Unfortunately, the statement didn’t go over so well with the House sergeant-at-arms.
Why #TeamDueProcess is important for justice; Correction and update: Twitchy issues apology for fake Trayvon Martin photo | Twitchy
Meet the Real Trayvon
The issue of Trayvon Martin and gang ties is significant for several reasons, not the least of which is that the blocks he was walking that night were under siege in the days prior by burglars. Were the burglars Trayvon and fellow gang members? Was the Skittles run cover for casing the houses?
The media narrative being sold is quite clear, Trayvon Martin is the innocent victim here and George Zimmerman is a horrible bigot who attacked the young man for doing nothing more than buying skittles while being black. Even Barack Obama seems to accept the fresh-faced innocence of Trayvon, stating, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” More on that later.
It’s becoming more and more clear however that the innocent appearance the mainstream media is so desperate to apply to Trayvon isn’t at all accurate. The picture we’re used to seeing to represent Trayvon Martin appears to be a far cry from how he actually looked once he was a few years older. Extended School Suspension
There has been a lot of analysis about the character of George Zimmerman in the media, and surprisingly little about Trayvon Martin.
For instance, a few days before he was killed, Trayvon was suspended from school for ten days.
Still, Trayvon had nonviolent behavioral issues in school, and on the day he was killed, he had been suspended for 10 days from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade. “He was not suspended for something dealing with violence or anything like that. It wasn’t a crime he committed, but he was in an unauthorized area [on school property],” Martin said, declining to offer more details. Before that, Trayvon attended Miami Carol City High School near his mother’s home in Miami Gardens.
There has been very little follow-up in investigating exactly why Trayvon was suspended for such a long period of time for what seems to be the relatively minor offense of “being in an unauthorized area.” In most schools, something like that would be a detention, or one-day, in school suspension at most. Not ten days.
Of course, this is why Trayvon was staying as his Father’s house, so far away from school. And it also explains why George Zimmerman, who by all accounts seemed to stay on top of everything that happened in his neighborhood, didn’t recognize him that evening, Trayvon didn’t really live there, and was only in town because of the suspension.
It seems we may not find out more anytime soon, as a lawyer representing Trayvon’s family has sealed his school records.
Multiple Tattoos
To learn more about Trayvon’s character, we have to look to his friends and family to offer clues. Unfortunately, it seems as if most people who knew him are intent on cleaning up his image, rather than discussing what Trayvon was really like.
Even though Trayvon was only 17, he already was sporting gold teeth, and several large tattoos. This one was on his wrist, apparently of his girlfriend’s mother’s name.
Trayvon Martin Wrist Tattoo
This photo, taken from Tray’s MySpace page, shows another large tattoo that took up most of his upper arm.
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This photo, taken from Tray’s MySpace page, shows another large tattoo that took up most of his upper arm.
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It seems that Tray was also on Twitter, but his account seems to have been recently deleted by his family or friends.
His screen name was “@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, as you can see from the twitpic account screenshot above. He was also a member of a twitter hash group #team4dat.
At first, I was skeptical that anyone would maintain an account with that sort of derogatory slur in the title, but after doing some research, it’s apparent that it was Trayvon’s account.
The account was in existence long before the shooting occurred a few weeks ago, and was deleted only recently, there are still dozens of references to @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA in google’s cache.
The associated twitpic account matches the account name and is still online at the time of publication. Most of the pics were uploaded months ago, so this account was associated with Trayvon long before the shooting took place.
Several of Tray’s friends have been very open about referring to Trayvon using that account as well. His cousin, who is quite active on Twitter, refers to Trayvon more than a dozen times using the @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA nickname.
Violence & Gang Activity
There seem to be several allusions to violence on Tray’s Twitter account.
His friends posted supportive messages using it as well, about how happy they were that Trayvon whooped Zimmerman’s ass before he died.
@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA IMA MISS YU TILL I DIE DOG I KNOW YU WHOOPED HIS ASS DOE.. CUZ I PRAY GOD HELP ME AND WATCH YU LOVE YOU CUZZ REST ETERNALLY.
Violence one
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Another post makes reference to Trayvon having “swung on a bus driver” a few days before he died.
Did that have something to do with his ten-day suspension?
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On Trayvon’s MySpace page, at least one of his top friends, Romario305, is featured making a gang sign towards the camera in his default profile picture.
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Almost all of this is in stark contrast to the media’s central narrative that Trayvon was a normal, happy, well-adjusted teenager.
Instead of that, we are seeing long suspensions from school, tattoos, racially-charged epitaphs, and violence.
Drug Culture
Several of his friends have posted pictures of rolled blunts to twitter in memorial to Trayvon.
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There is also fairly direct evidence that Trayvon may have been a small-time drug-dealer.
On Facebook on February 5th, his friend posts on his wall asking to talk business. Trayvon says he doesn’t have a phone available and his friend says, “Damn were u at a nigga needa plant.”
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Unless Trayvon was selling Orchids, it seems fairly reasonable to posit that he may have been somewhat well-known among his friends for selling marijuana.
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Trayvon Martin, gang banger, burglar
Related – Meet The Real Trayvon Martin, Part One: Evidence Emerges He Was A Drug Dealer And Gang Banger
Excerpted from MiamiHerald – SANFORD — Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was suspended from school in October in an incident in which he was found in possession of women’s jewelry and a screwdriver that a schools security staffer described as a “burglary tool,” The Miami Herald has learned.
Trayvon, who claimed that an unnamed friend had given him the jewelry, was not disciplined because of the discovery, but was instead suspended for graffiti, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by The Miami Herald.
A lawyer for the dead teen’s family acknowledged Trayvon had been suspended for graffiti, but said the family knew nothing about the jewelry and the screwdriver, calling the information in the report an attempt to “demonize” the youth.
According to the report, on Oct. 21 staffers monitoring a security camera at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School spotted Trayvon and two other students writing “W.T.F.,” an acronym for “What the f—,” on a hallway locker, according to schools police. The security employee, who knew Trayvon, confronted the teen and looked through his bag for the graffiti marker.
Trayvon’s backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described the screwdriver as a burglary tool.
Trayvon was asked if the jewelry, which was mostly women’s rings and earrings, belonged to his family or a girlfriend.
“Martin replied it’s not mine. A friend gave it to me,” according to the report. Trayvon declined to name the friend.
School police impounded the jewelry and sent photos of the items to detectives at Miami-Dade police for further investigation.
“Martin was suspended, warned and dismissed for the graffiti,” according to the report prepared by Miami-Dade Schools Police.
That suspension was followed four months later by another one, in February, in which Trayvon was caught with an empty plastic bag with traces of marijuana in it, the boy’s family’s attorney has confirmed. A schools police report obtained by The Miami Herald specifies two items: a bag with marijuana residue and a “marijuana pipe.”
Meet The Real Trayvon Martin, Part II: Trayvon Suspended From School For Possessing Stolen Jewelry And
Misconceptions in the Trayvon Martin Case
by DAN LINEHAN on MARCH 28, 2012
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Despite the Trayvon Martin shooting being more than a month passed, misinformation and fallacious arguments continue to appear with great frequency.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the top misconceptions regarding the Trayvon Martin case.Misconceptions in the Trayvon Martin Case
- Trayvon was a normal, well-adjusted teenager.Seventeen-year-olds don’t normally have gold teeth, multiple tattoos, multiple school suspensions, friends publicly asking them for “plant” on their Facebooks, issues withgraffiti, school problems with “burglary tools,” and so on.
Trayvon might not have been an out-and-out criminal, but he certainly wasn’t an average teen either.
What we do see is an escalating pattern of illegal behavior.
Multiple tattoos may be regarded by some as nothing beyond popular fashion, but without parental consent minors cannot get them.
Trayvon seems to have had several when he was only sixteen. Did he lie about his age or did his parents go with him when he got them?
In the last 48 hours, we’ve found out that Martin’s 10-day suspension (which was in effect at the time of his shooting) wasn’t the only time he was suspended recently.
In a few short months during his junior year in high school, Trayvon was suspended on three separate occasions, including one time when he was caught with a “burglary tool” and a bunch of jewelry that didn’t belong to him.The Miami Herald claims that in October, he was caught with a ‘burglary tool’ – a flathead screwdriver – and 12 pieces of women’s jewellery. Martin insisted that they did not belong to him.Certain media outlets are still spinning the story.
Earlier, he had been suspended for skipping school and showing up late to class. And most recently, in February, he was suspended again when officials found a ‘marijuana pipe’ and an empty baggie with traces of the drug.
NPR titled yesterday’s article, “Trayvon Martin’s Life Looking Much Like Many Teens.”
From that piece:According to the Herald, Martin was suspended from school three times in recent months, for incidents ranging from tardiness to writing graffiti on school property to having a plastic bag with marijuana residue in his backpack. He had never been arrested.Conveniently no mention of the jewelry or the screwdriver on NPR.- Discussing someone’s character is a smear campaign.Trayvon’s character matters deeply in this case.
Since this shooting has become an extremely polarizing national news item, everyone involved requires scrutiny. That especially holds true for Trayvon, since his actions on the night of the shooting are truly at the heart of all of this.
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We have to ask ourselves, “Was Trayvon the sort of person who would viciously attack and beat Zimmerman, as Zimmerman claims?” To answer that question, we have to know as much as we can about Trayvon and how he conducted himself.
The media has spent an inordinate amount of time looking into Zimmerman’s background. For a long while the same scrutiny was not applied to Martin. That has changed now somewhat. As more facts are coming out about who Martin was, the image many people had of him turned out to be very inaccurate.
Trayvon no longer seems to be the innocent victim the media initially portrayed him as.
This is not a smear campaign. It’s not blaming the victim. In fact, Martin wasn’t the victim if he unilaterally assaulted and viciously beat Zimmerman, as every piece of evidence currently seems to suggest. More on that later.- George Zimmerman is racist.There is no evidence to suggest that George Zimmerman is racist and quite a lot of evidence against it.
Zimmerman and his wife were in the big brother / big sister program and mentored two black children. That doesn’t sound like the actions of a racist to me.
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His friends and family have been extremely outspoken about Zimmerman not being racist from the start. Apparently, Zimmerman grew up in a multi-cultural family and has always been anything but discriminatory.
Joe Oliver, a long-time friend of Zimmerman’s, has been conducting interviews all this week about the topic as well.
Zimmerman's friend, Joe Oliver, speaks out - YouTube- George Zimmerman called Martin a “coon.”This claim has been widely debunked.
Audio experts have attested that he said the word “punks” on the call.WFTV had an audio expert listen to the call, and determined that the word said was “punks.”Others think he may have said “crooks.” Several have mentioned that he could have even said “goons.” I’ve never heard of that expression, but apparently “goons” is actually part of the vernacular in Florida.
In any case, Zimmerman was highly unlikely to have said “coons” while on the line with 911. To begin with, “coons” is a fairly obscure, outdated word. Very few people under the age of sixty would use that term as a racial slur, there are half-a-dozen other offensive words that are much more commonly used.
Zimmerman has an extensive background in criminal justice. He probably wasn’t about to throw it away by littering his 911 calls with racist rhetoric. There is no record of him using any racial slurs this on any previous 911 call.
It seems highly unlikely he would start doing so all of the sudden, forty-some calls in.- George Zimmerman was chasing Trayvon.George Zimmerman wasn’t “chasing” Trayvon. Chasing someone implies you are trying to catch up to them — there’s no evidence that was Zimmerman’s intention.
Zimmerman was attempting to maintain visual contact. That is what he was supposed to do for his Neighborhood Watch, and that is what was being asked of him by the 911 dispatcher at the time.
This is supported by the 911 transcript.Zimmerman: No you go in straight through the entrance and then you make a left…uh you go straight in, don’t turn, and make a left. Shit he’s running.The dispatcher was asking Zimmerman specific questions about where Martin was going, Zimmerman was answering as needed.
Dispatcher: He’s running? Which way is he running?
Zimmerman: Down towards the other entrance to the neighborhood.
Dispatcher: Which entrance is that that he’s heading towards?
Every step of the way, Zimmerman complied with the 911 operator.
When he was asking for more information about the direction Martin went, Zimmerman provided it. When he said there was no need to pursue, Zimmerman stopped immediately.Dispatcher: Are you following him?At this point, Zimmerman no longer has Trayvon within eyesight, and he’s no longer even attempting to look for him.
Zimmerman: Yeah
Dispatcher: Ok, we don’t need you to do that.
Zimmerman: Ok
Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?
Zimmerman: George…He ran.- George Zimmerman should have stayed in his truck.This is a baseless argument.
Zimmerman had no reason to think he should stay in his truck — he was reporting someone suspicious in his neighborhood and wanted to maintain visual contact with that person. He drove after them for a few minutes and the person ran away.
At this point, it makes perfect logical sense for Zimmerman to exit the vehicle to see where the suspicious person went, because he had just called them in to the police. Otherwise, the police would get there and Zimmerman would have no idea what direction to point them in.
If we listen to the 911 call it’s clear that Zimmerman was not chasing Trayvon. He was merely trying to see where he was going so he could relay this information to the dispatcher.
This fact is actually crucial to the case. Things would be different had Zimmerman actually been in some sort of hot pursuit, chasing after Martin, but he never was. Zimmerman wasn’t ever close to Martin, until Martin changed directions and confronted Zimmerman after the 911 call.- George Zimmerman started the fight.There is absolutely no evidence of this. It seems pretty clear that Zimemrman’s goal was to report someone he didn’t recognize in his community, not to pick a fight with them.
To believe that Zimmerman picked a fight with Martin, we first have to ask ourselves why Zimmerman would want to start a fight that he would almost certainly lose, against someone who was 10 years younger than him, half a foot taller, and in excellent physical shape.
Take a look at this picture of Trayvon and decide for yourself whether you would instigate a physical confrontation with him.
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If Zimmerman wanted to start a fight or harass some random teenager, why would he call 911 before doing so?
Calling in a suspicious person report does not make any sense if Zimmerman wanted to go out and start physical confrontations.
Had Zimmerman proceeded to attack Martin, the cops would have arrived a few minutes later and Zimmerman would have been arrested for assaulting a minor. There would be no valid reason for him to do that whatsoever.
The concept of Zimmerman initiating violence makes no sense in context with the rest of the evidence we have.- George Zimmerman was simply let go at the scene.Zimmerman was not simply “released” at the scene by the Sanford police.
He was handcuffed and placed in the back of the squad car where he first received treatment for his injuries.
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Police then questioned Zimmerman for five hours at police headquarters the night of February 26th. All of that was without an attorney present.
A very risky move for Zimmerman, but he apparently felt he had nothing to hide.- Zimmerman just lost the fight.There is a certain subset of people who continue to make derogatory statements about Zimmerman along the lines of:
- He’s a wimp who was mad because he lost a fist-fight and shot the kid afterward.
- He brought a gun to an otherwise fair fight.
- Getting beaten up doesn’t mean that you get to shoot the other guy afterward.
I would agree with all of those if they applied to this case in any way, but they don’t.
Zimmerman says he was unilaterally attacked by Martin. He never wanted to fight in the first place. It’s not as if he agreed to something physical and then proceeded to shoot Martin at the end of it.
One minute he was on the phone with police, the next he was knocked down with one punch, and getting beaten incessantly.- George Zimmerman was bigger than Trayvon.George Zimmerman weighed more than Trayvon. That only matters when the extra weight in question is muscle.
By all accounts, Zimmerman was not in good shape. He was out of breath on the 911 call after jogging for only a few seconds.
Trayvon had a six inch height advantage, as well as a ten year age advantage, and was generally much more fit overall.- George Zimmerman had no right to pursue Trayvon.Zimmerman saw someone in his neighborhood who looked suspicious and he had every right to follow-up with them and talk to them without being assaulted.
In this case however, Zimmerman never even got the chance. He never got close enough to ask Martin anything before he lost visual contact, then headed back towards his truck to meet police.- It was Trayvon’s voice screaming for help on the 9/11 call.This is probably one of the most critical misconceptions of the case. When the 911 tapes were released, nearly everyone assumed it was Trayvon screaming for his life on the recording. It was horrifying and very emotional.
But the evidence shows this terrified voice was actually Zimmerman’s, not Trayvon’s.
The only witness to the assault describes Zimmerman as being on the bottom in a “ground-and-pound” position, screaming for help. That witness told them, “I’m going to call 911,” and ran inside to do so.
On the 911 recording we continue to hear Zimmerman’s screams for help.
There is a continuity there — between what the witness saw, and what we hear on the tapes. Zimmerman was screaming for help when the witness first saw the fight, he was still pinned down and screaming for help when the 911 call was recorded.
Zimmerman was screaming for his life as Trayvon continued to beat him, even after a witness told them directly that he was calling 911. This alone shows that Trayvon had no regard for any sort of fair fight.
Martin wasn’t pinning Zimmerman down and beating him for several minutes because he “felt threatened.” Martin was the aggressor, from start to finish, not the victim.- George Zimmerman is white.For those who don’t already know, Zimmerman is hispanic. Half-white on his Father’s side and half Peruvian.
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This misconception is understandable, as Zimmerman was documented as being white in the original Sanford police report.- George Zimmerman disobeyed 911 orders.Zimmerman did not ever disobey 911 dispatcher orders. If you listen to the tapes, the dispatcher says, “We don’t need you to [follow him.]” And Zimmerman says, “Ok.”
Dispatcher: Are you following him?The conversation continues, and it’s obvious from his tone of voice that Zimmerman is no longer actively pursuing Martin.
Zimmerman: Yeah
Dispatcher: Ok, we don’t need you to do that.
Zimmerman: Ok
How exactly would Zimmerman have caught back up to Martin after the call, when he couldn’t keep up with him in the first place?- Trayvon was justified in punching Zimmerman.The only way Trayvon would have been justified in punching Zimmerman would have been if Zimmerman successfully chased Martin down until he caught up with him. Even then, it would have been questionable.
But that is not the scenario we are dealing with. Martin initiated the confrontation, and almost certainly didn’t feel threatened while he was fighting Zimmerman.
Martin had him pinned to the ground and continued to beat him incessantly while Zimmerman was screaming for help. There is no justification for that.- It has anything to do with hoodies.For a few sentimental days, large groups of people were taking photos wearing hoodies to show solidarity with Trayvon Martin.
There’s nothing wrong with that per se, except that this case has nothing to do with hoodies. Trayvon was not shot because he was wearing a hoodie or any other article of clothing.
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Trayvon was shot because he continued to viciously beat a man ten years his senior, while that man was crying out desperately for help. A man who had done nothing to him except briefly follow him as part of his Neighborhood Watch duties.- George Zimmerman was remorseless after the shooting.Multiple witnesses who arrived after the shooting saw Zimmerman trying to stop Martin’s bleeding. This alone signifies how much Zimmerman didn’t want to shoot Martin. He simply had no other choice after being pinned down and beaten.
Friends report that Zimmerman cried for days after the shooting. When you consider that Zimmerman was the victim of a violent crime he wanted no part of, this reaction makes sense.- George Zimmerman was a vigilante.This is a misunderstanding of the word “vigilante.”
What Zimmerman was doing was absolutely routine, everyday, neighborhood watch stuff. Driving around and reporting anyone suspicious that he didn’t recognize. Being the “eyes and ears” of the community.
If anything, what Martin did to Zimmerman was vigilantism. Martin assumed Zimmerman was up to no good when he saw him following him, and took it upon himself to dish out his own brand of justice.- The Florida “Stand Your Ground” law applies.As far as I can tell, it wouldn’t make any difference whether Florida had a “Stand Your Ground” law or not in this case.
Anywhere in America, if you are being pinned down and beaten in the head, your life is in danger and you have a right to defend yourself against bodily harm with deadly force.
“Stand your Ground” doesn’t apply when you’re pinned to the ground and being beaten.- Trayvon was only standing his ground as well.Trayvon had rights in this situation. He had the right to confront Zimmerman and ask why he was being followed. He had the right to be offended and upset about any racial profiling he perceived Zimmerman engaging in.
And if he felt like Zimmerman was about to attack him for some reason, he may have even had the right to initiate violence to defend himself.
But Martin had no reason to feel threatened by Zimmerman when Zimmerman never even came close to catching up to him, and was only following from a distance.
And Martin certainly didn’t have the right to continue to beat Zimmerman indefinitely, while Zimmerman desperately screamed and pleaded for help.
There is simply no way that behavior can be justified by saying, “Trayvon felt threatened.”- George Zimmerman has no reason to be carrying a gun.It should be obvious from this case that Zimmerman had every reason to want to carry a gun.
When someone is willing to assault and beat you simply for approaching them, and so many other people are willing to justify and even rally behind their actions, it’s quite a dangerous society we live in.- It’s about race.I saved this for last because it’s the biggest misconception of them all.
Very little of this case has to do with race. Everything here is about violence and assault.
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George Zimmerman shot a black teenager. That does not make him racist, because that black teenager had decided to beat him to a pulp.
I’m fairly certain most gun owners who conceal/carry would shoot anyone who was pinning them down and beating them mercilessly. Race simply does not factor into that equation.
If George Zimmerman had shot a white teenager who was viciously attacking him, would anyone be saying he had racist motivations? It’s highly doubtful. The majority of people would say, “Of course he shot him, he was being pinned down and being beaten in the head in his own neighborhood.”
The only aspect of the case that truly relates to race is whether the initial 911 call would have been made if Trayvon wasn’t black.
While we can’t answer that for certain, I believe the answer is yes.
George Zimmerman took his job as Neighborhood Watch very seriously, he called in all sorts of stuff, I believe he called Trayvon in because he didn’t recognize him, not because of his color.
There had been a massive string of burglaries in the area (pdf) in the preceding months.
Guess how most of the merchandise was recovered? From reporting suspicious people in the neighborhood.
So this exact type of “suspicious activity” reporting was proven to be effective only weeks earlier. Of course Zimmerman is going to use it.
http://i.imgur.com/NN0tJ.jpg?1Rpt Date: 2/7/2012 15:06 Reporter: B65567 Blake, James Clearance: 0 Open Narr. Type: SIf no one had been calling in suspicious people in the neighborhood, this mini-crime spree would never have been solved.
Mod By: SANFORD\jhlake Mod Date: 2/7/2012 15:55 Related Case Number: 201250000751
On 02/07/12 at approximately 1300 hours, I responded to area of 1540 Retreat view Cir in reference to a group of suspicious person(s).
Sanford Dispatch advised that there were four males on bicycles in the area, that one of them was possibly a suspect in this case.
Upon arrival myself and Ofc. M. Hickley made contact with three black males and one white male on bicycles in a cut through area of the complex (a grass area were Retreat at Twin Lakes backs up to Colonial Village Apts). The white male had on a white t-shirt and jeans (one black male had on a black shirt and black beanie cap, the other black male had on a red hat and red shorts and the last black male was wearing a black shirt, black jacket and jean shorts and black shoes.)
Ofc. L. Rivera then arrived on scene; while he and Ofc. Hickley were checking the identifications of the subjects, I made contact with the caller Arnold Arms and lain Beard. Arms and Beard both stated that the black male wearing the black jacket, black shirt, jean shorts, and black shoes was the same black male they saw in the area of 1540 Retreat View Cir on 02/06/12. They also provided a sworn written statement advising that Burgess was wearing the same cloths that he was wearing on 02I06f12.
While Ofc. Rivera and Ofc. Hickley were trying to verify the identify Mme original gave a false name), I asked Ransburg if
I could look through his back pack that he was carrying. Ransburg gave me permission to look through his back pack, to which I found two laptop computers. One of the computers was an Apple Macbook Pro, I then asked Ranshurg if the Apple computer belonged to him, to which he replied no. It should be noted that with out any hesitation — told me that the Apple laptop was his computer and that he had bought it last night. l then ran the serial number on the Apple computer (WQOZZRSPATM) through FCIC/NCIC. The computer came hack stolen out of Sanford and came hack to this case number. The other computer came back with negative results at this time.
Twin Lakes is a small gated community, Zimmerman knew who lived there and who didn’t. He didn’t recognize Trayvon.
That seems to be Zimmerman’s sole motive for calling Trayvon in, nothing more. He wanted to keep his neighborhood free from theft, and reporting suspicious activity had worked well for the community in the previous months.
Flames of hate don't seem to stop.
Crime ‘Let’s Start a Riot’: First Rap Song Devoted to Trayvon Martin Calls for Violence
The Trayvon Martin case has inflamed passions like perhaps no case in recent memory, and there is plenty of ugliness resulting from those passions. Now, the first rap song devoted to the Martin case has appeared on Youtube, titled “All Black in My Hoodie,” by the rapper Zoeja Jean.
- Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:30pm by http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/u....thumbnail.jpgMytheos Holt
It is not exactly a pleasant listening experience. The chorus goes as follows:All black in my hoodieThe lyrics then proceed apace, with vulgarity continuing to escalate as it goes on:
All black in my hoodie
Strapped up with them AKs
F–k protesters
Let’s start a riot
Fight, let’s start a riotBurn the houseNote the phrasing. “Lynch that cracker,“ the ”cracker” in question presumably being George Zimmerman. Apparently, either the reference to lynching has now been explicitly adopted by Martin’s more violent supporters, or Zoeja Jean has gone off the reservation with this wording. Either way, it doesn’t bode well for this already excessively violent case. Tempers are flaring, and the most irresponsible observers of this tragedy appear to be doing everything they can to encourage that.
And everybody in it
I don’t give a f–k about the racist ass children
F–k all that bullshit
Protest with justice
I feel like the Black Panthers
Let’s start a f–kin riot
Ain’t trying to talk like Dr. King
Like Malcom X I’m runnin ????
F–k them pussy ass KKK
We black and strapped with them A-K-K
They did us wrong in Haiti
They did us wrong in Africa
Black folks let’s keep it real
These pussy crackers don’t love us
If we don’t do s–t
And lynch that cracker
Six months later
They gonna kill another brother
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Video of exchange of O'Reilly and Sharpton with the article.
Crime O‘Reilly Scolds Media for ’Convicting’ George Zimmerman on Television as Al Sharpton Tries to Convict Zimmerman on Television
Two polar opposite reactions to new evidence in the Trayvon Martin case surfaced tonight on Fox News and MSNBC. On Fox, Bill O’Reilly told Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump that “it’s wrong to convict anybody on television,” referring to the premature reaction by many in the media to the Martin story. And despite being the Martin family advocate, Crump actually agreed with O’Reilly on the subject, saying “no extreme is good” while still pointing out that there are holes in the case which makes Martin’s killing look suspicious.
- Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:00pm by http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/u....thumbnail.jpgMytheos Holt
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Arguably, Crump was more of a prop in the segment, as O’Reilly spent much of it slamming the media for its premature behavior and sensationalism regarding the case.
“That’s what’s wrong with the media in this country: no longer to facts matter; accusations are enough to condemn folks. The press wants a story and doesn’t care who gets hurt in the process,” O’Reilly said. “No media observer knows exactly what happened the night Trayvon Martin was killed.”
Yet while no one in the media knows exactly what happened, at least one media observer thinks he knows – namely, Al Sharpton. Referring to the recently released police surveillance tape of George Zimmerman being escorted into the police station, Sharpton claimed Zimmerman looked anything but like a man who had been beaten “within an inch of his life.”
Sharpton described Zimmerman’s side of the story as “crumbling” and asked two experts he’d invited on the show to comment on what the surveillance tape shows. Both experts agreed that they didn’t think the video showed the sort of injuries described in the police report
Spike Lee. If you even know who he is is, is busy trying to ruin an old couples life.I don know why he cant be arrested.
Posted at 06:20 PM ET, 03/29/2012 TheWashingtonPost Spike Lee’s Twitter mistake
By Alexandra Petri
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Not the Right Thing to Do. (Mike Stobe) There are many problems with what happened Wednesday with filmmaker Spike Lee on Twitter.
One problem was that what Spike Lee thought was the home address of George Zimmerman — the man who shot teenager Trayvon Martin — actually belonged to a couple in their seventies. The bigger problem was that he tweeted what he thought was the address of George Zimmerman to his 240,000-odd followers in the first place.
The expected happened after he sent the tweet out. Menacing calls. Menacing letters. Menacing envelopes with Taste The Rainbow printed on them. (I am not making this up.)
It makes you reflect on how creepy these candy slogans can be, if said with the right inflection.
Of course it’s a problem that someone lettered “TASTE THE RAINBOW” on an envelope and frightened a retired couple.
But even the right address would have been the wrong address.
What did Lee reasonably expect? That his followers were going to send the “Zimmerman residence” indignant letters? That they might ship him Edible Arrangements with passive-aggressive but politely-worded notes?
Of course not. Instead, people responded by becoming exactly the thing they were trying to punish: vigilantes, pursuing their own sense of right and wrong without regard to law or fact. Did nobody learn anything?
The fact that it was an elderly couple and not the intended recipient just pointed up the wrongness of this whole situation more starkly. You can't just go around tweeting the addresses of people and subjecting them to the Twitter mob’s blunt justice. There is much to be angry about in the story of Trayvon Martin. But you can’t fix a wrong with another wrong.
I’m glad Lee apologized, tweeting, “Justice in court.” That’s where it has to happen. If only that thought had come sooner.
One injustice is more than enough.
By Alexandra Petri | 06:20 PM ET, 03/29/2012
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Zimmerman's brother breaks family silence, defends his actions
Updated: Mar 30, 2012 6:11 AM
By Jennifer Bowen
Speaking publicly for the first time since the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, Robert Zimmerman, Jr., appeared on "Piers Morgan Tonight" to defend his brother, George Zimmerman. (Source: CNN)
(RNN) - Breaking the month of silence by the family, George Zimmerman's brother said it's "conjecture" by the media to claim he continued to pursue Trayvon Martin after a 911 operator told him not to.
Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, self-appointed captain of the neighborhood watch, while walking to his father's fiancee's house in Sanford, FL. Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense.
INCIDENT REPORT
Click here to read the police report from the night of Feb. 26.
Appearing on Piers Morgan Tonight on Thursday, Robert Zimmerman Jr. said his brother wasn't patrolling the neighborhood, but that he was on his way to Target when he noticed a suspicious looking person in his gated community and called 911.
Robert Zimmerman Jr. said his brother stopped following Martin after a 911 operator told him to and that he then lost sight of him.
"This mythology that he chased a person is absolutely false. He didn't chase anyone," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said.
He said that after George Zimmerman lost sight of Martin, the teen snuck up on his brother and attacked him.
"My brother drew back to grab his phone in retreat to call again 911 and say, 'Well, this person who I lost sight of and was not pursuing has now confronted me.' That's what he did. He never got to make that call because he was attacked by Mr. Martin," Robert Zimmerman Jr. told Morgan.
George Zimmerman has maintained he shot the teen in self-defense, saying Martin punched him in the nose and slammed his head onto the sidewalk.
Martin was unarmed at the time of the scuffle, carrying only a bag of Skittles and an iced tea that he purchased at a local store.
Robert Zimmerman Jr. claimed that during the confrontation, Martin tried to disarm his brother and that George Zimmerman would have died had he not "acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment."
"When you say 'have a bag of skittles and an iced tea,' nobody just stood there with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. You return force with force when somebody assaults you. George was out of breath, he was barely conscious," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the Feb. 26 shooting, Robert Zimmerman Jr. said his brother has "severe emotional injuries" and that his nose, broken during the scuffle, is still healing.
According to a police report, George Zimmerman was treated on the scene by emergency responders, but did not go to the hospital for evaluation.
The comments come nearly 24 hours after dark and grainy surveillance video surfaced showing George Zimmerman arriving at the Sanford Police Department, hands cuffed and without obvious injury.
"We're confident the medical records are going to explain all of George's medical history and how he was treated at the scene. To me, his nose looks swollen in that video. I'm his brother," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said.
"What I think I see is a swollen nose. I'm not a physician, you're not a physician. A lot of these injuries take time, 24 hours, 36 hours to show the bruising."
Robert Zimmerman Jr. said he noticed an immediate change in his brother after the shooting and that he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and "he will never be the same." He also said that his brother was disappointed that none of the neighbors came out to help during the confrontation.
"The whole situation could have potentially been avoided if someone had come out and said 'Hey, what's going on here?'" Robert Zimmerman Jr. said.
Zimmerman's brother breaks family silence, defends his actions - CBS 5 - KPHO
Spike Lee Settles With Couple He Wrongly Linked to Trayvon Martin Killing
Today 8:05 AM PDT by Josh Grossberg
If you ask Spike Lee, they've gotta have it. And deserve it.
The controversial filmmaker has reached a settlement with Elaine and David McClain, the elderly Florida couple he inadvertantly tied to Trayvon Martin's killer over Twitter, prompting them to fear for their safety and leave their Sanford, Fla., home.
No word how much Lee's paying them, but whatever the amount, it was enough to put the matter to rest.
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"Spike has agreed to compensate the McClains for their loss and for the disruption into their lives," Matt Morgan, the McClains' attorney, announced yesterday according to published reports. "He's taken full responsibility."
The Do the Right Thing director came under intense criticism for mistakenly retweeting the septuagenarians' home address thinking it was the location of George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain who admitted killing the unarmed black teen last month in self-defense but has yet to be arrested, sparking a national outcry.
The McClains' son, William George Zimmerman, previously lived with them in the '90s, accounting for the mix-up which ended up causing his parents an immense amount of grief this week. Once their address was made public, the press descended on them and they received hate mail and unwanted visitors, leading them to flee their residence for a hotel and threaten to take legal action against Lee.
To his credit, Spike not only apologized to the McClains Wednesday on Twitter, he also called them to personally say he felt bad about the anguish he caused them and regretted his actions.
Spike Lee Settles With Couple He Wrongly Linked to Trayvon Martin Killing - E! Online
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I wonder whose side the president is on in this? Spikes or the McClain's? Had this been reversed, would the FBI call it a 'hate crime?'
Yeah sure, kick him out of college. God forbid he ruin their name over something that the public doesn't know the half about. College is no place for (White) Hispanics like him that don't fit the norm, right? I hope this turns out to his favor so the other White Hispanics can say screw that place.
Trayvon Martin Death Won't Go to Fla. Grand Jury
Special prosecutor Angela Corey says she will not bring the Trayvon Martin shooting death before a grand jury. Corey said Monday she continues to investigate the case and will not involve a grand jury set to meet Tuesday. (April 9)
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Hispanic is just means Spanish-speaking, but in America it's rendered meaningless because most of the people described as such don't even speak the language. I had trouble explaining that Hispanic meant "any race" when I worked for the Census Bureau. One person insisted that I put his race down as Puerto Rican-American, which is obviously redundant.
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Fox news aired what appeared to be the 911 calls from Zimmerman. It sounds as though he discontinued following this kid. I wonder if this kid came back and jumped him? There is little between the 911 call and then what the witnesses saw, Zimmerman on the ground being beaten and then Trayvon being shot. I am beginning to believe this kid may have come back and jumped him, and if so, how was Zimmerman supposed to know, while being beaten up, that Trayvon Martin did not have a weapon? I side with self-defense, but the mother in me hurts for his mother and father too.
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Mike Tyson on George Zimmerman: ‘It’s a disgrace he hasn’t been shot yet’
And this comes from an animal that bites off parts of his opponents ears!!!!