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Yeah just like many black men gunned down by rw have never been classified as murder nor anyone charged.
No power=No Justice
I've heard complaints that police don't solve a lot of black-black homicides. Are those black killers part of the rw/conservative/tea party so eager to eliminate black youth.
Again, are you really suggesting that "who started" the argument has any relevance at all? I think that the conflict started with the assault, which was initiated by Martin. If you don't want to get shot, do not initiate an assault.
Martin could have chosen to simply walk away from a conflict, but chose instead to incite one. It is certainly terrible that he paid for his poor decision with his life, but it was, in the end, his decision.
Would everyone be more happy if Martin had killed Zimmerman? It appears that way and that many here are condoning assault and battery as a logical and normal means of problem solving. Here is the problem- assault and battery is a crime. Further, if one is assaulted and thier life is in danger, responding with lethal force is acceptable. Perhaps this will be a message to thugs everywhere.
According to the 911 tape, Martin noticed that Zimmerman was watching him, started to approach his vehicle, then turned away and continued his journey home. It was at that point that Zimmerman, who carried his gun visibly in a holster, got out of his vehicle and started to follow him. You can hear him huffing on the tape. That's when he was told by the dispatcher, "you don't need to do that." After that point, we have only Zimmerman's word for what happened and every day his story gets more expansive.
If Zimmerman had stayed in vehicle, as he was instructed none - NONE - of the tragic ensuing events would have happened. Zimmerman made the poor decision and Martin did, indeed pay for it with his life.
I would be more happy if Zimmerman, an overzealous, gun toting, not too bright, wanna be cop had followed police instructions and Neighborhood Watch protocol. If he had, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Uh oh folks looks like Trayvon was suspended multiple times and was caught with burglary tools. Hmmm.
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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.
According to the article, he had been suspended from school for 5 (or 10 depending on who's doing the reporting) for being in an "unauthorized area". Hmmmmm.......what "unauthorized area" might he have gone in to to merit a suspension from school? And what was he doing while there?
Wonder why there have been no media interviews with his classmates about him. Surely, they would likely know what he did to get suspended from school
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]
To me the response to this should be solid evidence to anyone who has any doubt about the rightwing war on blacks that went hot in January 2009. It had been cold but Obama having the nerve to be elected changed all that.
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]
Zimmerman should be tried and convicted for hitting Mr. Martin's fist with his nose, and then littering blood on the ground, from repeated ground strikes with the back of his head.
To me the response to this should be solid evidence to anyone who has any doubt about the rightwing war on blacks that went hot in January 2009. It had been cold but Obama having the nerve to be elected changed all that.
Yeah, I'm sure that's EXACTLY the case.
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