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Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Martin pinned Zimmerman to the ground, and was banging his head into the pavement.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Broke his nose as well. Not bloodied, BROKE.
the ONLY injuries to Martin were the gunshot and abrasions to his knuckles from striking Martin.
Zimmerman shot to prevent his head from being MORE split open, thus possibly killing him.
As for the guy that worked on the law, he's playing politics, pretending to know facts he doesn't, and acting as though he's more informed than the police, that state Zimmerman WAS within the law.
Originally posted by Golf66
Originally posted by LErickson
No matter what you think about what happened, you tell me that if you were this kids parent that you would not be doing everything you could to make some sense of it? These people just lost their boy. No matter how legal or justified you might think it was for this kid to get shot to death, THESE PEOPLE are hurting real bad right now. Tell me how they should behave.
I have told many people this in my lifetime - usually as a leader to a subordinate leader who has let things in his unit spiral out of control and wants them back after the fact.
If you'd have tried half as hard to be involved in your unit (substitute kids life in this case) before the incident as your are trying right now to make sense of it all this never would have happened.
The time to parent is not after your child is dead. Perhaps if they were more involved they'd know he considered himself some kind of black foot soldier, dealt drugs, broke into houses, and was apathetic about his education. If they'd have intervened in there with some kind of parenting - perhaps this wouldn't have happened at all...
I think in this case it might still have happened given the circumstances but they would have a better case for the "good kid in the wrong place defense".
You let your kid conduct himself and style himself a "gansta" then seem all shocked and outraged when he dies like one isn't all that credible IMO. Sad but true...
Word to the wise parent be involved before things go bad.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
LGE, these people just want
to hang whitey,
Also Monday, an attorney for Martin's mother confirmed that she filed trademark applications for two slogans containing her son's name: "Justice for Trayvon" and "I Am Trayvon." The applications said the trademarks could be used for such things as DVDs and CDs.
The trademark attorney, Kimra Major-Morris, said in an email that Fulton wants to protect intellectual property rights for "projects that will assist other families who experience similar tragedies."
Asked if Fulton had any profit motive, the attorney replied: "None."
Originally posted by LErickson
Originally posted by popsmayhem
LGE, these people just want
to hang whitey,
I have asked you several times to quote one person saying that in this thread and you refuse to acknowledge it.
So you have claimed that a witness saw Martin attack Zimmerman
WHICH WAS A LIE.
You have claimed that Martin was bashing Zimmerman's head in
WHICH YOU JUST MADE UP
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by DavidWillts
Breitbart and FOX, maybe they cancel eachother out in lies?
www.standard.net...
When police arrived and found the body, they also found Zimmerman bleeding from the nose and back of his head, according to the report. Also, the back of his shirt was wet and had grass clippings on it, as if he'd been on his back on the ground.
And an officer overheard Zimmerman complain, "'I was yelling for someone to help me but no one would help me,"' according to the report
articles.orlandosentinel.com...
When police arrived less than two minutes later, Zimmerman was bleeding from the nose, had a swollen lip and had bloody lacerations to the back of his head.
Paramedics gave him first aid but he said he did not need to go to the hospital. He got medical care the next day.
Originally posted by ButterCookie
I was thinking about this earlier today. It has already been said that Trayvon was not even reported as missing by his parents, and had been dead for 3 days. To me, that sort of shows that his delinquency was normal. I find that rather strange that a parent does not know when their child is not home for 3 days...
Originally posted by ButterCookie
Where was she when he as all over Twitter cussing and talking about sex and violence?
Originally posted by ButterCookie
And yes, Sharpton, Jackson, and other democratic race-baiters are cashing in on this opportunity, as they usually do. Just like they did with Jena Six.
The briefing was organized by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and other Democrats. Among those on the witness list were Robert “Bobby” Parker, retired director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, and Albert E. Dodson Jr., chairman of 100 Black Men of American.
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill called the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin a "murder" and the result of racial profiling, as they hosted the black teen's parents at a high-profile briefing Tuesday.
"I tell my son, you have to be careful (wearing) a hoodie," Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who is black, said. "Trayvon was murdered for walking while black in a gated community."
“Travon was murdered,” Rep. Fredericka Wilson, D-Fla., said at the briefing. “Racial profiling and lax gun laws all contributed to this tragedy.”
Read more: www.foxnews.com...
Originally posted by timetothink
reply to post by Golf66
I see all the usual suspects
We're involved in the party on the hill.
Originally posted by Freenrgy2
This is an example of the twisted logic the MSM has been using to ramp up racial tensions in this country.
It is an election year, so racial crime (especially white on black) would be advantageous to their agenda to secure the black vote. After all, most people don't vote on the issues or for the best candidate, they vote with their emotions and their wallet!
So few here refuse to look at the evidence.
I'm not saying what Zimmerman did was right.
However, evidence from eyewitnesses states that Martin was not as innocent as you would make him out to be.
You guys keep regurgitating the same things, even when proof is presented contrary to your "facts".
And, ever funnier, is how a few of you slap each other with stars on your posts as if that makes what you say more correct.
Originally posted by jedi_hamster
what's actually happening?
- he says he's innocent
- many people, even black, say he's innocent
- police says he's innocent
Investigator wanted manslaughter charges against Zimmerman
, lead investigator Chris Serino wanted to charge George Zimmerman with manslaughter after interviewing him on the night he shot Trayvon Martin, 17
- witness says he's innocent
- media paint him as a racist killer
- new black panthers - people that should be all in jail and are not, because they're protected by those in power - issue a bounty to get him killed
- because of mass media lies there are protests and racial tension arises
Originally posted by jedi_hamster
he was monitoring his neighbourhood. as someone said, what would you want such person to do, nothing?
watch people from the distance and not follow them when they look suspicious?
when he told the police that he's following him, he was told that he does not need to do this. NOT that he CANNOT do this, because he COULD.
act like a batman? he was returning to his car when he got attacked,
he was protecting his own life.
he tried to call the police, in return he got his head smashed on the ground.
if someone's obsessed, you are.
Originally posted by Freenrgy2
Please post link.
I'd like to see it. Otherwise, your full of bunk as both eye witness accounts describe Martin attacking Zimmerman.