Trayvon Martin case: A collision of race, guns and Florida law

[JerryNumbers]

The latest article

Lead homicide detective wanted to charge the shooter with manslaughter.

And the family says, "I know he shot my son in cold blood?" How do they know that?

And the mother denies her sons twitte account where he speak of smoking marijuana along with making derogatory remarks about women. Edited March 28, 2012 by Jerry80871852

[John81]

The latest article

Lead homicide detective wanted to charge the shooter with manslaughter.

And the family says, "I know he shot my son in cold blood?" How do they know that?

And the mother denies her sons twitte account where he speak of smoking marijuana along with making derogatory remarks about women.

Yes, the detective wanted to charge the shooter but the prosecutor looked at the case and determined there were no grounds for charges that could be prosecuted.

Like so many other mothers of hoodlum children, they deny the truth over and over again. Year after year the proclaim their child has been lied about, it was someone else, their child isn't really bad, it was just the cops trying to make them look bad, it was racism, etc.

I saw that a lot when I lived near Chicago for awhile and also when I lived near Saint Louis for a time. Criminals in their teens and twenties getting arrested for one crime after another and the constant parade of mothers, aunts, sisters and grandmothers coming forward with tales of woe proclaiming their boy was innocent, a victim of police profiling, racial discrimination, mistakes, etc.

[John81]

On the radio news this morning they reported that an address for George Zimmerman was put out and Spike Lee and others forward the address all over the internet and twitter. The address was wrong, belonging to an elderly couple, 70 and 72, in California. They couple received numerous threatening calls, including a message saying "black power".

The couple, fearing for their lives, are now staying in a hotel.

[John81]

The black community is being criticized for allowing some of its leaders to exploit the tragic death of a teenager in Florida.


The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that eyewitnesses have verified what shooting suspect George Zimmerman has claimed -- that he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense last month. Law enforcement authorities in Sanford, Florida, told the newspaper that witnesses have corroborated most of Zimmerman's account that Martin punched him, jumped on top of him, and began slamming his head on the sidewalk, leaving him bloody and battered.

Jerome Hudson is a spokesman of Project 21 - The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives. He says liberal black activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton clearly did not wait for the facts before stirring up anger against Zimmerman.

"The left has grabbed onto this situation -- and it is on purpose," he tells OneNewsNow. "His death is being used for all the wrong reasons. His mother is moving to trademark his name. They're dancing on his grave."

The Sentinel's report says an attorney for Martin's mother confirmed she had filed trademark applications for two slogans -- "Justice for Trayvon" and "I Am Trayvon" -- that could be used for such things as DVDs and CDs.

Hudson adds that he would not be surprised if President Obama sees this tragedy as a way of firing up his black voter base.

"I do have to agree with Newt Gingrich -- Why would the president make such a pointed comment about Trayvon Martin when he said 'If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon'? This is definitely being used for racial, resentment reasons," states the Project 21 spokesman, "and I don't put campaign and political expediency beyond it."

Hudson says the tragic death of this young man has been turned into a racial powder keg.

http://onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1565788

[JerryNumbers]

Yes, the detective wanted to charge the shooter but the prosecutor looked at the case and determined there were no grounds for charges that could be prosecuted.

Like so many other mothers of hoodlum children, they deny the truth over and over again. Year after year the proclaim their child has been lied about, it was someone else, their child isn't really bad, it was just the cops trying to make them look bad, it was racism, etc.

I saw that a lot when I lived near Chicago for awhile and also when I lived near Saint Louis for a time. Criminals in their teens and twenties getting arrested for one crime after another and the constant parade of mothers, aunts, sisters and grandmothers coming forward with tales of woe proclaiming their boy was innocent, a victim of police profiling, racial discrimination, mistakes, etc.

Off topic, while in Chicago did you see any gangster activities. I've been reading a bit about them, seems they were cold blooded heartless killers.

[John81]

Off topic, while in Chicago did you see any gangster activities. I've been reading a bit about them, seems they were cold blooded heartless killers.

No, all I saw was street gangs in some parts.

Not that the gangsters were good folks by any stretch, but at least back in the day they at least had a moral code they tried to follow. Most often this meant they tried to help their own neighborhood and help some locals out and try not to hurt women and children. That said, when they decided to go after someone, they were ruthless.

In a town not far from here, back during the days of prohibition, three cars came into town one day and back then there were not hardly that many cars in the whole town, and they drove through until they saw who they were looking for, then tommy guns started blazing and they shot a local guy that had been skimming money while running their booze.

[JerryNumbers]

Supporters of Florida neighborhood-watch shooter wary of speaking out, fearing public backlash

Now, that is so sad, Zimmerman's father & mother have received death threats. Actually no one ought to receive death threats.

Seems Martins supporters are nothing but mobster minded caring nothing about right or wrong, only vengeance.

Rep. Bobby Rush dons hoodie in the House

And this man is ignorant, has to be a very bad congressman that has not the ability to make good judgments.. Edited March 29, 2012 by Jerry80871852

[Crushmaster]

Supporters of Florida neighborhood-watch shooter wary of speaking out, fearing public backlash

Now, that is so sad, Zimmerman's father & mother have received death threats. Actually no one ought to receive death threats.

Seems Martins supporters are nothing but mobster minded caring nothing about right or wrong, only vengeance.

Rep. Bobby Rush dons hoodie in the House

And this man is ignorant, has to be a very bad congressman that has not the ability to make good judgments..

Wow, now his parents are getting death threats? Crazy. Even if you believe he is guilty, his parents had nothing to do with it.

I heard about that...Ludicrous.

This story is really showing a lot about people...How so many lose reason when too much emotion comes into play. The bandwagon mentality.
God bless,
Joel ><>.

[John81]

Have you seen all the products these "Trayvon supporters" are selling? Even his mother has applied for patents so she can claim royalties, saying of course, the money would go to help others.

This whole thing has turned into mass marketing for money grubbers, leftist political hacks, black supremacist agitators, and those looking for a worldly bandwagon to jump on.

[1Timothy115]

It's sad the way the liberals are making a mockery of the death of this young man. It's also sad they would attempt to attack the man who shot him by the same means they decry.

[JerryNumbers]

Its nuts, people all across this country wearing hoddies & protesting against this indent, it really seems they care nothing about justice, just wanting & arrest, conviction, & punishment, no matter what took place.

I read something about a funeral director stated there's no indication that there was a fight between Trayvon & the shooter. now if Trayvon attacked the shooter from behind, holding him down, beating his head against the sidewalk, that Trayvon would receive no injuries, except for the bullet wound that stopped him.

[1Timothy115]

Its nuts, people all across this country wearing hoddies & protesting against this indent, it really seems they care nothing about justice, just wanting & arrest, conviction, & punishment, no matter what took place.

I read something about a funeral director stated there's no indication that there was a fight between Trayvon & the shooter. now if Trayvon attacked the shooter from behind, holding him down, beating his head against the sidewalk, that Trayvon would receive no injuries, except for the bullet wound that stopped him.

Funeral director or medical examiner? I wouldn't give much if any credence for a funeral director's opinion.

[JerryNumbers]

I would not either, the article said funeral director, but the family grasping at straws will probably use anything to keep the attention of the media..

[John81]

It's All About Race Now
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday - March 30, 2012

If it had been a white teenager who was shot, and a 28-year-old black guy who shot him, the black guy would have been arrested.

So assert those demanding the arrest of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin.

And they may be right.

Yet if Trayvon had been shot dead by a black neighborhood watch volunteer, Jesse Jackson would not have been in a pulpit in Sanford, Fla., howling that he had been "murdered and martyred."

Maxine Waters would not be screaming "hate crime."

Rep. Hank Johnson would not be raging that Trayvon had been "executed." And ex-Black Panther Bobby Rush would not have been wearing a hoodie in the well of the House.

Which tells you what this whipped-up hysteria is all about.

It is not about finding the truth about what happened that night in Sanford when Zimmerman followed Trayvon in his SUV, and the two wound up in a fight, with Trayvon dead.

It is about the exacerbation of and the exploitation of racial conflict.

And it is about an irreconcilable conflict of visions about what the real America is in the year 2012.

Zimmerman "profiled" Trayvon, we are told. And perhaps he did.

But why? What did George Zimmerman, self-styled protector of his gated community, see that night from the wheel of his SUV?

He saw a male. And males are 90 percent of prison inmates. He saw a stranger over 6 feet tall. And he saw a black man or youth with a hood over his head.

Why would this raise Zimmerman's antennae?

Perhaps because black males between 16 and 36, though only 2 to 3 percent of the population, are responsible for a third of all our crimes.

In some cities, 40 percent of all black males are in jail or prison, on probation or parole, or have criminal records. This is not a product of white racism but of prosecutions and convictions of criminal acts.

Had Zimmerman seen a black woman or older man in his neighborhood, he likely would never have tensed up or called in.

For all the abuse he has received, Geraldo Rivera had a point.

Whenever cable TV runs hidden-camera footage of a liquor or convenience store being held up and someone

behind the counter being shot, the perp is often a black male wearing a hoodie.

Listening to the heated rhetoric coming from demonstrations around the country, from the Black Caucus and TV talkers -- about how America is a terrifying place for young black males to grow up in because of the constant danger from white vigilantes -- one wonders what country of the mind these people are living in.

The real America is a country where the black crime rate is seven times as high as the white rate. It is a country where white criminals choose black victims in 3 percent of their crimes, but black criminals choose white victims in 45 percent of their crimes.

Black journalists point to the racism manifest even in progressive cities, where cabs deliberately pass them by to pick up white folks down the block.

That this happens is undeniable. But, again, what is behind it?

As Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has written, from January to June 2008 in New York City, 83 percent of all identified gun assailants were black and 15 percent were Hispanics.

Together, blacks and Hispanics accounted for 98 percent of gun assaults.

Translated: If a cabdriver is going to be mugged or murdered in New York City by a fare, 49 times out of 50 his assailant or killer will be black or Hispanic.

Fernando Mateo of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers has told his drivers, "Profile your passengers" for your own protection. "The God's honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these guys are blacks and Hispanics."

Fernando Mateo is himself black and Hispanic.

To much of America's black leadership and its media auxiliaries, what happened in Sanford was, as Jesse put it, that an innocent kid was "shot down in cold blood by a vigilante."

Yet, from police reports, witness statements, and the father and friends of Zimmerman, another picture emerges.

Zimmerman followed Trayvon, confronted him, and was punched in the nose, knocked flat on his back and jumped on, getting his head pounded, when he pulled his gun and fired. That Trayvon's body was found face down, not face up, would tend to support this.

But, to Florida Congresswoman Federica Wilson, "this sweet young boy ... was hunted down like a dog, shot on the street, and his killer is still at large."

Some Sanford police believed Zimmerman; others did not.

But now that it is being investigated by a special prosecutor, the FBI, the Justice Department and a coming grand jury, what is the purpose of this venomous portrayal of George Zimmerman?

As yet convicted of no crime, he is being crucified in the arena of public opinion as a hate-crime monster and murderer.

Is this our idea of justice?

No. But if the purpose here is to turn this into a national black-white face-off, instead of a mutual search for truth and justice, it is succeeding marvelously well.




SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog/its-all-about-race-now-5048

[1Timothy115]

I was wondering about who was being baited here. It just smelled of a puppet master somewhere. I'm glad Pat B. was able to look at this and pull all this together.