Posted on 03/22/2012 6:52:10 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
City commissioners in Sanford, Fla., pass a nonbinding vote of no confidence in the police chief in response to the handling of Trayvon Martin's shooting death. Hundreds rally in New York City.
In a tense meeting Wednesday that highlighted growing tensions over the shooting death of an unarmed blackteenager, city commissioners here passed a vote of no confidence in the police chief, as protests spread north to New York City, where the slain youth's parents joined a march demanding the killer'sarrest.
The no-confidence measure passed 3 to 2 after more than an hour of debate. Though it was not binding, the outcome and the public groans and applause that punctuated the debate underscored the anger pulsing through the Orlando suburb nearly a month after17-year-old Trayvon Martin's death on Feb. 26.
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Got bias?
The journalistic malfeasance in this story reminds me of the Richard Jewell case....
The journalistic malfeasance in this story reminds me of the Richard Jewell case....
I’ve heard so many conflicting accounts of this case I really dont know what to think. But its hard to be sympathetic with the dead kid after seeing who’s lining up to support him.
The shooter, Zimmerman, may have just brought down the curtain on concealed carry in America. Don’t ask me to feel sorry for him.
Once again, these details have been ignored or changed by the media.
1.The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
2.The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
3.Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
4.Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin’s father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
The neighborhood this took place in has seen a lot of crime. Would you be surprised to learn that there were eight burglaries, nine thefts, and a shooting just in the past year? In fact, the local homeowners’ association reports that George Zimmerman actually caught one thief and aided in the apprehension of other criminals. The Miami Herald wrote about this on March 17th. None of the thousands of articles and cable news segments that came after, thought this was important.
The media also characterizes Trayvon as a “model student.” In fact, he under a five day suspension when the shooting took place. That is why he was staying at a house so far from his school on a school night. A laywer for Trayvon’s family has blocked access to his school records. However, you have to do something pretty bad to get suspended for five days.
Now that you know the suppressed facts of the case, you can for form a better more balanced opinion. Maybe you still think Zimmerman was wrong to pull the trigger. However, I think you will come to the conclusion that the “mainstream” clearly is pushing an agenda. Even when they have to grossly alter and adjust a story to fit that agenda.
Thank God you have all the information needed to condemn the man.
You mean that the 2nd Amendment is null and void because someone used a weapon in self-defense?
Why was George Zimmerman not arrested the night of the shooting?
When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self defense which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony.
Obviously the African American community stirred up by professional race baiter Al Sharpton is ignoring the judicial process where a grand jury will review the evidence and then decide whether to bring the person to trial. It is ironic that one of the triumphs of the civil rights movement was to end the practice of the police arresting and harassing individuals without any probable cause or judicial process. In the eyes of racists like Sharpton such practices are OK as long as the alleged perpetrator is white.
I wonder if all the ‘conservatives’ who are buying hook, line and sinker the national MSM media portrayal of this whole debacle are so believing of them otherwise?
The sheer phoniness of the outrage always gets me.
The numbers of young black men murdered in this country are well in the four figures every year, but where is their round-the-clock media coverage? The tacit agreement between the media and the race-baiters on issues like these is sickening.
I heard Zimmerman’s sheiks for help on the neighbor’s phone. No one went out to help. In fact the woman who was on the phone told her husband not to go out. All it would have taken was one of them to come outside and the kid would have at least stopped the beat down. I guess the song was right. “Monopoly is so much fun I’d hate to spoil the game.”
I can't answer gthat question because of the conflicting accounts. That's why we have grand juries. I do think Zimmerman was wrong for even putting himself in a position for a confrontation with Trayvon.
In the transcript of the Zimmerman's initial call to the police, he is told that LEO is on the way. Zimmerman tells the dispatcher that Trayvon is running towards the back exit of what is a gated community. The dispatcher tells him to back off. There is nothing in the transcript of the call to indicate that Zimmerman or any other person was at immminent risk of death or serious bodily harm at the hands Trayon and therefore, Zimmerman had no reason to be within 100 yards of Trayvon unless he was looking for a confrontation. Perhaps Zimmerman's use of deadly force was justifiable once he got into a confrontation with Trayvon, but my point is that Zimmerman never should have put himself in a confrontational position where deadly force was necessary in the first place.
Zimmerman at the very least provoked the encounter.
Zimmerman called 911 forty-six times in thirteen months in a 250 home gated subdivision, from what I’ve read. That’s a lot. 15 burglaries though, which suggests a real crime problem.
His words on the last 911 call show tremendous anger and hostility; his voice is shaking; he’s ramped up on adrenaline.
My take on him is not favorable at all. There needs to be more than a “we’ll take your word for it, George” kind of investigation. Zimmerman’s injuries don’t count for anything if he initiated the physical confrontation.
Find an incident.
A spark to ignite the flame,
Ratchet it up to a raging inferno.
BTW this is an exact repeat of Hillary's dirty tricks campaign from 2007, only then it was the “Jenna 6”. they tried using as the spark to ignite the flame.
In 2007 it wasn't Rush that was accused of “hate speach” and the “war on women” as the spark to ignite the flame, it was Don Imas.
In 2007, Al Sharpton duped Glenn Beck into calling for the removal of violent music, in other words black music, from the radio. Look at the news stories, and listen to Beck and you will see the same thing is happening now.
Another spark to ignite the flame. You can't get the youth to march in the street for anything else, take away their music and watch them march.
One other thing.
While the left was busy trying to gin up civil unrest and race riots, the terrorist were busy making plans and preparations for carrying out a terrorist attack on NYC subways.
Get ready boys and girls, the left is turning this cold war hot.
They only copied the Nazis, see The Reichstag Fire, and Kristallnacht.
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