Posted on 03/25/2012 5:04:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – “My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” President Barack Obama told reporters on Friday, when he was asked about the high-profile Florida case in which an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain.
“And you know, I think they (Trayvon’s parents) are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we’re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.”
Obama said he had to be careful about his statements, because the case is under investigation by both the U.S. Justice Department, which is looking into possible civil rights violations, and the State of Florida, which has assembled a task force to examine the facts.
But, Obama added, “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.”
The death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated community has prompted fury in Sanford, an Orlando suburb.
Civil rights activists, including Al Sharpton, have rallied to the cause, demanding the arrest of 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who told police he acted in self-defense.
"We cannot allow a precedent when a man can just kill one of us ... and then walk out with the murder weapon," said civil rights leader Al Sharpton, flanked by Martin's parents and a stage full of supporters at a rally in Sanford on Thursday night. "We don't want good enough. We want George Zimmerman in court with handcuffs behind his back."
Martin was returning from a trip to a convenience store when Zimmerman started following him, telling police dispatchers the teenager looked suspicious. A dispatcher told Zimmerman – who is half white and half Peruvian – not to follow Trayvon.
On Thursday, the Sanford police chief stepped down under pressure. In a statement on Wednesday, Police Chief Bill Lee insisted his officers were "prohibited from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time," including physical evidence that supported Zimmerman's self-defense claim.
The local state’s attorney has recused himself from the case, after convening a grand jury on April 10 to decide if Zimmerman should be charged.
According to the Associated Press, at Thursday's protest in Sanford, some people carried signs reading, "100 years of lynching, justifiable homicide. Same thing." Others sold T-shirts that read: "Arrest Zimmerman."
“I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together -- federal, state and local -- to find out exactly how this tragedy happened,” Obama said.
“I think all of us have to do some soul-searching to find out how could something like this happen, and that means that we examine the laws, the context, for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident,” Obama said on Friday.
Florida is one of 21 states with a "Stand Your Ground Law," which allows people to use deadly force in defending themselves rather than retreat during a fight.
The question at the center of the Trayvon Martin case is whether the law even applies in this particular instance.
,,,, no doubt 0bama’s son would be just as arrogant and agressive as trayvon too .
SANFORD, Fla. — Members of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward for the "capture" of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin.
New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a protest in Sanford on Saturday. And when asked whether he was inciting violence, Muhammad replied defiantly: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." 
Anchorman Al don’t need no white cops to smear poop on his face, rape him. He do that to hisself ever day on his pogrom. When Tawanna gonna appear as a gest on his show?
These newly-minted muslim mau-mau are well-fed welfare recipients who probably never knew their father.
Unfortunately that nation is glutted with these types who no doubt found Islam in the slammer.
This poster was circulated at the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense press conference in Sanford, Florida March 22, 2012 (All Voices Contributor Harold Michael Harvey)
What a racist the Resident is.
Way to go, Barry. Fan the flames a little more.
UPDATED 03/19/12 1:06 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – Activist priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger is calling for action from everyone in Chicago to stem the violence on city streets, after a weekend in which 10 people were killed and some 40 others were wounded.
“My God!” Pfleger said. “We should be outraged!”
Even the communist, that pretends to be a Chicago, Catholic Priest is pissed off, but jesse james, fal al, and hussein are too busy spouting off about a shooting in Sanford, Florida where a single person was shot over amonth ago.
It's not worth getting excited about 50 people being shot, with ten deaths, just last weekend, in the President's home town because they can't be tied to half-white shooters or a "stand your ground" law.
If the pResident had a son, he'd look like most of the shooters in last weekend's Chicago massacre, but don't get too excited, they might beat their record this weekend.
I wonder if the murdered, little six year old girl's parents, will get a shout out from the pResident?
This hypocritical, halfrican, communist, mooselimb, prick needs to be ________.
Fill in the blank, if I did, the SS would be at my door, Sieg Heil.
Title is wrong.
It should be:
If I had A father he’d look like Willie Horton...
You had the right to remain silent, POSOTUS.
ROFL.
Whatever his religion, whatever his real political convictions, what Obama is at root is a tribalist. And his core supporters only care about the attributes that place him in his particular tribe.
Ok I tried to post a pic of Lester the dummy (of Willie Tyler and Lester)and it didn’t work.
So if anyone can post that photo of Lester as “my son would look like this”.
You’d make my day.
Obama, if you had a grandmother would she look like Nancy Strait??
While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just last week?
The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.
(She was most likely gang raped numerous times...but we will never know for sure)
Both the husband and wife were weak, having just gotten over the flu.
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There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.
WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??
90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Where is the 24/7 MSM coverage?
Where is the outrage?
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My abd hurts from laughing .
Thank you!!!!!!!
“‘If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon’”
That’s odd. Bill Clinton said the same thing.
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