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Trayvon Martin case: In Sanford, Fla., thousands speak as one
chicagotribune.com ^ | March 26, 2012 | Richard Fausset

Posted on 03/26/2012 7:28:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Edited on 03/26/2012 7:54:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The nation’s leading civil rights advocates and hundreds of outraged people packed this laid-back lakeside community Monday to demand the arrest of the man who killed African American teenager Trayvon Martin, even as city police sources revealed details of the confrontation that portrayed the unarmed Martin as the aggressor.

Beneath an incongruously cheerful Florida sun, the passionate but well-behaved crowd marched, chanting and shouting, toward the Sanford civic center, where, inside, the City Commission ceded most of its regularly scheduled meeting to Martin’s grieving parents, their lawyer and a roster of civil rights luminaries.

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TOPICS: US: Florida
KEYWORDS: jessie; jessiejackson; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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1 posted on 03/26/2012 7:28:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

By extension, does this not mean that the “Reverend” Jackson thinks that Martin is Jesus Christ?


2 posted on 03/26/2012 7:32:33 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This has gone way too far!


3 posted on 03/26/2012 7:38:04 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

i remember when Colin Ferguson walked down the center of an LIRR train and purposely targeted white people...i also remember the timid reaction of the black “leaders” at the time so i did a little research after seeing this headline...

“Word of Mrs. Federici’s death came as the Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered a sermon at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in neighboring Garden City. Speaking of redemption and reconciliation, he said that he stood with the victims’ grieving families and that it was a “time to move from violence and the use of inflammatory rhetoric and seek a common ground.” ‘The Damage Has Been Done’”

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“Mr. Jackson said he had decided to give the sermon to help prevent any backlash toward black people stemming from the fact that a black man, Colin Ferguson, is charged in the case. And after the sermon he said, “We should not derive from this a race motif, but a sick motif.””

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/13/nyregion/mineola-woman-is-6th-to-die-in-rail-shootings.html


4 posted on 03/26/2012 7:40:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

LOL does Jesse Jackson and others actually believe the crap that comes out of their mouth or do they just spew whatever BS that comes into their little heads


5 posted on 03/26/2012 7:43:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Tailgunner Joe

"A riot is an ugly thing, and I think its just about time we had one!"

- Inspector Kemp

6 posted on 03/26/2012 7:44:51 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I think everybody sees waaay through this by now.


7 posted on 03/26/2012 7:45:01 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (obamacare is an oxymoron.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

LOL does Jesse Jackson and others actually believe the crap that comes out of their mouth or do they just spew whatever BS that comes into their little heads


8 posted on 03/26/2012 7:45:24 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

It would seem to me that officials who might turn over Zimmerman to be prosecuted, if they don’t believe he is guilty but are fearful of a riot, are acting more like P. Pilate
than anyone else.


9 posted on 03/26/2012 7:45:45 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So in this analogy, Trayvon Martin is Jesus Christ?

What gospel tells the story of Christ bashing a guy’s head into the concrete of Jerusalem? The Gospel of Sharpton?


10 posted on 03/26/2012 7:51:36 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Does satan know enough about scripture to make such comparisons?

http://www.sanfordfl.gov/frames/citymanager_frames.html

Does he think Norton N. Bonaparte, Jr., City Manager
is white too?


11 posted on 03/26/2012 7:52:56 PM PDT by NoLibZone (When will Obama call Trayvon's mom? He was quick to call Sandra Fluke.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Waiting for the resurrection of Trayvon


12 posted on 03/26/2012 7:52:56 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: CondorFlight
Ooooh, Condor, I hadn't thought of THAT angle.

Not that Zimmerman is innocent,just that people want him dead, and placed a bounty on his head, without evidence.

BTW, I thought lynching was BAD. According to Jesse, I guess not.

13 posted on 03/26/2012 7:54:22 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Jackson...Jackson...hmmm...isn’t he that ex-waiter that used to spit in the food of the white people he was serving?


14 posted on 03/26/2012 7:55:03 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Many, but not everybody. Not by a long shot. We even have freepers who agree with Revv'rund Jacksson.
15 posted on 03/26/2012 8:07:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: the invisib1e hand

Where are the people protesting over the assault and murder of an elderly white couple in Tulsa by a group of black thugs? The 85-year-old woman died after being beaten to a pulp and sexually assaulted. Her 90-year-old husband, WWII vet, was beaten severely but lived. So where is Jackson and Sharpton’s outrage about this? Or how about the white boy in Kansas City who had gasoline dumped on him by 2 black teens who said the white boy was getting what he deserved?

How much longer will people ignore the truth before their eyes?


16 posted on 03/26/2012 8:16:18 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

My friends and neighbors in South Florida were as well armed and willing to use them as anyone I’ve met in Arizona. Strike that, don’t screw with anyone in Arizona. Still, a riot anywhere outside of Miami or Orlando would be a really bad idea for radical lefties.


17 posted on 03/26/2012 8:17:04 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Anyone who thinks this has anything whatsoever to do with ‘civil rights’ is living in an alternate universe.


18 posted on 03/26/2012 8:18:54 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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Beneath an incongruously cheerful Florida sun, ... hundreds of people described in the headline as thousands, shuffled their feet, harrumphed and demanded the arrest of ...

“Please! Fat Al and Rhymin’ J Jackson are here!
Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who.”


19 posted on 03/26/2012 8:39:00 PM PDT by tumblindice (our new, happy lives, thanks to Big Bro')
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Need a barf alert in the title


20 posted on 03/26/2012 8:43:20 PM PDT by Nifster
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