Wow...what an unbelievable pile of...
Posted on 03/28/2012 5:28:51 PM PDT by maggief
How to ignite a race war ...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/24/142983/martin-familys-lawyers-no-strangers.html
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012
EXCERPTS
In Trayvon’s case, (Parks & Crump) alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.
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“In court, you have the jury,” Crump says. “Our job is to get the case to a jury. We need to fight first in the court of public opinion. The jury is the American people.”
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Someone Must Be Punished for Killing Trayvon Martin, Says Mom Sybrina Fulton
by Allison Samuels Mar 22, 2012 2:04 AM EDT
EXCERPT
The now controversial killing of Trayvon garnered virtually no mainstream media attention in the days immediately after he was fatally shot, but that all changed when the teenager’s parents decided to hire civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and his law firm to get more answers on exactly how and why their son died.
“They called me the same day they were notified that their son was dead,’’ Crump told The Daily Beast. “When I heard their unarmed teenage son was shot to death, I just knew there’d be an arrest shortly. There wasn’t an arrest 48 hours later, and then I knew we’d have to take this outside of Sanford if we wanted justice.’’
Trayvon’s parents were told by the Sanford police that Zimmerman wasn’t arrested in their son’s death because the facts of the case did not dispute his claim of self-defense.
For Crump, taking the Trayvon Martin story outside of Sanford simply entailed dialing up a few well-placed friends such as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Crump worked closely with the civil rights leader in 2006 on another racially charged case—the controversial death of a 14-year-old, African-American inmate of a Florida boot camp.
“I had to call people like Sharpton and a few other black civil rights leaders and the black media to tell them about this story,’’ said Crump. “I had to get them to understand what happened to this young man and what hadn’t happened in his case so they could spread the word.’’
Historically, cases of murder and violence against blacks in the United States rarely have been given the same amount of attention as cases in which the victims of crime are white—and often go unnoticed and unprosecuted.
Just days after hearing the details of Trayvon’s death, Sharpton arranged to have Crump and the teenager’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, on his syndicated radio show and his popular MSNBC show, Politics Nation, to tell their story.
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In the wake of non-stop media attention from the likes of Sharpton and CNN’s Don Lemon concerning the Trayvon Martin case, black media blogs such as MediaTakeOut.com and Huffington Post Black Voices also began publishing accounts and editorials about the Florida case—daily. Almost instantly, readers of all races, ages, and backgrounds began tweeting and posting on Facebook their outrage over how the police have handled the case, and the lack of an arrest in the shooting. To date, almost 1 million people have signed a Change.Org petition to have Zimmerman arrested. In response to the widespread outrage, the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting.
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STATEMENT BY REVEREND AL SHARPTON AND NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK REGARDING THE SHOOTING OF TRAYVON MARTIN– AN UNARMED AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEENAGER KILLED BY A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH CAPTAIN IN FLORIDA
March 12, 2012
The “Madison Times” has some mixed up facts.
How about that for a divisive statement?
wow.
Several people need to read the information you posted “how to ignite a race war. Maggie
RS, C is there a ping list for Martin/Zimmerman case?
It's too bad that the witness testimony doesn't corroborate this version of events.
More disinformation ...
Race and Justice: A National Conversation With Robin Roberts
Trayvon Martin Video Shows No Blood or Bruises on George Zimmerman
By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC)
March 28, 2012
A police surveillance video taken the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead shows no blood or bruises on George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who says he shot Martin after he was punched in the nose, knocked down and had his head slammed into the ground.
The surveillance video, which was obtained exclusively by ABC News, shows Zimmerman arriving in a police cruiser. As he exits the car, his hands are cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is frisked and then led down a series of hallways, still cuffed.
Zimmerman, 28, is wearing a red and black fleece and his face and head are cleanly shaven. He appears well built, hardly the portly young man depicted in a 2005 mug shot that until a two days ago was the single image the media had of Zimmerman.
Police Video Surveillance of George Zimmerman
The initial police report noted that Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and nose, and after medical attention it was decided that he was in good enough condition to travel in a police cruiser to the Sanford, Fla., police station for questioning.
His lawyer later insisted that Zimmerman’s nose had been broken in his scuffle with 17-year-old Martin.
In the video an officer is seen pausing to look at the back of Zimmerman’s head, but no abrasions or blood can be seen in the video and he did not check into the emergency room following the police questioning.
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First comment:
Billjacobs9911
7:31 PM EDT
Mar 28, 2012
In the police report, it clearly states he received medical attention by EMS personnel prior to being driven to the police station. In this video, his face was clean, but you can clearly see the wound on the back of his head. The police report and EMS report indicate he sustained multiple wounds and was bleeding when they arrived. Yet another article with the intention to mislead readers. Ridiculous.
Nice piece of satire. A bit over the top, but a good attempt.
Is this a news or opinion piece? It seems to me that if this is being branded as “news”, this news organization could be held for libel if these facts aren’t correct.
“It’s too bad that the witness testimony doesn’t corroborate this version of events.”
Doesn’t matter ... see post #2.
Madison Times is a liberal rag..
Here’s website for the author
www.georgecurry.com
Sharpton on steroids...
Maggie has done a great job of posting material on this case. DOn’t miss the first ones.
Wow...what an unbelievable pile of...
Nice piece of satire, no ...
Metanarrative, yes.
The wagist blog has been doing all of the heavy lifting investigative reporting on the Trayvon case. They were the ones who found his Twitter account and the gangsta handle he had and those recent photos of him with grill teeth and tats that belied the angelic innocent image that the press swallowed hook line and sinker from the Martin family lawyer.
The reporter Dan Linehan from Wagist has been attacked from all sides for his stellar reporting. Even his editor wrote an editorial today saying that he had done stellar reporting, but then apologized for the content. I suggest that everyone go on wagist and commend Dan Linehan for his stellar reporting: http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/misconceptions-in-the-trayvon-martin-case
The wagist blog has been doing all of the heavy lifting investigative reporting on the Trayvon case. They were the ones who found his Twitter account and the gangsta handle he had and those recent photos of him with grill teeth and tats that belied the angelic innocent image that the press swallowed hook line and sinker from the Martin family lawyer.
The reporter Dan Linehan from Wagist has been attacked from all sides for his stellar reporting. Even his editor wrote an editorial today saying that he had done stellar reporting, but then apologized for the content. I suggest that everyone go on wagist and commend Dan Linehan for his stellar reporting: http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/misconceptions-in-the-trayvon-martin-case
The wagist blog has been doing all of the heavy lifting investigative reporting on the Trayvon case. They were the ones who found his Twitter account and the gangsta handle he had and those recent photos of him with grill teeth and tats that belied the angelic innocent image that the press swallowed hook line and sinker from the Martin family lawyer.
The reporter Dan Linehan from Wagist has been attacked from all sides for his stellar reporting. Even his editor wrote an editorial today saying that he had done stellar reporting, but then apologized for the content. I suggest that everyone go on wagist and commend Dan Linehan for his stellar reporting: http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/misconceptions-in-the-trayvon-martin-case
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