Are old photos of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman deceptive?

msnbc ^ | 3/31/2012 | AP

[hoosiermama]

Guess the MSM needs to get up to date on street slang.

BOth Skittles and AZ tea are also slang terms for drugs.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you.

It will be interesting to find out from the convenience store if Martin had actually purchased Skittles and AZ Tea from them, and if he had such goods on his person.

(What are Skittles anyway, candy?)

[SunkenCiv]

AP, cited on MSNBC, asks a rhetorical question. Thanks tobyhill.

[Reeses]

I checked the Orlando Sentinel for the earliest reports of the shooting.

The photo they ran with that story was doctored. Original vs. amateur Photoshop job:

[BilLies]

Thanks, filed in my Zimmerman/Trayvon folder.

[Twinkie]

The Obama lapdog media is inciting a lynch mob for “Whitey Zimmerman”. An election Obama’s likely to lose cannot be tolerated to occur without chaos surrounding it. - Simple.

Innocent until proven guilty goes by the wayside when convenient.

[wildbill]

If they are going to write an article about old photos and current photos, why in the world would they not show the current pics to finish making the point?

Describing a picture is not the same as showing the picture in context of the article.

Just another case of the MSM trying to counteract bias charges without really showing their shameful and shoddy work.

[newzjunkey]

Both photos are a few years old and no longer entirely accurate. Yet they may have helped shape initial public perceptions of the deadly shooting.

They would be even less accurate for a growing child ... like Trayvon.

[SaraJohnson]

They are trying to wash all that blood off their hands after a week of black race hate incitment.

[UCANSEE2]

weight between 160 and 190 pounds...

Is that with, or without the Skittles and Arizona Tea?

[UCANSEE2]

So.... ‘no limit nigga’ stands for ‘open season on whitey’?

[UCANSEE2]

The police report is just an estimate, Martin wasn't carrying identification.

And he just wouldn't stand up straight when they put him on the scales.

[Brown Deer]

[cricket]

Yet they may have helped shape initial public perceptions of the deadly shooting.

'May have helped?'

The only pics we have not seen are Trayvon's baby pictures. Perhaps- if there are any - they are saving them for release as 'Album'; around Election time.