Posted on 07/13/2012 5:16:14 AM PDT by marktwain
Records released Thursday show a federal law-enforcement agent accompanied George Zimmerman to his police interrogations, and FBI interviews did not turn up any sign of racial bias in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
The lead Sanford Police investigator who sought manslaughter charges against George Zimmerman told the FBI that a sergeant and two other officers tried to pressure him into making an arrest in the controversial case — even though he didn’t think there was enough evidence.
Sanford Police Officer Chris Serino first made headlines when evidence released in the case showed he sought manslaughter charges against Zimmerman even while his chief publicly said there was no probable cause to arrest him. But a document released late Thursday casts doubt on Serino’s prior sworn affidavit seeking criminal charges, and raises questions about the credibility of the star law-enforcement witness in the murder case against Zimmerman for the shooting death of a black teenager, Miami Gardens high school junior Trayvon Martin..
Telling the FBI that he was concerned that people inside the police department were leaking information, Serino cited Sgt. Arthur Barnes, officers Rebecca Villalona and Trekelle Perkins “as all pressuring him to file charges against Zimmerman after the incident,” an FBI report said. “Serino did not believe he had enough evidence at the time to file charges.”
The summary of Serino’s statement does not mention the race of the officers who allegedly pressured him, but sources told The Miami Herald that Barnes and Perkins are black, and Villalona is married to an African-American man. All three, the source said, had been called in by their supervisor and questioned about leaking information in the case.
A request Thursday evening to the Sanford Police Department for comment about Serino’s statement went unanswered.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Marktwain, your excerpt is a perfect 300 words. You are to be complimented. As a reward for a perfect and meaningful 300 word excerpt that serves the reader and the author, I will now click on the link to the Miama Herald and finish reading the article [and even glance at one or two of their advertisements].
PING... for future reference.
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“Won’t help Florida.
There are still possibilities for anyplace north of Frostproof :) “
Speaking from “Occupied Miami”, please understand that there are still people here who read, accepted, and will defend the Constitution. That’s “Constitution” as in the ‘Original Document”, not the “Living Constitution” of Obama and the progs.
IMHO, the Zimmerman case may well trace back to Sanford area LEO’s using the justifiable shooting of “Saint Skittles of the Purple Drank” as a revenge on Zimmerman for Zimmerman’s loud and long fight to bring a member of the Boyz-N-Blu to an accounting.
Still, north of Frostproof is still American in a way that Miami will probably be generations getting back to.
Diversity is not our strength, not is multi-culturalism anything but a descent back down the path of cultural devolution into the savagery of tribalism.
I find it most disturbing that Florida (and America) could so quickly drop all pretense of following the core concepts of the Founding Documents.
This is proof of the success of Adorno’s “critical theory” and of Antonio Gramsci’s advice to communists to take a generation or two and take over education and the agencies of government.
As the commies in this case, from Corey to the Keystone Koppers in Sanford, are attempting to restrict/violate the Constitutional guarantees under cover of law, all must be tried, convicted, and jailed for a decade at least.
PS Were the laws actually enforced, the above is exactly what the law requires. Jail the Constitution violators!
Thank you for the kind words. You are welcome.
This is the second time this morning I caught a MSM reporter - writing for a MSM newspaper - telling the truth. A non-PC truth. Hats off to Frances Robles - a person who remembers and respects old school journalism...
I think the whole paradigm that “blacks can’t have racial motivations” is collapsing before our eyes.
Mark - here's more. My local paper reported that "Serino, a 15 year veteran of the department... was demoted last month to overnight patrol." The liberal lynch mob is getting pumped and primed...
They had no choice but to try to get ahead of this. They had no idea until yesterday as to what Serino had said to the FBI investigators. No wonder the FBI came and went so fast.
This shows that Serino was the fall guy put on night patrol to keep the internal investigation away from these other three ethnic officers. Remember when this broke Gutman tweeted that Serino was his source at the department. No newsman ever outs his source. So his real source must have been one or more of these three. I think it was Sergeant Barnes who said he was a friend of former Cripster Tracy Martin.
There should be a full investigation of these three because Zimmerman has had his civil rights violated here -- big time. When your only reason for arresting someone is not that the evidence calls for it, but because the mob wants it, the police have lost the moral authority to wear a badge.
“When your only reason for arresting someone is not that the evidence calls for it, but because the mob wants it, the police have lost the moral authority to wear a badge.” I agree with that 100%. One thing, I believe the police arrested him only after the DA filed the criminal information. I also recall during the bail hearing, the lead investigator was asked about things like medical records and he said he had not seen them. This was in furtherance of the contention there was no esculpatory evidence in the information filing. In other words, this was a lynching orchestrated by the mob and press through the DA’s office. Furthermore, he was also asked about whom was yelling for help and said “it was reported in the news that it was Martin”. Give me a break, reported in the news, since when is that lead material for a murder charge.
The “Zimmerman is GUILTY” leftist freaks have quieted down a bit, but next time a “bombshell” like Big Media reporting that the Zimmermans were SKIMMING to MAKE A PROFIT while Zimmerman was in jail comes out, they will be back.
Anyone handcuffed and taken to the police station and questioned has been arrested. Filing false charges without probable cause or evidence should be a serious felony as well as pressuring someone to file because they are racist themselves should be also.
Interesting there are no photos anywhere of all 3 (that I can find). Must have been scrubbed.
You are absolutely correct.
this sounds like that case where a DUI/DWI task force officer arrested a chief of police for the same “reasons”.
The chief of police was tested as sober.
Makes you wonder if there is another line behind the thin blue line.
“This is an inversion of the way things were 100 years ago here in the south.”
IT’S ABOUT TIME seems to be the philosophy of Racist Big Media.
Isn't it the least bit curious that judge Lester in his order for bail July 5th calls the evidence strong against the defendant because the defendant at the first bond hearing April 20th presented no exculpatory evidence.
Well hello, Lester. You do know why, don't you???
The prosecution was holding it hostage. It had all the exculpatory evidence in its grubby little hands, but would not release it until well into May, and since then it slow dripped it out.
Angela Corey is famous for overcharging in order to force pleas. Imagine what her office does to unknown defendants.
can we all say Nifong?
“Isn’t it the least bit curious that judge Lester in his order for bail July 5th calls the evidence strong against the defendant because the defendant at the first bond hearing April 20th presented no exculpatory evidence.”
Lester is a scumbag. He was playing to the audience with that one because there is NO requirement a defendent present esculpatory evidence, or any evidence not bearing upon his being a flight risk or assets, at a bond hearing. What is significant, is the PROSECUTION did not provide any in the original filing.
Furthermore, Lester showed his bias when he contended that Zimmerman could flee albeit he had not one shred of evidence or contention he would aside from his undisguised contempt for Zimmerman. I hope Lester gets his due when this is all done. Frankly, I’d like to see him inside the cross bar hotel along with a few others at the root of this travesty.
“Isn’t it the least bit curious that judge Lester in his order for bail July 5th calls the evidence strong against the defendant because the defendant at the first bond hearing April 20th presented no exculpatory evidence.”
Lester is a scumbag. He was playing to the audience with that one because there is NO requirement a defendent present esculpatory evidence, or any evidence not bearing upon his being a flight risk or assets, at a bond hearing. What is significant, is the PROSECUTION did not provide any in the original filing.
Furthermore, Lester showed his bias when he contended that Zimmerman could flee albeit he had not one shred of evidence or contention he would aside from his undisguised contempt for Zimmerman. I hope Lester gets his due when this is all done. Frankly, I’d like to see him inside the cross bar hotel along with a few others at the root of this travesty.
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