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Trayvon Martin’s Father Viciously Attacks Zimmerman Supporter In Court
The Inquisitr ^ | June 25, 2013

Posted on 06/26/2013 9:12:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon Martin’s father Tracy has reportedly “attacked” a supporter of George Zimmerman, mouthing an expletive (“motherf***er”) during pre-trial proceedings outside the courtroom during an alleged incident relayed by Zimmerman’s defense attorney Mark O’Mara as he argued that Martin and Trayvon’s mother should be barred from the courtroom if Zimmerman’s parents were.

As George Zimmerman’s trial wears on, the incident in which Tracy Martin allegedly attacked a Zimmerman reporter seems, like many, to skip over what feels to be the actual lurking headline within the story — something more like:

“Trayvon Martin’s Dad Tracy Somehow Miraculously Not Punching Everyone In The Courtroom In The Face, Continuously, As Zimmerman Trial Progresses.”

Debate aside, the Trayvon Martin case is one for which it’s hard to imagine a worse parental nightmare. People without children bristle at the notion that parenthood imbues one with any special ability to feel compassion, empathy, or projected sadness, and it’s true that all people have likely experienced fierce and vulnerable love like the love a parent feels for a child.

But the eternal curse of a parent is the one Trayvon’s mom and dad have to know so intimately — that fear that as they step out into the world, they will be slow to develop the ability to detect and evade the ill-intentioned. That if this horrible happenstance occurs, they will come to harm much like Martin did and we will be unable to intervene and protect them.

So too in life it feels like nothing is so unfair as compounded pain, and when Martin died at the hands of Zimmerman that night in 2012, the series of insults added to the Martin and Fulton families’ injury had yet to begin....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; traydmark; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

stricken from the record, no doubt.


41 posted on 06/26/2013 9:39:51 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: ßuddaßudd

Products of an inferior culture.


42 posted on 06/26/2013 9:40:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Wiser now

At breakfast this morning, the TV was on in the restaurant turned to HLN. I was watching some of the testimony and the camera kept going back to the parents of TM. Both of them sitting there chewing gum, listening to the 911 call. No tears, no face struggling not to crack and tears begin to fall. Just two people sitting there listening to a call about a body on the ground, possibly dead. Their son as we know now.
Parents? Hard to call them that. I could almost see the dollar signs on their foreheads. One couldn’t/wouldn’t control him and the other apparently didn’t give a sh** until he was dead. Then he was the loved son, taken from them by the evil “white” man. But lots of money just might soothe that loss.


43 posted on 06/26/2013 9:40:53 AM PDT by rustyboots
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To: DannyTN

Good point.

A lot of this is one-sided. Why is Zimmerman’s calls to police allowed in but Martin’s phone images and texts not?

If found Guilty, Zimmerman will have plenty of cause to file appeals for years


44 posted on 06/26/2013 9:40:58 AM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...Viciously Attacks...

Please

45 posted on 06/26/2013 9:41:11 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy ( Because police powers are essential to the public good that abusing them is so offensive.)
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To: rarestia

10 years? I betcha it’s two years or earlier.


46 posted on 06/26/2013 9:41:13 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: thorvaldr
>>>I do feel for his parents, but given that homicide is the leading cause of death for young black men, they should have taken better steps to stop him from becoming a gansta punk.<<<

IMHO, you should reconsider feeling for them. They raised him in their own image. They have behaved horrendously from the beginning. I don't even think they noticed he was missing until the following day.

I can't read their minds, but from their words and actions, their is no doubt in my mind that their main emotions regarding the death of their son were

1) Relief - They were glad that they wouldn't have to deal with this thuggish pain in the rear end son of theirs and all his problems.

2) Ecstasy! Once Crump got to them they believed they had won the lottery, and will receive great financial gain and celebrity from the death of their no-good son.

47 posted on 06/26/2013 9:42:23 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The article goes into a sickening irrational screed condemning Zimmerman for murder and the police of being biased toward Zimmerman and how the poor parents of Martin felt.

While I can sympathize that the parents of Martin must be feeling horrible pain, and I can understand how they might sadly allow themselves to be driven to irrational hatred and blame on Zimmerman...the reason Zimmerman was not arrested was because he was the victim that was screaming for his life with Martin savegely beating his head into concrete. The person responsible for Martin's tragic death is Martin himself.

Although it is understandable, though disappointing, how the parents of Martin would shift blame away from their own son, who brutally beat a man's head into concrete, toward the innocent man who acted in self defense when screaming for help did not work as he was being pounded senseless and likely to death....but how a whole movement of irrational blood thirsty bigots arose who also blamed Zimmerman and forced the absurd charges of murder in this case on the head of the victim who survived by fighting back is truly sickening.

48 posted on 06/26/2013 9:44:05 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: alloysteel

note the forces that have made this into a black/on white issue, they conveniently weren’t playing up zimmerman as hispanic. theywill turn it into black/white.


49 posted on 06/26/2013 9:44:15 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So did he just swear at him or did he “viciously attack” him?

Geez.. where they hell are Editors these days...??


51 posted on 06/26/2013 9:46:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just a Crip being a Crip.


Like father like son...


52 posted on 06/26/2013 9:46:22 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Secret Agent Man

With the Supreme’s ruling today and the push for amnesty and the epa agenda I hope this country is here in 10 years.


53 posted on 06/26/2013 9:48:24 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative

zimmermans parents are potential witnesses. at least thats what they are saying


54 posted on 06/26/2013 9:48:35 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: GusFring

“”Martin’s parents are also witnesses for the defense, is it just prosecution witnesses who are barred?””

As I understand the way it was stated on day one of the trial, FL allows family of the VICTIM to be present in the courtroom during the trial even when they are listed as witnesses.


55 posted on 06/26/2013 9:49:41 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When one raises a thug they do have to defend him.


56 posted on 06/26/2013 9:50:26 AM PDT by JayAr36 (When an American dies Obama lies. And lies, and lies and lies forever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This kind of reporting really ticks me off.

Headline: Trayvon Martin’s Father Viciously Attacks Zimmerman Supporter In Court

In the story: Trayvon Martin’s father Tracy has reportedly “attacked” a supporter of George Zimmerman...outside the courtroom

So, which is it?


57 posted on 06/26/2013 9:51:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: MrB

Well said Mr.B


58 posted on 06/26/2013 9:51:45 AM PDT by rhubarbk
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To: Mr. K

And the title says “in court” and the story says “outside the courtroom”.

Amazing...


59 posted on 06/26/2013 9:53:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: American in Israel; Vision

Didn’t 0 say that if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon, or some such thing?


60 posted on 06/26/2013 9:53:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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