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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Because Zimmerman's family isn't expected to like the outcome.
A Zimmerman’s family member will be called as a witness, but it shouldn’t preclude BOTH of his parents from being allowed to attend the trial.
<eyeroll>
I also feel sympathy for his parents. But this does not mean that I think they are swell folks. On the question of whether or not it is their fault that Martin turned out to be the kind of boy that could savagely beat an innocent man’s head into concrete, I make no judgement, and don’t think any of us should.
Agreed. ‘Misleading headline of the year’ award.
I feel about as much sympathy for them as Cindy Sheehan...they didn’t care about the kid while he was alive, now they see him as a gravy train.
i’m hoping i am still alive and well in 10 years....Son, you ain’t gonna have to wait that long, I guarantee.
Witnesses are not allowed to sit in a trial, related or not.
>>Witnesses apparently aren’t allowed to hear the other witnesses testimony. <<
So the Court blocked TrueTV from the channel selection of the Zimmerman’s cable/satellite provider?
Understood.I'm wonder if *all* of Zimmerman's relatives are banned from the courtroom because one or more are scheduled to testify.
In my experience, only those to testify would be barred.
Parents who lose a kid to cancer or because some drunk hit him/her while crossing the street deserve sympathy.Enormous sympathy.Parents who follow the typical welfare career path of today...one night stand..."hey,ma,just who *is* my Dad anyway?" and then find that kid dead after a fight,not so much.
And so it starts...getting the hatred acts out early...there will be more fuel to the fire. Just watch. wait until the union thugs and the organized demonstrators fall into line and start riots.
Yeah, but toss in the fact that everybody in his circle of friends and acquaintances (and lawyers) around him since the shooting have been telling him that the case against Zimmerman was a sure thing.
Seriously, I doubt that anybody told him anything besides what he wanted to hear.
This is probably a real shock for him.
OK, I'm snickering as a type this. Please don't judge me...
As someone who tries to be a Christian, though not a very good one, I have to deal what Jesus taught about judging others. Judging others in the context of sitting on a jury, or figuring out if a potential babysitter has a violent history and such is a good thing. But judging in the sense of condemning somebody in your heart as not being worthy as a human being, and thinking the worst you can of them instead of hoping for the best for them is forbidden. Its hard to follow some times, and some times I may only follow this in a patronizing way. But it is what christians are called to do.
He shows the court where the boy learned to bully.
The victim’s parents have a special law that they are allowed in the courtroom even if they are witness’s. I think that law should be challenged under the equal protection clause.
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