Well, I wonder which "side" is racist?
Posted on 07/06/2013 5:22:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
George Zimmerman might be on the verge of becoming the next O.J. Simpson.
He’s the defendant in the high profile case out of Sanford, Fla., that has launched a million discussions and a thousand protests across the country, including Myrtle Beach, Columbia and throughout the Carolinas.
A jury of six women will decide if the prosecution has presented enough evidence to rebut Zimmerman’s claim of self defense. He shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during a confrontation that began after Zimmerman believed, for reasons unexplained, Martin was suspicious for walking home from the store.
No matter what the jury decides, the pro- and anti-Zimmerman camps likely won’t change their minds -- just like the Simpson verdict.
Zimmerman was unknown until that fateful night in which he shot Martin, while Simpson had a Hall of Fame pro football career and spots in well-received commercials and slapstick comedies.
Zimmerman seemed to be a wanna-be police officer, Simpson a high-profile husband with domestic violence accusations in his past.
Zimmerman is a middle-class white Hispanic, Simpson a rich black guy.
Those are the superficial differences. In each case, the people who were killed have largely become afterthoughts.
The people who cheered wildly with glee when Simpson was found not guilty all but danced on the graves of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Their focus was on Simpson, not his wife and the man brutally murdered beside her, not on the evidence that strongly suggested Simpson’s guilt, despite the defense’s expert cross examinations that raised questions in the minds of jurors -- the only minds that legally mattered.
Today, supporters of Zimmerman -- people who had never heard of him -- don’t much care that an unarmed 17-year-old walking home from the store ended up dead on the street......
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Well, I wonder which "side" is racist?
The understanding here, locally, is that O’Mara has a Timeline Presentation he will show to the court.
The walk for a young male should have been 15 minutes, if he walked directly home.
AKA, Creepy Ass Cracker!
Yes, I wasn’t speaking of Peruvians in general, just making a guess from him and his family’s appearance. They look quite a bit more Native than European, from the maternal relatives that I’ve seen. His great-grandfather looks black though, which is ironic.
Reasons...
1. As a leader of the neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was supposed to be on the lookout for things that did not fit
2. Martin was not from that neighborhood so did not fit. (That he was visiting in his father’s girlfriend’s house does not mean he fit. He was still an unknown quantity
3. It was late, dark, and Martin was not on a sidewalk but was in a grassy area between homes.
As it turns out Martin was recently suspended from school in Miami, so he didn’t really fit. It also appears some accusation involved burglar type tools, marijuana and jewelry, all items ruled in admissible by the judge
They tell us that Zimmerman might have been justified in his keeping an eye on Zimmerman.
Reasons...
1. As a leader of the neighborhood watch, Zimmerman was supposed to be on the lookout for things that did not fit
2. Martin was not from that neighborhood so did not fit. (That he was visiting in his father’s girlfriend’s house does not mean he fit. He was still an unknown quantity
3. It was late, dark, and Martin was not on a sidewalk but was in a grassy area between homes.
As it turns out Martin was recently suspended from school in Miami, so he didn’t really fit. It also appears some accusation involved burglar type tools, marijuana and jewelry, all items ruled in admissible by the judge
They tell us that Zimmerman might have been justified in his keeping an eye on martin
Let’s hope the defense has video footage that is time stamped.
All I know is that she is a 22 year employee of Miami-Dade county.
-——>”Fox News Mocks Media’s ‘Overkill’ “
Saw that the other day. Notice the comment about the “other network that has decided to go wall to wall Zimmerman, and is now number 1 rated”. Sounds like some butt-hurt over at Fox....
Unarmed? He had two arms and he was using both of them.
I heard that and hope that the defense will remind the jury of it when they present their case.
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