Posted on 03/23/2012 10:06:45 AM PDT by Lmo56
The Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, did not instigate the encounter but has received death threats and moved out of his home, his father told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.
George Zimmerman, 28, has not been arrested, something that has put him and the Sanford Police Department at the center of a firestorm. Critics say Trayvon, who was visiting family from his home in Miami, was a victim of racial profiling.
Zimmerman's father, 64-year-old Robert Zimmerman of Lake Mary, delivered a one-page letter to the Sentinel on Thursday, saying that the depiction of his son in the media has been cruel and misleading.
George Zimmerman is Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family, the statement says.
"He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever ...," the letter says. "The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth."
The letter does not provide details about what happened Feb. 26 on a walkway in the gated community where George Zimmerman lives and where Trayvon was visiting. But it does challenge one basic assumption of the family's lawyers: that Zimmerman's intent when he got out of his sport utility vehicle was to confront Trayvon after calling police to report a suspicious person.
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You are hearing things.
t~2:21-2:22. He mutters, “f’n coons” as he’s supposedly running after Martin and after telling the dispatcher that Martin’s running out the back entrance.
You’re just getting pissed because you’re being exposed for the closet liberal you are.
You appear to be the only one on here who can hear what the media want you to hear.
Maybe you should go back to MoveOn and stop trying to fool us you’re a conservative.
You’ve swallowed too much of the MSM Koolaid.
The only BS here is being spread by a spunkets.
No he doesn’t. I’ve now listened to it repeatedly. There is no “C” on the second word.
Agreed, it’s “punks.”
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#1 - I love how libs just assume that all white people are racist simply because they are white while said libs lecture us about not being prejudiced by skin color.
#2 - This guy was a Hispanic - how does this incident prove that white racism is a problem?
#3 - I love how the media is painting this kid as a completely innocent victim. He was expelled from his school at the time wasn’t he? Is it possible that this kid was a thug in training? I’m not suggesting that it was okay to shoot him. I’m just wondering if there is more to the story.
Bull Shit !!! All you can hear is garbled noise - 'cept you with the divine hearing ...
Let others judge:
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/911/call1.wav
Obama seems to think the black vote will get him Florida and much more, lets skip the facts, particularly that there was a scuffle and that after interviewing witnesses, the police did not charge Zimmerman; probably because he did not commit a crime.
Lets use their tactics and remind everyone how Obama, Holder and the Black race baiters are trying to railroad an Hispanic man in Florida.
BTW that may well explain much of Heraldo’s statements of “hoody mitigation”.
You don’t need to be a racist to be an a****** or a jerk. We have a guy like that in my neighborhood who believes God or St. Michael has appointed him the parking vigilante of the region and if that clown had ever had a CC permit we’d have needed mass graves by now.
Many of us were not paying attention in the beginning and the only pictures that we have seen of the kid look like an average young boy, who would hurt anyone. Of course those pictures are three or four years old, but as far as the media is concerned, that is irrelevant.
The problem is the race-baiters won't allow that to happen.
I'm not yer pal.
"I used to be a sound technician for a ten piece band."
Whoopty doo?
"my ears are still pretty well tuned, and I can tell you that f*cking coon is not clear on that tape by any stretch of the imagination.
Tuned to what? You're deaf.
I have not read or heard that anyone said Zimmerman’s head was being pounded “against the sidewalk.” I might have missed that piece of information. Got a link?
Many more Jewish retirees and Cuban-Hispanic Americans in FL than black voters.
The retirees are concerned about the economy and the Middle East and the Hispanics doe not [generally] support amnesty for illegals ...
Reading the posted links, eyewitnesses saw the shooter on the ground, screaming for help, with the other guy on top of him. He was bleeding from the his nose and the back of his head, and his back was covered in grass. Sounds like he was in danger of getting his head smashed in.
Have you noticed you're pretty much the only one here that is sure he's heard that?
When you think everybody else is nuts, maybe it's not them.
Zimmerman did not have to pursue Walker and Walker did not have to come back after him. When you get into an argument at a bar and leave the bar. Don’t go right back into the bar.
“........Also, why does the media only show us pictures of Martin as a young boy? Why do they only show us pictures of Zimmerman that appear as a arrest photo?.........
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Because they couldn’t find a photo of Martin as a toddler and they couldn’t find a picture of Zimmerman dressed in a Dracula costume.
Any bets on when the rioting and looting begins? The Leftists (a/k/a racists) won’t be happy until there’s some footage of burning buildings and po’ folks running out of the local WalMart carrying flat screen TV’s and cases of beer.
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