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George Zimmerman's Father: My Son Is Not Racist, Did Not Confront Trayvon Martin
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 3/15/12 | Rene Stutzman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; martin; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: muawiyah

WOW. You’re making some mighty big leaps there. Matrix level building jumping leaps to make your assumptions appear to be valid points.

New phones (since about 6 years ago) have GPS and APRS built into them that the 911 dispatchers can see where a phone is located. If they suspected the kids phone was missing it wouldn’t take much to find it using common technology to trace it’s location. And as you stated, if, by a while assumption, Tryvon did take any pictures, they would be on the memory chip of the phone. Probably not on the cloud. Unless they were backed up to the cloud.

You’re going to throw your back out making leaps like these.


241 posted on 03/23/2012 1:35:51 PM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: spunkets; Double Tap
"Just WHERE on the tape does he say, "Coons""

At t~2:21-2:22. See#92.

You're absolutely correct Double Tap, on the audio provided by Spunkets, Zimmerman clearly says "F'n punks"......nowhere in that audio does Zimmerman say "COON" nor is there any racial comment made by him in the entire audio.......

Spunkets, I think you should either give up your "EXPERT" status or buy a hearing aid........

242 posted on 03/23/2012 1:38:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Clara Lou

Being called a liar by a race baiting idiot is a badge of honor I’ll cherish for the rest of my days. HA HA HA HA HA

Looks like you’re the one retreading now.

Say hi to Al for me at the next meeting. I’m sure he will thank you for all you’re doing to help his cause.


243 posted on 03/23/2012 1:38:08 PM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Jack Burton007
race baiter
And you are clearly mentally challenged.
244 posted on 03/23/2012 1:47:14 PM PDT by Clara Lou (ABO! Go Newt!)
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To: Jack Burton007; Mr Rogers; ntnychik; dixiechick2000
Beginning at 2:18 I replayed the tape with headphones eight times.

The word for the day is PUNKS.

For Al Sharpton, it's interlopers and the Freddie's Fashion Mart riot, fire, body count.

For Al Sharpton it's Tawanna Brawley and the rape that never was, the dog waste, the judgment Sharpton owes.

Maybe the dead man was the attacker armed with the pavement.

Maybe that explains police not doing the Al Sharpton Bullhorn Boogie.

Propaganda demands nonstop race riot and "massacre in Afghanistan" to distract from The One's plummeting prospects.

He of Wright's "church" enters the fray.

Let him address the dead black men Young, Bland, Spencer first.

Unmasked at midnight at the masquerade ball.


245 posted on 03/23/2012 1:47:47 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Jack Burton007
From what I read the neighborhood is not fancy just because it is a gated one.

The above video that Kristinn posted at #76 clearly shows that it is not an "upscale, gated community" as being reported throughout the MSM but rather a normal apartment complex for middle income and below residents. I'm familiar with them, I lived in one for 23 years.

And to show how contorted this whole story has become, Sean Hannity just had a black lady on his radio program giving her expected take on this sad situation. During her commentary, she even made reference to the complex as an " upscale gated community, from what she heard" showing clearly that she too was willing to accept all the crap the MSM was putting out......

My prayers go out to Mr. Zimmerman AND his family because the MSM has gone out of their way to condemn him and Sharpton and Farrakhan are calling for vigilanti justice.........

246 posted on 03/23/2012 1:58:06 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Jack Burton007

Closet liberals or just regular ones.


247 posted on 03/23/2012 1:58:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
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To: muawiyah
Well, what do we know about the cellphone. LEt's say it's the latest and greatest cellphone with full feature service and plenty of aps FROM APPLE. I have it on good authority (AT http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone4s ) that you can get your basic phone for a mere $199. Then there are the aps, and wow. Your typical ordinary neighborhood kid with indulgent parents may well be walking down the street with over $3,000 in stuff wrapped up in a cellphone. Is that worth "taking'? Frankly, I don't know, but somebody does. BUT that's just about the value of the cellphone. What about the pictures? Did Martin take the cellphone out of his pocket to take a picture? What did he see? Did Zimmerman take the phone to hide evidence? If the kid had CLOUD Those photos went straight to CLOUD!

So..... this is now an armed robbery where the victim was murdered???? Or is it a conspiracy to hide incriminating photos? Do you have knowledge that the iPhone that he was taking pictures with is missing?
248 posted on 03/23/2012 2:04:02 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

He did not say “coon”.

For one thing, does anyone under the age of 40, or 50 even know that “coon” is a racial slur?

This is NOT 1965.


249 posted on 03/23/2012 2:05:20 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: varmintman
You don’t need to be a racist to be an a****** or a jerk.

OK, we'll overlook the rant. Now, what's your point?

250 posted on 03/23/2012 2:18:05 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: ganesha
mother jones

Who is Mother Jones and why should anyone here give a rat's ass?

251 posted on 03/23/2012 2:26:22 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Lmo56

Listened about 5 times and it sounds like “punks”. I am 100% sure it was not “coons”. Not even close.

Also, watching an interview with Martin’s father on the local NY CBS News, it is clear that his father is a shameless liar.

When the reports of screams a cry for help and then a gun shot were mentioned, he said “My son was screaming for his life.” The police had played the 911 tapes for Martin’s father and he told them it was NOT his son screaming for help. Who does he think he is, Mitt Romney?


252 posted on 03/23/2012 2:32:11 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: mickie

looks like the police are saying 6’ - 160. And I will reveal that when i was 17, I was pulled over more than once because the cop was sure i was too young to be driving. So, it’s not out of the question that it is a recent photo.


253 posted on 03/23/2012 2:42:43 PM PDT by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: snowstorm12
Zimmerman is the only person who knows how the confrontation first started. The only other person is an ear witness - Trayvon’s girlfriend. I would believe Trayvon’s girlfriend over Zimmerman. His history should be taken into account to judge the truthfulness of his story. He says he walked back to his car and was attacked, but I don’t believe that.

I believe Zimmerman put his hands on Trayvon first. I also don’t believe he backed off after 911 dispatcher told him to.

Zimmerman is the one with the history of being overzealous, wanting to detain people, putting his hands on people and not wanting people to get away. The 911 operator told him to back off, and his tone of voice he did not sound happy. He reminds 911 that “he ran” after being chastized for following him.

YOU don't know what happened - and I would believe the EYE witness who stated that Zimmerman was on the ground screaming for help [with Martin standing over him] BEFORE I would believe the girlfriend - the EYE witness doesn't have a dog in the hunt ...

254 posted on 03/23/2012 2:48:53 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Hot Tabasco

The person asked me for a link to a site with the 911 tapes. What you choose to do with your ass is not my concern.


255 posted on 03/23/2012 2:51:50 PM PDT by ganesha
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To: snowstorm12
46 calls were made over just 12 months and many were reportedly about black youths,

That's what happens when one lives in a black majority apartment complex.......LOL!

Lived in one myself during the last 7 or so years of my 23 years in the complex.

With the exception of calling the police about incidents, I had my own means of dealing with night time obnoxious folks in the parking lot......LOL!

256 posted on 03/23/2012 2:57:05 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: coon2000
Do i have evidence?

Why ask me? Didn't you imagine that I'm asking where the camera is BECAUSE, as it turns out, it's not on the police reports, and nobody mentions it ~ so where is it?

257 posted on 03/23/2012 3:05:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: spunkets

What time in the recording does he say it?


258 posted on 03/23/2012 3:06:37 PM PDT by bramps (Newt is the one)
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To: muawiyah
The cops held the body for a couple of days. At the same time the father had reported his son missing to them.

The son was missing for two days? Care to post a link to that information or did you get this from a friend who got it from a friend who.........

You and Spunkets and a couple others keep adding to this crap.............When are you guys gonna give it up?

259 posted on 03/23/2012 3:11:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Jack Burton007
Safe assumption that a practiced thief knew to take the battery out first. That takes care of the GPS problem.

The big issue is WHERE IS THE PHONE?

260 posted on 03/23/2012 3:12:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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