Posted on 03/24/2012 6:47:49 AM PDT by tobyhill
Amid the rush of loud outrage and vocal protest from the parents of Trayvon Martin and their supporters the silence of one character in this tragic tale has been deafening: George Zimmerman, the free man who shot Martin and alleges self-defense. His attorney, Craig Sonner, finally spoke out to Anderson Cooper last night, and had few answers but one accusation– his client has a broken nose and a laceration on his skull, and that was “an injury done by Trayvon Martin.”
Sonner noted to Cooper that his client seemed fine save for a “considerable bit of stress” natural to his situation, but admitted that “y conversations have been by telephone.” He did not know where Zimmerman was but assumed he was “still in the area” and hadn’t fled the country. He had surprisingly little to offer Cooper about the facts of the case; asked what Zimmerman had told him about what transpired the night Martin died, he said “he should have made a statement to police at the time, I believe he did,” and said he “did not discuss the details,” and they would be privileged even if he had.
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Agree, if that was in fact what happened.
If the conclude wrong and facts prove otherwise their candidacy wont be worth squat. Same as Obamma if it proves to have been self defense. But then Obama is a Dem so facts don't matter much to his voters.
So BarBar's Jebbie thinks he can ride to the WH on a ginned-up race riot?
They make me puke.
“Putting aside the complaints regarding the handling of the case by the police and the conflicting statements given by officials, there remains the question of whether there is sufficient evidence to base a charge against Zimmerman. I would like to see the coroner’s report on the trajectory and distance of the gunshot wound as well as audio analysis of the gun shot or shots. I would also like to see evidence of the abrasions on both men. Zimmerman was reportedly bleeding from the struggle but we have not heard many details on Martin’s other injuries.”
In one week, there were 10 shooting deaths in Chicago...49 violent injuries. Who cares? The real war on blacks is fought by other blacks.
It was Zimmerman calling for help.
The police told The Orlando Sentinel on Friday that they believed the voice crying for help was Mr. Zimmerman's.911 Tapes Released in Killing of Florida Teenager NYT - March 17, 2012
Bet the police and lawyer did.The media will have to do a lot of back tracking on the race baiting story.
“I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home,” Obama said in response to a question from the Chicago Sun-Times’s Lynn Sweet.
Gates, Obama allowed, “is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don’t know all the facts.”
You can bet a 17 year old female seeking an abortion wouldn't be called a child. Their bias is showing.
It was 7:20 pm (hardly the midnight hour) and Trayvon belonged in that neighborhood (either his father or father’s fiance lived there).
We will never know what happened unless we have accurate info.
As a matter of law, that's false. People tend not to do so because it's taken as rude; but I've confronted people who were driving around our neighborhood, looking lost, asking if I could help by directing them to their intended destination.
-- If a "neighborhood watch" (self-designated) follows somebody, and it later turns into a "self-defense shooting," will that act of "self defense" be overturned because the shooter initiated the entire sequence by following the "suspect" in the first place? --
The short answer is "no," the act of self defense does not turn on the question of whether or not a person is engaging in neighborhood watch.
We all have a right to go about in public, peaceably; and we do not have a right to be free from meddling strangers asking us where we are headed. Nor do we have a right to strike a person because they are meddling.
The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday evening on Twin Trees Lane. A man who witnessed part of the altercation contacted authorities.
“The guy on the bottom, who had a red sweater on, was yelling to me, ‘Help! Help!’ and I told him to stop, and I was calling 911,” said the witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, John.
“And then, when I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on the top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point.”
Actually, that's not true. I have the right to ask you what are you doing here, and you have the right to tell me to pi** off, or ignore me. What I don't have the right to do is detain you, and so far, there is no evidence that suggests he did. Not to mention,he was the ELECTED watch captain of the private condo owner's neighborhood watch, not self designated.
The rush to judge was so fast and furious, even some here on FR that should know better were caught up in it in the earlier postings of the story.
Actually, depending on the situation, you do have that right. Not that I advocate a private citizen using citizen's arrest - unless it is of a person who has broken into their home - but home breakin is NOT the only circumstance where a citizen is privileged to detain a stranger.
What's the difference between a watchful neighbor and a wannabe whateveryouwannacallit who's about to kill somebody?
The lady on the 911 line saying "We don't need you doing that." A sane person says "Oh yeah... they told us that in CCW class thanks for reminding me." Someone who's about to kill somebody goes ahead and (probably, imo) blunders into an ambush where he has no choice.
That's where my $5 goes.
As long as we're at it, how 'bout $1000 on some politicians and fake preachers and media @$$hole$ making political hay out of it? Oh... too late...
ABC news, immediately after playing a clip of Newt saying “IF Zimmerman is found by the grand jury to have acted improperly, THEN they should indict him”, said:
“Newt Gingrich, calling for the grand jury to indict Zimmerman.
Agenda, much?
We need to listen very carefully to what’s being said.
Also, it has been reported on FR that Martin’s father said to the police, that the voice on the tape screaming for help, was NOT his son...
We should have a special thread here on FR to name and shame all of the FReepers who have been eager tools of the commies over this case.
I don't have much luck posting photos or I would post it here. He wasn't some skinny lil kid.
If any case needs to be tried in a court of law and not the media, it is this one.
The shooting sounds like it may not have been justified. The involvement of the race-baiters (Al Sharpton and ilk) makes me suspicious, however.
We simply do not have all the facts.
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