Posted on 03/25/2012 2:29:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
As Philadelphia prepares for another demonstration over the shooting death in Florida of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Mayor Nutter on Sunday characterized the teenager's death as "an assassination."
Nutter also joined the increasing calls for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who fatally shot the unarmed Martin in February.
Nutter's comments on MSNBC came one day before the one-month anniversary of the widely condemned shooting, which will be marked Monday night with a candlelight vigil in Love Park, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have been held in various U.S. cities. A march in Philadelphia Friday drew more than 2,500 participants.
"I've called this nothing short of an assassination," Nutter said on MSNBC. "This individual Zimmerman followed Trayvon for some period of time. Trayvon was not a threat to him.
"Clearly Zimmerman was told not to continue any kind of pursuit. In my view at least . . . he tracked [Trayvon] down. He followed him and then shot and killed him. It's incomprehensible to me why an individual would do something like this, unless he had something either in his heart or on his mind."
Public condemnation of how police in Florida have handled the case - they have not arrested Zimmerman - has been unrelenting. Critics have maintained that Martin's race - African American - played a factor in his shooting. Zimmerman's racial background is mixed, with a white mother and an Hispanic father.
The uprising over the police handling of the case has forced the temporary resignation of the police chief in Sanford, the small town where the shooting occurred. The U.S. Justice department has launched an investigation, in part to determine if a hate crime was committed.
On Feb. 26, Martin had been at a 7-Eleven and was walking back to his father's home in a gated community to watch a basketball game when Zimmerman started following him and ultimately shot him. Zimmerman has contended that he shot the teenager in self-defense, and was released by police after questioning.
Martin had been carrying a bag of Skittles candy and a can of ice tea.
The shooting has drawn international attention to Florida's so-called Stand Your Ground law. It allows someone to "stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force," if that person feels it is neccessary to prevent death or bodily harm.
Some of Zimmerman's friends have come to his defense saying he is not a racist and was prompted to pull the trigger because he feared for his life.
On MSNBC, Nutter said Zimmerman "based on all information, clearly should be in police custody. That's the first failing in the aftermath of his actions."
"There was a young boy who was minding his business, a young African-American male . . . good kid based on everything that we know, and this guy on his own shoots him down with no logic, no reason, and no response from the law enforcement officials down in Florida."
"People will not rest until there is some justice on behalf of that young man, Trayvon Martin, and many, many other young people across the United States of America, especially African American males," Nutter said.
Constitution...Rule of Law...Due Process...Innocent Until Proven Guilty. America.
Nutter=nut
So, Nuttercase, you were inside Zimmerman's head and you were there on the scene watching! Why didn't you say so earlier?
A lot of jackasses expressing contempt for the judicial process.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. How many blacks were murdered in Philly in the last year, Mr. Nutter? Oh, they were killed by other blacks? OK nothing to see here.
Homicide is the leading cause of death of young black men - 93% of those deaths are caused by other young black men.
The MSM doesn’t care about the slaughter going on in black communities because it doesn’t shake out the black voters - doesn’t get ‘em mad and ready to vote for white liberal elites.
The black self-appointed leaders don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men because they don’t get to shake down guilty rich whites for power and cash.
The Black Panthers don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men - because they don’t get to strut around acting tough. Nope. They don’t care - not a peep out of them.
No one cares about the 93% of black men killed by other blacks except their mothers... and somehow, that’s sad.
Liberals don't believe in all that stuff... they believe in the rule of the mob - as long as the mob's with them...
I don’t know. Black politicians seem to go out of their way to express outrage. It is a sort of racial dues.
Does anyone other than me know that a can of ice tea in a plastic shopping bag makes a very effective attack weapon when swung at a victim?
“oh please..........What’s with this rhetoric?????????
An assassination??????????? Is this guy for real??????????”
There’s nothing better for a Leftist to do than to jack up the hysteria as high as possible. It’s called democracy (aka mob rule) at work!
“A good based kid” Really Nutter..then why was he suspended from school for FIVE days?? I didnt know good kids who are “model students” get suspended from school for a whole week. Mayor Nutter..WOW that last name of his sure seems fitting. These libs really have no soul
Zimmerman’s racial background is mixed, with a white mother and an Hispanic father.
Once again, piss-poor journalism
Something is wrong with the reporting here...His girlfriend was talking to him...and supposedly saying that he was being followed..and she told him to run and then he dropped the phone/headset...supposedly. She never called 9-11??
The libs always point that out and its the gunmakers, White People and NRA fault. Your question should be:
“Is It politically incorrect to point out that a lot of WHITE PEOPLE get ASSUALTED AND SHOT by black teenagers?”
The answer is;
Yes, it is politically incorrect to point that out.
“End the DNCs war on Hispanics.”
That’s funny. Especially after the Republican nominee selects Rubio as his running mate.
I’ve read he wasn’t going to his father’s home because his father didn’t live in that subdivision. His father was visiting someone who lived there.
Gee, mayor nutter should look to the mote in his own eye. His city is a hot bed of racial violence, but it all being black on White it doesn’t merit his concern.
Hey Mr. Mayor-—when you have a second and you are done getting to the bottom of the assassination in Florida... I noticed this happened last night in your city...
2 dead, one injured in Phila. shootings
Police said an unidentified 21-year-old man was shot once in the head and died inside a Chinese food takeout store in the 2700 block of Dickinson Street, in Grays Ferry, at 7:11 p.m.
About an hour later, inside a building in the 300 block of North 64th Street in West Philadelphia, police responded to a report of an unidentified 31-year-old woman found with gunshot wounds to the chest and trauma to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Further information was not immediately available.
Also, a 45-year-old man was in grave condition after being shot in the chest....
Idiot.
The Mayor should clean his own brown outhouse before mouthing off:
“26 Asian Students Attacked at Philly High School”
“Sources say South Philadelphia High School has a history of attacks on Asians”
By Teresa Masterson | Friday, Dec 4, 2009 | Updated 7:58 PM EDT
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/26-Asian-Students-Attacked-at-Philly-High-School-78528982.html
No message from aO bama either.
Several weeks ago, there was an incident in Philadelphia which a taxi cab, with a white driver and white passenger, was sitting at a traffic light. A group of black thugs pulled the driver and the passenger from the cab, yelling racial slurs as they beat the two men. A few days later, after arrests were made, Mayor Nutter announced they would not be charged with a hate crime, “since there was no evidence to suggest that the attack was racially motivated.”
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