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George Zimmerman May Face Hate Crime Charge for Florida Killing
Fox News Latino ^ | 3/26/2012

Posted on 03/26/2012 3:08:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The Justice Department may bring a hate crime charge against the man who shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin if more evidence surfaces indicating the shooter action's were motivated by racial bias, legal experts and former prosecutors say...

"It sounds pretty obvious to me," said Donald Tibbs, a Drexel University law professor who has closely studied race, civil rights and criminal procedure. "If that was a racial epithet that preceded the attack on Trayvon Martin, we definitely have a hate crime."

(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; hatecrime; race; trayvonmartin
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The lynch mob continues marching. Duke Lacrosse, anyone?
1 posted on 03/26/2012 3:09:01 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I listened and not even my best imaginative juices heard what people are suggesting he said.


2 posted on 03/26/2012 3:14:55 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: SoFloFreeper

They don’t even know if race had anything to do with it. They’re fueling a race war, that’s all.


3 posted on 03/26/2012 3:22:05 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“It sounds pretty obvious to me,” said Donald Tibbs, a Drexel University law professor
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But it doesn’t to a lot of other people. Back in the mid 1980’s, I was having a super special diner out at a Benihana restaurant. It was roughly a 45 minute drive into a major city. It was a big night on the town. So, we’re sitting at a tepanaki table with a black cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic, and my brother-in-law just happened to be a very highly respected cardiologist in the area. My husband and I were having a wonderful dinner and conversation at the table. A black waiter leaned in and whispered in my ear, “I heard you call me a nigger. I’m going to get you.” I was absolutely devastated and wanted to leave immediately. There was no way to defend myself from the accusation. He might as well as physically beaten me up. That word has never been part of my vocabulary. I guess if you want to hear something, you will. Is this a good point to segue into “Paul is dead?”


4 posted on 03/26/2012 3:22:17 AM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So the Bolsheviks come out with ThoughtCrime when they can't make real charges stick.

Remember what happened to these two kids?

Not one of these "people" were charged with a "hate crime".

Gosh, where's Al Sharpton when you need him? An Injustice to rectify!

Oh Wait...Only one group of humanity is capable of "hate crimes"....all others are beyond Virtuous.

5 posted on 03/26/2012 3:28:26 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: SoFloFreeper
This is where it's going to get real ugly. Pulling these faint sounds from the tape, which arguably are unintelligible, is like reaching in and pulling out your still beating heart and holding it your hand and saying, there, I have found the essence of the person, and it is vile, which in turn will become symbolic of it's kind.

These people, are pure evil. They will do anything and say anything.

Prepare for the spectacle of Hanging chad 2, and of all places, Florida.

6 posted on 03/26/2012 3:28:32 AM PDT by csense
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To: Telepathic Intruder

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/03/the_empathizer-in-chief_needs_to_do_some_serious_soul-searching.html


8 posted on 03/26/2012 3:36:00 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Add Tawanna Brawley(sp?) to that list!


9 posted on 03/26/2012 3:36:08 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: SoFloFreeper

First I’ve heard of an epithet thrown...are they making this up as they go along? /s


10 posted on 03/26/2012 3:38:36 AM PDT by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: F15Eagle

It’s already ignited. Just that nobody has counted the dead for what they are, yet.


11 posted on 03/26/2012 3:39:00 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: SoFloFreeper

These people are now becoming desperate, deadly desperate, the meme, the story is starting to fall apart in many ways and the only way out for them is to constantly Rev up their rhetoric. And tell me what will happen if the succeed and Mr. Zimmerman is “lynched” figuratively or literally?

I believe that somehow it will become the Republicans or the Conservatives fault, because “feelings” always overcome reason and “common Sense”. And of course the other possibility I see is a “race war” but where will that end up? Between the blacks and hispanics or will it be black and white?

Does it matter even to the “powers that be” in the long/short run? My take on that is ‘NO’. All that matters is that there be disruption of any sort to take away attention for what really ails this country. And that is the Corrupted Politicians and their hangers-on and their enablers/backers that profit from it.


12 posted on 03/26/2012 3:39:10 AM PDT by The Working Man (No child left behind should be: No Child left a dime.)
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To: Renegade
“Reverend” Sharpton in both places, saying essentially the same things.
13 posted on 03/26/2012 3:41:31 AM PDT by Pecos (O.K., joke's over. Time to bring back the Constitution.)
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To: pops88

“a Benihana restaurant.”

On Chagrin Blvd.?


14 posted on 03/26/2012 3:41:35 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Lemmie see now.............

Iffen they’s pounding the living sh*t out of your face.....

It’s STILL ILLEGAL to hate them??

REALLY?


15 posted on 03/26/2012 3:44:30 AM PDT by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL voting. Let our dead rest in peace!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Dr. Tibbs’s research interest include Black Power Legal History; African American Intellectual History; Comparative Black Nationalism; Critical Race Theory; and Race and Punishment.

http://www.sulc.edu/faculty/tibbs.htm

Another Commie.


16 posted on 03/26/2012 3:45:11 AM PDT by Herbster
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To: SueRae

They say it is at the 2:21 of the call Zimmerman made. He says f***ing ????? ...I have tried and tried and I can’t make it out.


18 posted on 03/26/2012 3:47:59 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“a Benihana restaurant.”

On Chagrin Blvd.?
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There was only one Benihanna restaurant in Cleveland at the time, but I wasn’t driving. Chagrin Blvd. would have certainly been close to University Circle to run into a doctor from the Cleveland Clinic. I do know that as an RN working at University Hospitals at the time it wasn’t very far away.


19 posted on 03/26/2012 3:48:55 AM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: arbooz

Wouldn’t that be Pussy Ass Tortilla?

Or is it to Blacks, everyone looks the same?


20 posted on 03/26/2012 3:50:03 AM PDT by wolfcreek (‘closed eye’ mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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