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Trayvon Martin controversy deepens amid new info [National media turning? Florida media downplays]
CBS ^ | 3/27/2012

Posted on 03/27/2012 5:26:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

New information is putting a new twist on the Trayvon Martin case.

It has come out that the unarmed teenager was suspended from school, and is accused of beating up the man who then shot him dead.

Martin's parents claim authorities are now trying to sully their son's reputation, after his tragic shooting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: race; trayvonmartin
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The national press may have figured out this is not the race based crime portrayed.

Florida press? Most are still beating the "racism" drum.

1 posted on 03/27/2012 5:26:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hell, the media in Australia is now reporting the fully story.


2 posted on 03/27/2012 5:27:16 AM PDT by abercrombie_guy_38
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Martin's parents claim authorities are now trying to sully their son's reputation, after he failed to complete his planned beatdown of Zimmerman
Can't be having Trayvon perceived as a weakling.
3 posted on 03/27/2012 5:28:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: SoFloFreeper

Joe Scarborough could not be reached for comment.

4 posted on 03/27/2012 5:30:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Sarah...Sarah...Sarah!)
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Martin's parents claim authorities are now trying to sully their son's reputation, after his tragic shooting.

Mama's worried he trademark won't be worth Obama.

5 posted on 03/27/2012 5:30:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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The Miami reports I’ve seen quickly mention Zim’s account, then go HEAVILY into Al Sharpton, Frederica Wilson, and other “activist” sound bites into the unfairness of society.


6 posted on 03/27/2012 5:31:01 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Martin's parents claim authorities are now trying to sully their son's reputation

So far, we know that he took a bag of Skittles to a gun fight.

7 posted on 03/27/2012 5:33:42 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SoFloFreeper

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. Good stories sell newspapers, get eyeballs watching breathless reporters tell the story in between toilet paper commercials, and spawn sub-plots that in turn sell, sell, sell. It’s the American way.


8 posted on 03/27/2012 5:33:57 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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Tragic? No, the story of Nancy and Bob Strait is tragic, not this.

http://amren.com/news/2012/03/couple-met-and-married-within-a-month/


9 posted on 03/27/2012 5:35:04 AM PDT by expat1000
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Where was this father when this brat was out beating up volunteers? His brat had committed crimes, was thrown out of school for 10 days, but he decides to go out to dinner with his “fiancee” while his brat son headed for the Turf Club. There are so many unanswered questions in this story - but I strongly believe the truth will come out.


10 posted on 03/27/2012 5:35:44 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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“The national press may have figured out this is not the race based crime portrayed.”

They KNEW it to start with but were hoping that the public wouldn’t figure it out. They are just am arm of hussein who will , if pressed, may try to pass this off as a Brawley, Duke Lacrosse manipulation by sharpton, jackson, and obasma.


11 posted on 03/27/2012 5:37:04 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: humblegunner

LOL


12 posted on 03/27/2012 5:37:16 AM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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>>The national press may have figured out this is not the race based crime portrayed. Florida press? Most are still beating the “racism” drum.

Looks like they may try and cut their losses a bit. Just posted (from Orlando Sentinel):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2864359/posts


13 posted on 03/27/2012 5:38:28 AM PDT by expat1000
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The press & media could do us all a favor if they would stop using the picture of when Trayvon was MUCH younger. How about using an age appropriate picture? I saw one with him wearing a wife beater shirt while smiling & showing his gold teeth. The gangsta look is quite a contrast from the pic they’re running with.


14 posted on 03/27/2012 5:38:56 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I suspect that Obama has told them to turn it down. This is SERIOUSLY hurting Obama’s re-election efforts. This is getting dangerously close to what happened in New York City, where you had black on Jewish rioting for 3 days under a black mayor. The result was that whites had enough and elected Rudy.

White majorities (either in the US or in any city) do NOT elect black leaders to start a race war, and white majorities punish those leaders when they (almost inevitably) start a race war.


15 posted on 03/27/2012 5:39:53 AM PDT by BobL (I don't care about his past - Santorum will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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-- Where was this father when this brat was out beating up volunteers? --

Out having dinner, I think. Maybe dinner and a movie. Didn't seem concerned that Trayvon wasn't around whenever he (dad) returned home. Didn't stay up to see that he came in, etc.

I don't know enough the old man to have an opinion whether he's a decent sort, or not. But I know enough about Trayvon to conclude that he was an angry savage brute.

-- I strongly believe the truth will come out. --

The truth is out. I think what you are saying is that public perception will be corrected. I don't share your optimism. The story will be dropped, to prevent the public from becoming aware of how depraved the media is.

16 posted on 03/27/2012 5:41:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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The city of Sanford has a site and they have provided a set contemporaneous reports of the Sanford Police Department documents and 911 calls that can be found:

http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.html

Under “Trayvon Martin Investigation” Consolidated information with regard to this tragic incident.

The police reports include burglary and home invasion reports. Also a 21 page document regarding Neighborhood Watches.
Particularly frightening to me was the home invasion of a young woman. It looked like the “gated community” was under siege by the Hoodlum Community.
Report re victim named Bertalan,Oliva dated 8/3/2011.
Address is 1840 Retreat View Circle. The Bertalan report has a good number of pages but the Narrative Section summarizes action.

Of course such information is not presented by the MSMerde nor the “Negro Community” because it does not fit their political purpose.


17 posted on 03/27/2012 5:42:27 AM PDT by BilLies (Ass.Press ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hate your Traditional American guts!)
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not here in north east FL, they are calling out the race baiters etc

They are of course still showing those damn photo’s when the kid was 12 years old and not the updated photos of him acting all gangster, tattoos and where the hell did he get the money for the gold teeth when they were on food stamps.?


18 posted on 03/27/2012 5:42:32 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If Trayvon had gotten hold of Zimmerman’s gun and used it on him, the media would have been screaming that “as is so often the case, the gun escalated a fight from fisticuffs to murder, resulting in the death of the gunowner.”


19 posted on 03/27/2012 5:43:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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20 posted on 03/27/2012 5:44:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
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