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Funeral director on Trayvon Martin's lack of injuries (Video)
CBS via Drudge ^ | April 1, 2012 | CBS

Posted on 04/02/2012 7:00:20 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

Edited on 04/02/2012 8:00:02 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Florida funeral director who handled the burial of Trayvon Martin says there were no signs of a scuffle on the dead teen, contradicting...


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funeral; martin; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: Ditter
Yes, I think black people can tan.

Of course they can. We are all a bunch of meat in some kind of semi-transparent container, and the 'sun' doesn't care what color you are to begin with.

What I am discussing is whether it is harder to tell. Both bruising and tans.

Did you ever say to a 'black' person, "Hey, nice tan." ?

81 posted on 04/02/2012 8:48:30 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: hampdenkid
"I box, and I can assure you that hitting someone on the soft tissue between the cheekbone and the jawbone would likely leave not bruises, or abrasions.

The funeral director’s business likely comes from the black community. He is therefore playing to the gallery.


82 posted on 04/02/2012 8:48:56 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: bgill
The guy is wearing what amounts to a Christmas bow for a neck tie, hahahaha!

Be careful. He might be Muslim so you should say ... a Happy Holidays bow... or Kwanza bow.

83 posted on 04/02/2012 8:51:21 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Blueflag

Well, that is a good point well put.


84 posted on 04/02/2012 8:58:22 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Don’t you think the beater would show SOME marks on his hands if he punched another guy and then pummeled him on the ground?


85 posted on 04/02/2012 8:59:49 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: TigerClaws
Doesn’t bruising require a beating heart and takes minutes to form?

yes it requires a heartbeat, but no it requires less than second, once the blood vessels are ruptured and the heart beats a bruise occurs.

the libs hurt themselves on this one. because of no bruises on TMs body its obvious that zimmerman, whose head was cut did not strike martin. Until the act of self defense ocurred (gunshot) the confrontation was all trayvon Martin victimizing Zimmerman.

86 posted on 04/02/2012 8:59:49 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: Williams

All this certain discussion of what happened is stupid and ill informed but the funeral director’s comments are not dispositive.

All your points were good ones - up to that point.


87 posted on 04/02/2012 9:01:45 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Well, those are good points.


88 posted on 04/02/2012 9:03:35 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: bgill
Where were the fingerprints located on the gun?

My guess is that Martin's thumbprint might be on the trigger. Zimmerman would likely carry on the left side, which would be Martin's right. Martin grabbed for the gun, pulling it out and immediately getting his finger on the trigger (which is not what an experienced gun handler would do). Zimmerman immediately quit defending his face and tried to keep Martin from getting his finger on or pulling the trigger.

Mr. Zimmerman's STATEMENTS were that Martin grabbed for the gun, after beating on him, and Zimmerman struggled to get the gun back, and then ... boom... Martin keeled over dead.

I never heard Zimmerman state that he intentionally aimed at or intentionally pulled the trigger to kill Trayvon.

I don't think that was on his mind. Otherwise he would have had his gun out already.

89 posted on 04/02/2012 9:06:21 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Well, I heven’t punched anyone lately. I just thought that if somebody punched another person hard enough to break a nose, there would be bruises or cuts to their knuckles. Or maybe it depends on whether or not the person doing the hitting had hardened hands from hard work or physical exercize.


90 posted on 04/02/2012 9:07:28 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: ZULU
Zimmerman said Martin punched him, jumped him, pummeled him and beat his head on the concrete pavement.

That’s IMPOSSIBLE if there were no marks on Martin’s body.

Its really kind of incredible that an otherwise intelligent person with a predetermined opinion can look at a set of facts that proove him TOTALLY WRONG and reach the OPPOSITE conclusion.

You must be looking in the mirror. Zimmerman needs NO proof that Martin hit him, Zimmerman's head is gashed and nose was battered. These ARE PROVEN FACTS.

If there are no bruises on TMs body and face then, until the gunshot ocurred, it proves the confrontation was all one sided-- Martin on zimmerman.

91 posted on 04/02/2012 9:07:38 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: Cubs Fan

THis story is easily used to contradict Zimmerman because it is a biased story and includes only that which they THINK helps the storyline of poor little Trayvon.

They actually use the fact that according to the FD Trayvon wasn’t bruised, to try to prove Trayvon didn’t beat up on Zimmerman, or else Trayvon’s own body would’ve shown bruising from the force of his flesh hitting Zimmerman’s.

Offensive brusing, rather than defensive bruising.

But they leave out the fact that, even if that were true, and we don’t actually know, he was shot and killed at almost the same time he would’ve bruised, thus interfering with a live person’s bruising process.

FReepers are saying the lack of bruising, if true, shows dead men don’t bruise, but it wouldn’t show that Trayvon didn’t attack and beat Zimmerman.

You keep saying it shows Zimmerman was the victim of Trayvon’s blows.

I agree that’s what happened, but the article purports to show just the opposite. Their reasoning is flawed.

Trayvon could well have beaten Zimmerman and showed no bruising because he died right then.

Zimmerman could have even gotten in a lucky pushback or couple of hits on Trayvon and still Trayvon not shown bruising because he was suddenly too dead to show it.

But from what I have read from you, once you posted this you will not acknowledge anything other than what you claimed at first.

Fine...the rest of us can discuss it around you, instead of with you.


92 posted on 04/02/2012 9:08:10 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: UCANSEE2; WildHighlander57

[you are lucky. - you are lucky.]

Are you nuts? Pack your ears with cotton for just one day and see how much you enjoy it. Your comments [twice] are off the wall!


93 posted on 04/02/2012 9:08:34 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: bgill
And it was raining...

And uphill both ways...

94 posted on 04/02/2012 9:09:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
If the aggressor in a fight throws a first punch that is a sucker punch that puts someone down on the ground, the agressor is not going to be injured.

If the next action of the aggressor is to take hold of the person’s head and bang it on the pavement, the aggressor is also not going to show any signs of injury.

Somebody tell me what I am missing, how the funeral director’s statement is in any way relevant.

Exactly right until the last. it is a fact that zimmerman was bruised and battered. The fact that TMs body had no bruises goes to show Zimmerman did not strike him in any way. This proves TM was the instigator and aggressor and that Zimmerman only defended himself.

95 posted on 04/02/2012 9:14:42 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: D-fendr
What does this do their story that Martin was the one being beaten by Zimmerman?

EXACTLY! it defeats it completely. The libs unwittingly helped zimmerman with this story. When examined, it becomes quickly obvious it backfired right in their crummy little faces.

96 posted on 04/02/2012 9:19:17 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: Clara Lou
I see your logic, but that’s not the way the news media is using this know-nothing’s comments. They’re using it to say the Martin never attacked Zimmerman, much the way they use that police video to say that Zimmerman was not injured at all.

but once again it all backfires on them. The police and witnesses said zimmerman had a gash on his head etc. More scrutiny of the video shows it was there as well.

The statements of the funeral director saying TM had no briuises on his face or body show that TM was not hit by Zimmerman in any way, therefore the altercation was started by TM and he remained the aggressor until the shot was fired.

97 posted on 04/02/2012 9:29:19 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: ZULU
Don’t you think the beater would show SOME marks on his hands if he punched another guy and then pummeled him on the ground?

That question was asked upthread, and there have been over a dozen reasoned/experienced responses to same.

I too occasionally post w/o reading the thread ;-)
Or have you just not seen the answer you wanted ?

98 posted on 04/02/2012 9:33:30 AM PDT by tomkat ( FU.baraq !)
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To: ZULU
Don’t you think the beater would show SOME marks on his hands if he punched another guy and then pummeled him on the ground?

nope a punch form the hard knuckels to a soft nose would not likely produce any bruising on the knuckles

Nor would holding a persons head and smashing it against the ground be likely to produce injuries to the hands.

More germaine is that there were no bruises on TM's body or face, which obviously makes him the attacker and the one in control of the fight right up until zimmerman defended himself.

99 posted on 04/02/2012 9:38:25 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: Cubs Fan

Black funeral director would be expected to say what he did. He ain’t no Tom.


100 posted on 04/02/2012 9:43:20 AM PDT by crosshairs (Some ideas are so stupid, only intellectuals believe them. --- George Orwell)
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