Posted on 04/11/2012 1:31:50 PM PDT by kristinn
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The law enforcement official said that authorities knew where Zimmerman was and were planning to arrest him soon rather than let him turn himself in. The official said he was not in Florida.
Zimmerman's shooting of the unarmed black teenager Feb. 26 brought demands from black leaders for his arrest and set off a furious nationwide debate over race and self-defense that reached all the way to the White House.
The 28-year-old Zimmerman, whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic, said the teenager attacked him. Martin's family argued Zimmerman was the aggressor.
On Tuesday, Zimmerman's lawyers announced they were withdrawing from the case because they hadn't heard from him since Sunday and didn't know where he was. They portrayed his mental state as fragile.
"He is largely alone. You might even say he is emotionally crippled by virtue of the pressure of this case," said one of the lawyers, Hal Uhrig.
The case has drawn the interest of the highest levels of the Obama administration, with the Justice Department's civil rights division opening its own investigation.
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I agree, it is time. This is not my country anymore. If Zimmerman is charged with a crime, it’s on.
“We’ll hang him tomorrow after the trial.”-Dean Martin in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO.
It will be OJ and Rodney King all over again.
There doesn’t seem to be anything but littering or discharging a firearm in a public place that’d fit the most persuasive version of the facts in the case. Somehow, I don’t think that’d satisfy the racist lynch mob.
My point was that charges HAD to be brought against him to appease the mob out there. (I just read that he’s charged with 2nd degree murder. I’m not at all sure that he’ll be found guilty.)
Zimmerman notwithstanding, Pandora is straddling the edge of that box.
“The 28-year-old Zimmerman, whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic...”
Let’s be clear about this. Zimmerman’s father is Jewish, and his mother is Mestizo Peruvian.
Demographically, Peruvians in Peru are: Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%.
HE TURNED HIMSELF IN, SO WHY IS THE MEDIA PUSHING STORIES THAT HE’S OUT OF STATE ETC?????
Couldn’t be because they want bond set extraordinarily high, eh?
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