"Squaw get'um firewood!"
Posted on 06/27/2013 7:09:04 AM PDT by iowamark
A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.
In a painfully embarassing moment, Rachel Jeantel was asked to read the letter out loud in court.
"Are you able to read that at all?" defense attorney Don West asked.
Jeantel, head bowed, eyes averted whispered into the court microphone, "Some but not all. I don't read cursive."
It sent a hush through the packed courtroom.
Jeantel, 19, was unable to read any of the letter save for her name...
During nearly two hours of cross examination Wednesday in which he tried to raise questions about her version of events and accused her of telling several lies under oath, including about her whereabouts during Martin's wake.
"Under oath, you created a lie and said you went to the hospital?" asked West.
"Yes," responded Jeantel. She said she lied because she didn't want to see the body.
Jeantel became increasingly agitated and scoffed when West told her that she would have to continue testifying.
She is seen as a critical witness to the prosecution because she is the only person able to say that Martin claimed that he noticed a strange man following him and that he was scared. Jeantel said Martin described the stranger as a "creepy ass cracker."
Jeantel said Martin, 17, was walking home during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game when he became unnerved because he was being followed.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I really have to laugh. This trial is such a joke. Free Zimmerman now.
As for "Jeantel," well, she can't read or write, but I'm sure she has an iphone with all of the latest accessories!
Smells like a perjury charge to me.
Voted for Obama, free stuff, free phone, free money. Product of gov’mint school system. Can’t read. Can’t write. Just create new Obama voters by the dozen.
And if Obama had a son, he would look like Treyvon...
I have PRAYED that the Black Left would WAKE UP and figure out what DESTRUCTION Democrats have done to their community, but alas.....not going to happen.
what about that half of a coconut on her head?
Cursive should still be taught, as a history elective where it now belongs.
It is needed to read archival information. Little else. It certainly has no place in today’s business world.
It might be time for people in Sanford and adjacent towns to stock up on ammo, water and food.
was that supposed to be english?
The photograph of Bob Keeshan is a nice touch!
what about that half of a coconut on her head?
Thank you. Has this Francine been questioned in court to confirm the letter writing?
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The schools need more money....this is proof!
Never heard of them. Does anybody watch it?
At age 19, Jeantel has probably already polluted the gene pool with a half-dozen offspring or so.
Wonder if Upgrayedd is one of the fathers?
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“In the Rockford,Illinois public school system, teaching cursive is PROHIBITED. One teacher who was trying to do it on the sly got in trouble for it, and he had to stop.”
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I see it as a way cut off future generations from learning from past generations. All the letters and all the writings of our forefathers were written in cursive. Future generations will have to rely on ‘experts’ to transcribe the texts for them with, perhaps, the occasional change here and there to make things more ‘understandable.’
Our great, great grandchildren will stare as stupidly at the Constitution as illiterate peasants from the Dark Ages stared at Latin Bibles.
She can’t read, but she sure as hell knows how to eat.
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