Posted on 07/09/2013 1:45:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The city of Sanford, Fla. is bracing for reaction to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, including preparing for riots the likes of which havent been seen since the Rodney King verdict was announced in 1992.
The city has spent months preparing for what may develop after the jury verdict is announced, and pastors and members of the clergy are even lending a hand to keep tensions from escalating out of control.
According to a report from CNNs David Mattingly, local pastors have been sitting in the courtroom observing the trial, and the Sanford Police Department has sent officers door to door in an attempt to stay in front of a possible disaster.
From Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett to the Chief of Police Cecil Smith, the city is very concerned about people coming in from out of town and stirring up violence, the CNN report said.
Triplett said the city was a tinderbox with all the demonstrations after Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, and his fear is that it may happen again if Zimmerman is ultimately acquitted.
A Rodney King-type of riot is a scenario thats certainly a possibility, Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte told Mattingly.
However, neither Bonaparte nor Smith would discuss with CNN what specific security measures, like SWAT or other personnel, were in place.
Months of preparation, intense community relations and a secret law enforcement plan are in place not just for a Zimmerman acquittal, but in case celebrations over a possible guilty verdict turn violent, Mattingly reported.
No doubt, the city has been watching the escalating tension the trial has caused on social media.
There have been serious, violent and graphic calls on Twitter and Facebook for riots, looting and violence in cities across the country if Zimmerman is acquitted.
The trial is expected to last a few more weeks.
Watch the report from CNN here:
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Place guards on the liquor stores, and the food stores.
Those are the first places they hit.
I predict a permanent total rejection of governmental authority nationwide if Zimmerman is NOT acquitted.
A not guilty verdict will just be an excuse to loot and steal.
Funny how angry, agitated rioters transform into happy, satisfied rioters
when they are running from a store with a HDTV or X-Box.
They know we're waiting for them with our Kel-Tec 9mms.
They are being coordinated from the Whitehouse. The hood is about all he has left.
Pray for America to Wake Up
fwdude ~:” The funny thing is that when they do riot, they mostly tear up their own neighborhoods. “
True that !
However , a way to avert rioting is to show the masses how they have been manipulated by the media and by politicos.
This was a public “show trial” ~ and the lamestream media is the culprit !
If politicians had stayed out of it , the issue wouldn’t have gotten its legs and gone national, as it has .
But , we have to have something to fog up the media rather than address the Government scandles .
So, justice matters not when it involves a black person, huh? Sad, how far we’ve fallen. I guess their little marches of the past “no justice no peace”, is bull crap.
Yes a lot about America.eriod.
You mean there will be riots in NY, Chicago and LA because of what happens in Sanford, Florida?
Do they HDTV’s and X-Boxes in other parts of the country besides
Sanford? Yep. I think a big looting and stealing spree is coming.
Right - their Liberal mentality will reason with them.
That’s another reason I live rurally. I bet other cities are completely unprepared. I’m betting this goes national.
Norton Bonaparte? Sounds like a70’s made for TV movie about a drunken private eye..
Wasp spray - they hit out like thirty feet. Just get a case of them and sit back.
Broward County, FL released a video encouraging its residents not to riot.
BROWARD COUNTY ZIMMERMAN
http://www.sheriff.org/posts/post.cfm?id=bf1326e0-d238-0577-7446-a3a4ca5438d3
Remember Katrina? The female NO cop was in there looting with the rest of ‘em.
You Loot, We Shoot
LA tried to placate them and it did no good, but a few well placed shots and they'll understand you mean business.
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