Posted on 08/01/2013 2:02:41 PM PDT by thewoodwardreport.com
Trayvon Martin should not be dead, but the reason that he is, does not have to do with the color of his skin. Other than pure speculation, there is no evidence to suggest that this incident had anything to do with race... This shooting was framed by the media as one of racial hatred. The verdict was viewed by the talking heads as appalling. However, if there is anyone to blame for the complete acquittal of Zimmerman that would be the district attorney’s office. They charged Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder, a charge almost all legal experts predicted would not stick. At the conclusion of the case, knowing they (the prosecution) had not been able to prove murder they asked the judge to instruct the jury to consider manslaughter. Thomas Sowell, an African-American economist, intellectual, and nationally syndicated columnist had this to say:
“They had no hard evidence that would back up a murder charge or even a manslaughter charge.You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody. Once the issue boiled down to hard, provable facts, the prosecutors' loud histrionic assertions and sweeping innuendos were just not going to cut it.”
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― Booker T. Washington
Trayvon Martin should not be dead, but the reason that he is does not have to do with the color of his skin. Other than pure speculation, there is no evidence to suggest that this incident had anything to do with race. However, as the prior quote asserts, men like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan love to swoop in and soak up the media attention. It does not matter to them whether they are right (remember the Duke lacrosse rape case?), just as long as they get their publicity and fame. They are dividers not uniters. Tell me in what way is it helpful to tweet, as Louis Farrakhan did “Where there is no justice, there will be no peace. Soon the law of retaliation may very well be applied. #Trayvon”. Sounds to me like someone attempting to incite upheaval. It also seems to deviate from what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, peaceful protest. Furthermore, when the F.B.I looked into the shooting death, their investigation concluded Zimmerman was not a racist. Nevertheless playing the race card always brings in the ratings and thats what most news networks did.
President Barack Obama spoke these words in his famous 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention, “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there's the United States of America.” They were eloquent words and a reflection of America’s progress towards equality for all citizens. In the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the President made statements that ran counter to his 2004 assertion. While addressing the press he stated, “if a white male teen were involved in the same kind of scenario, that from top to bottom both the outcome and aftermath might have been different.” Not only is that an insinuation that the shooting was racially motivated but it also asserts that the six jurors and the judicial system of Florida applies justice unequally.
Glenn Garvin from the Miami Herald gave some insight that probably did not make it to most of the cable news shows, that air time is reserved for doctored 911 calls, and misleading photos. Mr. Garvin wrote in his column, “There is no war on black men, at least not by white men. Last year, the Scripps-Howard News Service studied half a million homicide reports and found that killings of black victims by white attackers have actually dropped over the past 30 years, from 4,745 during the 1980s to 4,380 during the first decade of the 2000s. There were nearly twice as many white victims killed by black assailants: 8,503 in the 1980s, and 8,530 in the 2000s.”
This shooting was framed by the media as one of racial hatred. The verdict was viewed by the talking heads as appalling. However, if there is anyone to blame for the complete acquittal of Zimmerman that would be the district attorney’s office. They charged Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder, a charge almost all legal experts predicted would not stick. At the conclusion of the case, knowing they (the prosecution) had not been able to prove murder they asked the judge to instruct the jury to consider manslaughter. Thomas Sowell, an African-American economist, intellectual, and nationally syndicated columnist had this to say:
“They had no hard evidence that would back up a murder charge or even a manslaughter charge.You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‘shooting an unarmed child,’ when that ‘child’ was beating him bloody. Once the issue boiled down to hard, provable facts, the prosecutors' loud histrionic assertions and sweeping innuendos were just not going to cut it.”
The prosecution acted arrogantly thinking since much of the media was on their side. They felt they could charge Zimmerman with murder in the 2nd degree. However, 2nd degree murder requires a depraved mind. The statute reads, “Murder with a Depraved Mind occurs when a person is killed, without any premeditated design, by an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind showing no regard for human life.” We all know that did not happen “beyond a shadow of a doubt” The three different definitions of manslaughter in Florida did not hold much promise in getting a guilty verdict either.
George Zimmerman was told by the 911 operator not to follow Trayvon but he did. Why? Did he feel directly threatened at that point with a loaded pistol? There is no doubt that fault is to be found on Zimmerman’s part in what occurred. However, it is quite clear that he did not intend or want to kill Trayvon. There was a struggle. He fired his weapon with intent to incapacitate but not to kill. Juror B-37 determined that Trayvon was the aggressor, and we are unsure how many other jurors share that view.
Zimmerman’s life will never be safe again not in Florida, and probably not not in the United States. I would move far far away if I were him, he has to live with the unfortunate reality that he killed a 17 yr old. Furthermore. he has to deal with the various threats against him and his family being harmed for the rest of his life, that is punishment enough. I do not consider himself a threat to society so incarceration in my view does no good , its simply continues to cost the taxpayer.
I do not think race had any sort of consequential role in this case. I think Zimmerman is ultimately guilty of lesser charges, possibly culpable negligence. The trial revealed that he is not your standard citizen, with the local police chief asserting he had a bit of a “hero complex”. However, I think that the defense attorney, Don West, phrased it best, there is no reason to turn this “tragedy into a travesty”. We do not have to ruin another’s life because a set of intensely bizarre and aggressive occurrences. It is sad that a 17 year old is dead, but this is neither representative of racial prejudice in today’s society nor an errant ruling on the juror’s part.
You appear to be the author, posting a link to your blog.
This statement completely invalidates the rest of your posting. Because it is absolutely wrong.
I'm not going to even bother to explain to you why, because you won't believe me. Go back and read the transcript of Zimmerman's call to the police, and then read the transcript of the dispatcher's sworn testimony under cross-examination in the trial.
Don't bother to respond to me until you've done so. I will consider you uninformed and clueless until you can cite to me exactly where the dispatcher did as you claimed.
Unfortunately, Trayvon Martin like many young negroes, was born to be bad and born to end up killed in one way or another. He was a victim of the Great Society, of which he had no knowledge.
Lyndon Bird Johnson killed Trayvon. From the grave this idiot socialist Texan provided the evil government-dependent society in which these young negro men matured. It was the race pimps that placed the chip on Trayvon’s shoulder and inculcated the hate towards the white segment of American society.
If welfare didn’t provided it, it’s okay to seize it. Wear a hoodie in Florida’s sub-tropical climate at night and slink around the neighborhood waiting for some poor soul to attempt knocking that chip off.
Oh, uh. That honkey’s got hisself a gun.
Poor Trayvon was dissed by his own broken and corrupt society.
False.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/97802972/George-Zimmerman-Written-Statement George Zimmerman’s own statement “The dispatch told me not to follow the suspect” — So how exactly is that wrong?
I think this is a good assessment of the case. Zimmerman used bad judgement and as a result, a 17-year old boy is dead. He should have been punished. But what can think of the remarks the President of the United States but that he was wrong to open his mouth. He seems obsessed with race
People still passing along falsehoods about this case.
It was not 911. It was a non-emergency dispatch. He was reporting a suspicious person. The person on the line had asked for a description and later admitted this was a goof because it encouraged Zimmerman to look for the suspect.
“We don’t need you to do that” the person said after discovering their own error.
At that point, George Zimmerman stopped looking for the suspect. There was no pursuit. There was nothing on GZ’s part that could have been considered reason to attack him even by paranoids. Unless talking on the cellphone is reason to jump a man?
In what way? In calling into the non-emergency number to report a suspicious person? To attempt to get a description per the operator's request? To see where Martin was heading? In returning to his vehicle after the operator stated George didn't need to do that?
Pray tell, just exactly how did Mr. Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch member, concerned resident of his community use "bad judgement" in trying to keep his neighborhood safe from a piece of human debris named Trayvon?
The only thing Mr. Zimmerman is guilty of is being conscientious, vigilant and willing to get involved in his community in a positive manner.
you are right that it was a non emergency dispatch, but although a mistake it really plays no part in any of the assertions here. “We don’t need you to do that” is well of course the same thing as telling someone not to do something, any objection to that is simply semantics on your part.
Zimmerman’s statement is not what the dispatcher said. I believe the dispatcher said, “you don’t have to do that”.
Mr. Zimmerman was COMPLYING with the dispatcher’s “request” when he was ambushed by Martin, he was almost to his vehicle. The LIE being told in this essay is that Mr. Zimmerman continued to follow Martin, when he clearly didn’t.
He got out of the truck. The cops were on their way. Yes, he was afraid that the suspected prowler might get away, but so be it. His job was not to apprehend but to report.
I wrote: "Read the transcript of the call", not Zimmerman's statement. Pay close attention to the order.
And, I also wrote: "read the transcript of the dispatcher's testimony". This is harder to find, but you can find many references to the testimony, and even a YouTube video.
It is not the same thing because the operator has no legal authority to tell anyone to do anything so it’s not semantics at all.
I'll make the same suggestion I make to everyone else: read the transcript of the call to dispatch, and read the transcript or watch the YouTube video of the dispatcher's testimony during the call.
Everything you think you know about this case is wrong.
He made no attempt to apprehend anyone.
There was no murder.
Trayvon is guity of attempted murder
Of course he is dead so he can not be prosecuted
That’s it?
In addition, you’re adding facts not in evidence. He made no attempt to apprehend, he was attempting to get more information for LE, “report” as you say.
And for that the man’s life lies in ruins with all kinds of people passing judgement on him for being guilty of nothing more than concern and vigilance.
Meh.
“The verdict was viewed by the talking heads as appalling.”
Not at all. Most of the talking heads with legal backgrounds (even Jerry Rivers) called it for the defense well before the verdict.
Following the verdict, the witchdoctors like Jackson, Sharpton and Leo Pitts (”racial justice”) and Charles “Glistening Black Man” Blow started this:
‘We’re going to hold our breath because we didn’t get our way’
puerile bravo Sierra.
So feck ‘em if dey cain’t take no joke......... heh
He got out of the truck. By doing so, he put himself in danger. Even if you have a gun, going after someone in the dark is very, very dangerous. A more prudent person would have sat tight. The man made a mistake. He was not guilty of murder but of an imprudent act that led to a man’s death.
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