Here's the latest article. There were no bruises and no blood on Zimmerman. Here's another lie he has told.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/trayvon-ma...ry?id=16022897
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Here's the latest article. There were no bruises and no blood on Zimmerman. Here's another lie he has told.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/trayvon-ma...ry?id=16022897
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Disgusting.
I cannot wait to hear how Joe Oliver is going to explain why there is no visible blood or injuries on George Zimmerman in the police surveillance video tape only moments after he is shot Trayvon Martin and taken in for questioning. Hmmmmm.........
"Well, you see, you see George comes from a long line of Vampires, but he really is a great guyyyy.,........"
I've had a broken nose. Even to wipe away the invisible blood would leave a swollen nose and two black eyes. I'm interested in seeing whether George went to the hospital before or after he was questioned.
Oh, now he's trying to say that the video is "grainy".
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...90073#46890073
Every time the right-wing/Fox news tries to make excuses for Zimmerman and demonize Martin, they wind up looking worse.
I wonder how much and who is paying Joe Oliver?
A question for everyone. Based on what we know now, at this moment, do you think George Zimmerman will get away with killing Trayvon Martin?
I don't think he'll walk Marv but he has to be arrested before anything can happen and that concerns me the most right now. If we don't keep the pressure on his arrest may never happen.
We live in a culture where the next shiny bauble will capture your attention and I'd hate to see that happen in this case.
I can't say for sure, but I have a feeling that he will be charged on some ridiculous manslaughter charges and an arrest warrant will be served. He will run, and the right-wingers will defend him. It will become part of the presidential campaign, further dividing up the country. Anyway, that's my prediction.
Sitting a few miles from you I agree. Furthermore, if he had been injured, it seems to be his lawyer would be producing hospital records, EMT records, police photos of the injuries. As we all know, there has been nothing produced to support Zimmerman's contention. Furthermore, from MSNBC: Eugene O'Donnell, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the video shows "that it's beyond dispute that there are no serious injuries, physical injuries, he's not in a hospital."
That won't stop Zimmerman's supporters. Tuesday night, Zimmerman's attorney ran off the set of Lawrence O'Donnel's show. He quickly left the building. My guess is that he didn't want to deal with the hard questions. http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...mermans-lawyer
I guess Roger Ailes will give him a home at Fox News.
ABC News asked the attorney if he could see any injuries and he said he couldn't tell what was going on. When they suggested that he said his client had to be seen at a hospital, instead of saying there was record of his receiving treatment, he responded with "So, you have your answer." He said that poor George is living in hiding and his life was ruined by this incident.
And I am one who believes they will decide that there is not enough evidence and that he will walk.
According by what I just heard 5 mins ago on HLN [[Headline News), the video tape of Zimmerman at the police station was time stamped for 7:18 pm that night.........just under a half hour from the time of the incident. So if he went to a hospital at all, it would have been AFTER being taken to the police station. The big question is now.......WHERE IS THE BLOOD?! There is not even a trace of blood on his T-shirt, but he allegedly had a broken nose.
Now you have struck at something that I have been thinking about most of the day. If there was not such an outcry for justice from Trayvon's parents and the public, would this murder go completely unpunished? I don't know, I may have missed something, but was it the intent of the Sanford Police to just let George Zimmerman completely go and to later explain to Trayvon's parents how he ended dead and there was nothing that could be done about it?
Here is something else that I found very disturbing. They finally showed an interview with Zimmerman's father. They would not show his face of course. In the interview, he stated flat out that there was a lot of hate being directed toward his family and George....He clearly said "hate from the President"...... That statement told me a lot about this man as I have not heard anything remotely hateful regarding this case from Barak Obama. This man's comment gave me a glimpse into not only his political views, but also his racial views because he also only mentioned African American organizations when he went through his list of those directing hate towards his family. He did not mention anything regarding the general populations disgust with this whole incident.
I think you are all missing a valuable and sobering point: Even if this winds up with a conviction, we still lost because it took the entire country to rally and display outrage. That won't happen the next time or the time after that. I still have doubts this tool will be convicted but I'm not encouraged if he is because it literally took millions to effect anything that resembles "justice" in this case.
Only the remarkable circumstances of this particular case permitted the world to know what the hell happened in Sanford, Florida and even one "victory" on this front pales in the face of how many times we come out on the losing end of this BS. Not to be pessimistic, but damn! Emmett Till would be 70 years old right now [[he died 57 years ago) and in 53 years, we'll be saying the same thing about Trayvon Martin.
@ Jerry Oz....
by george I think you've got it!
Although I'm not quite as pessimistic about this as you are Jerry, I feel you 100%. As I said earlier, before our young men were being gunned down, they were hanging from trees. This sht is not going away...point blank....so the next step is, how do we find a way to get around it so people like Zimmerman don't literally get away with murder? We have to get better laws....we have to get better law makers.
Mean people exist, racist people exist....all this time we've talked about it and pointed fingers....has anything changed their existence...NO...and it never will.
What will eventually happen, many will slide back under the rock they came out from under but they will still be here.
To put it bluntly, eff a racist and the horse they ride in on. I just can't get that worked up about racist anymore...what I can do is work to make sure if they commit a crime, their arse will be punished.
BANG! You got it! That was the exact thought I had when I heard him and that was the point I was hoping people would get from the senior Zimmerman 's interview. Yes it was a local Fox News affiliate. I believe WOFL in Orlando.
George Zimmerman's brother was just interviewed by Pier Morgan tonight and it/he absolutely turned my stomach! Luckily, Mike Tyson was the guess for the second segment and when asked what he thought of Zimmerman's bro's interview Mike responded.." I don't know........he could be a seasoned enough of a liar to come hear to talk to you."! Mike also stated that there was no way that kid [[Trayvon) should be dead.
Now Zimmerman's brother puts his two cents in saying his brother had no choice. No choice? He should have stayed in his car. And another witness says he saw two men on the ground when a shot was fired and one them just walked away with no signs of any injury. This all on CBS NYC news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/op...ml?ref=opinion
Article on gated communities
What they, the Zimmermans and their supporters are attempting to do is to portray an even playing field. They want to put in the minds of the public that George Zimmerman was as much a victim as Trayvon Martin. That the kid was the aggressor, he followed Zimmerman back to his car, that he jumped on him and was beating him senseless on the concrete sidewalk all the while telling him "that you are going to die tonight", while of course reaching for Zimmerman's gun that he magically knew Zimmerman was carrying........
They want to public to believe that George Zimmerman had no choice but to shoot Trayvon Martin! They want everyone to forget the fact that Zimmerman was instructed not to follow Martin by the police. They want everyone to forget that Martin was not doing anything but walking home from the store when he was accosted by Zimmerman. This is what Zimmerman's father, brother, Joe Oliver and his attorney are pushing at the public daily!
Man, you have to love concealed carry. Except for being strapped, Zimmerman wouldn't have felt encouraged to confront someone; I'm sure of it. The coward decided he was not just there for neighborhood watch, but actually for active law enforcement based on the strength of having a gun.
Also, props to the criminal justice system that reduced his battery charges to misdemeanors. I know that is routine, but did that permit him to be approved for concealed carry?
Jerry Oz, one of those charges was assaulting a police officer, that's a felony and he still was able to get a gun permit. His father is a retired judge who called in favors.
He has to be arrested and charged. Once this goes to trial his lawyer will have to do better than try and push a lie about a broken nose but if he doesn't get arrested...
I pray Zimmerman will be arrested very soon.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayvon-mar...4#.T3YOe65luHm
Wearing a hoodie on the House floor.
That got Representative Bobby Rush thrown out on Wednesday, even as he quoted from the Bible on justice and the end of oppression.Rep. Rush is one of millions calling for justice for Trayvon Martin, a young black man in a hoodie, gunned down last month in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon's killer, George Zimmerman, still hasn't been arrested—and the wheels of justice can't turn until he is.
Tomorrow in Sanford, MoveOn members will join Trayvon's family, the NAACP, SEIU, and other allies in a march for justice. And across the country, we can show our solidarity with Saturday's march by taking a picture of ourselves with a hoodie and making it our profile picture on Facebook and Twitter.
This campaign began with a cry for justice from Trayvon's parents, and grew online through huge petitions [[including one by MoveOn member Maria Roach) and a massive response on social media from celebrities and millions of everyday people standing against racism and racial profiling. So, while Trayvon's family keeps the pressure on in the streets of Sanford, we need to keep up the pressure online, where this campaign grew into a national movement.
Click below to make your stand for Trayvon [[and don't worry—we have handy instructions on how to change your Facebook or Twitter profile pic):
Join the march for justice online by changing your profile picture for Trayvon.
George Zimmerman followed Trayvon, a young black man in a hoodie, because he looked "suspicious." Zimmerman made an unjustified assumption about who Trayvon was, and that assumption led to Trayvon's death. That's why we have to keep the pressure on the system to make sure justice is served.
We've partnered with the creators of MillionHoodi.es, along with the NAACP, ColorOfChange, and other allies to make this online solidarity movement huge, with hundreds of thousands of us posting our hoodies photos in social media—and making them our profile picture. But in order to be effective, people need to see hoodie photos everywhere they look online. So click below to change your profile pic and join the millions of other hoodies online for Trayvon Martin on Saturday.
Join the million hoodie movement for justice for Trayvon by changing your profile photo for Saturday's march.
More fun and games in the USA:
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Husband and wife shot as children watch
RAEFORD, N.C. [[WTVD) -- Hoke County deputies have charged a man with shooting a husband and wife outside their home in the Rockfish community Saturday evening.
Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said it happened around 7:30 at 110 T.C. Jones Road.
Neighbors said 35-year-old Tommy Brown was playing basketball with his sons and was concerned because neighbor John Oliver Hill Jr., 48, was shooting a gun in the area
"And this nut from across the street - who had been outside shooting his gun - the gentleman asked him if he would quit because of all the kids outside playing. And so he took it upon his self to come over here and he just shot the man. Shot him in the head," said neighbor Lois Clairmont.
Deputies said the weapon was a .30-30 hunting rifle. The three boys who witnessed the shooting ran inside to get their mother and when she came out, Hill allegedly shot her twice.
Thalia Rebecca Mook, 35, was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center where she died Sunday.
Peterkin said when his officers arrived, Hill had returned to his home on Philippi Church Road - around the corner from the Brown's house. A short standoff ensued, and Hill surrendered after about 30 minutes.
Ten weapons were seized at Hill's home.
Hill was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He was being held without bond in the Hoke County Jail.
And also this:
Sick, Elderly Black Man Was Tased, Then Shot To Death By White Plains PD After Triggering His Medical Alert
There are far too many of these stories. Maybe now, thanks to the Trayvon Martin case, internal affairs investigators will actually do their jobs and reporters won't be quite so eager to accept the official version of events. This case in November, featured on Democracy Now!, involved a 68-year-old man who accidentally pressed his medical alarm and ended up shot to death by police:JUAN GONZALEZ: As the shooting death of Trayvon Martin continues to draw national attention, today we look at another controversial shooting of an African-American male that has received far less scrutiny. On the morning of November 19th, a 68-year-old former marine named Kenneth Chamberlain with a heart condition accidentally pressed the button on his medical alert system while sleeping. Responding to the alert, police officers from the city of White Plains, New York, arrived at Chamberlain’s apartment in a public housing complex shortly after 5 a.m. By the time the police left the apartment, Kenneth Chamberlain was dead, shot twice in the chest by a police officer inside his home. Police gained entry to Chamberlain’s apartment only after they took his front door off its hinges. Officers first shot him with a taser, then a beanbag shotgun, and then with live ammunition.
AMY GOODMAN: Police have insisted the use of force was warranted. They said Kenneth Chamberlain was emotionally disturbed and had pulled a knife on the officers. This is David Chong, public safety commissioner in White Plains.
DAVID CHONG: The officers first used an electronic taser, which was discharged, hit the victim, and had no effect. While the officers were retreating, the officers then used a shotgun, a beanbag shotgun.
AMY GOODMAN: Relatives of Kenneth Chamberlain have questioned the police portrayal of events that led to his death, and they say audio and video recorded at the scene back up their case. According to the family, Kenneth Chamberlain can be heard on an audio recording of his call to the medical alert system operator saying, quote, "Please leave me alone. I’m 68 with a heart condition. Why are you doing this to me? Can you please leave me alone?" Officers allegedly responded by calling Chamberlain a racial slur while urging him to open the door. The audio recording of the incident has not been made public and remains in the possession of the Westchester District Attorney’s office.
In early December, Kenneth Chamberlain, a retired marine, was buried with military honors. The family posted video of part of the ceremony.
Several months after his death, the name of the officer who killed Kenneth Chamberlain has yet to be released. The DA has vowed to convene a grand jury to determine if any of the officers should face charges.
We invited the White Plains Police Department and the Westchester DA’s office on to the program, but they declined to join us or issue a comment. But we are joined by Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., the son of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., the victim, and by two of the family’s attorneys. Mayo Bartlett is the former chief of the Bias Crimes Unit of the Westchester County District Attorney’s office and the former chair of the Westchester County Human Rights Commission. Randolph McLaughlin is a longtime civil rights attorney. He teaches at Pace Law School.
We welcome you all to Democracy Now! Our condolences to your family, Kenneth Chamberlain, on the death of your father.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what you understand happened early in the morning of November 19th.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Well, it’s my understanding that, from what I’ve gathered right now, that my father accidentally pushed his medical pendant around his neck. He could have possibly turned over on it. We don’t know. We can only speculate about that.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did he wear it?
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: He has a heart condition, and he also suffered from COPD. And when he—the pendant was triggered—
AMY GOODMAN: You’re holding that in—
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: —his hand.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: This is his pendant right here. It was triggered, and the medical company—there’s a box inside his home. The medical company asked him if he was all right. They didn’t get a response. So, automatically, if you don’t get a response, they send medical services to your house. They informed the police that they are responding to a medical emergency, not a crime. And once they arrived at my father’s home, my father did tell them that he was OK. But for some reason, they wanted to gain entry into my father’s home. I don’t know why. And in the audio, you hear my father telling them that he’s fine, he’s OK.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Now, this is an important point, that there was audio going on throughout this between the firm and your father.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Correct.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And so, much of the activity of the police was caught on this audio.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Yes, it was.
AMY GOODMAN: So the box on the wall records everything that’s—
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: It’s actually a box that just sat on his table in the—in his dining room area. It just sat there. And it’s connected to the phone company. So if he does trigger it, as I said, you hear a loud beeping noise. And then the operator, from their central station, will come on, and they say, "Mr. Chamberlain, are you OK? You triggered your alarm. Is everything all right?" And, of course, if they don’t get a response, they then contact the officials.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Now you were able to hear this audio because the DA’s office allowed you to hear it? How did you—
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Yes.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But it has not yet been released.
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: No, it hasn’t.
AMY GOODMAN: So, continue. You hear your father through the door telling the police he’s OK. This is about 5:00 in the morning?
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Yes. He’s saying that he’s OK. He’s saying that he did not call for them. But they were very insistent. They were banging on the door, banging on the door, banging on the door. So you hear one of the officers say to him, "Well, you pushed your—you triggered your alarm now." He said, "That’s because I want you to leave me alone." And they just kept telling him, "Open the door. Open the door. Let us see that you’re all right." At some point, the door was cracked open, because the police officers have a taser that has a camera on it, and it also has audio. So you could see where the door was cracked open. So, once you’ve gotten a visual, and you’ve seen that my father is OK, and he’s telling you that he’s OK, why would you still insist on getting into the apartment? Which is the question that I have. And they weren’t responding to a crime. He was sleeping and accidentally triggered his alarm.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And the officers then did what?
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Ultimately, after using expletives and racial slurs, they broke down the door. You can see on the video from the taser that they fired a taser at him. And I’m assuming that both prongs didn’t go in. He stood about maybe eight to 10 feet away from them with his hands down to his side. And at one point, you hear one of the officers say, "Cut it off." And it was at that point they shot and killed my father.
AMY GOODMAN: They shot him with beanbag also?
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Well, we didn’t see that. So I can’t—I can’t confirm or deny that.
Jerry Oz, you seem surprised that things things are happening. People are being murdered everyday all over the country. Many are Blacks, many are White, many are Gays, women, elderly, children etc. I'm not a fan of MSM [[main stream media) but if they started to report murders all over the country in ever city and county, that's all you would hear...and that just in THIS country....check out international news. Crazy is happening everywhere, including hate crimes as well as wars.
After 9-11 I watched people in this country become more and more irrational, insecure and paranoid and I've watched politicians stoke fears...
There have always been unfair and wrong things happening and there always will be but the uptick has been on the rise for a very long time. Too many people were not paying attention and I'm just as much at fault as anyone else.
I truly believe what you put out in the Universe, you get back. Hate, fear, paranoia, distrust, negativity, ignorance, greed and just plain BS....all these things have lead to a country that's losing it's collective mind.
Several weeks ago I was in the grocery store, a guy accidently hit a ladies cart...not her but her cart....she snapped out as if someone had stolen something from her....both the same race and not people of color. I've never seen so many people on such a short fuse in my life and although I saw it escalate after we elected a Black President, I did manage to notice it was happening even before then.
I truly believe in research, reading, etc. [[I'm a fanatic about it ) I truly believe in paying attention and not just the things we are fed through MSM but if you allow yourself to start freaking out at everything going on out here....
There are things we all can do to help to make this a better society and world...no matter if it's large or small but you have to make a step to do something [[and something positive) because if not, you'll find yourself doing nothing but reacting.
I get angry, I can be cynical but at the end of the day, what has that accomplished?
LOL...back in the day Juice and Ralph use to get pissed with me for saying, get pissed and get over it....now they both feel me on it.....LOL. That saying isn't about not caring, it's about realizing , holding on to sht hurts you....you have to let it go.
Jerry Oz, you can't change the world, but you can change how you react to the things in the world and ironically, that makes a change in and of itself. When we start to change our own attitudes [[the only attitudes we can control) we find a way to make a difference...again, no matter how large or small.
Off the soap box now:)....have a better evening....it's rough out here but it's not totally rotten.:)
You're so right Ms.M. The gruesome murder of Channon Christain & Christopher Newsom didn't get much coverage until recently. And there was the "Beat Up A White Kid Day" that got swept under the carpet. But since the victims were whites and the perps were blacks, its no big deal. Politically Correctness is just as bad as the extreme right. Criminal should be called out no matter what race, color, creed, sex, age, disabilaty...
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...w=1366&bih=643
...but it's always been happening and I don't think it's about political correctness. [[I wish we could ban that term....ughhhhh....:))
People tend to get caught up only in the things around them so if these incidents are not directly in their universe, they won't know about it and sometimes even when they do, they are wrapped up in their own happenings and lives....but once everyone else is talking about it, THEN they get interested. It can be frustrating but on the flip it's also human.
I live in a racist society. As a Black kid growing up in the segregated south I've known since I was about 5 I lived in a racist society. I lived in a society that degrades women, a society that kills gays and too often anyone people see as "different".
I also live in a society with good and decent people...should I pay more attention to the bad...or should I work to find some kind of balance....even while living in a world that can be totally unbalanced?