17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[desireejones]

FINALLY... A Mainstream Journalist Speaks Truth on the Trayvon Martin Travesty!


Journalist Martin Bashir spits some REAL truths and facts about the Trayvon Martin outcome! I applaud him for his honesty despite the "professional" backlash he may receive.

Why People Should Be Outraged at Zimmerman's 'Not Guilty' Verdict


Bill Maher: Zimmerman Is LYING


Bill Maher opened his panel discussion tonight discussing race in the George Zimmerman murder trial. Cornel West was very adamant in speaking out in favor of Trayvon Martin and slammed Zimmerman for criminalizing Martin before actually killing him. West continued to list examples of how young, poor black men are consistently, unfairly singled out in the American criminal justice system.

Matt Lewis framed the whole trial as the "wannabe gangster versus the wannabe cop," but West shot back that Martin was just reacting to being followed and that he wouldn't have died in the first place if Zimmerman had stayed in his car. They engaged in some loud crosstalk, with West stating that Martin was "criminalized" before he was "physically murdered."

West continued to claim that a young black person is shot every 28 hours in America, and that young blacks in general are abandoned and constantly "under intense police surveillance." Liz Mair found the focus on this particular case troubling when "there's a whole range of violence that we're not talking about." Maher brought up how Zimmerman got involved in the neighborhood watch after a string of burglaries in his neighborhood. He asked, "Why in this country do young black people still have no better prospects than committing petty theft?"

West declared, "The criminal justice system itself is criminal." He said that Wall Street executives can get away with practically anything, but people are freaking out about marijuana in Martin's system. On the question of whether blacks commit more crime, Mair agreed that it's harder to go after white-collar crime and fraud. West added that young blacks and whites consume drugs equally, but blacks are jailed more


Tavis Smiley: The Zimmerman verdict shows the contempt this nation has for black men


Did George Zimmerman LIE (A Lot!) Under Oath?

[nitron]

America to many cowboys, you like your guns, don't you? Those of you who don't , leave and let those who do, shoot it out. I'm so bored with this.

[desireejones]

Trayvon Martin Shooting Reenacted In New Ad Calling For End To Stand Your Ground Laws


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...f=black-voices


PSA


WASHINGTON -- The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a chilling new online ad reenacting the night Travyon Martin was killed, in an effort to stop the controversial Stand Your Ground laws nationwide.

The nonprofit group uses actual audio from the 911 calls that shooter George Zimmerman and a witness made that night in Sanford, Fla. After the sound of a gunshot, people in hoodies are seen lying on the ground, and the names are displayed of the more than 20 states that have Stand Your Ground laws in place.

The group has also launched a website and a petition asking people to urge their state lawmakers to "oppose this immoral legislation.”

"'Stand Your Ground' laws have essentially legalized murder. With this PSA, we hope to add to the nationwide push to repeal these immoral laws," said CSGV Communications Director Ladd Everitt.

The laws allow individuals to use deadly force in cases of self-defense, with no obligation to first attempt to retreat. They gained attention after the fatal shooting of Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Feburary 2012. Zimmerman cited Florida's Stand Your Ground law as justification for killing Martin and authorities initially refused to arrest him. Zimmerman was eventually tried, and last month he was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter.

Stand Your Ground laws have been backed by the National Rifle Association and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which lost some of its corporate backers after its role in pushing Stand Your Ground laws came to light.

A group of student activists known as the Dream Defenders have been advocating against Florida's Stand Your Ground law in recent weeks, staging what turned out to be the longest ever sit-in at the Florida Capitol, which lasted 31 days. They unsuccessfully tried to persuade Gov. Rick Scott (R) to call a special session to repeal the law, although they drew national attention to their cause and the law in the process.

The CSGV ad debuts one month after President Barack Obama's most recent comments on the Martin shooting and the Zimmerman verdict. "You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son," he said. "Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."

[runningdownthatdream]

it's just a matter of time before fatboy goes Rambo again

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/us/geo...ned/index.html

[Silcc69]

it's just a matter of time before fatboy goes Rambo again

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/us/geo...ned/index.html

Ah the champion of conservatives has struck again lol.

[runningdownthatdream]

Let's add wife beater and senior abuser to his child killer moniker. He seems to be working backward in his egregiousness though........maybe next he'll steal candy from babies. Whatever.........it seems that - like OJ - he'll get what he deserves sooner or later.

[hotboxterrijackson]

this dude is gonna get into trouble shortly


Zimmerman Left His Wife a Shot-Up Target: Report

Shellie said to have considered it a 'subliminal message'

After George Zimmerman was forced to move out of his house last month, his soon-to-be-ex-wife Shellie found something ominous nailed to the wall: A shooting range target sporting 17 bullet holes, according to a report in Radar. A source sent Radar a photo of the target, saying it was the same photo "that Shellie sent to her lawyer and said, 'Look at the subliminal message George left me." Another source remarked, "It's really not that subliminal."

Zimmerman's case continues to reverberate in Sanford, Florida. Police there announced yesterday that its neighborhood watch volunteers would no longer be allowed to carry guns or pursue suspicious individuals, Reuters reports. "Neighborhood watch was always intended to be a program where you observe what is going on and report it to police," a department spokeswoman explained, adding that "people in the community are nervous to join a group that was tarnished in the media and got a bad image with everything that happened."




http://www.newser.com/story/176824/z...et-report.html


SECOND STORY

Trayvon Martin's mother asks Senate to reform 'Stand Your Ground' laws

The mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin spoke before a Senate panel Wednesday.







A button memorializing Trayvon Martin is displayed on a spectator as she attends the festivities of the 50th Anniversary of the "March on Washington." Martin's mother spoke in front of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to call for a reform in "Stand Your Ground" laws. UPI/Pat Benic.
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(UPI) -- Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, spoke in front of a Senate panel Wednesday to urge members to clarify "stand your ground" laws.
"It's unfortunate what has happened with Trayvon, and that's why I feel like it's so important for me to be here so that you all can at least put a face with what has happened with this tragedy," Fulton said in the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing.

Martin, 17, was shot in 2012 by George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of the murder this summer. The case sparked a debate on "stand your ground" laws, even though Zimmerman's defense did not reference the law.

The hearing, which was held to examine the controversial laws, was supposed to be held last month, but was delayed after the shooting in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard.

Some Republicans on the committee said the laws do not need to be handled on a federal level, but rather left to the states. Such laws are currently on the books in more than 20 states.


Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said the self-defense laws have caused "unnecessary tragedies" and should be reviewed.

"It is clearly time for 'stand your ground' laws to be carefully reviewed and reconsidered," Durbin said.

"Whatever the motivation behind them, it's clear these laws often go too far in encouraging confrontations that escalate into deadly violence. They're resulting in unnecessary tragedies and they are diminishing accountability under our justice system."


Read more: http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/10/30/T...#ixzz2jH3GyTuj

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/10/30/T...4671383167189/

[yodajazz]

New Zimmerman arrest. Woman says he pointed a gun at her, and broke things during an argument. She says she asked him to leave. He claims his gun was locked up. It appears to me that he had time to put his weapon away.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justic...merman-arrest/

[broncofan]

This time it's obvious Zimmerman is lying. He called the police while she was speaking to an officer to give his side of the story. When asked how the glass table was broken, he said she was throwing things on it. Her story, which is that he slammed it with the butt of a shotgun is much more plausible. His entire conversation with the police sounds completely made up. That she was the one who went crazy and broke stuff, yet he doesn't even offer up a specific means by which a glass table gets broken. You don't break a glass table by throwing things on it unless one of those things is a bowling ball.

[broncofan]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...ce-arrest?lite

Some of his call in this article. Another thing that doesn't make sense. He claims that she told him that she wanted to separate but that when he started to leave on his own she went crazy and started breaking things. If she was initiating the break-up why would she lose it when he's leaving?