Gun owners! Do you holster your weapon if you believe you didn't shoot or kill someone you shot at? I mean the interrogating officer didn't see a problem with that. So he is either proven incompetent or straight bullshitting!!!
The Zimmerman Trial: Justice for Trayvon! (Let's discuss it)
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Good Dkos diary. check out the source link as the second half has more info and links embeded.... (sorry colin tho its not THAT long)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/01/1220320/-Yes-George-Zimmerman-is-in-Fact-a-Creepy-Cracker
A trial should be a crucible for the truth. While the legal outcome remains much in doubt, George Zimmerman’s murder trial is a reminder of the semi-permanence of race and the reality of the color line in post civil rights America.
The Zimmerman trial has revealed several truths so far. Young, dark-skinned, black women testifying in court about life and death matters--and who happen to be “working class” or “poor”--are to be savaged and mocked. The myth of the welfare queen lives on; black, female, and “poor” is to be less than a human being. She is most certainly not due the most basic amount of human respect or dignity.
White America is fascinated by black vernacular speech and how people of color talk in private spaces and among ourselves, as opposed to in public spaces or other interactions where we are subjected to the White Gaze.
The comments on Twitter, other social media, and the Internet at large, have revealed how one’s relationship to the truth is also very much a function of racial attitudes and political orientation.
Zimmerman’s supporters believe that he is a “victim” and black folks are existentially obligated to submit to white people (and those who identity with White Authority) at all times and in every situation. Most of Zimmerman’s supporters do not know about America’s long history of slave passes, white slave patrollers, or Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous ruling in the Dred Scott case that black people have no rights that whites are obligated to respect. Yet, they echo such sentiments across time and space with ease.
Trayvon Martin’s advocates see in his killing one more example (among many thousands) where in the United States, black life is deemed to be cheap and expendable; African-Americans are presumed guilty until proven innocent—even while walking down the street and minding their own business.
While ostensibly a means of getting at the truth of what happened that rainy and dark evening, Zimmerman’s trial has also been a spectacle and a carnival sideshow in America’s centuries-long racial theater.
While talking on the phone to his friend Rachel Jaentel, Trayvon Martin apparently called George Zimmerman, the man who followed him in a vehicle, exited it with a gun, and pursued him against police instructions, a “creepy ass cracker.” In a twist of thinking, and an inversion of what studied, learned, and reasonable people understand about the realities of race and power in America, for colorblind conservative racists, George Zimmerman has been magically transformed into a victim of “reverse racism.”
Such a troubled relationship to the truth would be the stuff of a great comedy sketch if these serious matters did not involve a young person shot dead by a wannabe cop who imagined himself as possessing a license to kill.
The truth can also be inconvenient: by virtue of his actions and character, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker."
More @ source link. Also check out the comments.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/01/1220320/-Yes-George-Zimmerman-is-in-Fact-a-Creepy-Cracker
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/01/1220320/-Yes-George-Zimmerman-is-in-Fact-a-Creepy-Cracker
A trial should be a crucible for the truth. While the legal outcome remains much in doubt, George Zimmerman’s murder trial is a reminder of the semi-permanence of race and the reality of the color line in post civil rights America.
The Zimmerman trial has revealed several truths so far. Young, dark-skinned, black women testifying in court about life and death matters--and who happen to be “working class” or “poor”--are to be savaged and mocked. The myth of the welfare queen lives on; black, female, and “poor” is to be less than a human being. She is most certainly not due the most basic amount of human respect or dignity.
White America is fascinated by black vernacular speech and how people of color talk in private spaces and among ourselves, as opposed to in public spaces or other interactions where we are subjected to the White Gaze.
The comments on Twitter, other social media, and the Internet at large, have revealed how one’s relationship to the truth is also very much a function of racial attitudes and political orientation.
Zimmerman’s supporters believe that he is a “victim” and black folks are existentially obligated to submit to white people (and those who identity with White Authority) at all times and in every situation. Most of Zimmerman’s supporters do not know about America’s long history of slave passes, white slave patrollers, or Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous ruling in the Dred Scott case that black people have no rights that whites are obligated to respect. Yet, they echo such sentiments across time and space with ease.
Trayvon Martin’s advocates see in his killing one more example (among many thousands) where in the United States, black life is deemed to be cheap and expendable; African-Americans are presumed guilty until proven innocent—even while walking down the street and minding their own business.
While ostensibly a means of getting at the truth of what happened that rainy and dark evening, Zimmerman’s trial has also been a spectacle and a carnival sideshow in America’s centuries-long racial theater.
While talking on the phone to his friend Rachel Jaentel, Trayvon Martin apparently called George Zimmerman, the man who followed him in a vehicle, exited it with a gun, and pursued him against police instructions, a “creepy ass cracker.” In a twist of thinking, and an inversion of what studied, learned, and reasonable people understand about the realities of race and power in America, for colorblind conservative racists, George Zimmerman has been magically transformed into a victim of “reverse racism.”
Such a troubled relationship to the truth would be the stuff of a great comedy sketch if these serious matters did not involve a young person shot dead by a wannabe cop who imagined himself as possessing a license to kill.
The truth can also be inconvenient: by virtue of his actions and character, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker."
More @ source link. Also check out the comments.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/01/1220320/-Yes-George-Zimmerman-is-in-Fact-a-Creepy-Cracker
That's what da police had asked him to which he said he has a bad memory.
but it able to recall everything that happened that night weeks later.
So, the first thing the judge does this morning is to read back that last question and answer from yesterday; the one they left of on where the detective said he felt Zimmerman was telling the truth. Then she says that it was an improper question and the jury is to disregard it.
Why the fuck didn't she do that before breaking for the day ? She let the jury go home with the detectives answer in their heads, and waits like 17 hours to tell them to forget about it?
Why the fuck didn't she do that before breaking for the day ? She let the jury go home with the detectives answer in their heads, and waits like 17 hours to tell them to forget about it?
Taken from the comments of dailyKos. THis guy is better than the prosecutor.
Prosecutor FINALLY asked a question I wanted him to. Was Zim profiling, and was there any evidence whatsoever that Trayvon Martin was doing anything at all illegal that night?
So your saying the DA was warming the Defense up for a couple days to only bitch slap them?
Nah, I think he just finally got around to asking some actually damaging questions. No doubt in my mind they'll get back to their weak lines of questioning soon though.
Exactly. I was following him because there were some kids molested here in the past...he looked suspicious.
If the prosecution doesn't bring up those other inconsistencies from the medical examiner's report, I don't have much hope for this case.
- No blood on the concrete
- No GZ DNA on Trayvon's hands or under his fingernails
- No blood on Trayvon's hoodie sleeves
- No bruises on Trayvon's hands
- No blood, dirt, mud or grass stains on the back of GZ's jeans or jacket
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...claim-that-Trayvon-Martin-caused-his-injuries
- No blood on the concrete
- No GZ DNA on Trayvon's hands or under his fingernails
- No blood on Trayvon's hoodie sleeves
- No bruises on Trayvon's hands
- No blood, dirt, mud or grass stains on the back of GZ's jeans or jacket
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...claim-that-Trayvon-Martin-caused-his-injuries
I feel the same way, but check it, you see the defense didn't question the cop about GZ spreading TM arms apart..
There will always be people talkin' shit but won't do shit themselves (instigators). Those folks can cut up if they want to. Then you will really see white folks in fear of their lives and even more black folk dead.
these lawyers fucking suck!
this motherfucker bout to walk...and white folks gon start popping caps on Florida niccas on this same level.
gz & the cops keep saying, "suspect" when referencing Trayvon...but what is/was his crime? what crime was committed for him to be profiled that way?
they are profiling & justifying murder right in the court room, live.
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this motherfucker bout to walk...and white folks gon start popping caps on Florida niccas on this same level.
gz & the cops keep saying, "suspect" when referencing Trayvon...but what is/was his crime? what crime was committed for him to be profiled that way?
they are profiling & justifying murder right in the court room, live.
from Max's Samsung G-Note
Yeah i cant reach in my pocket and grab my cell phone without looking down also
thinking the same thing...his lawyers are failing him...
losing a fight does not give you the right to kill someone
He shoots Trayvon in the chest then Trayvon gets up from a kneeling position then pivots and falls on the grass......
you gotta be shitting me.....
if he shot Trayvon in the chest that mofo would have fell straight on top of him if he was over him.....
This is why I know he wasn t tussling with him at the time of the shot...Trayvon backed up and yelled help.......
and then was shot and fell.....
you gotta be shitting me.....
if he shot Trayvon in the chest that mofo would have fell straight on top of him if he was over him.....
This is why I know he wasn t tussling with him at the time of the shot...Trayvon backed up and yelled help.......
and then was shot and fell.....
hell he did the defenses job for him... no need for a cross...
Wow... this witness is himself federal law enforcement. All opinions on gun rights aside, I don't think I've ever heard a member of law enforcement say that they think everybody (minus felons) should carry guns.
To my knowledge this was set up by the prosecution to challenge hearsay in the trial. I suspect a fierce cross.
You right dude over talking and you can tell he is lying
same here bro
Exactly, how convenient.. This dude is acting like he's corroborating GZ's story. I hadn't heard about him before, anyone else?
Lying or not, it'll be tough to refute testimony when the defense AND the prosecution concedes it to be fact.
This may be a great witness for the defense because Zimmermans friend can come off as lying because he is over talking and adding extra things.
I think the defense knew this and the only way to get him to testify was to call him ad a witness. (hoping)
Will wait for the cross.
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