WTF?? Emmet talked to a white lady, Saint Trayvon broke the nose and tried to smash the head in of a neighborhood watch!!
Posted on 08/18/2018 3:40:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The world watched as Trayvon Martin’s parents lived the nightmare of not only losing their teenage son, but also facing the reality that his killer was being set free on bail less than 3 months after being arrested for the murder.
In episode 3 of Paramount’s Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, we hear from Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin as they take us through their pre-trial court appearances and other happenings leading up to the trial of George Zimmerman.
In the opening scene of the episode, Trayvon’s mother draws parallels between herself and the mother of Emmet Till as two Black mothers who chose to go public with their fights for justice in honor of their sons.
“His mother could have kept the funeral private, but she wanted people to see just how wicked this country was,” Fulton says. “I never in a million years thought that I would be in the same position.”
As the episode continues, we hear both parents give brief, but chilling, accounts of what it was like coming face-to-face with their son’s killer for the first time. Trayvon’s father Tracy remembers the family’s legal team recommending that he sit as far away from George Zimmerman as possible when they arrived in court for his first bail hearing.
“The lawyer suggested that I be closer to the wall, with everybody else sitting close to the aisle,” Martin says. “Just in case my emotions ran high, I wouldn’t be able to hop over them.”
Family attorney Benjamin Crump admitted that his actions would quite possibly be unpredictable if he were in the presence of someone who took the life of his child.
“I don’t know what I would do if the person who killed my child was in front of me,” Crump said, while speaking on Martin and Fulton’s first encounter with Zimmerman. As a mother, Fulton’s course of action in the moment was to ignore her son’s murderer altogether in an effort to maintain her composure.
“I could hear a person speaking,” she said of listening to Zimmerman “apologize” in court. “But I tuned him out because I didn’t want to make myself angry.”
The episode goes on to include photos and video footage of Zimmerman at his bail hearing, as well as audio of his statement to Trayvon’s parents, that included an “apology” for taking his life. Both Fulton and Martin expressed disbelief in the sincerity of Zimmerman’s apology.
At his bond hearing, we see George Zimmerman’s lawyer Mike O’Mara attempt to paint Zimmerman as a remorseful, non-flight risk who would be financially unable to afford a high-priced bail amount. He was ultimately released on $150,000 bond, which required a $15,000 payment in order for the release to be processed.
“I just felt like $150,000 wasn’t enough money to release somebody that had taken a life,” Sybrina Fulton said.
Episode 3 of the docuseries also gives the public a first look at never-before-seen footage of the depositions of Trayvon’s friends and family, which took place before the trial began. The telling video interviews had previously been sealed to the public by the presiding judge.
Hard-to-watch video clips show several friends and family members being subjected to questioning that attempts to taint their character and credibility, as well as that of Trayvon’s before he was killed. The last of the deposition footage included in the episode show an emotionally-exhausted Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin separately being posed with the question of whether or not they used the funds raised for The Trayvon Martin Foundation to pay for their housing or fund any other personal endeavors. Fulton’s response is enough to leave anyone watching speechless.
“I’m going to flat out ask you because, the way the questions were asked, makes it sound like you gathered all of this money to steal it,” the interviewing attorney asks.
“No,” Fulton replies, holding back tears. “I would much rather have my son back.”
The episode also takes in a deep dive into George Zimmerman’s family background, his quest for acceptance among white people, the bizarre uprising of support that materialized for him following his arrest, the demise of his relationship with his wife due to his anger issues, and his failed hopes of a career in law enforcement that led to him becoming a neighborhood watchdog of the apartment community where he ultimately took Trayvon’s life.
Was Skittles the sponsor the show?
“Hands up! Don’t shoot!” never happened.
TWENTY FIVE TOP QUOTES FROM THE DOJ’S REPORT ON THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING
[01] The evidence, when viewed as a whole, does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force were “objectively unreasonable” under the Supreme Court’s definition. (Page 5)
[02] when the store clerk tried to stop Brown, Brown used his physical size to stand over him and forcefully shove him away. (Page 6)
[03] Wilson was aware of the theft and had a description of the suspects as he encountered Brown and Witness 101. (Page 6)
[04] Autopsy results and bullet trajectory, skin from Brown’s palm on the outside of the SUV door as well as Brown’s DNA on the inside of the driver’s door corroborate Wilson’s account that during the struggle, Brown used his right hand to grab and attempt to control Wilson’s gun. (Page 6)
[05] there is no credible evidence to disprove Wilson’s account of what occurred inside the SUV. (Page 7)
[06] autopsy results confirm that Wilson did not shoot Brown in the back as he was running away because there were no entrance wounds to Brown’s back. (Page 7)
[07] witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts (Page 8)
[08] several witnesses stated that Brown appeared to pose a physical threat to Wilson as he moved toward Wilson. (Page 8)
[09] The physical evidence also establishes that Brown moved forward toward Wilson after he turned around to face him. The physical evidence is corroborated by multiple eyewitnesses. (Page 10)
[10] evidence does not establish that it was unreasonable for Wilson to perceive Brown as a threat while Brown was punching and grabbing him in the SUV and attempting to take his gun. (Page 11)
[11] Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses (Page 12)
[12] Wilson’s account was consistent with those results, and consistent with the accounts of other independent eyewitnesses, whose accounts were also consistent with the physical evidence. Wilson’s statements were consistent with each other in all material ways, and would not be subject to effective impeachment for inconsistencies or deviation from the physical evidence.8 Therefore, in analyzing all of the evidence, federal prosecutors found Wilson’s account to be credible. (Page 16)
[13] Witness accounts suggesting that Brown was standing still with his hands raised in an unambiguous signal of surrender when Wilson shot Brown are inconsistent with the physical evidence, are otherwise not credible because of internal inconsistencies, or are not credible because of inconsistencies with other credible evidence. (Page 78)
[14] Multiple credible witnesses corroborate virtually every material aspect of Wilson’s account and are consistent with the physical evidence. (Page 78)
[15] several of these witnesses stated that they would have felt threatened by Brown and would have responded in the same way Wilson did. (Page 82)
[16] there are no witnesses who could testify credibly that Wilson shot Brown while Brown was clearly attempting to surrender. (Page 83)
[17] There is no witness who has stated that Brown had his hands up in surrender whose statement is otherwise consistent with the physical evidence. (Page 83)
[18] The media has widely reported that there is witness testimony that Brown said “don’t shoot” as he held his hands above his head. In fact, our investigation did not reveal any eyewitness who stated that Brown said “don’t shoot.” (Page 83)
[19] Wilson did not know that Brown was not armed at the time he shot him, and had reason to suspect that he might be when Brown reached into the waistband of his pants as he advanced toward Wilson. (Page 84)
[20] Wilson did not have time to determine whether Brown had a gun and was not required to risk being shot himself in order to make a more definitive assessment.
[21] In addition, even assuming that Wilson definitively knew that Brown was not armed, Wilson was aware that Brown had already assaulted him once and attempted to gain control of his gun. (Page 85)
[22] Wilson has a strong argument that he was justified in firing his weapon at Brown as he continued to advance toward him and refuse commands to stop, and the law does not require Wilson to wait until Brown was close enough to physically assault Wilson. (Page 85)
[23] we must avoid substituting our personal notions of proper police procedure for the instantaneous decision of the officer at the scene. We must never allow the theoretical, sanitized world of our imagination to replace the dangerous and complex world that policemen face every day.” (Page 85)
[24] “It may appear, in the calm aftermath, that an officer could have taken a different course, but we do not hold the police to such a demanding standard.” (citing Gardner v. Buerger, 82 F.3d 248, 251 (8th Cir. 1996) (same))). Rather, where, as here, an officer points his gun at a suspect to halt his advance, that suspect should be on notice that “escalation of the situation would result in the use of the firearm.” Estate of Morgan at 498. An officer is permitted to continue firing until the threat is neutralized. See Plumhoff v. Rickard, 134 S.Ct. 2012, 2022 (2014) (“Officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended”). For all of the reasons stated, Wilson’s conduct in shooting Brown as he advanced on Wilson, and until he fell to the ground, was not objectively unreasonable and thus not a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242. (Page 85)
[25] Given that Wilson’s account is corroborated by physical evidence and that his perception of a threat posed by Brown is corroborated by other eyewitnesses, to include aspects of the testimony of Witness 101, there is no credible evidence that Wilson willfully shot Brown as he was attempting to surrender or was otherwise not posing a threat. (Page 86)
For the reasons set forth above, this matter lacks prosecutive merit and should be closed.
It wasn’t a murder. That is what the whole courtroom thingy was about.
WTF?? Emmet talked to a white lady, Saint Trayvon broke the nose and tried to smash the head in of a neighborhood watch!!
Travon’s paris are failures. They completely wrecked him.
You have your thugs mixed up
St. Skittles is in a better place
And the world is a better place without him.
Despite what fake news would have people believe, words have meaning.
Thanks. I realized that after I posted it. It’s still relevant. Trayvon was another Obama community agitation operation.
Wow. With pure poison like this being pushed in the black community, how do they ever expect to enter the mainstream?
When your culture creates a myth that a young thug who attacked an innocent man was a saint, how do you recover? So much of what is pushed as black culture today is based on lies. Consider Tawana Brawley and all the fake “racist” hoaxes.
The proud parents of a thug and petty criminal speak out.
These whores make me sick. Trayvon is clearly more valuable to them dead than alive, as neither of them wanted to raise him, and this notion that he should have been able to simply beat Zimmerman’s head against the concrete until he died is just nauseating. This is their ticket to fame and fortune, and nothing else.
“”It wasn’t a murder. That is what the whole courtroom thingy was about.””
He was on trial for murder but I thought there wasn’t any bail consideration/allowed on a murder charge!!!
“”His mother could have kept the funeral private, but she wanted people to see just how wicked this country was,” Fulton says””
Because of what a couple of white guys went on trial for makes the whole country wicked? WOW! That’s her statement - not the words of the mother of Emmett Till.
Will there ever be an another honest retelling of an event that goes against the media/liberal/Democrat preferred narrative? Or have we gone beyond that? Everyone here knows the answer, and sadly there is no returning. As in any war, the enemy will simply have to be destroyed because they will never correct themselves willingly.
Zimmerman should have never been charged in the first place. He was pinned to the ground about to be killed when his last act to save his own life before he was killed was to pull his firearm and shoot one time to stop his attacker. The thug died and the hero lived. End of story.
Hollyweird is actually stretching this out into a mini-series? Crazy!
I don’t remember the particulars but I do remember that he was found not guilty. A jury said it wasn’t murder. It doesn’t get much more officially not murder than that.
Maybe, but they're quite similar actually. Both Trevon Martin and Michael Brown died because they attacked men who had guns.
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