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How about the lady who actually raised Trayvon? Where's her show? When do his teachers, bus drivers and school safety officers get to talk?
1 posted on 08/18/2018 3:40:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was Skittles the sponsor the show?


2 posted on 08/18/2018 3:43:20 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Hands up! Don’t shoot!” never happened.

TWENTY FIVE TOP QUOTES FROM THE DOJ’S REPORT ON THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf

[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.


3 posted on 08/18/2018 3:43:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=400><p> zXSEP5Z, xnKL3lW, XywCCJd, hGhstl4.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It wasn’t a murder. That is what the whole courtroom thingy was about.


4 posted on 08/18/2018 3:44:35 PM PDT by jospehm20
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Trayvon’s mother draws parallels between herself and the mother of Emmet Till ...

WTF?? Emmet talked to a white lady, Saint Trayvon broke the nose and tried to smash the head in of a neighborhood watch!!


5 posted on 08/18/2018 3:45:54 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Travon’s paris are failures. They completely wrecked him.


6 posted on 08/18/2018 3:48:07 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

St. Skittles is in a better place

And the world is a better place without him.


8 posted on 08/18/2018 3:52:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The world watched as Trayvon Martin’s parents lived the nightmare of not only losing their teenage son thug, but also facing the reality that his killer victim was being set free on bail.

Despite what fake news would have people believe, words have meaning.

9 posted on 08/18/2018 3:54:55 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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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.


11 posted on 08/18/2018 4:06:40 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The proud parents of a thug and petty criminal speak out.


12 posted on 08/18/2018 4:17:06 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


13 posted on 08/18/2018 4:28:32 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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“”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.


15 posted on 08/18/2018 4:36:49 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


16 posted on 08/18/2018 4:37:02 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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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!


17 posted on 08/18/2018 4:42:54 PM PDT by Boomer (Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Haters on FR. Same as gun grabbers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


19 posted on 08/18/2018 6:39:19 PM PDT by Bommer (Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did they apologize to him?


21 posted on 08/18/2018 6:53:00 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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