It's bad enough St. Skittles parents had to lose their child ... it's tragic that the wicked lawyer for the lawless white Latino has to assassinate his character,!
Posted on 06/02/2013 4:45:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
The father of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot dead by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in a case that sparked nationwide protests over racial profiling and police inaction, said Saturday the family is bracing for a "rough road" as Zimmerman's trial nears.
"We're going to have to sit through all the negativity," Tracy Martin said at an emotional prayer service in a Miami church nine days before Zimmerman's trial opens in Sanford, Florida. Martin was referring to defense attorney Mark O'Mara's attempts to cast his son as an aggressor whose actions on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, prompted Zimmerman to fire in self-defense.
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[Martin family attorney] Crump accused the defense of resorting to "a desperate attempt to try to play on people's prejudices" by releasing texts and photographs taken from Martin's cellphone that O'Mara said showed him as a fan of weapons, fighting and marijuana.
"It's bad enough they had to lose their child. It's tragic they had to assassinate his character," Crump said.
O'Mara, though, has argued that such evidence shows that Martin might have been on drugs, paranoid and prone to violence the night Zimmerman encountered him in his father's Sanford gated complex. The teenager, who was black, was on his way back to his father's home after going to a nearby store to buy candy and was unarmed. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, spotted Martin, began following him, and then pulled his 9-millimeter.
Zimmerman said he shot Martin after the teen attacked him. The defense says Zimmerman, who is white and Latino, jumped to conclusions about Martin because of his race.
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It's bad enough St. Skittles parents had to lose their child ... it's tragic that the wicked lawyer for the lawless white Latino has to assassinate his character,!
> We’re going to have to sit through all the negativity,” Tracy Martin said at an emotional prayer service in a Miami church nine days before Zimmerman’s trial opens in Sanford, Florida.
Replace “negativity” with “truth”:
I donated to Zimmerman. He sent me a hand written note of thanks.
Someday it’ll be on eBay.
Looks like the little boy in his white hoodie pictured by the media was actually just another street thug who beat people up and stole stuff. Yes, it will be a revelation to the nation who believed Obama’s and Sharpton’s latest con job.
Where’s the picture of Trayvon’s GUN and GOLD TEETH??
My Grandmother used to say two things on a regular basis: Whatever you do during the day, you will have to sleep with at night. And if you lay down with dogs you will wake up with fleas.
Skittles made his choices.
They call the Martins a family? Seems to me they weren’t very familial when the son was running around doing drugs and getting into trouble? Where were they when Trayvon slipped out on a Sunday night in winter ostensibly to shop for a snack and a beverage? I’m sorry, but kids, even teenagers, shouldn’t be allowed to roam around the streets in the dark the night before going back to school. Where was the parental authority?
That pesky racism is everywhere.
/s/
IMHO
Hey, if Obama had a son.......
What is that saying? Zimmerman's lawyer saying Zimmerman was racist?
Wait... I thought the gun was holstered, and the gun only became discovered after the struggle began and the gun then became exposed.
You can try and lay it on the defense attorney but the EVIDENCE is going to be what makes your son out to be the aggressor.........
Someone, maybe more than someone, where Travon resided, owes George Zimmerman a thank you. Why? Because Zimmerman when he killed Travon, saved theit life because just as sure as Monday follows Sunday, It was only a matter of time
before Travon murdered someone, maybe more than one someone.
Unfortunately, that is a death sentence for George Zimmerman.
What value is the life of one white man compared to the political careers and property values of the locals.
When GZ is found not guilty...I wonder how they will justify their hate mongering to the parents of these dead people...who will die in the sure to follow riots...
It sounds like a character suicide to me...
There fixed it for you, Tina -- get the facts straight.
Skittles was shot while assaulting another person.
Wrong. It was his father's girl friend's home. And the LA Slime know it.
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