How much do you have to shoot a kid in Florida before you run afoul of the law?
You really can't take lawyers very seriously these days.
I’ve been watching this and I’m thinking this may have been a “good” shoot at least from the legal standpoint. On the 911 tape you can hear yells and a single shot.
Sounds to me like the kid was warned and kept coming.
Bad reporting.
How could the magazine be full? If the trigger was pulled and the round fired, the slide would have cycled another round into the chamber. Thus, the magazine would have one less round and the chamber would be loaded again.
Leftist reporters have no brains.
Sounds like Zimmerman was trigger happy and I denounce that. Now will these same people trying to inflame public reaction also publicly denounce the black boys who pour gasoline on Allen Goin and set him on fire? Oh, that’s right. It was black on white crime and that is so common that it doesn’t even generate a second look.
The zimmerman case is unique because white on black crime is rare.
WTF is a Kel Tel 9 mm a typo or sloppy reporting ?
Stirring up the mob.
Inciting race hatred.
Get the outrage flowing.
They don’t really need the practice, but they want to make sure they’ve got all the moves down as we get closer to November.
I thought I heard today on the radio that the Justice Department was getting involved in the investigation. No surprise there.
Tonight on the local news after this story was mentioned they release a video of black man in a hotel. It is in a nearby Florida city. The released video was to help catch the black man who kidnapped and rapped a white women. He beat her so badly (for several hours) that they don’t know if she will live. It was stated that she will have years of reconstructive surgery if she survives. Where is the moral outrage of the race pimps?
As far as this story goes more will come out and it won’t be so clear. I heard that the hooded black boy attacked the Hispanic man before the shot was fired. There is physical evidence that it was self defense. I don’t know what is true and we may never know since the story changes every minute.
The article cannot be accurate.
But the media feeding frenzy over this particular story – one out of the thousands of homicides in this country – in apparent response to a left-wing campaign to keep it in the national news, reflects at best a loss of perspective and at worst a cynical effort to inflame racial division in an election year.
Politico, in a story on pressure by the Congressional Black Caucus on the case, notes the scale of the campaign to nationalize the story:
http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/03/20/trayvon-martin-and-perspective/
That’s physically impossible. You cannot fire a round from a semi-automatic pistol and still have a full magazine.
Writing only about the gun:
Kel Tek makes at least 3 models of 9mm semi-auto.
It’s perfectly plausible to have fired 1 round and have “a full magazine” if one was still in the chamber and that counted.
Load magazine, chamber round, remove magazine, add 1 round, reinsert magazine.
This means it is nearly impossible he shot 2X.
Eric Holder’s involvement in a Hispanic shooting someone ,suggests that gun may be part of the Fast And Furious cache.
Did Eric Holder ever investigate the murder of these 2 WHITE British men by Shawn Tyson, a BLACK 16 year old released from prison only 10 hours earlier?
How come it's never 'RACISM' when it's BLACK ON WHITE? WASSUP WIT DAT?
The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who shot an unarmed teenager dead, made dozens of frivolous 911 calls in the months before the shooting.
46 calls were made over just 12 months and many were reportedly about black youths, who like Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman claimed were suspicious.
George Zimmerman: “There’s two suspicious characters that came to my neighborhood. I’ve no idea what they’re doing. They are just hanging out, loitering.”
911 operator: “Can you describe the two individuals?”
Zimmerman: “Two African-American males.”
Then this call:
Zimmerman: “This gentleman was walking in the neighborhood I’ve seen before on trash days, going around picking up trash. I don’t know what his deal is.”
911 operator: “White, Black or Hispanic?”
Zimmerman: “Black.”
No call was too trivial to make and police responded every time to the quiet gated community outside Orlando, Florida.
Zimmerman called 911 once and reported, “Somebody did leave their garage door open.”
He called another time and said, “The kids in the neighborhood have gotten accustomed to playing in the street. They play in the street and they just run out in front of cars.”
Chris Tutko is the National Sheriff’s Association’s Director of Neighborhood Watch. He said Zimmerman is a case study in what not to do.
INSIDE EDITION’s Paul Boyd asked Tutko, “George Zimmerman was making calls about garage doors being open or people loitering, what’s the threshold for calling law enforcement?”
Tutko responded, “This is a common sense organization. Common sense tells you if you call eight times and eight times they come and eight times they don’t have anything to do, what’s going to happen the ninth time?”
He also said that neighborhood watch volunteers should never be armed.
“I know of no neighborhood watch group that would allow a person to go out carrying a weapon,” said Tutko.
Meanwhile, Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend is coming forward. She says she was on the phone with him when he was first confronted by Zimmerman and she overheard what happened.
“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. Trayvon said, ‘What are you following me for?’ Then the man said, ‘What are you doing around here?’ Then somebody pushed Trayvon because the headset fell,” explained Martin’s girlfriend.
Sheryll Underwood wept on The Talk as the latest developments were discussed, and Aisha Tyler was forthright about what she believes happened.
“This is a guy who is waiting for crime at every corner. He is waiting to use his gun,” said Tyler.
With public outrage building, the lawyer for Trayvon Martin’s family is calling for George Zimmerman’s immediate arrest.
Martin’s lawyer said, “Arrest George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin in cold blood, today!”
Not knowing anything about a Kel Tel 9, but, assuming a semi-auto, there should have been another round in the chamber. Unless, it malfunctioned or he had only one round on an empty mag.
Zimmerman was justified in using deadly force according to Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law because Martin was on top of him beating him in the face.
According to this eye witness quoted in this article Zimmerman was getting the worst of it and calling for help once the fighting started so he used his weapon under the Stand Your Ground Law,
“The guy on the bottom, who had a red sweater on, was yelling to me, ‘Help! Help!’ and I told him to stop, and I was calling 911,” said the witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, John.
John said he locked his patio door, ran upstairs and heard at least one gun shot.
“And then, when I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on the top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point.”
That is why the cops didnt arrest him at the scene after hearing this witness account, observing his bloody nose and his bleeding from the back of he head. Considering that he had a concealed carry permit, was injured in the scuffle and reasonably thought that Martin was a criminal, the cops had to let him go.
Yet these facts are totally censored from the public in almost all of the “reporting” by the Corrupt Liberal Media.
The cops let him go after cuffing him when the local prosecutors said there was no case for manslaughter
Besides Martin is not the angelic 12 year old pictured in almost all the news stories but was almost 18, six foot three, and had been suspended from High School in Miami so he went to Sanford to visit his dad.