Posted on 04/17/2013 7:12:36 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A year ago Feb. 26, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., and within a month every sentient person on the planet knew Trayvon by name.
What they did not know was Martins background. Sanford Police Department (SPD) investigator Chris Serino, for instance, said publicly of Martin, This child has no criminal record whatsoever. He called Martin a good kid, a mild-mannered kid. The media almost universally sustained this tragically false narrative.
Martin had the seeming good fortune of attending school in the Miami-Dade School District, the fourth-largest district in the country and one of the few with its own police department.
For a variety of reasons, none of them good, elements within the SPD and the Miami-Dade School District Police Department, or M-DSPD, conspired to keep Martins criminal history buried.
As part of its mission the M-DSPD was allegedly trying to divert offending students, especially black males, from the criminal justice system. As the Martin death would prove, the M-DSPD diverted offending students to nothing beyond its own statistical glory.
The exposure of M-DSPD practices began inadvertently on March 26, 2012, when the Miami Herald, the one mainstream outlet to do real reporting on the case, ran a story on Martins background.
The Heralds headline, Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin, should have caused the other media to seek the truth about the very nearly sanctified Martin.
It did not. What it did do was to cause M-DSPD Police Chief Charles Hurley to launch a major Internal Affairs (IA) investigation into the possible leak of this information to the Herald....
Hurley would be demoted and forced out of the department within a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“Its getting hard to trust Government more by the day.”
I am going to assume that nested within your statement is ‘The BOM’.....”The Barack Obemba Media”.
<>The constant pandering to Negro sensibilities has seriously corrupted a number of our societies vital institutions, in particular our justice system.<>
and then there’s the space program that Martin aspired to:
http://www.negrospaceprogram.com/
By taking it easy on him previously he eventually got into more serious trouble. Predictable.
I was foreman on jury that had a young man before us. He had been given a number of breaks in his hometown. Of course we did not know when we found him guilty of more than ten counts of felony charges dealing with doing intentional damage to a number of vehicles after being thrown out of a nightclub.
The system somewhat worked. We judged only the incident at hand in the trial phase. In the sentencing phase we got to see his record. And how he skated on multiple marijuana charges, DUIs, and few other charges. Maybe his family was politically connected where he came from. But we, as a jury, decided he needed some ‘cooling off time’. The slap on the wrists and additional chances were not working. Since he was young we did not throw the book at him but we ensured he would spend at least 3 or so months in jail. As a group we thought this would be good for him in the long run.
I found out later that the judge apparently thought we were to harsh and granted shock probation. I was told by a parole officer - ‘he didn’t last after the shock probation and was arrested on serious crimes again.’. We as a jury of 12 people tried to do what we thought was right for the young man in the long run. A judge disagreed. Our actions make not have saved him if they had been allowed to stand. But all 12 of us knew if we did not sit him down he would not learn the lesson he needed to to be part of society. On that part we were proven correct, unfortunately.
Those who did favors for Martin should inspect their actions. Failing to ensure young men understand there are consequences can lead to them being in jail or dead. They were not helping him.
Just WoW! The admissions in this story are damning.
The third ingredient in "lean" is prescription cough syrup containing both codeine and promethazine. It is a dangerous combination and has killed several prominent rappers already.
The jewelry is the one thing that bothers me. Did the police log that into the evidence room as lost/found or stolen/ recovered???
Did they attempt to notify anybody of the jewelry??? Do they still have it???
If it was stolen, then it is entirely possible that Martin was casing apartments up there in Sanford when Zimmerman saw him. What would that do to the Skittles narrative???
I believe you read incorrectly. Gated communities as per retired friends are normal in FL.
Look, my wife’s son stole damn near every piece of gold in this house plus coins, etc. These punks today are listening to rap and have been for 13-15 years or more. I recall late 1999 when then 14 year old /almost 15, stole every VN Zippo I had, plus my Dunhill’s and DuPont lighters. The SOB has been out of our house since 2000,and; he has been given many chances by me plus his mother. I offered to pay his way through college(books/tuition/room and board etc.) That day in 1999 he asked me to print out some rap song he was listening to. It was about stealing from whitey with the big house on the hill. That punk is 28 and will not call his mother in the hospital.
OK. It isn't so. He doesn't have a "criminal record." And that's the scandal here, because he should have. He doesn't because the school's Police Department lied in their reports.
I’d be pretty pissed about the DuPonts. I have a few of them and they are *nice.*
A couple months back, CTH completely and suddenly stopped covering stories on Trayvon, without any clear explanation as to why.
I assumed either they were being sued for something, or else they got tired of all the death threats and verbal abuse.
That was terrible news, because CTH was clearly the only Right Side source covering the issue.
Anyone know what caused them to stop covering the Trayvon shooting?
Anyone know what caused them to start again?
That phrase was repeated endlessly by the MSM to give the impression of a white affluent community.
Wrong!
It was a standard issue middle class apartment complex.
It was “gated” and fenced because it's in a fairly high crime rate area.
As I recall, 1/3 of the residents are non-white.
Trayvon, who had been suspended from school, was staying with his bio-father, who lived there with his girlfriend.
Nope Nope -- but somebody over there may weigh in on your questions.
My friends never said it was affluent.
They completely shut down their comment section on the Trayvon shooting.
That was one reason why I thought they might be getting sued.
Yes, they are. Did you ever see the Ligne D in gold dust? That was my pride and joy as was the ligne 2 /line 2 in Chinese black lacquer. The line 2 was only $400 or so-I believe. I had bought the line 2 for my wife back then.
I have one that was carried by a American POW during WWII.
They shut down their Daily Zimmerman Thread but when news in the case arises they intended to cover it. I think they wanted to move on to other things but the news in this case just keeps on coming.
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