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Ex-Sanford Police Chief: Zimmerman Probe "Taken Away From Us"
CNN.com ^ | July 11,2013 | Eliott C. McLaughlin

Posted on 07/11/2013 3:15:19 AM PDT by Biggirl

(CNN) -- The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked "in a number of ways" by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: martin; sanford; zimmerman

1 posted on 07/11/2013 3:15:19 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl
It got hijacked real fast, starting with the local ABC station interviewing people wanting their 15 minutes of fame.
Then jessie & al got involved and Mr. Zimmerman was convicted VIA LSM.
2 posted on 07/11/2013 3:32:15 AM PDT by DeaconRed (We sent REPS to DC to handle our problems. They have done NOTHING. Time to March with pitch forks.)
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To: Biggirl

CNN article...no bias there...</sarc>

Comments are a good read, though.


3 posted on 07/11/2013 3:32:43 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Biggirl

TM’s family met in the MAYOR’S office to hear the tape?
How UNUSUAL is that???


4 posted on 07/11/2013 4:00:26 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Biggirl

It is often said that we are a nation of laws, not of man. Who in this country thinks that is still true? Our legal system seems to hold so much corruption.


5 posted on 07/11/2013 4:05:54 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: T-Bird45

Yes, a CNN article, but my skepticism meter hardly budged. I thought they gave an honest man his say.


6 posted on 07/11/2013 4:10:59 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: FES0844
TM’s family met in the MAYOR’S office to hear the tape? How UNUSUAL is that???

And contrast that with the way the prosecutors treated Robert Zimmerman Sr.

He was brought in, put in a room all by himself, put under oath to identify the scream -- and still they discarded his sworn identification in favor of Sybrina's perjured one.

7 posted on 07/11/2013 4:24:50 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

I agree he got his say but it was surrounded by CNN bias while trying to convict GZ by countering the chief’s every point. I’ll agree it wasn’t as egregious as some other examples but it was still present and the agenda was still obvious, to me at least. YMMV...


8 posted on 07/11/2013 4:30:38 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: DeaconRed

Folks in Florida should file charges against the represenatives who allowed this and caved to mob mentality.. This is not a trial it is a lynching attempt..I realise folks can vote them out, but what they have done is fraud..


9 posted on 07/11/2013 4:53:09 AM PDT by aces
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To: Uncle Chip

Why didn’t OM or W bring that up.
No law enforcement or documenting of the Martin hoe-down in the office but Zs dad takes an oath, listens alone in a confined space,Un’fn believable


10 posted on 07/11/2013 5:01:01 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: aces

It reminds me of 50’s cowboy flick lynchings.
String em up,done deal.
All the guys hoot and holler and all the women bow there heads in shame for being associated with those men.
Hopefully the jury will be those women at the lynching


11 posted on 07/11/2013 5:04:34 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: t1b8zs

They did make the point by putting RZsr on the stand — and I’m sure that wasn’t lost on the jury — the way he was treated versus the Martin family.


12 posted on 07/11/2013 5:10:31 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

hope so is todays thread up?


13 posted on 07/11/2013 5:12:28 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Biggirl
"We have to remember that that was played for the family in a private room because they were hearing the last moments of their son's life as he cried for help," Rand told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday night.

Problem is, that it wasn't Martin's voice on the recording...it was Zimmerman's as Martin was pummeling his head against the sidewalk.

14 posted on 07/11/2013 5:57:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: FES0844

Chief Lee told them that was wrong. Chief Lee told them he had no reason to charge Zimmerman. That was not the answer Obamagabe, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson wanted to hear. Then he was fired and replaced..........of course..........by a black police chief. Appointed by a black city manager who had just been hired. All this stinks to high heaven but since Holder calls the shots absolutely nothing will be done about it. Holder also has instigated the riots. FACT.


15 posted on 07/11/2013 6:05:47 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: T-Bird45

Comments are an excellent read.

Espscially the one that went:

“The KKK has taken over this board”

Reply: Naw, there aren’t enough Democrats posting.

Made my day!


16 posted on 07/11/2013 6:33:31 AM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: jazzlite

America is NO LONGER a nation of laws of the people, by the people and for the people. America is a bunch of laws, that are made by liberal, communist, socialist judges, with agendas, and by politicians of the same ilk. They ignore the true law of the founders, and make it up as they go. In this age, if you are charged with anything, your chances of getting off are 50-50. Being innocent of the charges has nothing to do with it. The old, the government has to prove the charges against you and you do not have to prove you are not guilty, no longer apply. Now, you HAVE to prove you did not do it. It is on you to prove your innocent. If they want you guilty, the entire system will push to make you guilty, whether you are or not. If they want to get you, the gloves come off. They will make up evidence, lie, cheat, steal, do whatever to prove you guilty.


17 posted on 07/11/2013 6:37:59 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: aces

And I am wondering what this “law enforcement” group is doing to protect the citizens?

Finding Hotel deals for the out of area rioters?


18 posted on 07/11/2013 6:40:15 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: jazzlite

I caught a glimpse of the kangaroo trial this morning and was appalled at that “judge”. People in FL surely make poor selections.


19 posted on 07/11/2013 8:15:25 AM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Biggirl
Of course, Obama’s son’s death is going to get special treatment.
20 posted on 07/11/2013 10:33:44 PM PDT by tdscpa
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