How in the world are they going to get a decent (fairly unbiased) jury for Mr. Zimmerman’s trial?
“A 911 recording casts doubt on Zimmerman’s account”
I stopped reading at that point.
Don't know about that, but we've got a black man who shot and killed a white man over here in Tampa, and he's using the SYG defense. No decision yet.
This shooting was last fall, and the story has gotten very little play, even locally.
Hey, George went back to being white!
I pray that the charges are dropped, and that Zimmerman sues the pants off Sharpton and the other race baiters and collects enough money to live safely in a foreign country.
The "large armed adult" was 5' 9". The "unarmed teenager" was a 6' tall football player. As for being armed, that didn't help until Zimmerman pulled the trigger. Assuming that Trayvon attacked Zimmerman and posed an immediate danger of inflicting serious bodily harm, pulling the trigger was both legal and exactly the right thing to do.
Police report: “While I was in such close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe that his back appeared to be wet and was covered in grass, as if he had been laying on his back on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and back of his head.” It's going to be unimaginably difficult to prove anything other than self-defense.
The writer doesn't say how, because he can't.
It's hard to believe under the circumstances that a large armed adult had to shoot an unarmed teenager in self-defense
Zimmerman is not a "large" man. Trayvon in his bulky hoodie would have towered over the much shorter Zimmerman.
The basic culprit in this and similar cases is the law itself.
The basic culprit was Trayvon. If you take a swing at someone asking you why you are in the neighborhood, and break his nose and then jump on him and try to crack open his skull on the sidewalk, then the person you are attacking has the right to defend himself.
Even without anything beyond the evidence at hand, a reasonable person would conclude the big, adult neighborhood watchman confronted the teenager.
More MSM dishonest spin about the "big" Zimmerman. The MSM lie painting this as a much bigger grown man shooting down a young boy appears to actually have tainted witness accounts of the event, as I discuss in this post.
Where’s LaRaza and similar organizations? Seems like they at least would speak out about the sharpton/jackson lynch mob. I wonder what the Spanish/Latino radio stations are saying - are they in Zimmerman’s corner?
The author is the former editor and publisher of the Columbia Daily Tribune?
I spotted three factual errors in the first three paragraphs!
>>>That this is a “white on black” killing injects a toxic racial overtone.
If Zimmerman is white, so is Dear Leader.
Pure conjecture and hyperbole ...
This article deserves a barf alert.
Well, yeah. FTA:
... it's too bad the black kid was the victim instead of the shooter.
He’s sounds like a lib-dem *turd polisher*...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/staff/hank-waters-editor-and-publisher/
...cranking-out 1-2-3 “editorials”/day, for-pay:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/staff/hank-waters-editor-and-publisher/stories/
“The basic culprit in this and similar cases is the law itself.”
Trayvon is the only culprit in this case. And he paid dearly for his attack on George.
Kind of hard to retreat when you are on your back being beaten to death.
The other culprit in this case is Mr. Waters, and other like him, who are murdering the truth with this type of screed.
We are all Zimmerman. Long live Zimmerman!
Color me unreasonable. Martin had height and being on the football team to Zimmerman's weight so that's a wash. If Martin had headed straight home rather than backtracking to confront Zimmerman with "You got a problem? Well, now you do" as he punched him in the nose and proceeded to pound the sidewalk with his head, he might be alive today.
I hasten to add there is no evidence thus far that Trayvon was taking drugs - but before we assume that Zimmermann had a strength advantage, we might just want to wait for the toxicology reports. Conversely, if Zimmermann was high on something it could explain why he would "stalk" and "attack" a teenager - which some allege, and which appears to make liittle sense.
That's why, silly me, I like evidence first, judgement after.
Sent to editor@columbiatribune.com :
“Henry J Waters III is a complete fucking moron. Either that or a race baiting far left POS. I’m not sure which. That may be the most disgusting one sided and patently false account of the Zimmerman/Martin shooting I’ve seen yet. You should be ashamed of yourselves but I suspect you’re actually proud.”
Henry, your account of th Zimmerman shooting sounds like you got the script from NBC. No witnesses. I heard there was one or possibly two. One said they saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman pounding away. The audio being portrayed as Trayvon screaming is weak at best. You sound just like the Leftists who jumped to a LYNCHMOB conclusion in hopes to score political points painting Zimmerman as a white racist out to kill the poor inocent black child.