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There goes that old "presumption of innocence" thing that they're always talking about.
1 posted on 03/22/2012 10:53:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“7 years of college down the drain...”


2 posted on 03/22/2012 10:55:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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"presumption of innocence"

Which is required only in a court of law, D'uh!

3 posted on 03/22/2012 10:56:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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If he was a suspected member of al Queda, the school would be protecting him....


4 posted on 03/22/2012 10:57:43 PM PDT by Tzimisce (this sucks)
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I thought he was 38. Now he’s 28, and Martin is 3 inches shorter and 40 lbs lighter?


5 posted on 03/22/2012 10:57:48 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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The Leftist e-lynching of Mr. Zimmerman is in full swing!


10 posted on 03/22/2012 11:01:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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9 years of college? That’s one year away from a Ph.D!


12 posted on 03/22/2012 11:02:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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So because a vigilante/lynch-mob may want to take him out sans trial, he gets the boot, because after all, he is a “vigilante” who killed someone without giving him a trial first...

Is this some kind of a fluke?


14 posted on 03/22/2012 11:04:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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It is totally inappropriate that the college would announce this publicly. Probably a violation of student privacy laws.
18 posted on 03/22/2012 11:09:49 PM PDT by iowamark (The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
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Way to go Zimmerman...you just guaranteed Obama 90% of the black vote!
19 posted on 03/22/2012 11:10:10 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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I rather doubt that Mr. Zimmerman has been to class since the incident took place anyway. Given the circumstances I’m sure that the college would have deploy the campus police to protect him if he were to attend class and it is unreasonable to expect a college to go to such lengths for a single student.

At this point his presence in school would only be a disruption, and the other students in his classes deserve to have their class material delivered without such distractions.

However, I hope that the college refunded his tuition and provided him with a mark on his transcript that will not reflect poorly on his academic performance. Whatever else he may be guilty of is immaterial, there is no justifiable reason for him to suffer adverse consequences within the context of his academic efforts.


22 posted on 03/22/2012 11:13:53 PM PDT by NMCicero
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A young kid is dead and this guy’s life is ruined.

In the mean time, let’s try to score as many political points as we possibly can out of a tragic situation, shall we?


24 posted on 03/22/2012 11:14:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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This decision is based solely on our responsibility to provide for the safety of our students on campus as well as for Mr. Zimmerman.”

Sounds to me like the college doesn't think the Mob Rule trying to lynch Mr. Zimmerman will stay off campus. And to think, just about 40 years ago, the federal marshals were there to keep lynch mobs OFF the campus so students COULD go to school.

43 posted on 03/23/2012 2:26:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Does he get a refund?


46 posted on 03/23/2012 3:13:41 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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Where are all the hispanic groups calling this racist?

If he was black and shot a hispanic guy, the race baiters would be burning down the school and the school would post an apology and retraction within the hour.


49 posted on 03/23/2012 4:39:36 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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What a country!! Last year a couple of black punks drop a shopping cart from two stories onto a white woman walking below. She suffers extensive brain injuries. The two perps go to court.......and you guessed it.......walk out the door.


53 posted on 03/23/2012 4:48:09 AM PDT by kenmcg (How)
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>http://www.examiner.com/charleston-conservative-in-charleston-sc/zimmerman-was-on-the-ground-being-punched-when-he-shot-trayvon-martin?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next<

From the Charleston Conservative Examiner:

1. The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
2. The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
3. Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
4. Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin’s father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.

Trayvon Martin was a towering 6’2” football player.


54 posted on 03/23/2012 4:48:58 AM PDT by G Larry (We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
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Sure would like to know why Martin was suspended from the Miami high school just a day or two before.
Fighting?


56 posted on 03/23/2012 4:55:39 AM PDT by Vinnie
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This entire incident is getting uglier every day.

To my fellow CCW FRiends: Stay alert and safe.


57 posted on 03/23/2012 5:02:05 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Look for the union label, then buy elsewhere.)
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It’s almost like Richard Jewell, all over again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell


61 posted on 03/23/2012 5:15:41 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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Big - time BARF alert story.

Holding a gun may make you think others are too

Mar 20, 6:09 PM (ET)

By MALCOLM RITTER

NEW YORK (AP) - No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carrying no weapon.

But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because he himself was holding a gun?

In the study, volunteers who held a toy gun and glimpsed fleeting images of people holding an object were biased toward thinking the object was a gun.

It’s another indication that the brain shapes what we perceive in the world beyond the information that comes in through our eyes, said James Brockmole of the University of Notre Dame, who did the work with psychologist Jessica Witt at Purdue University.,,,

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20120320/D9TKG0B02.html


63 posted on 03/23/2012 5:31:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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