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Post on the web from a family friend of Zimmerman. He was clearly being attacked. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120321195530AALPKWj
1 posted on 03/25/2012 7:26:55 AM PDT by Howard Morrison
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To: Howard Morrison

The pictures of Martin in the press, were supposedly several years old. He was actually 6ft 4 and a football player, very awesome in appearance. In addition some articles indicated that Zimmerman was facially bloody with grass stains on the back of his shirt, which indicates Martin was beating on him when he was on the ground.


2 posted on 03/25/2012 7:45:15 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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The media keeps calling the location — a gated community.
I looked up the address from the police report on google. If it is a gated community, it is a gated apartment complex community, not some rich white folks gated community as the press implies.

The press isn't going to be happy until Zimmerman is murdered. Spike Lee, Farrakan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the New Black Panther Party, and Obama are trying to stir up race riots.

3 posted on 03/25/2012 7:46:53 AM PDT by FR_addict
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Isn’t going to matter. They’re going to crucify this poor stupid SOB no matter what actually happened. The race baiters and the hysterical anti-white (and I know Zimmerman isn’t) animosity they’re whipping up will demand. Craven authorities and politicians will acquiesce.

ps

He may actually deserve prison, I don’t know. The only version of events we have, supported by the evidence, suggests he was maliciously attacked and fired in justifiable self defense. The police version my contradict that version but until then it’s all we have.


4 posted on 03/25/2012 7:51:26 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: Howard Morrison

I call it the PPP. Perpetual Pity Party. It’s pretty much all most of them have or want.


6 posted on 03/25/2012 8:07:28 AM PDT by TwoSwords
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To: Howard Morrison
From your link:

Trayvon Martin was a bully in high school with gang tattoo's ...

If he had tattoos, he kept them well hidden. He was very busy kid: an A-B student, a football player, a fisherman ... and a gang bully. Wow, just wow.


7 posted on 03/25/2012 8:10:23 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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To: Howard Morrison

The issue in this sad story that makes me mad, is how everyone is jumping the gun so to speak before all the facts are viewed. I honestly do not know what really happened and who is at fault. I do know though that the left has concluded that Zimmerman is guilty, period. The biggest offender is Our President who stated the we need to do “soul searching”..............

For what, is he drawing a conclusion before knowing all the facts. Will this lead to another “beer summit” moment.

Both sides need to let this play out and let all the facts come out before making statements and protesting in the streets.


8 posted on 03/25/2012 8:15:28 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: Howard Morrison

We know there was a physical fight. Which of the two was “the attacker” is not known. It appears that at the time the gun went off the shootee was on top and probably winning the fight.

This is not inherently inconsistent with him defending himself from an attack by Zimmerman, or at least believing he was defending himself.

I don’t KNOW what happened, and neither does anybody but Zimmerman, and his recollections are inevitably colored by emotion, etc.

What does seem pretty clear is that the ancient common law rule of “duty to retreat” had a good common sense basis behind it. Two guys get in a fight, and one is killed.

Such fights do not always lend themselves to classifying one guy as the attacker and the other as the victim. Sometimes two guys are both at fault. The law should not allow for whichever person survives to claim self-defense. Both can be guilty of attempted murder, with one succeeding.

Please note I do not know this is what happened here. Only that ancient common law principles evolved for a reason.


11 posted on 03/25/2012 8:19:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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And this Yahoo Question and the Answer are race-baiting in the opposite direction. "a future criminal...low life punk/thug" And the kicker, "Do you feel comfortable with black people wandering the streets?"

The whole things contains as much hyperbole as one which claims Zimmerman was a cross between a knight of the KKK and Batman.

And for the “insider” who answered - Zimmerman didn’t call 911 to report a suspicious person; he called dispatch.

14 posted on 03/25/2012 8:22:45 AM PDT by Reese Hamm
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from locked dupe thread

“This is the most complete, coherent description of events I have seen yet”

This is how “I thought” it went down piecing together various statements/reports. But since it was speculation I held off since I was criticizing the Freepers whom had no issue speculating that Zimmerman was a cold blooded murdering racist.

31 posted on 03/25/2012 8:48:13 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Howard Morrison

None of knows what really happened, but, if you are trespassing in a gated community, and you are dressed like a gangster, you msy be mistaken for one.


44 posted on 03/25/2012 9:23:46 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Howard Morrison
The media the race baiters and the Obama lovers are creating racists out of people who would normally not be.

IMO there WILL be a HOT civil war for the survival of our republic. I believe it is inevitable AND I believe it is coming soon. Now it is becoming more and more apparent who will be on what side ...

46 posted on 03/25/2012 9:31:09 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
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bump


58 posted on 03/25/2012 10:04:02 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Howard Morrison

Thanks for the post. Unfortunately MSM will not do their job. People are too quick to make final judgements based on the lame stream of the MSM. The guy was a neighborhood watchman, what’s wrong with that, and he’s keeping an eye on this kid who appeared suspicious. He notifies 9-11 of the suspicious character. Basically he was doing something that Homeland Security has been preaching to us all along. It’s understandable that he’s keeping an eye on the kid until the arrival of the PD.


70 posted on 03/25/2012 10:21:51 AM PDT by kenmcg (How)
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To: Howard Morrison

There’s a picture of him in his hoodie at Riehl World View which came from the Miami Herald, I think. Not the 13-yr old boy one; this hadn’t been photo-shopped yet.


100 posted on 03/25/2012 11:36:46 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: Howard Morrison

I’ll bet if Yahoo checked their logs, they’d find that Molech and Quark, slayer of Klingons have the same IP address.


111 posted on 03/25/2012 12:40:45 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Howard Morrison

When CNN stops carrying this story every hour and Sharpton shuts up you’ll know the truth has been told. De facto of course. Not that any of the black racists will ever own up to it.


115 posted on 03/25/2012 4:02:52 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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