Posted on 04/14/2013 2:52:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the anniversary of her sons arrest in the killing of Miami teen Trayvon Martin, Gladys Zimmerman wrote an open letter criticizing the justice system that she says failed her family.
The letter from the mother of George Zimmerman, who faces trial in June in the fatal shooting of Martin, was written in Spanish and was translated and posted to the Twitter account of her older son, Robert Zimmerman Jr. on April 11th, one year after the younger Zimmerman, 29 and a former neighborhood watch volunteer, was charged with second degree murder for killing Martin.
The initial decision by Sanford, Florida police not to arrest George Zimmerman by police touched off weeks of protests following the fatal shooting February 26th, 2012.
In her letter, Gladys Zimmerman said April 11, 2012 will forever be remembered by the Zimmerman family as the day the justice system failed us as Americans, and as a consequence an innocent man was arrested for a crime he did not commit, solely to placate the masses.
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Attorneys for Martins parents issued a statement Thursday in response to Gladys Zimmermans letter, saying one year ago today, the State of Florida decided that there was evidence to charge George Zimmerman for second-degree murder for profiling, pursuing, and killing our unarmed teenage son. The facts of this case are simple and straightforward. We are confident that a jury following the overwhelming evidence against George Zimmerman will hold him accountable for killing our son, Trayvon Martin.(continued)
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I dont suppose Ben Crumps parents will make much out of it at all . . .
You never know...
“The facts of this case are simple and straightforward. We are confident that a jury following the overwhelming evidence against George Zimmerman will hold him accountable for killing our son, Trayvon Martin.
I wonder if there’s a subtle threat behind these words. Wouldn’t be the first time blacks threw a temper tantrum when they didn’t get the verdict they wanted in a trial.
To me, the real issue is how much George Zimmerman gets out of his lawsuit against NBC - and whether or not Zimmermans lawyer has the good sense to sue the AP and its membership generally.Of course Ill be saddened if Zimmerman is convicted because calling the police and talking to a dispatcher who tells you that the cops will be there soon is an amazingly odd way to start out on a mission to murder someone. I just dont buy it. But NBC libeled George Zimmerman in broad daylight - there is just no getting around that fact. Even if Zimmerman were convicted - even if he were actually guilty - NBC did libel George Zimmerman.
NBC libeled you and me at the same time; the whole point of the prosecution, persecution seems more like it, is to make white hispanic Zimmerman a symbol representing you and me - and then, inevitably in their minds, to convict you and me by convicting Zimmerman.
Which explains why you and I have such a serious rooting interest in the case and its ramifications.
But that’s another thing: George Zimmerman is more African-American than the fellow sitting in the White House!
So Gladys, it is perfectly okay to puch someone in the face, taken them to the ground and hammer their head into the cement repeatedly?
Got it.
Gladys is Mr. George Zimmerman’s mother, not the late Trayvon Martin’s. Sybrina Fulton is Trayvon’s mother.
You are forgetting the LSM. If they say black is white or white is black. then it is so.
White-Hispanic.
I refuse to post any crap from The Grio and this article is the reason why.
The “system” worked EXACTLY as planned.
They sought the “great WHITE defendant”—and with the last name of Zimmerman (read: NYC JEW who retired to Florida for the sunshine) they thought they had found one.
It took a month or so to gin up a case.
Racist POTUS; Racist DOJ—and just take it from there.
As long as Ben Crump does not pick the jury... Zim will walk.
Just how violent the Black Ku Klux Klan wants their followers want the riots...I’m not sure
And she failed her son.
There is no “justice” system. What once was a justice system now serves to prosecute innocent people and protect the guilty, all based on their race.
There is no justice system. What once was a justice system now serves to prosecute innocent people and protect the guilty, all based on their race.
That's what leftist extremists mean by "social justice." I'd call it "injustice."
Are you referring to the whole “Obama is a Arab” thing?
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