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In letter, George Zimmerman’s mother says justice system ‘failed’ her family
NBC News' The Grio ^ | April 13, 2013 | Joy-Ann Reid

Posted on 04/14/2013 2:52:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On the anniversary of her son’s 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 Martin’s parents issued a statement Thursday in response to Gladys Zimmerman’s 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)

(Excerpt) Read more at thegrio.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; railroaded; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
How much money will Ben Crump and his parents make when all is said and done, do you think?
1 posted on 04/14/2013 2:52:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I don’t suppose Ben Crump’s parents will make much out of it at all . . .

2 posted on 04/14/2013 3:04:33 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

You never know...


3 posted on 04/14/2013 3:07:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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“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.


4 posted on 04/14/2013 3:17:35 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To me, the real issue is how much George Zimmerman gets out of his lawsuit against NBC - and whether or not Zimmerman’s lawyer has the good sense to sue the AP and its membership generally.

Of course I’ll 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 don’t 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.

5 posted on 04/14/2013 3:18:21 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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Yep
He is the wrong color.
6 posted on 04/14/2013 3:18:48 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Call it what it is: Attempt at People Control: NOT GUN CONTROL. Gun control is holding it steady.)
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But that’s another thing: George Zimmerman is more African-American than the fellow sitting in the White House!


7 posted on 04/14/2013 3:20:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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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.


8 posted on 04/14/2013 3:34:52 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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Gladys is Mr. George Zimmerman’s mother, not the late Trayvon Martin’s. Sybrina Fulton is Trayvon’s mother.


9 posted on 04/14/2013 3:39:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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"But that’s another thing: George Zimmerman is more African-American than the fellow sitting in the White House!"

You are forgetting the LSM. If they say black is white or white is black. then it is so.

10 posted on 04/14/2013 3:39:57 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Call it what it is: Attempt at People Control: NOT GUN CONTROL. Gun control is holding it steady.)
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White-Hispanic.


11 posted on 04/14/2013 4:42:58 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I refuse to post any crap from The Grio and this article is the reason why.


12 posted on 04/14/2013 5:02:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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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.


13 posted on 04/14/2013 6:46:51 AM PDT by Flintlock ("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
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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


14 posted on 04/14/2013 7:21:25 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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And she failed her son.


15 posted on 04/14/2013 7:23:53 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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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.


16 posted on 04/14/2013 7:23:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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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."

17 posted on 04/14/2013 8:01:19 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are you referring to the whole “Obama is a Arab” thing?


18 posted on 04/14/2013 11:58:50 AM PDT by Jacob Kell
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