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Rachel Jeantel Blames Herself for Letting George Zimmerman Walk Free
Mediaite ^ | July 12, 2014 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 07/12/2014 11:01:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s been just over a year since the world was introduced to Rachel Jeantel, the friend of Trayvon Martin’s who testified on behalf of the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, but may have ended up doing more harm than good.

CNN caught up with Jeantel this week, asking her if she blamed herself when Zimmerman went free. “A little bit,” she replied. Asked if she should have said something different or acted differently on the stand, she answered, “Act different.” Jeantel said the jurors in the case didn’t take her seriously as a witness, judging her for the way she looks and talks.

While Jeantel’s reading level was not above that of a third grader last summer, she has since turned her life around, undergoing intensive tutoring and graduating from high school this spring. She now credits the turnaround to her experience with the trial, saying she kept her word to Trayvon Martin to complete her high school education.

But the frank attitude she displayed in the courtroom was still there when the reporter asked her what she would say to Zimmerman today. “He did wrong, and he’s got to man up to it,” she said. “To me, you’re not a man, George Zimmerman’s not a man. That’s still a little boy, with a grown body.”

Watch video below, via CNN:

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: florida; jabba; racheljeantel; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: F15Eagle

The left creates stupidity and government dependence in minorities, and then blames whites because these people are poor and dumb. And they do it generation after generation.


21 posted on 07/12/2014 11:52:18 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
she kept her word to Trayvon Martin to complete her high school education.

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22 posted on 07/12/2014 11:54:42 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: aquila48

In Miami, if you show up and don’t kill anyone you’re probably good to go.


23 posted on 07/12/2014 11:55:43 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

looks like she’s packed on a few more pounds. How about SHE realize egging on St. Skittles is what led to the tragic circumstances?


24 posted on 07/12/2014 11:56:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holy crap, she looks like she weighs 500 lbs now ! She’s gonna be joining St. Skittles soon if she doesn’t lay off the twinkies.


25 posted on 07/13/2014 12:01:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: cynwoody

In her case, one wafer thin mint will do the trick...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH_12QWWg8 (warning: language)


26 posted on 07/13/2014 12:03:26 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like she’s been hittin’ the Skittles n’ Watermelon drank once too many times


27 posted on 07/13/2014 12:03:27 AM PDT by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like she’s been hittin’ the Skittles n’ Watermelon drank once too many times


28 posted on 07/13/2014 12:03:27 AM PDT by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
 
29 posted on 07/13/2014 12:04:23 AM PDT by montag813
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Jeantel lost a lot of weight everywhere but her head it seems like.

30 posted on 07/13/2014 12:07:12 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: montag813

Jabba to Jeantel: “Saint Skittles is Bantha fodder ! HA HA HA !”


31 posted on 07/13/2014 12:10:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

In her case, one wafer thin mint will do the trick...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH_12QWWg8 (warning: language)

Very creative solution, considering she's one faulty pressure vessel!

32 posted on 07/13/2014 12:10:34 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Mastador1
Well, it was implied quite well in the the testimony of the sweaty slug that she had egged Skittles on to do the knockout game on the cracker.

Only wariness of crossing PC lines in courtroom decorum prevented the defense from dragging that out of the sweaty slug.

33 posted on 07/13/2014 12:51:08 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Personally, I blame pesky little things like the rule of law, the presumption of innocence, etc. Zimmerman never should have been on trial for murder in the first place. He acted in legal self-defense under Florida law.


34 posted on 07/13/2014 12:54:22 AM PDT by DemforBush (Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.)
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To: DemforBush

At the end of the day, this is a story of democrats fighting and killing democrats. Happens everyday. I try to just stay out of their way


35 posted on 07/13/2014 1:11:37 AM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: montag813

She’ll be knocked up with an EBT ticket in a year and a year after that on the Maury show (in the first of many visits) tryin’ to nail that baby daddy. “Maury, Ima 1000% sure!”


36 posted on 07/13/2014 2:17:29 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She had me at OINK! Now THERE’S a corn-fed gal!


37 posted on 07/13/2014 2:18:16 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: montag813

Hey, you forgot the lipstick on the one on the right!


38 posted on 07/13/2014 2:19:33 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Veggie Todd
In a year she went from reading at a third grade level to high school graduate. Yep, I totally buy that!

A lot of high school graduates read at a third grade level.


39 posted on 07/13/2014 2:35:39 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: CGASMIA68

twice so...


40 posted on 07/13/2014 2:39:28 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ----> Fredo smart)
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