Posted on 05/31/2015 8:31:39 AM PDT by PROCON
All's fair in love, war and media vendettas.
They’ll never get over what’s-his-name, but they’re bound and determined to make an issue out of Zimmerman and guns and Florida laws and aaarrggghhhhh!!!!!! Here’s the lede on story from ABC News:
An attorney for a Florida man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman said Friday that he planned to use a “Stand Your Ground” defense — the same legal strategy considered but ultimately not used by lawyers for the former neighborhood watch leader who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
What? Since when is irrelevant information — neither did Zimmerman’s lawyers use the “Twinkie” defense, while we’re on the subject of things that didn’t happen — supposed to find its way into the first paragraph of a news story? Ah, but the evil “stand-your-ground” laws, which have set off an epidemic of Wild West shooting across the United States, have got to go. But wait — it gets crazier:
Such a defense would entitle Matthew Apperson to a hearing, ahead of his trial, during which a judge would decide if he deserves immunity from prosecution because he feared imminent death or bodily injury. Apperson was charged earlier this month with aggravated assault and battery for firing a gun into Zimmerman’s car during a traffic run-in. Zimmerman had minor injuries.
So let me get this straight — the guy who fired at Zimmerman (“Zimmerman involved in shooting,” read the headlines) was standing his ground — in a moving vehicle? You know, I want to hear more about this Stand Your Ground thingummy:
Zimmerman’s defense attorneys had considered asking for a “Stand Your Ground” hearing when the former neighborhood watch leader faced a second-degree murder charge for the February 2012 fatal shooting of Martin, but they instead opted to go straight to a traditional criminal trial.
And what happened at that trial, ABC News? The evil Zimmerman got what was coming to him, right?
A jury acquitted Zimmerman of any crime following a trial two years ago. The case sparked protests and a national debate about race relations. The U.S. Justice Department later decided not to bring a civil rights case against Zimmerman.
A police report says Apperson had a fixation on the former neighborhood watch leader and that Apperson had recently been admitted to a mental institution.
But, hey, all’s fair in love, war and media vendettas, right?
With an assist from GZ
The media hates white Hispanics.
How so?
Wasn’t there a mention that the guy had previously used a .357, no less, to shoot at squirrels in his front yard?
1. Compulsive preoccupation with an idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.
No doubt.
“used a .357, no less, to shoot at squirrels in his front yard?”
Hey watch that, I did use a 357 but it was loaded with bird shot and it was my side yard.
Zimmerman should run for public office. He’s Teflon against the media cult.
He will not win that defense, he was seen in broad daylight.
So when he looses the stand your ground defense, what then media?
Hehe
“In the motion asking for the GPS device, prosecutors disclosed that Apperson was released from a mental ward three weeks before the shooting.
He has a history of bipolar disorder and anxiety, according to the state.”
There’s simply too much preclusion for a SYG defense to work.
The history he has with Zimmerman, the fact thar he pursued George despite prior claims he made that George threatened him makes it hard to swallow that its more likely than unlikely he was defending himself.
Preclusion coupled with a lack of a preponderance of evidence means he’s going to jail.
The media is judge and jury. They have convicted Zim and are carrying out the punishment.
So the media tries to spin an attempted assassination into a “Stand Your Ground” defense?
This is simply insane.
George Zimmerman did not do anything but try to flee. And numerous witnesses collaborate his version of events.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/confirmed-zimmerman-shooting-apparent.html
After Apperson shot at George Zimmerman’s head, he said, recorded by a police officer: “I hope I got him this time.”
“A media vendetta! Sarah Palin suffered a media vendetta too. Does this mean that in reality that we live under a pathetic totalitarian regime?”
It means that we have lived under a mediacracy for at least 50 years, and with the Internet and getting rid of the “fairness doctrine”, we are fighting to get out from under it.
They’re probably getting orders from up high not to let a non-black get away with defending himself from a black man.
Perfect. You’ve got the MSM narrative down cold, cartoonish exaggerations and all.
Explain this one?
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