Posted on 03/31/2012 12:58:40 PM PDT by PhatHead
You can click through the map above and see it on Google Maps with the nearest 7-Eleven marked. We don’t actually know what store he may have gone to, or necessarily whether he went to any store at all. The police may know that.
The dad’s account was that Trayvon had been spending time with his (the elder Martin’s) nephew, who was twenty. The earliest source I could find regarding the 13-year-old was the account of the Martin lawyer, Benjamin Crump, who once said that the candy Martin had gone out to purchase was for 13-year-old Chad. Crump also alternately referred to Chad as Martin’s own brother, which he was not (Martin had no younger brother of his own.)
Again, the only reason I am skeptical of this version is that I can’t quite imagine that a kid sat waiting for his candy all evening long as emergency vehicles swarmed the neighborhood, and when dad got home, that would never come up. You know?
Where is the convenience store in relation to this?
Home? Did Mr. Martin live there? I thought he was visiting his girlfriend who lives there.
I’m just using “home” as a shorthand. The Martins were staying as guests with Brandy Green, the fiance of Tracy Martin (Trayvon’s father.)
We don't know what convenience store he went to. If you click through the map at the top of the thread, the nearest 7-Eleven is marked on it. It is about a 20 minute walk from the home where Martin was staying.
Thanks.
I read a news story that the police do not believe Trayvon paid for the Skittles or the Iced Tea. I assume that if that is true that they would say this because they may have viewed the store video and perhaps watched him walk out without paying.
Click through on the map above. The nearest 7-Eleven is marked. We don’t know what store he went to, but that’s the closest one.
There is just so much weird about this whole thing. TM actually went to the 7-11 in the rain for as brother Al said “IT and skillets”? The whole media hysteria thing always makes me think there is something big missing. Obviously it’s the truth that’s missing.
Well, that’s a Facebook screen grab, not Twitter, and it looks pretty fake to me.
My concerns are for all children of which Trayvon was one. If you are concerned about what happened to Trayvon Martin, you may be labelled a race baiter or a troll.
Skittles not skillets which would have armed Trayvon if he indeed had a skillet as you posted. I go to the gas station for Skittles myself cuz gas stations are closer than grocery stores. I am a conservative, white person who lives in a food desert. Gas stations have delis and are expanding their grocery depts. Suspicious of Skittles? That’s a new one on me. Skittles are delish.
Common ground is a beautiful thing. We've had cop and DA trouble before in Florida.
Floridians are not race baiters or racists but someone's sure trying to make us look like haters.
Al Sharpton called it “skillets” repeatedly in a broadcast.
I just read today that the first mention of Skittles and Tea came from the lawyer, some days or time after the fact.
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