Posted on 05/28/2013 8:15:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This past Thursday, George Zimmerman's attorneys released new evidence relevant to the upcoming trial of their client on a second-degree murder charge for the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
The Martin family attorneys say the evidence is irrelevant. They are wrong. It is damning. The text messages and photos from Martin's cell phone tell a story wildly at odds with the one the State of Florida and the media have been peddling for more than a year, but one altogether truer and sadder.
In the way of recap, in February 2012, Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shot and killed the seventeen-year-old Martin.
Taking their cue from the Martin family's attorneys, Reuters ran the first national article on the shooting ten days after it happened. Zimmerman was a "loose cannon." He profiled Martin, stalked him, and shot him, disregarding police instructions. Martin, by contrast, was a "good kid." He had hoped to be a pilot. He was simply bringing the soon-to-be iconic iced tea and Skittles home to his "little brother."
This story was pure fable from the beginning, and the attorneys knew it. Even before going public, they moved to seal Martin's school records, and with good reason.
Consider this exchange between Martin and a female friend on November 21, three months before his death. After he told her he was "tired and sore" from a fight, she asked him why he fought. "Bae" is shorthand for "babe."
MARTIN: Cause man dat nigga snitched on me
FRIEND: Bae y you always fightinqq man, you got suspended?
MARTIN: Naw we thumped afta skool in a duckd off spot
FRIEND: Ohh, Well Damee
MARTIN: I lost da 1st round :( but won da 2nd nd 3rd . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And the iconic ( or perhaps ironic ) tea was watermelon punch flavor.
I hope they make this claim. Then, the defense can introduce Martin's Facebook postings where he discussed various recipes for "purple drank" or "purple lean".
For the uninitiated, skittles and watermelon tea are used to offset the bitter taste of cough syrup, yielding "purple drank".
The media accounts said that thirteen year old honor student Treyvon Martin was hunted down and shot in the back by white, racist thug George Zimmerman, for the crime of "walking while Black" in an all-white, upscale, gated community.
You mean the media lied? / sarc
The Legal system makes it unlikely to recieve more Justice than you can afford.
We have a very good lawyer that.....we can afford. It is the system itself.
I’m sure that there is some way to grease the skids with more $$$$.
Zimmermans attorney was quite clear in a recent interview. He said he wants the case to be based on five minutes, the time between the non-emergency and the 9-11 calls. But if the prosecution wants to go beyond that, so be it, he is ready.
The media version is that Zimmerman is a racist vigilante who stalked and killed Trayvon because he was black. The fact that Zimmerman is facing trial at all is because Angela what's-her-name bought that line and ignored the contrary evidence. The bottom line may be that the judge thinks that Zimmerman must be found guilty to avoid riots.
Of course the media never mentions that Zimmerman is part-black...so that idea that he is racist against black people is nonsense. His grandmother is or was half-black, half-Hispanic (Peruvian). Zimmerman had to be made into an honorary white for the purposes of the media's narrative. Thousands of black people get killed every year by other black people, but that doesn't merit media attention. The cases when white people are killed by black people certainly outnumber the reverse (but it's hard to find the statistics because Hispanics are considered whites when they commit a crime). Since the media didn't have any real cases of white vigilantes killing innocent black people, they had to make up a case.
The American justice system is really on trial here. A white person (or an honorary white) may not be able to get a fair trial if the media had decided that person is a racist, whatever the facts might be.
bfl
I thought the toxicology report was tossed as well.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
As his social media accounts show, Martin was a student of mixed martial arts. The fight followed the MMA format. A day later, he would tell a friend that his opponent “got mo hits cause in da 1st round he had me on da ground nd I couldn’t do ntn.” As his girlfriend complained, Martin was “always” fighting. He was also something of a sadist. His opponent, after all, did not bleed enough. Why might this be relevant?
Witness #6, the best of the eyewitnesses to the shooting, told the Sanford PD that a there was a “black man in a black hoodie on top of either a white guy ... or an Hispanic guy in a red sweater on the ground yelling out help,” and that black man on top was “throwing down blows on the guy MMA [mixed martial arts] style.”
Martin was not the innocent little boy that the media relentlessly and corruptly portrayed him to be. At the time of his death, he was five feet, eleven inches and weighed 158 pounds. To put this in perspective, legendary boxer Tommy “The Hitman” Hearns was six feet, one inch and 145 pounds when he first won the world welterweight title as a twenty-one-year-old.
Before leaving for Orlando on February 21, 2012, Martin had already missed 53 days of school that year and been suspended three times, most recently for possessing drug paraphernalia, the time before that for getting caught with women’s jewelry and a burglary tool. Why might this be relevant?
When George Zimmerman first spotted Martin near the shortcut into a community plagued by burglaries and home invasions, he told the dispatcher, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something.” Zimmerman might have been right on both counts.
Had the school district police not been ordered to suppress crime statistics, especially for black males, Martin would likely have been arrested at least twice, and that might have snapped his parents out of their fog. Instead, as the new evidence reveals, he was allowed to live out his increasingly angry, aberrant life as though he were merely a bit mischievous.
On November 22, the day after the MMA-style fight, Martin told a friend that his mother “just kicked me out” and that he had to move in with his father. When the friend asked why, Martin answered, “Da police caught me outta skool.”
“U a hoodlum,” said the friend. “Naw,” said Martin. “I’m a gangsta.” Incredibly, his death would transform this wannabe gangster into a saintly little boy, or, in the words of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey, a “precious victim.”
If the toxicology report tossed, it should not have been.
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