Authorities call press conference in shooting of Florida teen

reuters ^ | March 22 2012 | reuters

[NoLibZone]

(Reuters) - The city manager of Sanford, Florida, where a neighborhood watch leader shot and killed an unarmed teen, called a news conference on Thursday amid demands for an arrest in the case and a vote of no confidence for the police chief.

The press conference at Sanford City Hall was called by City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr., who was expected to discuss developments in the highly charged case.

The killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, an African American, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic, has drawn national attention and sparked debate over Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law since Zimmerman has claimed self-defense. Police thus far have declined to arrest him.

On Wednesday, Martin's parents joined hundreds of demonstrators gathered in a New York park to demand an arrest in the shooting death.

At the same time, in Florida, Sanford's city commissioners passed a motion of "no confidence" in Police Chief Bill Lee Jr., who has said the department acted properly in not arresting Zimmerman.

But it's up to Bonaparte, not the commission, to decide whether or not to fire Lee.

[vladimir998]

Spaniards are not hispanics. They are Spaniards. Hispanics come only from the New World.

[RobinOfKingston]

A ‘White hispanic’???

It won't be too long before something like the hexadecimal scale is needed to describe skin shade. 'Cuz we're post-racial, now, dontchaknow.

[Rome2000]

Har!

[dfwgator]

Hitler also considered Slavic Croats as Aryan, so I wouldn’t use Hitler as a good example of a racial judge.

[ExGeeEye]

“A little off topic”?

Yeah.

In other news the subject of this thread is “a little dead”.

[Clemenza]

“Hispanic” as a racial category is an American invention (we are the only country on earth that separates Latin Americans as a separate “race”). It should be said, however, that Ecen the US census states that “Hispanics may be of any race.”

[RinaseaofDs]

Is Obama a caucasian black american? Last I checked, he was the first BLACK President. Not ‘white black President’.

[NoLibZone]

or Latino.

Yes Zimmerman is a Hispanic Latino.

That’s why Holder and Obama haven’t arrested him.

Obam believes in exerting Federal Jurisdiction as much as they can , yet in this case they don’t want it.

[NoLibZone]

to illustrate the abused with absurdity:

African:

[NoLibZone]

to illustrate the absurd with absurdity:

African:

[capt. norm]

a carving on a Mayan temple

I have Cuban friends here in Florida who escaped Castro and they refer to Mexicans as "Los Indios" and are polar opposite of the illegals and they are conservative Republicans.

Upon seeing a lot of illegals coming in from the west...most of them do fit that description, so I guess they nailed it. The guy on the left would be the prototype to what they refer.

[EEGator]

See my post #64.

[EEGator]

I should have said negro , not African. I love the picture though.

[BilLies]

I don't believe the MSMerde nor the Activist Negro community understands that the majority of current White, Asian and Latino populations are knowledgeable of the current Ghetto hip-hop and gang Culture and what it means to their safety.
The national TV networks NEVER covers the Black on White, Black on Latino or Black on Asian crime but those non-negro communities know what is going on and so does a-O-bama. He is worried about the Zimmerman situation and will steer away from the Latino alienation.

[EEGator]

She is 100% hot. (Alexis Bledel)