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In Trayvon Martin shooting, background of George Zimmerman can confound, confuse (expelled from CC)
Tampa Bay - St. Petersburg Times ^ | March 24, 2012

Posted on 03/24/2012 5:31:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

..."[George] Zimmerman's life was not without difficulties. In 2001, when he was 17 or 18, he was the victim of a minor criminal assault, said Manassas police Sgt. Eddie Rivera. The city's computer records do not provide details of the crime.

In school, Zimmerman hinted at ambitions in the business world. He joined a Future Business Leaders of America club. And in his senior yearbook, he wrote: "I'm going to Florida to work with my godfather who just bought a $1 million business."

In Sanford, Zimmerman shifted his plans, with hopes of becoming a law enforcement officer. NPR reported that he had taken a 14-week class at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, and he was enrolled at Seminole State College until the school kicked him out this week, citing safety concerns.

He became the self-appointed protector of the streets around his home, although his neighborhood watch organization was not officially registered. Over the past eight years, he called the Police Department at least 46 times with reports of various sightings. In 2005, according to police records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel and other media, Zimmerman was twice accused of either criminal misconduct or violence. He had a concealed-weapon permit and had a black Kel-Tec semi­automatic handgun and a holster the night Martin died.....

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To: Irenic
This whole thing is spinning WAY out of control.

You can give Barack Obama some of the credit.

21 posted on 03/24/2012 5:58:34 AM PDT by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The media is on a perception hunt. It’s a satan trying to hide from the light of the lynching spirit of Obama, by righteousing the lynching of this guy out of college.

This is all about the gun law in florida, and Jeb the f@g Bush was noted to go after the law and praised for it.

Fast and furious, they walk guns and criminals around, folkes, it is obvious.


22 posted on 03/24/2012 6:01:46 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: GVnana

Oh, I give him plenty of credit, Obama is the crowing cherry on top of this bloody mess.

Obama will be directly responsible if anything happens to Zimmerman, other than what a court of law delivers to him.

The POTUS is supposed to sooth things, bring the country together, not Obama, no sir, he throws gas on the whole ugly mess!


23 posted on 03/24/2012 6:05:36 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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With Jeb Bush attacking the castle law, I have a feeling there is a walking of criminals and guns around. It is interesting. THe only reason liberals “hate” guns but secretely want them, is because they do not want to be seen using them in the “wrong light”... “being walked by the guns” they intend to use in their psychotic episodes.

We should not have made guns legals, or let them wear sexy cloths around muslims or made muslims and blacks raping them now angry, is their perception game plan. These people are nuts.


24 posted on 03/24/2012 6:06:25 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Mustangman
"In the bigger picture of politics, I bet the media and the Dems thought Zimmerman was as white as a sheet when they latched onto this story. By the time they found out Zimmerman was Hispanic from a multiracial family it was probably too late."

Methinks this is going to "blow-back" in their faces BIG TIME. Duke lacrosse team "squared and cubed".

25 posted on 03/24/2012 6:07:40 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Irenic

crowing= *crowning...but I suppose crowing would work just as well— maybe even better.


26 posted on 03/24/2012 6:08:04 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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Like with OWS, liberals need a movement behind which they will hide their totalitarian and perverted rape agenda.


27 posted on 03/24/2012 6:08:04 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: bert
This racialist and divisive administration has set race relations back thirty or forty years in this nation.

The fanning of a manufactured national inflammation in the aftermath of this stupidity and fear-fed local tragedy has been deliberate. Once again, a leftist campaign is taken off the shelf and put into action more swiftly than any actual news concerning the simple facts.

28 posted on 03/24/2012 6:11:20 AM PDT by Prospero
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Does anyone have an accurate description or bio of Trayvon Martin? I can’t find one!


29 posted on 03/24/2012 6:15:01 AM PDT by chainsaw (Sarah Palin is still my first choice to save the USA. . .)
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To: chainsaw; Cincinatus' Wife
Does anyone have an accurate description or bio of Trayvon Martin? I can’t find one!

A seventeen-year-old usually doesn't have a bio, just a wish list.
30 posted on 03/24/2012 6:17:00 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Please, CW. There are no parallels here. Zim was apparently getting the crap beaten out of him...


31 posted on 03/24/2012 6:19:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: aruanan
A seventeen-year-old usually doesn't have a bio, just a wish list.

No tweets, facebook, other social media or recent family photos???

Nothing except Pop Warner football pictures...

32 posted on 03/24/2012 6:21:24 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: Pat4ever
We also haven’t seen much about Trayvon, his background and family

He's being Obamanized.........

33 posted on 03/24/2012 6:23:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

he was enrolled at Seminole State College until the school kicked him out this week, citing safety concerns.
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“this week” is 3 weeks AFTER he shoot someone in self defense...


34 posted on 03/24/2012 6:24:46 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Equating Zimmerman with Loughner? Now that’s a real stretch.


35 posted on 03/24/2012 6:27:31 AM PDT by Third Person
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

he was enrolled at Seminole State College until the school kicked him out this week, citing safety concerns.
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This could be a play from the media because Martin was on suspension for 5 days from school at the time himself...

fairness

we gotta even the playing field...


36 posted on 03/24/2012 6:27:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Mustangman
Nowhere in the dispatcher recording does Zimmerman "accost" Martin, he didn't talk to him, or touch him. He simply watched him, which is what a neighborhood watch does. He then loses sight of him, and is headed back to his car to meet the police.

If you haven't please listen to the entire audio of the call to the dispatcher. Sorry, I'm not a link guy, not proficient in HTML, but there are plenty of links out there.

37 posted on 03/24/2012 6:31:41 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: Tennessee Nana
"“this week” is 3 weeks AFTER he shoot someone in self defense..."

I have been in brawls with half a dozen guys at once. Never did I think of shooting them. And I was a teen not a 28yr old wussy with a 9mm.

38 posted on 03/24/2012 6:32:19 AM PDT by anglian
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To: gov_bean_ counter

All been sealed and scrubbed by the family’s attorney. Don’t count on the media digging for it either.


39 posted on 03/24/2012 6:35:40 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“This whole thing is spinning WAY out of control.
You can give Barack Obama some of the credit.”......

You missed adding in the media. Buckwheat is the leader none-the-less. With the blacks, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to get mass histeria getting out of hand.


40 posted on 03/24/2012 6:38:56 AM PDT by DaveA37
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