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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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KEYWORDS: 2012election; blackkk; florida; flshooting; georgezimmerman; mentalillness; racebaiters; trayvonmartin
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To: humblegunner

“Tray-von’s dad totally looks like Ray Nagin.”

Wow, for sure.


81 posted on 03/24/2012 9:41:20 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (The response to 1984 is 1776.)
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To: chooseascreennamepat

There are plenty of things for Obama to be concerned about, especially what you mentioned AND—

The commanding officer of Camp Pendleton said Thursday he is displeased at “incorrect and deeply hurtful” comments made about a Marine sergeant fatally shot by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/marine-commander-displeased-at-comments-about-marine-killed-by-deputy.html

A suspected child rapist is on the loose and in a statement obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accepts responsibility for releasing him.

The man is identified by ICE as Amado Espinoza-Ramirez. Chicago police arrested him last August, and he was ultimately charged with forty-two counts of predatory sexual acts.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/21/ice-admits-releasing-alleged-child-rapist/


82 posted on 03/24/2012 9:41:34 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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To: Irenic

OK, but do they look like what Obama’s son would look like?


83 posted on 03/24/2012 9:49:14 AM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: vox_freedom
The Marine was a man of color but he was just a Marine, doncha know....Photobucket
84 posted on 03/24/2012 9:56:58 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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To: Irenic

I stll WANT to know why “little travone” had been suspended from school. My guess is assault. Not many kids get suspended for minor issues anymore.


85 posted on 03/24/2012 10:20:30 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: lonestar
ARLINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that the “stand your ground” self-defense law he signed while in office should not apply to the case of a teenager who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in his home state. “This law does not apply to this particular circumstance,” Bush said after an education panel discussion at the University of Texas at Arlington. “Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn’t mean chase after somebody who’s turned their back.” Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/jeb-bush/2012/03/24/jeb-bush-says-stand-your-ground-invalid-trayvon-martin-case#ixzz1q4NPO5sB
86 posted on 03/24/2012 1:52:26 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: freeangel

tardiness. Keep on spreading your false guesses.


87 posted on 03/24/2012 2:09:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Mustangman

Thanks for your reasonable post. The Internet is exploding, false information is being spread, insults fly.

There is no witness report that Martin initiated the physical encounter. None. There is a report from a man named John of seeing the two of them on the ground. Martin was suspended from school for tardiness not violence. Zimmerman has a police record not for tardiness but for violence. The incident took place not at night but at 7PM, when sun was still over the horizon. Zimmerman made 46 911 calls in the past year not in the past several years, a couple each month, not a unreasonable number. His effectiveness as a self-appointed community protector? 40 burglaries in the past year (correct my arithmetic if you know better, that’s what I remember reading) and now the death of an innocent man who was not a stranger in the neighbourhood having visited it before, if not before that day, then earlier that day before he walked to the convenience store.

An experienced policeman would have initiated a conversation with the suspect instead of stalking him. A short fat Latino man with an earring stalking me on the street, I would have assumed based on my experience that he was a fag, and I wonder if that is what Martin assumed.

As I said, insults fly everywhere. Have you been called a Communist yet? I have. Have you been called a race hustler, a troll from DU, idiot, moron? Have you been generously offered free advice to seek spiritual and psychiatric help?


88 posted on 03/24/2012 2:23:34 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: tasha2012
defenseless child

lol

93 posted on 03/24/2012 3:10:12 PM PDT by 101stAirborneVet
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To: tasha2012
Your post is full of inaccuracies that have been fully disproven in multiple threads.

Please post the Florida statute that was violated by Zimmerman, and the evidence released to the public that supports probable cause Zimmerman violated that statute.

Otherwise, admit you are just a kneejerk emotional reactionary with no basis in fact for your assertions.

95 posted on 03/24/2012 3:35:47 PM PDT by 101stAirborneVet
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To: Revolting cat!

“tardiness”

Thanks for that info. Now, I can hardly wait to hear what the eyewitness has to say. I wonder if it will be enough to stop the race haters/baiters from continuing the lynchmob mentality at the hands of their black slavemasters, Jackson, Sharpton and the black panthers. God forbid that something like facts might come out before jumping to conclusions. Remember towanna brawley and the Duke Lacrosse fiascos?


96 posted on 03/24/2012 3:36:45 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: tasha2012

Go back to DU, racist trash.


97 posted on 03/24/2012 3:39:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: tasha2012

I see the ‘younger generation’ still hasn’t figured out how a shift key works...


98 posted on 03/24/2012 3:42:03 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: freeangel

The race hustlers will go on. It is an opportunity like the Rodney King case.


99 posted on 03/24/2012 4:04:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Irenic

Thank you for the update Irenic.


100 posted on 03/24/2012 4:42:00 PM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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