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Zimmerman lawyer: No racial issue with client [Was mentor to poor blacks, was attacked by Trayvon]
CBS ^ | 3/24/2012

Posted on 03/24/2012 5:37:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The attorney hired to represent a neighborhood watch volunteer accused of fatally shooting a black teenager said there was no racial issue involved...

Sonner also said that Zimmerman and his wife in the past have served as mentors to African-American youth. "He and his wife were mentors to a single mother with two, a 14-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bias; race; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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ALSO from the article:

"I believe that there is sufficient evidence to show that Mr. Zimmerman was acting in self-defense. He has wounds, injuries to his face, to the back of his head. And I think the evidence will show that he was acting in self-defense, and that it was not racially motivated."

1 posted on 03/24/2012 5:38:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

But the white lynching will go on. It’s “reparations” you see.


2 posted on 03/24/2012 5:45:13 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Hispanic lynching this time.


3 posted on 03/24/2012 5:46:51 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Hispanics are white, racially speaking.


4 posted on 03/24/2012 5:48:34 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is the media trying to defuse the situation.... now we are getting more facts???

I think the bosses of the media, and the O’bummer crowd are seeing and hearing that this is a backfire moment for them.

Also, I think that they now know, he is not “white”, but also Hispanic, and if SHTF it shall be all onto O’b’s people...

Race riots can work, but only if you outnumber the opposition..

There are not enough of them to take on the whole country.....

Sadly they tried this race war effort...... now I think they had an OOOPPS moment and have found they may not be backing the right horse , so to speak.

The hispanic voters are needed, as are the “whites”

Pity all I can claim is to have red blood....

just saying......

EL


5 posted on 03/24/2012 5:49:38 AM PDT by Eureka_Lead (No political party has ever become a dictatorship when the citizens have firearms - Stay Vigilant)
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To: fwdude

It’s a high-tech lynching.


6 posted on 03/24/2012 5:50:17 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Here’s how I see this playing out:

If or when it becomes apparent that there was no racial motivation/profiling involved in this case, the focus will turn to talk radio and hate speech.

Recall the Giffords shooting where the kneejerk reaction was that talk radio (Rush, etc.) and campaign symbols (Palin) were to blame. Then when it was learned that the shooter was a schizophrenic sociopath, it made no difference. Obama had that memorial where he sermonized on toning down the hateful rhetoric in personal and civic life.

The same method will be used here. If the racial angle falls apart, then this will become an attack on talk radio and supposed “hate speech”. There will be a huge, televised gathering in Florida somewhere, probably Miami where Obama will again sermonize on how hateful all of us are and how we need to tone it down.


7 posted on 03/24/2012 5:50:50 AM PDT by randita
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To: SoFloFreeper

Murder is atrocious whenever it happens, but the media only covers it and people can only be bothered to be outraged over it when they think it concerns race and they’ve scored an opportunity to atone for the sins of their whiteness in a schmaltzy sermon to the choir. Otherwise, the hoodie-wearers just stay home posting pictures of their dinner on Facebook.


8 posted on 03/24/2012 5:54:14 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: SoFloFreeper

If Sooner really thought about it, he would realize that NOW there is no way his client can get a fair trial in Florida.

There is NO reason that Zimmerman should even be tried. He is free, and should simply head right out for France, and get a new life.

Now Sooner is talking about evidence, as if there will be a trial. The police already decided NOT to charge Zimmerman.A fact that every one now seems to forget to mention.

Zimmermann has been tried and convicted by emotion. The Black Panthers have a wanted poster out for him. Its just a big political show trial, of the fascist kind.Its basically the same way the Nazis tried the Jews in court in the early days.


9 posted on 03/24/2012 5:56:06 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info.. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It has nothing to do with Zimmerman.
There just wasn’t enough racial pot stirring going on and the NAACP and Jackson and Sharpton needed someone to act as a hate focal point. Zimmerman was convenient and it.


10 posted on 03/24/2012 5:56:27 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: Eureka_Lead

Very well said.


11 posted on 03/24/2012 5:57:12 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Solid Conservative Values. A Man You Can Trust. "Etch-a-Sketch 2012!" /sarc)
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To: fwdude
"Hispanics are white, racially speaking."

'Fraid not. They may be "white" culturally speaking, but certainly not "racially speaking". The large majority of them are mixed race, either white and Indian, or white and Negro, or all three. There may be a very few "all-white" Cubans, and some may be "all-Indian", but those are VERY statistically small in number.

12 posted on 03/24/2012 6:02:16 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: fwdude
-- Hispanics are white, racially speaking. --

Only when they are the perpetrator. FBI Crime statistics count Hispanic perps as white, but count Hispanic victims as Hispanic.

13 posted on 03/24/2012 6:02:47 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: fwdude

“Hispanics are white, racially speaking.”

Hispanics are whatever they designate themselves to be; our government has extended that courtesy to them. It is hard to call Sammy Sosa “white”, though many such as him designate themselves “Hispanic” as opposed to “black”. This issue was brought up a few years back by black race-pimps in complaining that MLB had a declining number of “black” players; to them Negroid Hispanics weren’t “black”.


14 posted on 03/24/2012 6:03:04 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Candor7
-- Now Sooner is talking about evidence, as if there will be a trial. The police already decided NOT to charge Zimmerman. --

A grand jury will be empaneled, and the feds have stepped in. Both of those gatherings involve review of evidence.

15 posted on 03/24/2012 6:05:12 AM PDT by Cboldt
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There will be no grand jury accordingto CNN News. Under Florida law the special prosecutor Angela B Corey has authority to indict and arrest Zimmermann.

The stage is set for the Show trial of the Century.It will make Rodney King riots look like child’s play.


16 posted on 03/24/2012 6:11:38 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info.. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Cboldt

There will be no grand jury accordingto CNN News. Under Florida law the special prosecutor Angela B Corey has authority to indict and arrest Zimmermann.

The stage is set for the Show trial of the Century.It will make Rodney King riots look like child’s play.


17 posted on 03/24/2012 6:11:50 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info.. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Why allow a few facts to get in the way of a good spring riot ?
18 posted on 03/24/2012 6:20:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I think this is going to blow up in the Libs faces. Badly.

The hysteria of the media, the interjection of Jackson and Obama... they’re all going to end up looking like total idiots here.

Mark my words. Within a week this story is going to vanish down the memory hole as if it never existed. Or, at least, they’re going to try their best to make it vanish.


19 posted on 03/24/2012 6:21:15 AM PDT by Ronin (Sarah.... We really need you now!)
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To: Candor7

It was announced Tues March 20th there will be a Grand Jury on Arpil 10th. That has been canceled?!


20 posted on 03/24/2012 6:23:49 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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