Posted on 03/30/2012 12:41:49 PM PDT by kristinn
I don't know what it means, but this strikes me as odd. From an interview with the parents of slain teenager Trayvon Martin by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA):
Martin, Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton; Benjamin Crump, the family lawyer; Al Sharpton and former New York Gov. David Patterson participated in an exclusive 1-hour telephone conference call last Thursday with more than three dozen publishers from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).
Martin told publishers how he learned that his son had been killed.
“I had been out to dinner. When we got back between 10:15 and 10:45, he wasn’t at home. The night before, he had been to the movies with my nephew, who had recently moved up to the Orlando area from Miami. Every time Trayvon would come up here, they would find something to do, usually they would go to dinner. My nephew is 20 years old, a very responsible young man. So there was not panic at that moment that he was not home. I made several attempts to call his cell phone and it was going straight to voicemail. I called my nephew’s cell phone and it was going straight to voicemail. So at that point, I figured they had been in the movies because they would always go to the movies.”
Tracy Martin and his girlfriend went to bed. But the next morning, the day Martin and his son had planned to return to Miami, he learned that Trayvon still wasn’t back in the house. Tracy called his nephew again, this time reaching him and learning that Trayvon wasn’t with him.
Today, CNN published comments from a Martin family attorney that seems to conflict with the account proffered by Tracy Martin:
During the 10-day suspension, Tracy Martin took his son with him to Sanford, about four hours away from Miami, while he visited his fiancée because neither he nor Fulton wanted their son to stay in his hometown where he could enjoy his friends, said Horton, who has been in close contact with Martin's father.
"He wasn't just suspended from school and up at Sanford kicking it and having a good time," said Horton. Martin had only been to Sanford a handful of times.
His fateful walk to the convenience store for a bag of Skittles and an iced tea on the evening of February 26 happened only because the teenager pleaded to leave the apartment, said Horton.
"The only reason he got a chance to go to the store is because he begged his dad to go," he said. At the time, his father and his fiancée had gone out to dinner and to watch a basketball game, leaving Martin at the townhouse, according to Martin family spokesman Ryan Julison.
While walking to the store, Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend, whom he had been talking to for over 6½ hours throughout the day, the family's attorney said, citing phone records. The girl, who did not want to be identified, said she told Martin to run, but he refused, the family attorney said.
What strikes me is the father made no mention of his son begging him to be allowed to go to the store in his interview with the NPAA. That would be crushing to a parent, if true. They would be guilt-ridden, thinking if only they had said no, he wouldn't have been out.
Instead, Tracy Martin says he was not very concerned about the whereabouts of his son until the next morning.
It strikes me as odd.
And that constitutes "NEWS" for sure.
re-read the post.
Good point. Also, if Trayvon was more or less “exiled” to Sanford, so he couldn’t have fun during his suspension, why would his father allow him to go to the movies with his 20 year old cousin the night before and assume he was at the movies again, on the night of the incident? Has being “grounded” or “on punishment” changed THAT much since I was a teenager?
Trayvon’s father has lied before, first accurately telling the police the cries for help on the 911 tapes were NOT Trayvon and later (after meeting Rev. Al) telling the media and the lynch mob that it was “my son screaming for his life”.
ya, interesting! One of the first commie reports said trevon bought skittles for his nephew [implying he had a little nephew at the house].
Thugs think they are bullet proof.
Why is it that Tracy Martin and other members of Trayvon’s family are doing countless media interviews?
What is their agenda?
Why can’t they just, like a normal dignified family, stay away from the media.
Oral statements, written statements, material objects such as a broken nose, grass stains and credibility are all meaningless in this controversy. What is of prime importance is keeping blacks at a fever pitch. The riots at the political conventions are too important to worry about such mundane things as evidence and proof!
You really don’t know who you’re mocking here, do you?
Thumper’s Mom: Thumper!
Thumper: Yes mama?
Thumper’s Mom: What did your father tell you this morning?
Thumper: If you can’t say something nice…don’t say nothin at all.
Money!
Well, kristinn is not a bad guy...he doesn’t bite...haaaaard...:)
Why can’t they act like a family whose son was just killed? I have seen more emotion when a nail gets broken. Either way, if it was justified or not, would any normal parent being act this way? It sounds like these parents had thoroughly disconnected emotionally from Trayvon.
I read it was for his younger brother, maybe it said nephew.
And when the father came home - there was no police tapes around the shooting? He saw or heard ‘nothing’? He didn’t call his mother? When he got no response from his son, he had no compulsion to go look for him but go to bed and sleep soundly? What time did he go out for dinner that he came home around 10:30 or so? He left his son at home and didn’t invite him? Wasn’t the time of the shooting around 7pm? A walk to the store and back takes how much time? A half an hour at best?
I agree. His last account/report of that night is weak.
Where did the Skittle and AZ Tea story come from? Did anyone see the two items? Both are street names for drugs.
I’ve never read exactly why he was in that neighborhood.
One thing that I saw that doesn’t get much notice is why did Zimmerman have to leave his truck to find Martin? This is a development and he could have just followed in his truck. Then I saw somewhere Martin was going through backyards and not on the street. As a community watch would that not arouse your suspicions? What was Martin looking for in back yards during the several hours he was unsupervised?
New Rules for Criminals
1) Don’t wear hoodies
2) Case your marks from the street
3) Don’t attack armed white/Spanish people
How about their “family attorneys”. I’ve seen 4 or 5 different ones show up on various talk shows.
this
“”The only reason he got a chance to go to the store is because he begged his dad to go,” he said. At the time, his father and his fiancée had gone out to dinner and to watch a basketball game, leaving Martin at the townhouse, according to Martin family spokesman Ryan Julison. “
The NBA all star game was played in orlando that night. Earlier reports said trayvon went to the store at around 7 pm before the game started and since the incident happened at around 7:20 that is consistent.
The fathr’s storeis are not
so when did he beg his father if his father was out to dinner? did his father go to the all star game? if so then he would have been long gone from the condo before 7 pm to eat dinner and get to a major game that started at 7:30
You are astute to pick up the differences in the stories.
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