Posted on 04/12/2012 9:41:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's mother says the encounter between her son and a neighborhood watch volunteer was an accident, not the shooting that left her 17-year-old son dead.
Sybrina Fulton clarified her remarks Thursday to The Associated Press after she referred to what happened to her son on NBC's "Today" show as an accident.
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I’m sure being spoted by the Neighborhood Watch was an ‘Accident’. I completely believe that Trayvon didn’t want to be observed that night.
next issue!
Hmmm. Interesting. Wonder what prompted that? Why would the "victims" mother say that, I wonder?!?!
Is she trying to "cool the rhetoric"?
Does anyone else find this a bit...puzzling?
I think she was being honest, and I agree with her initial statement.
I don’t think George Zimmerman intended to shoot Trayvon, but the situation got out of hand and he shot him.
However, saying so cools the hysteria around the story, so Sharpton and the media advised her to “clarify”.
I think someone from the 33% + expenses club had a little talk to her after her misstatement this morning...
guess he doesn't look like Obama anymore. Izze gonna call a presser and retract the claim?
Translation: My ex husband and my shyster lawyer chewed my ass out after the Today Show.
It doesn’t like that what she’s saying here, but who knows? This is the Spin Zone.
Translation: My ex husband and my shyster lawyer chewed my ass out after the Today Show.
Good point...that's very probably what happened.However,it's possible that someone from the Osama Obama Victory Fund got in touch with her.
She must have been off the teleprompter.
Honest citizens are forced to provide for their own safety and protection - buying home Security Systems and forming neighborhood watch groups - while still paying taxes for 'police protection'.
This is wrong.
Neighborhoods should get equal police protection OR pay less. OR for what we use - just like water or electricity. If people in lawless communities want to leave their outdoor hoses running - and not fix the faucet leaks in their homes - fine. But I don't want to have my water bill 'averaged' with theirs.
Same for police protection. If the black community becomes more lawless without 24/7 cops - ( hard to believe) they can install home security systems and create their own 'watch' teams. OR they can pay extra for police protection - BECAUSE I'M SICK of paying for cops to babysit lawless communities...
How is a neighborhood watch guy with a legal concealed carry, out on patrol and observing a suspicous guy in a hoodie, calling it in properly - an accident?? He was doing his job.
Trent Lott prolly coulda used it too.
This is the real story on interracial murder and rape......
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/
Just about all ignored compared the ginned up racial outrage of the Treyvon incident. One of the rare times a white kills a black. Rare compared to the rate of black on white assault and murder. And dittos for rape....which is very rarely a white on black crime
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/
A freeper posted this link yesterday. Never heard of it before
This is the Mom who couldn’t control her son so he sent him to stay with his Dad and girlfriend.
Why was it again? Found with a screwdriver (`burglary tool’ for prying open lockers) and a bag full of girls’ jewelry; assaulting a bus driver; criminal mischief.
I can’t remember all the reasons this “poorly socialized” (not an `IWSB’: Intelligent, Well-Socialized Black, per Derbyshire) young black man—now, according to Holder: he “belongs to the ages”—was banished to Sanford.
probably some organizer want unionize and regulate them.
That’s an interesting concept. But it seems like it’s the type of “water” being used. Police end up patrolling the middle/upper middle class neighborhoods to keep the criminal elements at bay. While in the lower income and zero income neighborhoods it’s all about detective work and mop up.
I’ve been content to allow our justice system figure out the Martin case and have not engaged in speculation on either side. The only comment I’ve made and continue to stand by is that any woman who would trademark her dead child’s name, not a month after her child was murdered, is a poor excuse for a mother led alone human being.
What kind of parenting did Trayvon Martin receive from this woman?
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