Posted on 07/01/2013 5:11:23 PM PDT by grundle
On Monday, CNN showed George Zimmerman’s Social Security number and other personal information live over the air, including address, date of birth, and phone number. That immediately launched a round of tweets by Zimmerman haters celebrating knowledge of that information.
This is hardly the first time Zimmerman’s personal information has been distributed by those who oppose him. During the initial coverage of the Zimmerman trial, Spike Lee retweeted the home address of what he thought was Zimmerman’s home address. It turned out to be the wrong address. Roseanne Barr then tweeted Zimmerman’s parents’ home address. “If Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll rt his address again. maybe go 2 his house myself,” Barr tweeted.
This isn't the first element of media bias in the Zimmerman case, either. The Associated Press originally reported that Zimmerman was white. That falsehood was repeated for days by the media, heightening the racial aspect of the case.
The media also broadcast photographs of Zimmerman from a 2005 arrest rather than current photos, and conversely broadcast photographs of Martin as a pre-teen, not the 17-year-old he was at the time of the killing (the media's photographic choices actually impacted witness testimony during the trial).
NBC News manipulated tape of Zimmerman's 911 call to make it seem that Zimmerman had targeted Martin because he was black, rather than responding to 911 dispatcher questions. CNN also isolated audio of Zimmerman purportedly calling Martin a racial slur during the call -- an allegation that ended up being completely false.
Both ABC News and NBC News also alleged that Zimmerman's injuries did not exist, releasing badly-pixellated photographs from the night of the incident. As trial testimony has shown, Zimmerman was indeed injured during the incident with Martin.
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Can Obama revoke Zimmerman’s passport, like he did to Snowden, to prevent him from moving to another country?
As a citizen of Peru, couldn’t their embassy or consulate grant him a passport from there?
And someone from CNN should be fixing to be bubba's girlfriend in federal prison.
If Zimmerman is acquitted, does the judge's order that he can't leave the county he lives in automatically lapse, or could she arbitrarily leave it in force? (Maybe so he can't flee while Holder cooks up a trial on civil charges.)
“I also believe the selection of White and Hispanic women for the jury was deliberate.”
Well, if it was, it was also the Defense’ decision. So how do you square that?
That isn’t legal, so my guess is yes.
GZ should start using 0bama’s fake SSN number.
Any Defense would want “that” jury in “that” situation. But does not prevent the fact that the jury makeup can be used as a justification to abandon the Jury decision later.
“But does not prevent the fact that the jury makeup can be used as a justification to abandon the Jury decision later.”
I was watching Zimmerman’s atty on Greta last night. She posed the same question. He said that actually the jury pool was weighted with more Blacks than their percentage of the population would suggest and that the prosecution challenged as many of them off the jury as he did. I guess during voi dire, they indicated that they already had their minds made up so they couldn’t be unbiased.
I saw that too. O’mara sidestepped Greta’s implied notion that the Jury’s makeup could be challanged, and choose the high road by discussing that both sides had tossed minority prospects.
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