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Scarborough: Trayvon Was Chased and Shot 'Because He Was Black'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/24/2014 5:46:16 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

You'd think Joe Scarborough would have learned by now to avoid inflammatory statements about the Trayvon Martin case. Back when that case first broke, Scarborough immediately branded George Zimmerman a "murderer."

But there was Scarborough at it again this morning. On today's Morning Joe, he sought to contrast the Michael Brown case with that of Trayvon Martin. In Ferguson, "we don't know the evidence," said Joe. Whereas in the Trayvon Martin case, Scarborough said "you had a guy chase a guy around a neighborhood and shoot him because he was black."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; fergusonmo; florida; georgezimmerman; joescarborough; michaelbrown; missouri; morningjoe; trayvonmartin
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To: jsanders2001

Someone needs to post the hypothetical exchange between Trayvon and George had Trayvon not been a drugged-up thug with a chip on his shoulder and a desire to impress his girlfriend Jabba.


21 posted on 11/24/2014 6:00:20 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Keep on stokin’ it...


22 posted on 11/24/2014 6:02:23 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Altura Ct.

If the answer to that is “no”,
then those ascribing to the “non profiling” should be made to defend the following statement:

“teenage Asian girls commit just as many criminal offenses as teenage Black males”.

To think otherwise would be “profiling”.


23 posted on 11/24/2014 6:02:36 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Vaquero

Wow... Somehow, I guess I missed that story.

Looks like a GREAT story for 20/20.


24 posted on 11/24/2014 6:04:35 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That Mika’s a good looking woman.


25 posted on 11/24/2014 6:06:10 AM PST by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: babble-on

oh your right, another thug who got what he deserved.


26 posted on 11/24/2014 6:08:19 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe is a liar and knows it.


27 posted on 11/24/2014 6:10:53 AM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: GoldenPup
Does MSNBC really qualify as MSM?

:o)

28 posted on 11/24/2014 6:12:06 AM PST by mykroar (Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

His brain disease is no longer asymptomatic.


29 posted on 11/24/2014 6:15:01 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Importantly, it was just last June 30th, that Judge Debra Nelson (appointed by Jeb Bush), who presided over Zimmerman’s criminal trial, summarily dismissed his lawsuit against MSNBC, “for Defamation and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.”

She wrote in her order that: “there are no genuine issues of material fact upon which a reasonable jury could find that the Defendants’ (MSNBC) acted with actual malice; that there exists absolutely no clear and convincing evidence that Defendants’ knew that the information published was false at the time it was published, or recklessly disregard the truth or falsity of those statements at the time they were published”.

However, Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury on July 13, just 13 days later, so since that time, were Scarborough to again call Zimmerman “a murderer”, he would be guilty of libel.

However, this statement, that he killed Martin because he was black, goes to a state of mind, which cannot be objectively defended.

So Scarborough’s slander was probably first vetted by MSNBC’s lawyers, to see if they could legally get away with it. Unfortunately, they can.

But jerks like Scarborough are notorious for being unable to control their impulses, so eventually he may spout off again in public, in an actionable manner. And hopefully it will be recorded, and Zimmerman can sue MSNBC off the air.


30 posted on 11/24/2014 6:16:41 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: olepap
That Mika’s a good looking woman.

But ugly on the inside.

31 posted on 11/24/2014 6:18:05 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Altura Ct.

In the words of Ann Coulter: “That’s not profiling, that’s a description of the suspect.”


32 posted on 11/24/2014 6:18:19 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trayvon stalked Zimmerman because he was gay.


33 posted on 11/24/2014 6:18:58 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: umgud

“Joe is a liar and knows it.”

He’s the very definition of a Gruber.

Someone that knows they were lied to but are too stupid to care so they repeat the lie.


34 posted on 11/24/2014 6:20:34 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Scarborough said “you had a guy chase a guy around a neighborhood and shoot him because he was black.”
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No, you had a guy chase a guy around a neighborhood and assaulted him because he thought guy was an unarmed cracker.

Cracker was carrying heat, black dude wasn’t... pants down.


35 posted on 11/24/2014 6:20:41 AM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
...and still they wonder why their ratings suck.
36 posted on 11/24/2014 6:22:25 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: IMR 4350

Desperate for viewers...


37 posted on 11/24/2014 6:22:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Attention getting device” comment???


38 posted on 11/24/2014 6:23:27 AM PST by Exit148
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To: Texicanus

“pants down”....

will this replace “hands down” as an idiom meaning “irrefutable fact”?
Especially in situations involving someone of the thug culture?


39 posted on 11/24/2014 6:23:38 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These useful idiots won’t get it until they become the victim of inner city thuggery at the hands of the yutes.

When that happens, “Do you know who I am?!” will only evoke sneers of derision and perhaps even more punishment.


40 posted on 11/24/2014 6:26:04 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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