Who referred to him as a thug and a hood-rat?
Maybe it has something to do with the "1,000,000 Hoodie March"?
Posted on 03/23/2012 4:58:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Current and former neighbors call George Zimmerman caring, passionate and polite, a regular guy they enjoyed being around...
"The portrayal of George Zimmerman in the media, as well as the series of events that led to the tragic shooting, are false and extremely misleading," his father, a retired magistrate judge, wrote in a letter published in the Orlando Sentinel. "Unfortunately, some individuals and organizations have used this tragedy to further their own causes and agendas."
"George is a Spanish-speaking minority with many black family members and friends," Robert Zimmerman wrote. "He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever."
(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...
Because when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Try this:
From the Charleston Conservative Examiner:
1. The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
2. The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
3. Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
4. Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin’s father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
“Why is he referred to as a thug and a hood-rat”
Who referred to him as a thug and a hood-rat?
Here you go:
From the Charleston Conservative Examiner:
1. The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
2. The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
3. Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
4. Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin’s father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
I’m pretty sure Lt. Horatio Caine and his team will get to the bottom of this.
Seen it. Not impressed. It doesn’t change the fact that Zimmerman would be fine, and Martin alive, if Zimmerman had simply let the cops handle the big crime of walking through the neighborhood with a hoodie on.
There have been multiple threads on this subject.
Witness statements that Zimmerman was losing the fight are probably accurate but they say or prove nothing about who started it.
I've seen plenty of fights where the guy who started it ended up getting his ass kicked.
And the tapes of Zimmerman do show that Martin actively avoided Zimmerman and that Zimmerman actively stalked Martin.
Now, if you can point us to tapes and/or witness statements that do say that Martin attacked Zimmerman then go right ahead...I'm all ears.
Yes, he is Hispanic. Someone posted a link to his pic yesterday.
No kidding?
You accuse freepers of being racist by calling Martin “a thug and a hood rat” and you can’t even produce one instance of your assertion? BTW I have read several of these threads.
I agree. With the limited amount of information we know about Martin no one can jump to the conclusion he was a bad person.
If anyone has then they are wrong. But don’t include anyone who doesn’t agree with you as being racist.
Did you listen to the dispatcher when he asked ‘are you following him?’ Zimmerman said ‘yes’.
The dispatcher said, “you don’t need to do that.”
That should have ended it and the child would be alive today. Zimmerman was stalking Martin. If anyone needed the protection of the ‘stand your ground’ law, it was Martin. Zimmerman was the aggressor.
I listened to the calls. You need to do the same....rather than make accusations.
Where did I mention race? White people can't skulk? Are you trying to be discriminatory?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2862284/posts
Post 42, “hood-rat” “skulking” and “casing” peoples homes.
None other than our own “Dead Corpse,” who repeats his slanders on this thread. Today he left off the “hood-rat” slur.
Amen......
More urban blacks were murdered with guns in the same time frame as both wars in Iran and Afghanistan.
Who referred to him as a thug and a hood-rat?
Maybe it has something to do with the "1,000,000 Hoodie March"?
You used the “hood-rat” slur yesterday. Own your comments.
Again, if this were a blonde girl walking home from the store and an Hispanic man started chasing her, then ended up shooting her dead, FReepers would be livid.
It’s racism when you interpret a black man walking home from the store as “skulking” and “casing” without any facts to support that.
Do you get the feeling that the media is primed and waiting for the right story to over inflate? Fluke vs. Rush, Trayvon vs. Zimmerman
It seems both have really been exposed and deflated. Imagine if and when they find an actual real case to jump on.
The leftist media and politicians are irresponsibly stoking flames of division. They want violence. It is some weird Obama re-election strategy.
No thanks. For me there's too many conflicting facts and statements to determine who was at fault. I wasn't there, and refuse to accept what the press is spoon-feeding us. They always like to tell just part of the story to rile up the masses. According to some articles I've read, the FBI is supposed to be conducting an investigation into the shooting, so I'll wait until they've finished their work on the case.
So, you agree that wearing a hoodie is reason for suspicion? that it warrants calling someone a "rat?"
Don't be so disingenuous as to not believe that some here equate black with "hood." And not the type you wear on your head.
Just like the Nazis in 1938, then lo and behold, some low-level Nazi flunky gets shot in Paris by a Jew, and then you had Krystallnacht.
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