Posted on 03/23/2012 10:06:45 AM PDT by Lmo56
The Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, did not instigate the encounter but has received death threats and moved out of his home, his father told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.
George Zimmerman, 28, has not been arrested, something that has put him and the Sanford Police Department at the center of a firestorm. Critics say Trayvon, who was visiting family from his home in Miami, was a victim of racial profiling.
Zimmerman's father, 64-year-old Robert Zimmerman of Lake Mary, delivered a one-page letter to the Sentinel on Thursday, saying that the depiction of his son in the media has been cruel and misleading.
George Zimmerman is Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family, the statement says.
"He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever ...," the letter says. "The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth."
The letter does not provide details about what happened Feb. 26 on a walkway in the gated community where George Zimmerman lives and where Trayvon was visiting. But it does challenge one basic assumption of the family's lawyers: that Zimmerman's intent when he got out of his sport utility vehicle was to confront Trayvon after calling police to report a suspicious person.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
LOL..what an unusual but tactful way to put that!
Hope things are well with you these days SZ.
Details of the report ???
the 911 tape contained screams. When this tape was played for the boys ( 17 years old, 6’2” 190 pounds of him )father, the father stated the screams were not from his son. A witness saw the black man on top of zimmerman punching him repeatedly in the face, while zimmerman screamed for help... zimmermans face was bloody and bruised, and the back of his head was bleeding... now add all this together and what do you have?
You have a guy approaching a 6’2” suspended from school black man in a hoodie, and upon initial confrontation the black man attacks, for whatever reason you wish to insert here....knocks down the neighborhood watch guy and starts beating the crap out of him.... only thing not accounted for is the fact that the neighborhood watch guy was armed.
Conclusion, the thug picked the wrong guy to attack.
Yea, go figure........and little mention of the wound on the back of his head, his bloodied face and wet grass stains on the back of his shirt.
Probably just finished playing a game of touch football........yea, that's what it was.
"Heated debate has erupted over whether Zimmerman used a racial slur during the 911 call, a recording of which was released this week. "We didn't hear it. However, I am not sure what was said," said Sgt. David Morgenstern of the Sanford Police Department. "I have listened to the tapes, and I have not heard them use a racial slur," concurred City Manager Norton Bonaparte. A top CNN audio engineer enhanced the sound of the 911 call, and several members of CNN's editorial staff repeatedly reviewed the tape but could reach no consensus on whether Zimmerman used a racial slur."
Dumb@ss...
You got a link - or do we have to take your divine word for it ???
Does anyone else think that after the dust settles that Hussein will be calling for another beer summit? Not that he would but still.
We need to know more about him to see if he'd survive in prison.
what time did this happen?
What night? (school night?)
What was the 17 year old doing at that time, in that neighborhood? (was it on the way to his house?)
All we hear is that poor innocent kid went out for skittles...
what time did this happen?
What night? (school night?)
What was the 17 year old doing at that time, in that neighborhood? (was it on the way to his house?)
All we hear is that poor innocent kid went out for skittles...
Right. I’ve heard he said punk...but perhaps the fire spread from pants to the ears.
It's at 2:22-2:22 on the tape. It's muttered right after "the back entrance". He mutters to himself as he's running, "f'n coons".
"What are you, some kind of nut?"
Yes, I'm a gun nut. Zat OK with you?
So, do you know what POS refers to?
One thing in your comment I’ve been thinking about since this story came out in the media.
Martin was on the phone with his girl friend the entire time. He called her back after he lost signal when he was running and hiding from Zimmerman.
My thought on this is, if Martin was feeling threatened by Zimmerman, why did he stay on the phone with a teen age girl instead of calling his father just a few houses away or the cops to come to his aid?
Also, why does the media only show us pictures of Martin as a young boy? Why do they only show us pictures of Zimmerman that appear as a arrest photo?
Martin was 6’ 2” and a football player. From what I have heard from some cops I know, he was staying with his dad because he got suspended for 5 days from his school. The reason for the suspension was because of gang involvement supposedly.
I think I will wait and see what comes out and from where before I start tying a hangman’s noose for Zimmerman.
The only eye witness account sides with Zimmerman’s account.
This is the future of California.
You are going to have a large hispanic majority that isn’t sharing and playing nice with others the way the old Christian white men did when they have a monopoloy on power.
You are going to have a permanent black underclass with new heights of bitterness upon realizing they have it worse now with the new hispanic majority flexing its political muscles. They will protest vehemently and remind the hispanics that at least the whites gave them preferences and affirmative action and stuff.
The new hispanic majority will tell them to take a hike and move back to Africa if they don’t like it.
The end result is not going to be pretty.
You can mark my words or not, but if you do, I’m going to look like a prophet in 30 years.
OK, at 2:22 in the link you provided Zimmerman says under his breath, “F’ing punks”, then the 911 dispacther asked if he is following.
If he had in fact said “coons”, don’t you think the 911 dispatcher would have reacted?
At t~2:21-2:22. See#92.
People are hearing what they want to hear and it's that simple.
I did not hear the word “coon” on the tape and I am used to hearing the word as I am called coon all the time.
"Hope things are well with you these days..."
And you as well OW.
See ya around campus...
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