Posted on 03/25/2012 2:24:10 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were only a few miles away from Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, participating in the NBA All-Star Game on the night the unarmed black teenager wearing a hooded sweatshirt was shot to death by a neighborhood crime-watch volunteer.
They never knew the teenager, but on Friday they decided it was time to speak out -- as did many others around the NBA...
The National Basketball Players Association issued a statement saying it was saddened and horrified by the killing, demanded an arrest and accused the police department in Sanford, Fla. -- where Martin was shot -- of "racial bias."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
America better listen to these elite members of the 1%.
So when are they going to post a picture of the boy playing basketball?
While I generally could care less what overpaid, professional crybabies . . . . er, athletes think, this is absurd. To date, the facts of this episode have NOT been released and everything that has been made public is based on DBM speculation, innuendo and inaccuracies.
I would love to see a complete investigation that exonerates Zimmerman (if he is, indeed, innocent) and makes Obama and the NBA (To name just a couple) look like the fools they are.
Right now, all of these idiots are going off half-cocked without knowing the full story!
Thugball is for the thug?
I’m shocked.
‘cause when I think of moral clarity and authority...I think of NBA players (rolling eyes)
Constitution...Rule of Law...Due Process...Innocent Until Provence Guilty. America.
Constitution...Rule of Law...Due Process...Innocent Until Proven Guilty. America.
meanwhile in obama hometown, this weekend
10 shot dead, 39 injured
also Jesse Jackson hometown, Oprah, Louis Farrakhn
how many dead boys and men look like the son he coulda had?
Little 6 yr old girl lying in bloodcovered pink Minnie Mouse blanket look like an obama daughter?
Michelle, where those southside Chicago values you say you teaching your kids?
Shame on the “community”.
Shame.
I agree with you completely.
Oh, just shut up and play your little basketball game.
Sick to dath of listening to these black assholes piling on.
They didnt have squat to say when the White kid was set on fire by two jitterbugs.
Sick to death of listening to these black assholes piling on.
They didnt have squat to say when the White kid was set on fire by two jitterbugs.
Didn’t hear Jerry Rivers comment but it does bring up something tha I have not seen addressed; the hoodie.
Is it just a “fashion statement” like the baggy pants down low and the underwear showing?
Talk to a LEO who is up on this stuff and they’ll tell you it’s original intent is to disguise facial features and intimidation.
Someone walks into a store, pharmacy or up to an individual with a hood up so you can’t see their face, hands in the hoodie pockets and a normal person’s threat meter spikes. That is what many of these kids, of all races want, to intimidate.
In the Martin case it may have been raining or he may have had it up just because with no ill intent, of course now we’ll never know.
Did he call for the same kind of justice when Kobe was accused of rape?
Was that a crime of black on white or black on black?
Wonder where Obama was on that one? Did he call for the Justice Dept to see to it that woman got justice?
Just wondering......
Yep, the use of the adjective 'unarmed' in these news stories is quickly overtaking 'unexpected' in economic news. Since when does one need to be 'armed' to be dangerous?
Just another reason why I don’t support professional basketball.
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