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Posted on 03/25/2012 7:17:09 PM PDT by Nachum
Above is the iconic picture we’ve been become accustomed to seeing everywhere in the media, used to represent the recent Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida. From everything the public has been told, Trayvon Martin was a fresh-faced, innocent looking teenager and the visage of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, is right out of a booking photo.
The media narrative being sold is quite clear, Trayvon Martin is the innocent victim here and George Zimmerman is a horrible bigot who attacked the young man for doing nothing more than buying skittles while being black. Even Barack Obama seems to accept the fresh-faced innocence of Trayvon, stating, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” More on that later.
It’s becoming more and more clear however that the innocent appearance the mainstream media is so desperate to apply to Trayvon isn’t at all accurate. The picture we’re used to seeing to represent Trayvon Martin appears to be a far cry from how he actually looked once he was a few years older.
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As I see it the inability to miss your “child” for 3 days is damning.
This will spoil Obama’s rabid spring.
Wouldn’t make any sense. No drugs were found on his body.
If he were a ‘steerer’, where was his base? What was he doing in a gated community? Drug users in such places typically place orders by phone or internet, and get deliveries from a guy who arrives in a nice car and blends into the neighborhood.
Someone on another thread a day or two ago said it was 6:30 PM. I have no idea, but have distrusted the media/Dem/activist portrayal of this young man and Mr Zimmerman since I first heard about it.
I think everybody should be careful with this story. Its really going to come down to a couple of very basic facts that don’t have anything to do with time of day or whether Martin was a drug dealer.
19:11 Zimmerman calls police.
19:12 Martin calls his girlfriend--Call last 4 minutes
19:17 Police arrive at scene of event
19:30 EMT announce Mr. Martin dead
Too late!
I believe you are right. I have a feeling there will be no winners in this other than those who want to capitalize on the situation for political purposes.
Police report says they were report/dispatched/arrived at 1917. They didn’t get complete and clear of call until 0307.
So, the shooting happened at about 7pm, depending on response times.
This thing is either going to evaporate when the truth comes out, or will be allowed to "fester" until violence erupts.
Treyvon’s character matters.
Did he swing at a school bus driver leading to his suspension? A propensity for violent confrontations.
“No Limit” is a gangsta rap label. Tata. Weed. Gold teeth.
Not quite the squeaky clean young boy the MSM is selling
Agree though. Did TM swing first? Was he in top of Zimmerman beating him? .
They say the dad reported him missing the next day and then at some point the police came by to show photos to dad.
Dad called and told mom and mom told dad he needed to go to the morgue to make sure or she went? Something like that.
So I think it may have been 3 days before somebody went to the morgue for positive ID, but Trayvon was reported missing at some point the following afternoon.
I think that is it...
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“I had gone out for dinner,” says Tracy, “and when I got home, Trayvon wasn’t there. I tried calling his cell phone several times, and it went straight to voicemail. I wasn’t that worried, because he had been spending time with my 20-year-old nephew who was a responsible young man. There wasn’t a panic that he wasn’t at home. I figured that they had gone to the movies, because they had said they might. So I laid down, thinking they would show up later.”
The next morning, when he woke up, Tracy realized that Trayvon had not returned home. “I started making calls, and I reached my nephew,” Martin says. “He said he hadn’t seen Trayvon. Then I really started getting worried. So I called the Sheriff’s department to file a missing persons report. I let them know it hadn’t been 24 hours, but it was unusual for Trayvon not to return home.”
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20581404,00.html
The great advantage of Internet, somebody once said, adopting a saying about the 1st Amendment, is that you can instantly tell the idiots.
3AM? No, 6:30PM, big difference.
Somebody has been starting threads with alleged photographs of Martin as a gangsta, and accusing the MSM of suppressing truth and evidence. Well, the FR Admins have been thankfully deleting these threads, as the photos were of different Trayson Martins. So much for FR’s credibility, without even having to defend the indefensible MSM.
Again, the encounter lasted about 7 minutes, and ended when sun was still up. Mr Zimmerman did not hit his head on the concrete, as far as we know, since the only witness, one “John”, saw them tumbling on the grass. This is the third or fourth day of “discussions” and insults and accusation of Communist, DU and race war sympathies, and the same misinformation and fantasy pieces still appear. I mentioned only a couple of them.
Still, reading through press reports on the web today, I found a lot of discrepancies. For example, one report, that I can no longer locate, said 40 recent burglaries in the neighbourhood. How recent, I don’t remember, a year or two it said, and I remember the number 40, which I repeated on these threads. Today I’ve found two reports which say one 8, and the other 15 burglaries in the past year. Who do you want to believe?
Martin got in the fight while on the phone with the girlfriend. The police were very close to arriving.
Zimmerman was on the ground being beaten when the witness “John” saw him. Zimmerman yelled “help me” and “call the police.”
If Treyvon thought he was being threatened why didn’t he ask his girlfriend to alert police or call them himself?
The gangsta rap anti-police music he loved my have cost Trayvon his life.
Good Find Nachum. Interesting. It’s pretty clear what happened imo.
Zimmerman is so afraid that he and his wife have moved. I read last nite that the police don’t even know his location but he has been in touch with them.
This whole thing stinks and the racebaiters and haters continue to throw gasoline on it.
I have a question. How did this all get started to begin with? I mean this happened Feb 26 right? What caused this to erupt? (do you know?)
Maybe he went out to make that 3 a.m. call to Obama.
You mean someone who has established a reason to drive around at all hours and talk to people?
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