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Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun
Yahoo News - ABC Good Morning America ^ | March 26, 2012 | MATT GUTMAN and SENI TIENABESO

Posted on 03/26/2012 3:11:56 PM PDT by QT3.14

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; race; racial; selfdefense; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: mass55th

That could be one way!!!


61 posted on 03/26/2012 4:10:02 PM PDT by PLD
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To: QT3.14
I'd like to remind everyone that we do not have all of the facts. That doesn't stop Obama claiming him as his own, that doesn't stop every poverty pimp to accuse white folks of injustice. That doesn't stop the New Black Panther Party for putting a bounty on Zimmerman's head - dead or alive. It doesn't stop blacks in America (95%) being Democrats and dependent on government, meaning our tax dollars. Read between the lines of these facts and you will find racism. But is it really racism when they are facts?
62 posted on 03/26/2012 4:11:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: Jewbacca

The problem, if there is ever a trial of some kind, is your #2. That tape has the Hispanic saying a vile racial thing about the black guy before they confront. So did he also say it to the boy, or was he cold cocked for nothing as in your description? The scenario might have included a racial slur AT the boy. We may never know. But the recording IS evidence that Zimmerman was racist and that hurts him.


63 posted on 03/26/2012 4:11:52 PM PDT by Yaelle (Santorum 2012 - our sole chance to stop the Rominee)
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To: mass55th

Based on everything I have heard about this “Upstanding citizen” maybe Obama is right, he would be his perfect son


64 posted on 03/26/2012 4:12:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: editor-surveyor

See. At least it wasn’t marijuana. Everyone beats their bus drivers senseless. It’s the next big thing after flash mobs.


65 posted on 03/26/2012 4:13:28 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: EEGator

The joke has left the building...


66 posted on 03/26/2012 4:13:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!
As garbled as it was, if I'm reading/inferring from that 2nd sentence correctly, you're to be commended for having posted it.

If my general take on this mess is found to be in error once this CF gets sorted out, I'll most certainly post a mea culpa somewhere amongst the incredible number of threads this has engendered.

Actually, once it is relatively sorted, perhaps a single thread can be posted where anyone honest enough to accept their earned dose of face/egg can have it applied with a single stop !

67 posted on 03/26/2012 4:14:32 PM PDT by tomkat (FU.baraq !)
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To: Jewbacca
None of those are facts. Those are statements from Zimmerman.

Too bad we don't have the other side of the story, but he's dead.

68 posted on 03/26/2012 4:15:11 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: chris37

If Trayvon grabbed the gun, it may have been more likely that they fought over it. It may have purely been an ACCIDENT.

Sounds like Trayvon needed watching.


69 posted on 03/26/2012 4:15:58 PM PDT by madison10
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To: tomkat

Thank you, I like your idea, but I don’t foresee it being implemented.


70 posted on 03/26/2012 4:16:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: BfloGuy

Bobby, dat becuz you baaad...


71 posted on 03/26/2012 4:18:25 PM PDT by Anti dote
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To: SeaHawkFan

BINGO!

Someone needs to alert Santorum, so much for his thinking skills, and he’s a lawyer. God help us!


72 posted on 03/26/2012 4:23:30 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: QT3.14

It’s pretty bad when Stephanopoulos little white boy tries to make it a race issue as blacks are trying not to fall for that trap of the Democrates.


73 posted on 03/26/2012 4:26:03 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: SatinDoll
“No, according to his own brother, he was suspended for beating a bus driver senseless”.

The test of the brother's Feb 21 tweet, on this thread was “yu ain’t tell me yu swung on a bus driver", which I interpret as "You didn't tell me you took a swing at a bus driver". Now, this says nothing about more than one swing, whether the swing connected, nor whether the driver was a school bus driver, or a city bus driver in an altercation unrelated to school.

74 posted on 03/26/2012 4:27:03 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: PapaBear3625

So how does this tweet relate to a suspension, and was it the primary cause?


75 posted on 03/26/2012 4:31:23 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Me either . . . LOL, sadly


76 posted on 03/26/2012 4:35:16 PM PDT by tomkat (FU.baraq !)
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To: Doe Eyes

If a 6-foot person is sitting on your chest, beating in your face with his fists and you have a gun in your holster, are you going to let him kill you OR are you going to save your life?

The police made a determination based on evidence at the scene, on 911 calls and eye-witness accounts.

I suspect this whole tragedy could have been avoided if Mr.Martin had used common sense, stopped, and chatted with Mr.Zimmerman. Mr.Zimmerman has, as a member of community watch, a history of informing the Sanford police of questionable or suspicious activity in that gated community. He does not, as far as I can ascertain, have a history of violent confrontations, something community watch folks are warned against doing.

If you go to the City of Sanford’s online site, the telephone calls are all there as well as a report from the City Manager, Norton Bonaparte

http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.html
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf


77 posted on 03/26/2012 4:36:13 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: SeaHawkFan

Unless Martin jumped him from behind.


78 posted on 03/26/2012 4:37:28 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Revolting cat!
The media also makes a point of calling the location a "gated community", with implications of wealth. It's actually a townhouse development with homes selling around $100K to $200K, and townhouses renting at $1,250/mo, which makes it lower middle class or working class by most standards.
79 posted on 03/26/2012 4:41:35 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: editor-surveyor

Do you have a source for that? I’m in an argument with some Libs about it. Thanks!


80 posted on 03/26/2012 4:41:39 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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