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Posted on 03/30/2012 3:22:37 PM PDT by maggief
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — When he was shot, Trayvon Martin was not the baby-faced boy in the photo that has been on front pages across the country. And George Zimmerman wasn't the beefy-looking figure in the widely published mugshot.
Both photos are a few years old and no longer entirely accurate. Yet they may have helped shape initial public perceptions of the deadly shooting.
"When you have such a lopsided visual comparison, it just stands to reason that people would rush to judgment," said Kenny Irby, who teaches visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/24/142983/martin-familys-lawyers-no-strangers.html
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012
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In Trayvon’s case, (Parks & Crump) alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.
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“In court, you have the jury,” Crump says. “Our job is to get the case to a jury. We need to fight first in the court of public opinion. The jury is the American people.”
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Someone Must Be Punished for Killing Trayvon Martin, Says Mom Sybrina Fulton
by Allison Samuels Mar 22, 2012 2:04 AM EDT
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The now controversial killing of Trayvon garnered virtually no mainstream media attention in the days immediately after he was fatally shot, but that all changed when the teenager’s parents decided to hire civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and his law firm to get more answers on exactly how and why their son died.
“They called me the same day they were notified that their son was dead,’’ Crump told The Daily Beast. “When I heard their unarmed teenage son was shot to death, I just knew there’d be an arrest shortly. There wasn’t an arrest 48 hours later, and then I knew we’d have to take this outside of Sanford if we wanted justice.’’
Trayvon’s parents were told by the Sanford police that Zimmerman wasn’t arrested in their son’s death because the facts of the case did not dispute his claim of self-defense.
For Crump, taking the Trayvon Martin story outside of Sanford simply entailed dialing up a few well-placed friends such as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Crump worked closely with the civil rights leader in 2006 on another racially charged case—the controversial death of a 14-year-old, African-American inmate of a Florida boot camp.
“I had to call people like Sharpton and a few other black civil rights leaders and the black media to tell them about this story,’’ said Crump. “I had to get them to understand what happened to this young man and what hadn’t happened in his case so they could spread the word.’’
Historically, cases of murder and violence against blacks in the United States rarely have been given the same amount of attention as cases in which the victims of crime are white—and often go unnoticed and unprosecuted.
Just days after hearing the details of Trayvon’s death, Sharpton arranged to have Crump and the teenager’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, on his syndicated radio show and his popular MSNBC show, Politics Nation, to tell their story.
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In the wake of non-stop media attention from the likes of Sharpton and CNN’s Don Lemon concerning the Trayvon Martin case, black media blogs such as MediaTakeOut.com and Huffington Post Black Voices also began publishing accounts and editorials about the Florida case—daily. Almost instantly, readers of all races, ages, and backgrounds began tweeting and posting on Facebook their outrage over how the police have handled the case, and the lack of an arrest in the shooting. To date, almost 1 million people have signed a Change.Org petition to have Zimmerman arrested. In response to the widespread outrage, the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting.
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STATEMENT BY REVEREND AL SHARPTON AND NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK REGARDING THE SHOOTING OF TRAYVON MARTIN– AN UNARMED AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEENAGER KILLED BY A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH CAPTAIN IN FLORIDA
March 12, 2012
The only reason they are mentioning it now is because they got caught.
inching the towel back.
It was a sad day at DNC HQ when the guy they started using for the race war election, Zimmerman of Florida, didn’t turn out to be a Jew from Brooklyn!
And the images of the White Hispanic got out through Conservatives sites.
I believe in virtually 100% of the stories I have seen on network TV, they show a picture of a kid who looks about 10 years old.
Even in the rare cases where they show him in a hoodie, it looks very washed out and different from the same picture I have seen on this forum. Clearly a Photoshopped image.
I have never seen the ones in which he appears to be a “Gangsta” type anywhere on the mass media.
Maybe their Lawyers told them they just might be liable for damages. Mr. Zimmerman’s Dad is a Judge.
AP, however, apparently did contrive and conspire to deceive when using old photos.
Selective use of images in order to make good people look bad (they always used bad images of Dubya, for example), and less-than-good people look good (look no farther than carefully selected thoughtfully presidential images Mister Obama for good examples) is what AP and their far-left chums do for a living.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_trayvon_martin_ll_120322_wg.jpg
Trayvon Martin holds an unidentified baby in this undated family photo. (Martin Family/AP Photo)
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1221425.ece
http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00215/a4s_TRAYVONPROFILE0_215467c.jpg
This photo provided by the Martin family shows Trayvon Martin on a snowboarding trip, an experience beyond South Florida.
[Associated Press]
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http://images.www.news-record.com/files/imagecache/nrcom09_image_view/Images/martin_trayvon.jpg
File photo (Associated Press)
Photo Caption:
This undated file family photo shows Trayvon Martin.
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
‘If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, theRev. Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions.’
It is quite telling that even in this supposed “mea culpa” article no current photo of T. Martin is presented, although one has been circulated by other means.
Thanks for posting those but I tried to download one of them with my dial-up modem and gave up after 10 minutes.
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