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George Zimmerman's arrest brings relief to community (And isn't that the important thing?)
WGN-AM / The Orlando Sentinel ^ | April 11, 2012 | Walter Pacheco, Martin E. Comas, and David Breen

Posted on 04/11/2012 8:32:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

SANFORD — After weeks of demanding justice in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, reaction across Central Florida to George Zimmerman's second-degree murder charge shows measured relief.

"I think it's justice being served," Sanford's Allen Chapel AME Church Pastor Valarie Houston said. "All the protesting and all the marching, all the tears and lost nights of sleep, it's all been worthwhile."

Houston held a prayer service at the church that was attended by several dozen people after Special Prosecutor Angela Corey's decision to charge Zimmerman. Worshippers rose to sing "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" after walking into the church.

Minister R. White, in his opening prayer, thanked God and asked blessings for the Zimmerman family "on this victorious day."

The Goldsboro neighborhood church has been a focal point for protesters and others who have expressed their concerns about the handling of the case by the Sanford Police Department.

On Monday, the Dream Defenders, a coalition of college students from across Florida marched from Daytona Beach to the church to demand the arrest of Zimmerman. They later blocked the entrance to the Sanford Police Department, forcing officials to temporarily close the building to the public....

(Excerpt) Read more at wgnradio.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; racism; sanford; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: DNA.2012

Well the thugs will end up getting angry blowback.


21 posted on 04/11/2012 8:57:07 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: mamelukesabre

I see a hung jury from all this.


22 posted on 04/11/2012 8:58:13 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: DonaldC

And who, exactly, will burn it?


23 posted on 04/11/2012 8:59:43 PM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: DonaldC

If it drags out long enough they will move onto something else. Attention spans keep getting shorter.

Nightline did a piece on this tonight. They used all three pictures of GZ and a more recent picture of TM. However... they played an edited version of the 911 tape. It’s so hard not to yell at the tv.


24 posted on 04/11/2012 9:00:11 PM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mob rules. The race baiters never miss an opportunity to play the part of professional victim.


25 posted on 04/11/2012 9:00:45 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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26 posted on 04/11/2012 9:01:10 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: JAKraig
Many will say I’m being a bit dramatic, but, this is one of the worst moments in the history of this country

A few years ago the state of FL let an innocent disabled woman be brutally starved to death.

27 posted on 04/11/2012 9:01:10 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (Retro Sark...because you just never know when you'll have needed a sark tag.)
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To: baddog 219

Look for him to walk, HUNG JURY.


28 posted on 04/11/2012 9:01:54 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

OH PLEASE!

GET A DAM CLUE!

WERE YOU BORN *AFTER* THE OJ TRIAL?


29 posted on 04/11/2012 9:01:59 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: hinckley buzzard

It is better that innocent whites be railroaded than the black racists like Sharpton be upset. What rule of Law?


30 posted on 04/11/2012 9:01:59 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: mamelukesabre

NO you GET A CLUE!

The reality is that, with too much publicity, I am CONFIDENT I will be right, because since what happened to the Casey Anthony trial, we are going to have another one of those crazy show trails.

Besides I was BORN way before the OJ trail, jut to correct you.

It will be at most a hung jury.


31 posted on 04/11/2012 9:05:38 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

It wouldn’t matter. The tribe wants blood and they will have it one way or another.Zimmerman’s blood or the next best thing... any white man,woman or child.
This may sound stone cold but I see it coming.


32 posted on 04/11/2012 9:06:25 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: JAKraig
this is one of the worst moments in the history of this country.

Agreed.

33 posted on 04/11/2012 9:08:08 PM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Biggirl

sorry.

There’s not enough people with that much courage and integrity. They will all cave to the angry mob...just like the OJ trial.


34 posted on 04/11/2012 9:09:03 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: baddog 219

But with the overkill of media reporting, finding any jury will be hard at best and I see most likely a hung jury in all this.


35 posted on 04/11/2012 9:09:55 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see a lot of retailers across the country taking some big hits if they allow GZ to post bond. The lynch mobs are going to be in the mood for some “free stuff” after all of the “protesting” they’ve had to do.


36 posted on 04/11/2012 9:10:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare is like a stool sample. You have to pass it to find out what's in it.)
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To: mamelukesabre

I am confident there will be people of courage and integrtiy. No caving is going to happen.


37 posted on 04/11/2012 9:11:52 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think if I was Zimmerman, I would have tried to sneak out and leave the country. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m dubious on these charges because the “politically correct” crowd and “Eric Holder’s People” want it.


39 posted on 04/11/2012 9:13:25 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t controlling the threatening mobs have been a relief? The mobs were/are the problem. Zimmerman wasn’t going to run around like a dangerous criminal on a rampage, while police and DA’s did their job.

That type of cowardliness deserves no relief.


40 posted on 04/11/2012 9:14:34 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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