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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....
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; racism; sanford; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
It is better that innocent whites be railroaded than the black racists like Sharpton be upset.All part of a 50,000,000 year payback for slavery.
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posted on
04/11/2012 9:42:47 PM PDT
by
DNA.2012
To: Nowhere Man
You are delusional. There’s not going to be any white uprising. Any whites who try, will be ripped to shreds both on the streets and in the legal system.
To: YHAOS
Where are they going to find a fair jury?
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posted on
04/11/2012 9:53:53 PM PDT
by
Big Horn
(Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
The mob and the media are appeased. For now.
64
posted on
04/11/2012 9:56:18 PM PDT
by
Godwin1
To: Big Horn
Seminole County, where Sanford is located, is only 11% black.
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posted on
04/11/2012 10:18:49 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
To: mamelukesabre
You are delusional. Theres not going to be any white uprising. Any whites who try, will be ripped to shreds both on the streets and in the legal system.
Maybe in the short term, you're right, but if things get bad along with some sort of collapse or partial collapse where the "powers that be" are too worried about their individual survival to through their weight around and leave most communities and States to make their own "laws." Still, it is like anything else, like most animals, if the beatings keep going on, one day the animal will snap and fight back.
Then again, maybe it will not be so overt, but more underground, perhaps some of the Whites will fight in a way to slow up and stop the process. Paperwork can be lost, dirty tricks and so on.
I dunno, it is hard to predict the future but there will be a time when they won't take it anymore.
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posted on
04/11/2012 10:26:32 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: umgud
In all seriousness, IMO she’s leaving “civil rights violations”, i.e., “double jeopardy” to honest thinkers, for the feds, in case her own show trial doesn’t work out.
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posted on
04/11/2012 10:27:13 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: hinckley buzzard
The tyranny of the minority.
We should be used to that by now.
:-\
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:11:15 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
To: Nowhere Man
I am very much concerned that you are right in this since. Angry blowback will come, mark my words.
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:27:46 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Biggirl
Correction:
“In this sitituation”.
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:29:56 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: All
The question I have is, what MOB? What TRIBE?
Prediction: Hung jury, or nothing more then 3rd degree.
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:39:11 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Tucsonican
A small crowd to begin with.
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:40:57 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Nowhere Man
The truth is that you are right, you are not delusional. Angry blowback will come, mark my words.
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posted on
04/12/2012 2:44:03 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Tigerized
Blood lust is an ugly thing. Amen.
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:10:02 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Newt says, "A nominee that depresses turnout won't beat Barack Obama.")
To: Big Horn
"
Where are they going to find a fair jury?"
Right. What I thought too.
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posted on
04/12/2012 9:13:00 AM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
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