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Key Witness Against George Zimmerman Is Hard to Understand, Harder to Believe
Reason Magazine's Hit & Run ^ | June 27, 2013 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 06/27/2013 7:15:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Yesterday and today, jurors in George Zimmerman's murder trial heard testimony from a key prosecution witness: Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old_friend of Trayvon Martin who was on the phone with him right before the scuffle that ended in his death. Jeantel said that Martin repeatedly complained to her about a "creepy-*ss cracker" who was following him and that she urged him to run, which he did. After the call was dropped, she said, she called him back about 20 seconds later, and he sounded tired from running. She said he told her he saw the man again, and she heard him say, "Why are you following me for?" She said she heard "a hard-breathing man" reply, "What you doing around here?" At that point, she said, she heard "a bump" as Martin's cellphone headset fell on the ground and "the sound of wet grass." After that, "I calling, 'Trayvon, Trayvon,'" Jeantel said. "I kind of heard Trayvon saying, 'Get off, get off.' Suddenly the phone hung up, shut off."

Jeantel's testimony, which continues as I write, contradicts Zimmerman's claim that he stopped following Martin and was assaulted by him without provocation. Her account implies that it was Zimmerman who tackled Martin, rather than the other way around. How credible is her version of events? Not very.

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Over all, Jeantel is a decidedly unimpressive witness, slurring her words and speaking so softly that at times she can barely be heard, becoming increasingly testy as West highlights the inconsistencies in her testimony. Virtually all of her responses so far have included the word sir, sometimes repeated several times in the same sentence, usually tinged with sarcasm. At one point, in response to West's suggestion that Martin planned to start a fight with Zimmerman, she responded, "That's real retarded, sir."(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; kangaroocourt; railroaded; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Welcome to 21st century America folks, this idiot and her ilk are the future of the country.


101 posted on 06/27/2013 9:05:20 PM PDT by Lucky2 (BO stinks)
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To: RugerMini14
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102 posted on 06/27/2013 9:06:32 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who woulda thunk it...Idiocracy was a documentary!


103 posted on 06/27/2013 9:14:53 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s what struck me. Travon, for all his faults, wasn’t a bad looking guy. THIS was the best he could do????


104 posted on 06/27/2013 9:34:38 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My only comment...
Rachel Jeantel is the perfect and ideal poster girl for a large poster labeled, "Obama and Holders peep!"

No further comment is necessary.

106 posted on 06/27/2013 9:43:06 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: publius911

If Obama had a daughter...


107 posted on 06/27/2013 9:43:49 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: chris37

Obsolete Obsolete. I feel like that is where we are right about now.


108 posted on 06/27/2013 9:49:15 PM PDT by funfan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any word on when the trial will end and the verdict released? Best be ready for rioting.


109 posted on 06/27/2013 9:50:25 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: ctdonath2

I live in a county seat just north of Dallas. I don’t foresee any rioting here, but I could always be wrong.


110 posted on 06/27/2013 10:05:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I do too. Pretty quiet town for the most part. Our sheriff here doesn’t put up with nonsense.


111 posted on 06/27/2013 10:16:02 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Take a look at Trayvons mother thru this trial...she doesn’t flinch...while his old man weeps and whines...she pays no attention even to him.... She’s one hard woman.


112 posted on 06/27/2013 10:18:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; xzins

I’m thinking of developing a line of food products called “Creepy Ass Crackers”.

Two vanilla wafers with brown chocolate in the middle.

Can I get some investors?


113 posted on 06/27/2013 10:38:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: P-Marlowe

they already have a line of creepy ass crackas

http://www.google.com/search?q=low+riding+jail+pants&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4PRFB_enUS486US486&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=FyLNUYrvI4-C9gTez4C4AQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=965&bih=451#hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4PRFB_enUS486US486&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=low+riding+jail+pants&oq=low+riding+jail+pants&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.3792.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..18.img.D_Cl-KmxroQ&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48572450,d.eWU&fp=b74a9d98038f5382&biw=965&bih=451&imgdii=_


114 posted on 06/27/2013 10:44:44 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: cripplecreek

“I thought goiters went out with the turn of the century.”

NO SHIITE! That woman’s neck is bigger around than her head. Either that, or her neck has a neck!


115 posted on 06/27/2013 10:47:00 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: P-Marlowe

Creepy Ass Cracker prototype

116 posted on 06/27/2013 10:47:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: chris37

“What bothers me is that I have heard black people on both Hannity’s radio show and Gerta’s tv show say that this women did a good job, was convincing and that the defense attorney was a bully.”

Yeah, I lost all respect for Ted the Black former cop turned lawyer. I never thought he was the brightest bulb on the string, but tonight there he was staring down at the skin on his arm saying “gotta do this for my people.”


117 posted on 06/27/2013 10:49:35 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

She’s got more chins than China Town.


118 posted on 06/27/2013 10:52:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ctdonath2

I doubt there will be rioting where I live. I am 40+miles to the east of the urban decay of Dallas, in the middle of the country. I have my rifles, shotgun and handguns ready for use if the need arises, though.


119 posted on 06/27/2013 10:53:12 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: vette6387

Yep saw him.

Should I ever be so unfortunate to need a jury, I would not want him, and quite frankly anyone else like him, on my jury.

Something is wrong with the ability to see even the most simple of truths, I do not get it.


120 posted on 06/27/2013 10:58:47 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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