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Powell calls Martin verdict 'questionable'
politico ^ | 8/25/2013 | By REID J. EPSTEIN

Posted on 08/25/2013 7:48:40 AM PDT by tobyhill

The Trayvon Martin verdict showed “questionable judgment” on the part of Florida’s judicial system, Colin Powell said in an interview airing Sunday.

The former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the white Florida man who shot and killed Martin, an unarmed black teenager, won’t be something with much lasting impact on the nation’s politics.

“I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part of the judicial system down there, but I don't know if it will have staying power,” Powell said on CBS's "Face the Nation." “These cases come along, and they blaze across the midnight sky and then after a period of time, they're forgotten.”

Powell said he would like to see President Barack Obama express more passion about race relations in America.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; powell; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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1 posted on 08/25/2013 7:48:40 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Powell being a good “race man”, I wonder if Jindal will lecture him?


2 posted on 08/25/2013 7:51:45 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: tobyhill

says colin powell.....face DOWN somewhere in the Nation.....


3 posted on 08/25/2013 7:52:35 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team / al-Kilab Division)
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To: junta

We will never here the end of this????????

A lot more white people will buy guns and bear spray..

Black on white crime is now getting the attention of white america..


4 posted on 08/25/2013 7:56:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: tobyhill

Colin Powell, race baiter and apparently great judicial system expert.


5 posted on 08/25/2013 7:58:49 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: tobyhill

I watched the trial and Colin Powell has to be a GD racist liberal idiot to say this. He sure as hell didn’t bother to watch the trial.


6 posted on 08/25/2013 7:59:07 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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Not much staying power?
Whistling past the graveyard.


7 posted on 08/25/2013 8:01:11 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Williams

I find Colin Powell to be questionable.


8 posted on 08/25/2013 8:02:16 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: tobyhill
Powell said he would like to see President Barack Obama express more passion about race relations in America

What more could he do?

Start beating old WW II veterans himself?

9 posted on 08/25/2013 8:02:51 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: tobyhill

WHY does it ALWAYS come down to race?!

After 50 years of affirmative action, set asides, reparations in multiple forms, reverse discrimination in hiring and promotions, a saturated media where whites are always evil and blacks can do no wrong, inundation of rap and hip-hop, and an overwhelming preponderance of assaults and murders from a tiny percentage of the population, we STILL have black “leaders” proclaiming that society is overtly, horribly, and irretrievably racist.

Zimmerman was having his head bashed in by a black thug who attacked him. GZ defended himself successfully. What is so hard to understand about this?!


10 posted on 08/25/2013 8:05:12 AM PDT by Tigerized
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To: Timber Rattler

I am beginning to wonder if Powell has always been a fraud.


11 posted on 08/25/2013 8:06:13 AM PDT by Sam Clements
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To: Sam Clements

Yeah, me too.


12 posted on 08/25/2013 8:07:44 AM PDT by ScubieNuc (When there is no justice in the laws, justice is left to the outlaws.)
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To: Hojczyk
We will never here the end of this????????

Since they are already planning an exhibit in the Smithsonian for St. Skittles hoodie, don't be surprised when a monument is built for him next to MLK

13 posted on 08/25/2013 8:08:17 AM PDT by digger48
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To: tobyhill

Thank you, General Irrelevant.


14 posted on 08/25/2013 8:09:43 AM PDT by clintonh8r (white Caucasian)
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To: tobyhill
Once more Collin Powell opens his mouth and figuratively shoots himself in the foot. Either he is too stupid to understand the true facts in the Travon Martin/George Zimmerman case, or he's basing all his bloviating on pandering to and race baiting the black community. He's just like his hero, Dear Leader Obonzo. And Powell says he's a Republican? WTF?
15 posted on 08/25/2013 8:11:03 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: tobyhill

“The Trayvon Martin verdict showed “questionable judgment””

Does he realize the Martin was not on trial?


16 posted on 08/25/2013 8:11:20 AM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: junta

was powell asked about his affair with a romanian diplomat?

it’s amazing how certain guys just skate by


17 posted on 08/25/2013 8:11:21 AM PDT by jeltz25
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To: tobyhill

Who’s title is this. Martin received justice but this is a Zimmerman verdict.


18 posted on 08/25/2013 8:12:18 AM PDT by rsobin
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To: Tigerized
Zimmerman was having his head bashed in by a black thug who attacked him. GZ defended himself successfully. What is so hard to understand about this?!

We are expected to believe that Z wouldn't have shot a white or hispanic beating his head against the concrete?

19 posted on 08/25/2013 8:13:11 AM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: Sam Clements

I wonder if Powell would have left Libby twisting in the wind had it been someone like Obama or Holder who was “responsible” for the leak that never was one.

Meanwhile, I still hold Bush responsbible for not having pulled the plug on that prosecution before it got off the ground.


20 posted on 08/25/2013 8:13:37 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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