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The worst part is when that voice analysis comes back and it's the young boys.....the police chief should be brought up on civil rights charges.
I think the voice of the 'help' just might be Zimmerman...still doesn't change this case imo though.
I think Zimmerman followed this boy, started the altercation, then started getting beat down (hence the cries for help) & shot him because he couldn't handle a minor 100lbs less his weight & 10yrs younger. What disappoints me about the media is that no one is acting as if Trayvon Martin is a citizen. As if he didn't have the same rights as any other person. The thing is...if anyone was 'standing their ground' it was Trayvon. He was spotted, pursed, possibly cornered by someone who had a GUN...all this after he RAN away. He had more reason to 'stand his ground' than Zimmerman that day.
Zimmerman was in the wrong no matter how you place the story...he stalked, harassed, shot & killed an unarmed minor for no other reason (than the minor defending himself from an unknown stalker). He at the very least should've been charged with Manslaughter.
Question, was the phonecall with his GF recorded? If so, do they now record all phonecalls?
http://tv.chicagotribune.com/2012/zimmermans-friend-speaks-out-says-killing-not-racially-motivated/
Video of Zimmerman's black friend speaking out saying killing wasn't racially motivated. :slap:
Bullshyt...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...in-zimmerman-account-20120326,0,6927332.story
Police have been reluctant to provided details about all their evidence, but this is what they've disclosed to the Sentinel:
Zimmerman was on his way to the grocery store when he spotted Trayvon walking through his gated community.
Trayvon was visiting his father's fiancée, who lived there. He had been suspended from school in Miami after being found with an empty marijuana baggie. Miami schools have a zero-tolerance policy for drug possession.
Zimmerman called police and reported a suspicious person, describing Trayvon as black, acting strangely and perhaps on drugs.
Zimmerman got out of his SUV to follow Trayvon on foot. When a dispatch employee asked Zimmerman if he was following the 17-year-old, Zimmerman said yes. The dispatcher told Zimmerman he did not need to do that.
There is about a one-minute gap during which police say they're not sure what happened.
Zimmerman told them he lost sight of Trayvon and was walking back to his SUV when Trayvon approached him from the left rear, and they exchanged words.
Trayvon asked Zimmerman if he had a problem. Zimmerman said no and reached for his cell phone, he told police.
Trayvon then said, "Well, you do now" or something similar and punched Zimmerman in the nose.
Zimmerman fell to the ground and Trayvon got on top of him and began slamming his head into the sidewalk, he told police.
Zimmerman began yelling for help.
Several witnesses heard those cries, and there's been a dispute about from whom they came: Zimmerman or Trayvon.
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Yeah...I just got pissed off all over again!! :lol:
Not even with the fairytale story Zimmerman/police provided. Why was it important for the police to provide to the newspaper that Trayvon was suspended from school b/c he was found with an empty marijuana baggie?!?! WOW!!! Way to try to dirty his name!! GTFOH!!!
#1 they didn't know this when they first started investigating (well...what they call investigating).
#2 funny how they are able to point out why Trayvon was suspended but was quick to believe Zimmerman had a squeaky clean record.
*sigh* My pressure is rising again!!!! :smh:
WOW
so now they trying to doctor up some story
Ok call me dumb but how do you get suspended for an empty zip lock bag or is there actually some sort of marijuana bag now?
Question, was the phonecall with his GF recorded? If so, do they now record all phonecalls?
Now, there is a 13-year-old witness who has come out of the shadows in support of Zimmerman's account. The details are changing by the day it seems.
George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News.
Zimmerman had claimed he had called police about Martin, whom he found suspicious, then went back to his car when Martin attacked him, punching him.
The new information is the most complete version yet of what Zimmerman claims happened on the night of Feb. 26 when he shot and killed the teenager.
In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.
The initial police report noted that Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and nose, and after medical attention it was decided that he was in good enough condition to travel in a police cruiser to the Sanford, Fla., police station for questioning. He was not arrested.
http://gma.yahoo.com/trayvon-martin-shooter-told-cops-teenager-went-gun-030349812--abc-news.html
For the life of me...:smh:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/17/trayvon-martin-killing-yo_n_1355795.html?ref=mostpopular
Austin was standing less than 20 yards away from Martin when he was shot on the night of February 26. He didn't see much that night, but says he can't shake the screams for help that he heard or the thunderclap of gunfire that nearly shook him from his shoes.
The screams rattle around in his daydreams, so loud at night that sleep hasn't come easily. And he can't stop asking himself a thousand what-ifs: What if he could have stopped it? What if he had looked "suspicious" that night, and not Martin?
Austin's mother, Sheryl Brown, said that the trauma from the night has not been limited to what her son witnessed. It also includes the way she says that the police and some media have twisted his account of the night to fit a self-defense theory, to say that a 13-year-old witness has claimed Zimmerman, and not Martin, was screaming for help. Both Austin and his mother are adamant that the teen could not see who was screaming, but they believe now that it was Martin.
Brown said in hindsight she feels the police investigator on the case attempted to lead her son to provide information that he didn't have. The investigator, she said, would nod yes when asking if it was the man in the T-shirt, who turned out to be Zimmerman, and not the one in the hooded sweatshirt, Martin, who was screaming out for help. And while the police have said that they don't have any evidence to refute Zimmerman's claims of self-defense, the investigators had a different story when they visited her family about a week after the shooting, Brown said.
"That investigator said flat out that we don't think it was self-defense," Brown said, recalling the day the police came to interview Austin. "Several times he said, 'I have kids, and I'm going to tell you something that I don't tell many people.' He looked at me and said, 'You have to read between the lines. There's some stereotyping going on.'"
She continued: "He stood here in my family room telling me that this guy [Zimmerman] is not right and it wasn't self-defense and that they have to prove that it wasn't. He was adamant about that. I don't know if that was to make me less uncomfortable or to make us feel that he was on our side."
In recent days, other witnesses have come forward to say that the police attempted to twist their testimony to support Zimmerman's claims of self-defense or ignored them entirely, including two witnesses who joined the Martin family during a press conference on Friday.
A police spokesman could not be reached immediately for comment. The Sanford Police have said in the past that there is little evidence to refute Zimmerman's claims. But the department has also publicly stated that some witnesses have since contradicted their initial statements to police, which supported the self-defense theory.
Last night the Sanford Police, pushed by city officials, released 911 recordings made the night of the shooting. And Martin's lawyers say that all the evidence to contradict Zimmerman's claims can be heard on the tape. In the background one can hear what seem to be screams or pleas for help. Then a gunshot and silence. Neighbors can be heard sobbing, telling the dispatcher what they heard or saw: mostly the screams, the cries for help and the gunshot that ended it all.
Funny thing I heard on Fox was that Trayvon is 6'3" and Zimmerman was 5'7", so the perception of Tayvon being taller and having on the hoodie made him more threatening? hmmmm
Why? Stand your ground. You can make a difference.I remember talking to one of my boys' girlfriend last year, and she told me that she was "scared" of MS because of the racism/ perception of racism and the state's racist history. I told her then, that "If you think that what can happen in MS can't happen in FL, then you've been bamboozled." I said, "If anything, I'd be more afraid here, because Black citizens, Black leaders and Black professionals have VERY little power and influence here. And esp. in Central FL". She texted me two weeks ago and said she understands EXACTLY what I meant. Florida is not a socially uplifting area for Blacks, in general. Most move north to Atlanta, Charlotte and DC. Black culture comes here to die. I promise I'm taking the next job smoking out of Orlando. :smh:
And look at all of the support that had to come from out of state to get Trayvon the attention and justice he deserves. Every single rally and outcry that has been raised has come from outside of FL. These MF's here were more worried about whether or not Dwight Howard was gonna be traded.
Why? Stand your ground. You can make a difference.
Trayvon Martin was suspended from school three times in the months before he was shot dead by a neighborhood watchman, it emerged today.
The new claims, revealed in a leaked report, paint a different picture, one of a teenager who frequently found himself in trouble with authorities.
It was also revealed that he might have attacked a bus driver, according to a Twitter account that some claim belonged to the teen.
The Miami Herald claims that in October, he was caught with a 'burglary tool' - a flathead screwdriver - and 12 pieces of women's jewellery. Martin insisted that they did not belong to him.