Trayvon Martin

[Freitag]

you don't know that there is no evidence to that fact...only two eye witnesses and one is dead...the other is a proven liar

There is evidence. GZ's story never changed, from the very first moments after the shooting. He willingly talked to the police, despite knowing that he didn't have to. The evidence presented at trial all supported his version of events.

Zimmerman neighbor John Good, described by the AP as having "perhaps the best view of the struggle," said he heard noise while watching TV on the night Trayvon Martin was killed and stepped outside to investigate. He described seeing a MMA-style scene unfold. In his telling, the two men were "tussling" on the ground, with the person on top in a straddle position and throwing punches "ground and pound" style. He described the person on top as darkly-clad, with the one on the bottom in either red or white, and having lighter skin. Per the evidence, Trayvon was in a dark-colored sweatshirt and Zimmerman was dressed in red that night. When asked if he believed Trayvon was on top, Good replied, "Correct ... that's what it looked like."

Neighbor Jonathon Manalo, who was the first one to step outside and took cellphone photos that night that were shown to the jury today, described "blood running down [Zimmerman's] nose from both nostrils and over his lips." He said Zimmerman's demeanor was calm, and said Zimmerman asked him to call his wife. "Just tell her I shot someone," Manalo recounts Zimmerman as saying. He said Zimmerman told him at the time that the shooting was in self-defense. When asked if that "seemed completely true," Manalo replied, "yes."

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A nationally renowned gunshot wound expert testified Tuesday that Trayvon Martin's gunshot wound was consistent with accused murderer George Zimmerman's story that the teen was on top of him and leaning over when he was shot.

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[Wombaticus Rex]

conniption: Are you referring to the dizzying fractal effect of scrolling through an infinite regression of self-reference? Or just the part where it takes four printable pages for a two-sentence reply?

I mean, I find it nauseating but we don't specifically have rules against it. I'd be very happy to have an RI-wide discussion about making that rule.

[justdrew]

As I said earlier, a black kid like Trayvon has every right to make it home safe in a white community

Trayvon Martin attacked Zimmerman, that's why it was self-defense, and why Zimmerman was acquitted.

That's G.Z.'s claim, and it has some support.

However - let's imagine T.M. didn't die from the gunshot.

Hunter and anyone else - Would there have been sufficient evidence to convict T.M. of assault?

[seemslikeadream]

you don't know that there is no evidence to that fact...only two eye witnesses and one is dead...the other is a proven liar

There is evidence. GZ's story never changed, from the very first moments after the shooting. He willingly talked to the police, despite knowing that he didn't have to. The evidence presented at trial all supported his version of events.

Zimmerman neighbor John Good, described by the AP as having "perhaps the best view of the struggle," said he heard noise while watching TV on the night Trayvon Martin was killed and stepped outside to investigate. He described seeing a MMA-style scene unfold. In his telling, the two men were "tussling" on the ground, with the person on top in a straddle position and throwing punches "ground and pound" style. He described the person on top as darkly-clad, with the one on the bottom in either red or white, and having lighter skin. Per the evidence, Trayvon was in a dark-colored sweatshirt and Zimmerman was dressed in red that night. When asked if he believed Trayvon was on top, Good replied, "Correct ... that's what it looked like."

Neighbor Jonathon Manalo, who was the first one to step outside and took cellphone photos that night that were shown to the jury today, described "blood running down [Zimmerman's] nose from both nostrils and over his lips." He said Zimmerman's demeanor was calm, and said Zimmerman asked him to call his wife. "Just tell her I shot someone," Manalo recounts Zimmerman as saying. He said Zimmerman told him at the time that the shooting was in self-defense. When asked if that "seemed completely true," Manalo replied, "yes."

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A nationally renowned gunshot wound expert testified Tuesday that Trayvon Martin's gunshot wound was consistent with accused murderer George Zimmerman's story that the teen was on top of him and leaning over when he was shot.

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You're only posting stuff that fits your theory ...if I have time I will post more but for now


in the interview with Sean Hannity Zimmmerman the child killer says he had NEVER heard of the Stand Your Ground law....at the trial the guy who taught Zimmerman the child killer told the court the Stand Your Ground was covered totally class after class...first LIE... Why would he lie?? I will post more later

[seemslikeadream]

The night Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin he told police that he had a clean record when in fact, he had been charged in 2005 with resisting arrest during an altercation with a state alcohol officer.

[seemslikeadream]

When Zimmerman was booked into the Seminole County Jail, he told the booking officer that he had never been in a pretrial-diversion program before, but he had. After his resisting arrest Zimmerman wound up in a pretrial-diversion program, a scaled-down version of probation offered to nonviolent first-time offenders.

[seemslikeadream]

Shellie, while testifying under oath by telephone, said the couple had no savings. At that moment, the couple had at least $135,000 that she had transferred into her credit-union account a few days earlier from a PayPal account that Zimmerman had set up to collect donations

Which she was arrested for and will be going to trial for ...15 years in jail...would be nice!

[seemslikeadream]

In late March, Robert Zimmerman told MyFox Orlando that:

"It's my understanding that Trayvon Martin got on top of him and just started beating him."

He said he felt his son has been portrayed in the wrong way. He also said he and his family have received death threats and asked that they not show his face on camera.

As for accounts from Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, who says she was on the phone with Martin right before the altercation, he said:

"I don't believe that happened. I don't believe she was on the phone with him, and I find it very strange with the publicity involved... that all of a sudden, after three weeks, someone would remember that they were on the phone."

Turns out Trayvon's girlfriend was telling the truth as it is on record that she was talking to him before Zimmerman killed him.

[seemslikeadream]

His body is a LIE

[seemslikeadream]

George Zimmerman is a liar...a racist and a child killer....that racist part will be proven when Federal charges are filed and he's in FEDERAL COURT and in civil court where he will have to testify


He is the scum of the earth

[compared2what?]

you don't know that there is no evidence to that fact...only two eye witnesses and one is dead...the other is a proven liar

There is evidence. GZ's story never changed, from the very first moments after the shooting. He willingly talked to the police, despite knowing that he didn't have to.

You understand that the word of the person who did it isn't really evidence you can take to the bank, right?

I'm not saying he's lying. But OF COURSE he thinks what he did was justified. Try to bear in mind that you're assessing the word of someone who was so freaked out by the sight of an unarmed black teenager walking home from the store that he called 911 about it.

The evidence presented at trial all supported his version of events.

No. There was quite a bit of evidence that didn't support his claims of having been brutally attacked. For example, he was barely injured; Martin didn't have any of his DNA under his nails; and his gun grip didn't have any of Martin's; and Martin had neither any reason to attack him nor any history of that kind of assault.

There was no proof that his claim of self-defense was untrue. But that doesn't = "He was attacked!" It =reasonable doubt.

Zimmerman neighbor John Good, described by the AP as having "perhaps the best view of the struggle," said he heard noise while watching TV on the night Trayvon Martin was killed and stepped outside to investigate. He described seeing a MMA-style scene unfold. In his telling, the two men were "tussling" on the ground, with the person on top in a straddle position and throwing punches "ground and pound" style. He described the person on top as darkly-clad, with the one on the bottom in either red or white, and having lighter skin. Per the evidence, Trayvon was in a dark-colored sweatshirt and Zimmerman was dressed in red that night. When asked if he believed Trayvon was on top, Good replied, "Correct ... that's what it looked like."

That hardly proves he was attacked. They were fighting. Nobody disputes that.

Neighbor Jonathon Manalo, who was the first one to step outside and took cellphone photos that night that were shown to the jury today, described "blood running down [Zimmerman's] nose from both nostrils and over his lips." He said Zimmerman's demeanor was calm, and said Zimmerman asked him to call his wife. "Just tell her I shot someone," Manalo recounts Zimmerman as saying. He said Zimmerman told him at the time that the shooting was in self-defense. When asked if that "seemed completely true," Manalo replied, "yes."

Unless you think that whenever someone says something that seems to be completely true, it must be, that's really not proof either.

A nationally renowned gunshot wound expert testified Tuesday that Trayvon Martin's gunshot wound was consistent with accused murderer George Zimmerman's story that the teen was on top of him and leaning over when he was shot.

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Again: They were fighting. That says nothing about who attacked whom. And anyway, his injuries were not severe enough to support his claim that he was being brutally assaulted. If you don't find that conclusive, fine. But it is evidence.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

Bingo compared2what?. There's no proof Trayvon attacked Zimmerman. But there is proof he was kicking his racist fucking ass. Which, considering the creep was stalking him, I think he was totally right to stand his ground and defend himself. Just my opinion, and obviously it carries no legal weight whatsoever.

[seemslikeadream]

The murder weapon won't be going back to the child killer just yet

Department Of Justice Places Hold On All Evidence In The Zimmerman Case (PHOTOS)
Posted 3 hours 41 min ago by Christina Coleman for Global Grind Staff


It looks like the Department of Justice is really going to take a look at the George Zimmerman case.

The Sanford Police Department announced on Thursday that the DOJ has placed a hold on all the evidence from the case.

That means the 9mm gun used to murder 17-year-old Trayvon Martin won't go back to Zimmerman just yet. But details on what the DOJ plans to do with the evidence isn't yet clear.

We'll keep you updated with the latest.

[compared2what?]

Bingo compared2what?. There's no proof Trayvon attacked Zimmerman. But there is proof he was kicking his racist fucking ass. Which, considering the creep was stalking him, I think he was totally right to stand his ground and defend himself. Just my opinion, and obviously it carries no legal weight whatsoever.

I wouldn't say "kicking his ass." He was barely hurt. But yeah. There was clearly a fight.

And DOUBLE FUCK YEAH: That Zimmerman was pursuing him really does count against the self-defense claim. Or it should, anyway. I mean,if the victim in a rape trial ever testifed that she'd followed her attacker, it would sure as hell be considered evidence that she hadn't been attacked***. And probably definitive evidence, too. Rightly or wrongly.

Seems to mean nothing here, though.

***ON EDIT: That she was asking for it, basically. I'm not saying it's right to go that far. But if there's a reason besides racism why nothing that's even remotely a teensy-eensy bit like that apparently applies to Zimmerman, hell if I know what.

[8bitagent]

The murder weapon won't be going back to the child killer just yet

Department Of Justice Places Hold On All Evidence In The Zimmerman Case (PHOTOS)
Posted 3 hours 41 min ago by Christina Coleman for Global Grind Staff


It looks like the Department of Justice is really going to take a look at the George Zimmerman case.

The Sanford Police Department announced on Thursday that the DOJ has placed a hold on all the evidence from the case.

That means the 9mm gun used to murder 17-year-old Trayvon Martin won't go back to Zimmerman just yet. But details on what the DOJ plans to do with the evidence isn't yet clear.

We'll keep you updated with the latest.

Lovely. Child killers investigating child killers. Oh the irony.