Trayvon suspended over marijuana

[hopalong]

oldtimer was not hiding at the water hole that night, he was protecting the women there that night, he had them surround him to insure their safety :roll:

 

[flounder]

George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says


By Sari Horwitz,

The Washington Post

Posted: 2:19 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, 2012


Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.


It was not immediately clear what charge Zimmerman will face.


Martin, 17 and unarmed, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by Zimmerman, who said he was acting in self-defense. Police in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting took place, did not charge Zimmerman, citing the state's "stand your ground" law.


Corey told reporters Tuesday night that she would hold a news conference about the case within 72 hours. A news release from her office said the event will be held in Sanford or Jacksonville, Fla.


Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Martin family, said this week that Corey's office had asked where Trayvon's parents would be each day this week. They arrived Wednesday in Washington for a civil rights conference organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, where they are scheduled to speak.


The announcement of a charge against Zimmerman would come a day after Zimmerman's attorneys withdrew from the case, citing their inability to contact Zimmerman.


Lawyers Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig on Tuesday expressed concern about Zimmerman's emotional and physical well-being, saying he has taken actions without consulting them. They also said they do not know where Zimmerman is.


"You can stop looking in Florida," Uhrig told reporters. "Look much further away than that."


Corey said Monday that she would not bring the case before a grand jury, which was expected to convene this week. She said her decision to forgo the grand jury should not be viewed as a factor in determining whether charges will be filed.


Corey has indicated in recent weeks that she might not need a grand jury to bring charges against Zimmerman.


The lawyers said they stand by their assertions that Zimmerman acted in self-defense when he killed the 17-year-old, who was unarmed, but they acknowledged that they formed their impressions without meeting Zimmerman.



http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/george-zimmerman-to-be-charged-in-trayvon-martin-2297285.html



Report:

Special Prosecutor Could Charge George Zimmerman As Early As Today In Death Of Trayvon Martin | The Washington Post is reporting that Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey will announce as early as this afternoon that she will file charges against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on February 26. The news squares with an announcement from Corey last night that she would schedule a press conference within 72 hours for the purposes of making an announcement pertaining to the case. The report, purportedly from an anonymous law enforcement official close to the investigation, makes no mention of what the charges will be.



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/11/462713/report-special-prosecutor-could-charge-george-zimmerman-as-early-as-today-in-death-of-trayvon-martin/



George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-zimmerman-to-be-charged-in-trayvon-martin-shooting-law-enforcement-official-says/2012/04/11/gIQAHJ5oAT_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

 

[hopalong]

By skipping the Grand Jury process the Prosecutor is bowing to pressure and bringing charges anyway. So much for due process mob rules now. The local DA did not want to charge so find someone else.

 

[hypocritexposer]

She talked to George Zimmerman the other day. she probably mentioned these charges.

Gee, I wonder why he didn't feel his lawyers were needed anymore.

He will not be convicted......

 

[hypocritexposer]

Here's the ENTIRE press conference where Zimmerman's lawyers left the case.

Flounder and the media wanted to portray this as the lawyers dropping the case, due to Zimmerman's guilt etc, but if you start watching at the 28 min. mark, you will clearly see that the lawyers believe in his innocence and give the media and people like Flounder "what for", for portraying this as a racially motivated hate crime.

You will also learn some new details of what happened that night.


Full 45 min! Zimmerman Attorney Press Conference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c7jkxf-TKYw

 

[hopalong]

WHAT??? flipper tries to post lies and mis truths??? His postings are wrong??
NAH that is unbelievable,,,after all he is a H.S. drop out, try's to get people to believe he is an expert and thinks he is a DR :roll: :roll: :roll:
He would never lie or try to mislead with 1/2 truths of complete lies!!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
EH???? Kinda like the jurist from Mt when it comes to lies

 

[hypocritexposer]

one exchange on the video:

Hal Uhrig: This is a gun law consistent in about 23 or 24 other states. What is basically says is nothing new. If you are confronted by someone and physically attacked and in reasonable fear for your safety, you're entitled to defend yourself.

The statute has four little . . four stools . . . four legs to that stool. First, you have to be someplace where you're allowed to be. Both of them were. you've gotta be not doing anything illegal. As far as we know both of them were. And you cannot be the first physical aggressor. Not the first "Hey, I want to call you a bad name," or call you mama a bad name. The first physical aggressor. The only evidence and most of the forensics support the fact that that was Trayvon Martin.

When . . when that happens. When that happens . . .

[Reporter interrupts with something unintelligible about mortician]

Let me tell you what the mortician said about Trayvon Martin. What, what he said on his little announcement was, other than the bullet, bullet hole, I didn't find, ah, injuries on Trayvon Martin. I guess he was intending to say, I didn't see the, ah . . .

[Another reporter interrupts with something unintelligible]

Did you want to outshout me? Or did you want to go talk to somebody else?

[Unintelligible response]

I'm answering a question. You can stay out of it. What the, what the mortician said was I didn't see any injuries. [Reporters still murmuring] He didn't have a broken nose. He didn't have scars on the back of his head. [Obnoxious reporters] You won't find any photographs of those. You won't find a witness to come in and say that.

 

[hypocritexposer]

As suspected.....there is no evidence that Zimmerman followed Trayvon after he was told "we don't need you to do that"



O'MARA: My question was do you have any evidence to contradict or that conflicts with his contention given before he knew any of the evidence that would conflict with the fact that he stated I walked back to my car?

GILBREATH: No.

O'MARA: No evidence. Correct?

GILBREATH: Understanding -- are you talking about at that point in time?

O'MARA: Since. Today. Do you have any evidence that conflicts with his suggestion that he had turned around and went back to his car?

GILBREATH: Other than his statement, no.

O'MARA: Any evidence that conflicts with that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He answered it. He said no.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/20/cnr.02.html

Hey Ramstein, how do you know that Zimmerman followed Trayvon after being advised that "they did not need him to do that"

And was he in his truck or outside of his truck when he called the Sanford Police Department?


Here's the transcript of the call.


Now by this account, it could very well be that Zimmerman was on foot, when he made the call and stopped following Trayvon, when he was needed to. this is surmised by not knowing what address his truck is in front of.

Then the next thing we know, , the dispatcher tells him to walk to the mailboxes to meet police.

He was not following Trayvon, but following those precious police orders, you wanted him to follow.



:roll:

Dispatcher: Sanford Police Department. …

Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a
real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, um, the best address I can
give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he's up to no good, or
he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking
about.

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

Dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?

Zimmerman: Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a grey hoodie, and either jeans or
sweatpants and white tennis shoes. He's [unintelligible], he was just staring…

Dispatcher: OK, he's just walking around the area…

Zimmerman: …looking at all the houses.

Dispatcher: OK…

Zimmerman: Now he's just staring at me.

Dispatcher: OK—you said it's 1111 Retreat View? Or 111?

Zimmerman: That's the clubhouse…

Dispatcher: That's the clubhouse, do you know what the—he's near the
clubhouse right now?

Zimmerman: Yeah, now he's coming towards me.

Dispatcher: OK.

Zimmerman: He's got his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male.

Dispatcher: How old would you say he looks?

Zimmerman: He's got button on his shirt, late teens.

Dispatcher: Late teens ok.

Zimmerman: Somethings wrong with him. Yup, he's coming to check me out, he's got
something in his hands, I don't know what his deal is.

Dispatcher: Just let me know if he does anything ok

Zimmerman: How long until you get an officer over here?

Dispatcher: Yeah we've got someone on the way, just let me know if this guy does
anything else.

Zimmerman: Okay. These assholes they always get away. When you come to the
clubhouse you come straight in and make a left. Actually you would go past the
clubhouse.

Dispatcher: So it's on the lefthand side from the clubhouse?

Zimmerman: No you go in straight through the entrance and then you make a left…uh
you go straight in, don't turn, and make a left. s*** he's running.

Dispatcher: He's running? Which way is he running?

Zimmerman: Down towards the other entrance to the neighborhood.

Dispatcher: Which entrance is that that he's heading towards?

Zimmerman: The back entrance…bad word [unintelligible]

Dispatcher: Are you following him?

Zimmerman: Yeah

Dispatcher: Ok, we don't need you to do that.

Zimmerman: Ok

Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?

Zimmerman: George…He ran.

Dispatcher: Alright George what's your last name?

Zimmerman: Zimmerman

Dispatcher: And George what's the phone number you're calling from?

Zimmerman: [redacted by Mother Jones]

Dispatcher: Alright George we do have them on the way, do you want to meet with the
officer when they get out there?

Zimmerman: Alright, where you going to meet with them at?

Zimmerman: If they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the
club house, and uh, straight past the club house and make a left, and then they
go past the mailboxes, that's my truck...[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What address are you parked in front of?

Zimmerman: I don't know, it's a cut through so I don't know the address.

Dispatcher: Okay do you live in the area?

Zimmerman: Yeah, I...[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What's your apartment number?

Zimmerman: It's a home it's 1950, oh crap I don't want to give it all out, I don't
know where this kid is.

Dispatcher: Okay do you want to just meet with them right near the mailboxes
then?

Zimmerman: Yeah that's fine.

Dispatcher: Alright George, I'll let them know to meet you around there okay?

Zimmerman: Actually could you have them call me and I'll tell them where I'm at?

Dispatcher: Okay, yeah that's no problem.

Zimmerman: Should I give you my number or you got it?

Dispatcher: Yeah I got it [redacted by Mother Jones]

Zimmerman: Yeah you got it.

Dispatcher: Okay no problem, I'll let them know to call you when you're in the
area.

Zimmerman: Thanks.

Dispatcher: You're welcome.

 

[flounder]

zimmerman- these assholes, they always get away...



zimmerman- he's running.



police- are you following him?



zimmerman- yes.



police- we don't need you to do that.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701B5R7zzEE




zimmerman was told to stop following trayvon by the police.


zimmerman refused to do what the police said, and then chose to pursuit the 17 year old, unarmed trayvon.


trayvon becomes scared of zimmerman following him, after the police told zimmerman NOT TO FOLLOW HIM.


zimmerman then chased trayvon down and shot and killed an unarmed 17 year old in cold blood.



REMEMBER WHAT ZIMMERMAN SAID AT FIRST ;



zimmerman- these assholes, they always get away...




case closed. zimmerman had intent to chase an unarmed 17 year old down, after police had told him not to do it, and murder him. and that's what he did. ...




zimmerman- these assholes, they always get away...

 

[hypocritexposer]

your comments are based on emotion and not factual.

one example is calling the operator that Zimmerman was speaking with the "police"

Do you think the guys that shoot people and do break and enters and steal other people's stuff are "assholes"

That's who Zimmerman was referring to.

 

[hopalong]

Dont expect flipper the flopping flounder to post the truth, he just posts what ever he can and changes things around to suit his purpose, little or no research of his own goes into the statements he pastes,

 

[Tam]

police- we don't need you to do that.

zimmerman was told to stop following trayvon by the police.


zimmerman refused to do what the police said, and then chose to pursuit the 17 year old, unarmed trayvon.

...

Dispatcher: Are you following him?

Zimmerman: Yeah

Dispatcher: Ok, we don't need you to do that.

Zimmerman: Ok

Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?

Zimmerman: George…He ran.

Dispatcher: Alright George what's your last name?

Zimmerman: Zimmerman

Dispatcher: And George what's the phone number you're calling from?

Zimmerman: [redacted by Mother Jones]

Dispatcher: Alright George we do have them on the way, do you want to meet with the
officer when they get out there?

Zimmerman: Alright, where you going to meet with them at?

Zimmerman: If they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the
club house, and uh, straight past the club house and make a left, and then they
go past the mailboxes, that's my truck...[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What address are you parked in front of?

Zimmerman: I don't know, it's a cut through so I don't know the address.

Dispatcher: Okay do you live in the area?

Zimmerman: Yeah, I...[unintelligible]

Dispatcher: What's your apartment number?

Zimmerman: It's a home it's 1950, oh crap I don't want to give it all out, I don't
know where this kid is.

Dispatcher: Okay do you want to just meet with them right near the mailboxes
then?

Zimmerman: Yeah that's fine.

Flounder NOWHERE in the actual Dispatcher/Zimmerman conversation do I get the feeling Zimmerman was still running after Trayvon. :roll: He told the Dispatcher to tell the police to meet him AT HIS TRUCK BY THE MAILBOXES so why would he do that if he REFUSED to do what the dispatcher told him to do, which was stop following Trayvon? If he was still following Trayvon like you claim how could he possibaly know where the chase would take him? He couldn't yet he clearly told the dispatcher he would meet the police AT HIS TRCK AT THE MAILBOXES.

If this is how you look at evidence God Forbid you ever get called for jury duty. :roll: They may have more evidence that we don't know about but if you look at the pictures of Zimmerman's head, listen to the 911 tape and listen to the one actual eyewitness that said it was the guy in the red jacket on his back on the ground calling out for help while being beaten by the guy that later was on the ground dead You have to wonder what other than POLICIAL PRESSURE TO CONVICT the AG had to charge Zimmerman?

 

[hypocritexposer]

when Zimmerman was told "we don't need you to do that", he turned around in the opposite direction to go back to his truck. (remember that Zimmerman had lost sight of Trayvon)

Meanwhile Trayvon had circled the building and ended up between Zimmerman and his vehicle. This is when the confrontation happened.

Was Trayvon meaning to "bump" into Zimmerman? Doubtful, but when he did meet up with him, he was most likely scared and thought he was better to take the first punch.

Unfortunate situation that didn't turn out too well for either one of them, or the country and race relations, because of the race baiting by people like flounder, Rev. Al etc.

 

[hopalong]

Dont forget that flipper has all the answers except the right ones, what he does not know he makes up (((and that is a lot))) His research is always done by someone else and he believes it!!!

EH flipping flounder?????

 

[hypocritexposer]

The unfortunate thing is that if Zimmerman had of continued following Taryvon, this whole incident probably would not have happened.

In the call, zimmerman mentions Trayvon taking off running. If zimmerman had been advised to follow but to stay back a certain distance, he would not have caught up to Trayvon, and Trayvon would have made it home, most likely without incident.

 

[Steve]

"If You See Something, Say Something" which encourages the American public to take an active role in ensuring the safety and security of the nation, DHS said Monday.

"Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe," Secretary Janet Napolitano said as she thanked Walmart and the more than 320 stores who joined the national campaign Monday.

"This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities," Napolitano said.

The "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign was originally implemented by New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a simple and effective program that engages the public and key front-line employees to report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to authorities, according to the DHS statement.

almost every single action should be treated as suspicious.

These include glances, wide open eyes, cold penetrating stares, trance-like gazes, exaggerated yawning when engaged in conversation, protruding or beating neck arteries, repetitive touching of face, tugging on or covering ears, increased breathing rate, panting, excessive fidgeting, clock watching, head turning, pacing or jumpiness, trembling, unusual perspiration, goose bumps, and/or rigid posture with minimal body movements and arms close to sides.

In other words, if you're late for something or in a rush ("excessive fidgeting, clock watching"), you might be a terrorist. If you've been exercising ("increased breathing rate, panting," "protruding or beating neck arteries"), you might be a terrorist.

On the other hand, if you're tired ("trance-like gaze," "exaggerated yawning") you also might be a terrorist. Yet, if you're energetic or perhaps drank too much coffee ("wide open 'flashbulb eyes,'" "pacing or jumpy," "trembling," "unusual perspiration," "excessive fidgeting"), you might also be a terrorist.

You'd better not be too energetic, too tired, in a rush, plagued by a wide range of medical conditions, returning from exercise, or generally display almost any bodily behaviors as someone might consider you a suspicious person and report you for possible terrorist activity.

The document encourages people to report everything they see and they make a point of emphasizing that, "Staying alert is NOT paranoia."

in a world threatened with terrorism, in a country with crime considered a serious threat to our safety... our media and government set out to crucify a person who listened... and actively paid attention and followed their instructions...

it is as ironic as it is tragic,...

 

[Tam]

Reuters) - Tracy Martin had been looking for his son Trayvon since the night before. He went to bed figuring the teen must have gone to the movies and turned off his phone. When Trayvon still wasn't home in the morning, Martin called the police.

After a flurry of phone calls back and forth, an officer told him a police unit was on the way. "So I went outside waiting for Trayvon to show up," Martin said.

Instead of one squad car with his son in the backseat, three vehicles pulled up: a police cruiser, an unmarked sedan and another official-looking car. Martin would discover the third car belonged to a chaplain.

It was not yet 8 in the morning, barely 12 hours since the shooting that took place about 100 yards away, and Martin was still unaware of the fate of his son.

Let's see We were told Trayvon had simply went down to the corner store to get an ice tea and a bag of candy for his little brother TOTALLY INNOCENT BUT his dad claims he was looking for his son but yet he went to bed with gun fight within 100 yards of his home that was responded to by both the police, and ambulance. :?
Let's see what else comes out in this article

The February 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, at the hands of George Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood watch captain who said he acted in self-defense, has riveted the nation, largely because of race. Trayvon Martin was black. George Zimmerman is white and Hispanic.

glad they got the WHITE part in there people might have missed that about him at first glance.

For about 10 days, the story remained obscure. Television news from nearby Orlando aired a few segments. The Orlando Sentinel published two brief articles, and the twice-weekly Sanford Herald ran 213 words. Otherwise, there was media silence. This is an account of what happened before everyone knew Trayvon Martin's name.

BREAKING THE NEWS

When Tracy Martin greeted the police that morning, a plainclothes detective asked him to describe his son. "He asked me what he last had on. He asked me if I had any recent pictures," Martin said.

"I showed him a recent picture in the camera and he shook his head and said, 'OK, let me go to my car and get something.'" The detective returned with a folder.

It was drizzling, and he asked Martin if they could go inside. When they were seated he pulled out a photo. It was Trayvon, dead at the scene - his eyes rolled back, a tear on his cheek, saliva coming from his mouth. "From that point, our nightmare," Martin said.

Anyone wonder if the picture in the camera was the one the media air that was several years old, nope I doubt it too. Then they mentioned the tear on his cheek, gee was that to seal the idea of an INNOCENT YOUNG BOY that they sold for weeks until his Facebook pictures hit the airwaves?

"YOU GOT ME"

The night his son was killed, Martin, 45, was out to dinner with his fiancée, Brandy Green. Martin, who was divorced from Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, in 1999, is a truck driver from Miami who has a long-distance relationship with Green, a resident of the Retreat at Twin Lakes subdivision in Sanford where Zimmerman also lived.

Martin would visit Green on weekends, making the four-hour drive to the Orlando suburb of Sanford. In late February he was able to bring his son because Trayvon, a junior, was serving a 10-day suspension from Miami's Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School. He'd been caught with a plastic baggie that contained traces of marijuana.

He was out for supper came home to an empty house with police and ambulance lights within 100 yards of his home and he doesn't go to check out what happen when his son was missing. BTW if he was out for supper who was taking care of the little brother that Trayvon was supposedly buying candy for?

On Wednesday, the day after receiving the news, Martin went to the Sanford Police Department looking for answers - and his son's body. Police took him to a room and played some of the 911 recordings of neighbors who called to report a disturbance followed by a gunshot.

They did not play an earlier call to a police non-emergency line, during which Zimmerman reported a "suspicious guy" and ignored the operator's suggestion to quit following him. Investigator Chris Serino then took Martin to another room and told him Zimmerman's version of events.

I said it before and I'll say it again that 911 tape has no evidence he ignored the operator.

Sanford police have stopped talking to reporters about the case, and Serino has never spoken publicly about his role in it, but here is how Martin recalls what Serino said: "He told me Zimmerman's story was that Zimmerman was of course following him and that Trayvon approached his vehicle, walked up to the car and asked Zimmerman, 'Why are your following me?' Zimmerman then rolls his car windows down, tells Trayvon 'I'm not following you.' He rolls his car windows up.

"Trayvon walks off. Zimmerman said he started running between the buildings. Zimmerman gets out of his car. He comes around the building. Trayvon is hiding behind the building, waiting on him. Trayvon approaches him and says, 'What's your problem, homes?' Zimmerman says 'I don't have a problem.'

"Zimmerman starts to reach into his pocket to get his cellphone, and at that point Trayvon attacked him. He says Trayvon hits him. He falls on the ground. Trayvon jumps on top of him, takes his left hand and covers Zimmerman's mouth and tells him to shut the F up and continues to pound on him.

"At that point Zimmerman is able to unholster his weapon and fire a shot, striking Trayvon in the chest. Trayvon falls on his back and says, 'You got me.'" The Martin family has been telling their story as part of a campaign to have Zimmerman arrested. He himself has kept quiet.

This doesn't match the 911 conversation at all. :?

Sanford police have declined numerous requests for comment on any aspect of the story, even before a special prosecutor overseeing the case invoked a state law that restricts otherwise public information in the course of an active criminal investigation.

Zimmerman has not spoken publicly, since any statements he makes could affect future litigation against him. Though he is free, he remains in hiding.

His father, brother, and defense lawyer, Craig Sonner, have said in interviews that Zimmerman is not racist and has been unfairly vilified. He feared for his life during his altercation with Trayvon Martin, they say, and was justified in using deadly force. In his conversation with Martin, Serino referred to Zimmerman's background as "squeaky clean."

Zimmerman had been arrested in 2005 for shoving a state alcohol agent officer during an argument at a bar. Charges were dropped after he entered a special program for first-time offenders. Later that year, his then-girlfriend took out a restraining order, accusing him of domestic violence

Funny how Zimmerman's past is reported but the truth about Trayvon's problems with the law was hush hush to make him look like the innocent little boy the media wanted to protray him to be with pictures and all.

Sanford police released Zimmerman without charge, but Martin says Serino told him he would challenge Zimmerman's account. "The detective's words were, 'I want to interview him again to catch him in a lie,'" Martin said.

A law-enforcement source, who had been informed of the case by investigators, told Reuters that Serino was eager to bring a charge but encountered resistance from the office of the prosecutor, State Attorney Norman Wolfinger.

"Chris (Serino) would have made a recommendation for manslaughter, but Norm Wolfinger's office wanted it to be a slam dunk," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They don't want to hear that this is wrong or that is wrong with the case. That's the way this county does business." Wolfinger on Monday broke a long silence about the case, denying reports he quashed police intentions to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter.

Although police found no contradictions within Zimmerman's story, their decision not to arrest Zimmerman was lambasted by critics and has sparked demonstrations around the country.

For now there is one arbiter who matters. Special Prosecutor Angela Corey, a state attorney from northern Florida appointed by Scott on March 22, has taken over the investigation and will decide whether charges are warranted.

Gee the police found no contradictions so what other than political pressure lead to his arrest?

ZIMMERMAN DROPS OUT OF SIGHT

Immediately after the shooting, while waiting for police to arrive, neighbor Selma Mora Lamilla saw Zimmerman pacing back and forth, holding his head in his hands. "He was like, 'Oh my God, what just happened?'" said Mora Lamilla's roommate, Mary Cutcher.

Zimmerman understood the magnitude of his situation right away, said Joe Oliver, a family friend and colleague of Zimmerman's at mortgage risk management firm Digital Risk LCC.

"The day after, he went into his job to let them know what was going on," said Oliver, who has spoken to Zimmerman at least twice since the shooting. "That is the last I know of anyone seeing George."

Zimmerman and his wife moved out of the townhouse they rented in the Twin Lakes complex almost immediately, Oliver said, and they are now living in seclusion. Across town in Sanford's black neighborhood, word spread quickly that a black teenager had been killed.

The shooter, said to be white, had gone free. As in many cities in the South, Sanford has a long history of racial tension, and black mistrust of the police runs deep. In 2011, a previous Sanford police chief was forced out of the job after a white police officer's son was captured on video sucker-punching a black homeless man outside a bar.

Sanford police did not arrest the assailant until video of the attack surfaced on local TV and provoked an outcry from Sanford civil rights leaders. Now, once again, anger was building. A rumor that superiors had quashed an investigator's intent to charge Zimmerman had already made the rounds in the black community, said Velma Williams, the only black member of the five-person Sanford city commission.

Again with the WHITE GUY, Zimmerman was Hispanic and LOOKED IT, but the media can't admit it as that would put one Democrat voting block against another in an election year. BTW where in there did I miss the part where Zimmerman took the side of the Homeless black guy against the police Gee could it be it w.as left out INTENTIONALLY

"People were getting suspicious, saying we knew that was going to happen based on history," Williams said in an interview. She went to see Police Chief Bill Lee on Thursday, March 1, four days after the shooting.

"I told him, 'I can see a train coming down the track at 50 miles an hour, and you better get a handle on this,'" Williams said. "He said to me, 'You can rest assured that it's a thorough and objective and fair investigation.'"

Three weeks later, on March 22, when there was still no arrest and the city commission had voted "no confidence" in Lee by 3-2, the chief announced his temporary resignation. Lee told a news conference that while he stood by the Sanford Police Department, he was stepping aside.

"It is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process," he said. "I do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm to the city, which has been in turmoil for several weeks."

Could this simply be the community was looking for a chance to go after the police and Zimmerman even though they couldn't find anything to charge him with is the pawn in their plan? If not Zimmerman the next poor guy that was defending himself against a senceless attack.

TRAYVON MARTIN AS JOHN DOE

At the time of the shooting, Trayvon Martin was not carrying identification - only $22, a cellphone, and the now familiar bag of candy and can of iced tea. His body, taken to the Volusia County Medical Examiner's office, was tagged as a John Doe.

Although Martin had identified his son to police on Monday, February 27, and asked Serino the next day to issue police clearance for releasing the body, not until Wednesday was a funeral director permitted to drive it back to South Florida. In Miami, the boy's mother, Sybrina Fulton, 46, a program coordinator for the Miami Dade Housing Authority, stayed home in bed.

"Every little thing kind of frustrates you, especially if you don't have the body ... Just to know the funeral home had the body gave us some comfort," Fulton said.

"I cried every day. There was nothing else I could do as a mother. Thank God his dad was able to run around and take care of things," she said. The family held a viewing on Friday, March 2. The memorial service and interment were Saturday. The painful work of laying Trayvon to rest was complete. Now would begin the more difficult search for justice.

Truly sad no parent should have to go through this, But ask yourself why is it we know Trayvon's face and family's pain? Could it be because this story fits the lefts agenda of dividing the nation pitying Black against White even though Zimmerman is not White? It was simply a case blacks could use to point fingers verses a case where it is a Black killing a Black or a Black killing a white. In those cases the nation is spared the details of the family's suffering. Does anyone know the name of the little 6 year old that was shot by a drive by in the Black neighborhood in Chicago? No because it doesn't fit the narrative of the left bias media.

FINDING BEN CRUMP

Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton wanted George Zimmerman arrested. They believe he stalked their son because he was black, and they were outraged that Sanford police had accepted Zimmerman's claim of self-defense.

Lee, the police chief, would contend under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law that police could not arrest Zimmerman without evidence to contradict his story. Martin turned to Patricia Jones, his sister-in-law.

An attorney herself, she knew whom to call: Benjamin Crump, the state's best-known civil rights attorney, based in Tallahassee. Crump and law partner Daryl Parks had previously gained renown representing the family of a black teenager who died in a boot-camp-style youth detention center in 2006, winning the boy's family $7.2 million in damages from the state of Florida and Bay County.

On Tuesday, February 28, Crump was at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, about 125 miles north of Sanford, arguing that public records should be released in civil litigation over Antonio Cooks. Cooks, a black bail bondsman, had been shot and killed by Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer Jason Bailey while Cooks was serving a warrant and Bailey was responding to a burglary call.

During a break in the hearing, Crump noticed messages from Tyrone Williams, another attorney he knows, and Jones. They urgently asked for his help. Soon Jones put him in touch with Tracy Martin.

"I told him to believe in the system," Crump said of that first call. "I really believed they were going to arrest Zimmerman. I said, 'He's a neighborhood watch person with a gun. Of course they are going to arrest him just for that.'" "Then 48 hours passed and they still hadn't arrested him," Crump said. "After that we just had to do what we had to do."

Is there a law forbiding a neighborhood watch guys to carry a gun? If there is why wasn't he charged with unlawful procession of a firearm when he was charges with second degree murder? If he wasn't I would have to guess there ISN"T so why did this well known lawyer not know that?

He took the case pro bono. Realizing he needed a lawyer who knew Sanford and Seminole County, Crump turned to Natalie Jackson, a former Navy intelligence officer who founded the Women's Trial Group, which specializes in cases for women and children. Her mother lives in Sanford.

Now Crump and Jackson needed a media strategy. On March 5, Jackson brought in Ryan Julison, a publicist who had worked with her on a number of high-profile cases. After speaking with Tracy Martin, Julison said he also took the job for free and went to work pitching the story to national media.

Crump knew from his experience on the boot-camp case that publicity could force officials to act, but it would require persuading two people who had never stood before a television camera to withstand the spotlight.

"I got on the phone with Tracy Martin and I told him, 'It's not going to be any fun, but this is the only way to find justice,'" Julison said. "You are going to have to bare your soul and express your emotions and your inner grief." Martin and Fulton agreed. There was only one problem. At first, the media weren't interested. Julison pitched the story to a long list of media contacts.

Eventually, on March 7, Reuters published a story titled "Family of Florida Boy Killed by Neighborhood Watch Seeks Arrest." The next day, CBS News aired a segment on "This Morning," and by 10 a.m. a crowd of reporters gathered at Natalie Jackson's law office for a news conference with Ben Crump and Tracy Martin. A media firestorm had begun.

The Martins were coached on how to play it up for the media yet when Zimmerman apologizes in court, the Martin lawyer hits the media claiming he only did it as a self serving move to garner simpathy. What a hypocrite after he coached his clients to play to the media AND THE CONGRESS. He doesn't want justice he wants to be in the limelight.

aEPILOGUE: THE 911 RECORDINGS

The day after the news conference, on March 9, Velma Williams went back to see Police Chief Bill Lee with community activist Kenneth Bentley. "We said, look, chief. Last time I was here I told you a train was coming down the tracks and it was going 50 miles an hour," Williams recalled.

"I said it's going 150 miles an hour now. And it doesn't have any brakes." Back in New York, civil rights activist Al Sharpton was monitoring events, his interest piqued by an earlier call from Crump.

After the police chief told reporters on March 12 he lacked a probable cause to arrest Zimmerman, Sharpton took up Trayvon Martin's cause on his MSNBC show, fueling cable television competition.

The twist that catapulted Martin's shooting into a world story was the release of recorded 911 emergency calls, including one that captures screams for help in the background that end with a gunshot.

Chief Lee had resisted Crump's requests to make the tapes public, but he was overruled by Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett. On the night of Friday, March 16, Triplett invited Trayvon Martin's parents and their legal team into his office to listen to each of the calls, which he played on his computer.

"When we got to the cries for help, that was when Sybrina burst into tears," recalled Jackson. "She said, 'That's Trayvon. That's our son.' She ran out of the room crying." (Zimmerman's brother, Robert, would later swear the voice belonged to George.)

"The mayor himself started to cry," Jackson said. "Everybody in the room was in tears." Mayor Triplett overruled his police chief and distributed disks of the phone calls to the media that night. They have been broadcast unceasingly ever since.

Yes there is a train head down the tracks and it is powered by ambulance chasers like Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson, The Black Causus, The New Black Panthers and the President of the USA. They are all being fed by limelight seeking civil rights lawyer and a Black Community looking to teach their White Police Department a lesson. To bad the one tied to the track is an innocent Hispanic trying to protect himself from a young black kid trying to make a bad azz name for himself. Just look at at this story and see who's side is on shakey ground. The police found nothing in Zimmerman's version to doubt he was telling the truth but If this is the other side I sure see holes in the Martin/MEDIA side. What a tragedy. :roll:

 

[Mike]

You pretty much have it down pat....................................

 

[Tam]

You pretty much have it down pat....................................

The media lied from day one.
Zimmerman looks about as White as Obama does.. Strike one
Trayvon was not a small twelve year old like those pictures they keep flashing of him..Strike two
If Trayvons dad didn't know where he was how did they know he was out buying candy for the little brother and where was the little brother he supposedly bought the candy for? he wasn't with Trayvon so was he home alone and if so why didn't he tell his daddy where his brother went? Strike three four and five
The police couldn't find any thing to charge Zimmerman with as his version of the events MATCHED THE EVIDENCE but yet they push for an arrest. Strike six
It was the State Attorney that didn't want to press charges as he didn't see a solid case for even manslaughter but yet the Police Chief was targeted by the one Black Committee member... Strike seven
The story the Martins are spreading doesn't match the 911 calls at all Strike eight
Even after a limelight seeking lawyer and his publicity team got involved media won't touch this case until Chum in the water Al Sharpton got involved. Strike nine, ten and eleven
ANd when the media did get involved they edited tapes to fit the narrative their chum sucking ambulance chasing employee Al Sharpton was using to whip up everyone enough to even bring out the head hunting bounty offering Black Panthers... Strike twelve
The when you have the President of the USA comparing the dead boy to his unborn son, and members of the Black Causus parading out in front of the hiped up media and telling them Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog and shot what Special Prosecutor is going to go up to that kind of BLACK POLITICAL POWER and agree with the hated WHITE police by saying there was no evidence to back filing charges. I doubt having eye witnesses that backed up Zimmerman's version of events even entered into her decision to prosecute. Strike thirteen fourteen and fifteen.
Then you have the Black head of the US DOJ not pressing charges on the New Black Panthers for inciting violence by offering a bounty on a US citizens head well that is strike sixteen
Zimmerman doesn't have a chance and never did as this is not about a dead seventeen year old boy this is the lefts way to further divide the country if they can't do it by putting Republicans against Democrats they will do it by putting Black against White and the is exactly why Zimmerman was announce to be WHITE and not HISPANIC. DIVIDE AND CONQUOR the LEFTS MO.

 

[Steve]

The night his son was killed, Martin, 45, was out to dinner with his fiancée, Brandy Green.

Tracy Martin had been looking for his son Trayvon since the night before. He went to bed figuring the teen must have gone to the movies and turned off his phone. When Trayvon still wasn't home in the morning, Martin called the police.

Trayvon went out to get a Iced Tea, some Skittles for his little step brother.

Trayvon Martin left his father's home to buy candy and iced tea for his little brother at a nearby 7-Eleven.

how did they know he was out buying candy for the little brother and where was the little brother he supposedly bought the candy for?

that part has bothered me since the story was first put out...

it is almost as if they looked back at the facts and made up a story that fit...

(even when that same story doesn't match the rest of the narrative)..

Martin's younger brother who is 3½ years old.

by all accounts he was left alone?

as a parent.. if I came home and found a three and a half year old left home alone by his 17 year old brother.. I wouldn't have waited till morning to call the police..