today we know trayvon was using drugs.. at least smoking weed.. had been in a few fights,.. even had a few posted on youtube and one on his phone...
but who was he?
as the trial continues his "playgound" fights may come to light...
had his parents addressed his drug use.. he may not have went for a bag of skittles and Arizona watermelon drink to make some "DRANK"
had they addressed his fighting... he may not have gotten into a fight...
had they stayed home to make sure he was home... he may not have backtracked instead of just walking home...
and some say if Zimmerman had just minded his own business this wouldn't have happened.. unless Trayvon broke into his house to steal some jewelry?
the kid was heading the way a nations black teens are heading.. and no one is brave enough to stop them... until it comes down to a us or them moment..
but who was he?
Martin had the seeming good fortune of attending school in the Miami-Dade School District, the fourth-largest district in the country and one of the few with its own police department.
For a variety of reasons, none of them good, elements within the SPD and the Miami-Dade School District Police Department, or M-DSPD, conspired to keep Martin’s criminal history buried.
As part of its mission the M-DSPD was allegedly trying to divert offending students, especially black males, from the criminal justice system. As the Martin death would prove, the M-DSPD diverted offending students to nothing beyond its own statistical glory.
Hurley’s detectives, all of them veterans with excellent records, told a different story under oath when questioned by Internal Affairs. They knew the shell game was about to be exposed upon first learning that Martin was one of their students and outside agencies would be requesting his records.
“Oh, God, oh, my God, oh, God,” one major reportedly said when first looking at Martin’s data. He realized that Martin had been suspended twice already that school year for offenses that should have gotten him arrested – once for getting caught with a burglary tool and a dozen items of female jewelry, the second time for getting caught with marijuana and a marijuana pipe.
In each case, the case file on Martin was fudged to make the crime less serious than it was.
Trayvon was suspended three times for 'drugs, truancy, graffiti and carrying burglary tool'
He was on suspension when he was shot in February, after officials caught him with a 'marijuana pipe' and a baggie with drug residue
Trayvon was kicked out of school in October for graffiti after he was allegedly caught with a 'burglary tool' and a bag full of women's jewelry
In total, he had 12 pieces of mostly women’s rings and earrings in his bag.
Instead, he was suspended on October 21for the graffiti charge.
The Daily Caller, says it has published 152 pages of tweets downloaded from Trayvon's account. The site says Trayvon went by the Twitter handle NO_LIMIT_N***A.The boy’s parents say that they have never heard the claim about the screw driver and jewellery.
The October suspension was officially for graffiti
A few of the messages make reference to using drugs including one that says: 'Finna (I'm fixing to) smoke 1 wit my dawg wayne.'
In a message from his cousin implying that Trayvon attacked a bus driver.
'Yu ain't tell me yu swung on a bus driver,' a user Tweeted to Travyon's alleged account five days before he was killed.
The IA interrogators seemed stunned by what they were hearing. They asked one female detective incredulously if she were actually ordered to “falsify reports.” She answered, “Pretty much, yes.”
Martin should not have been suspended. He should have been arrested on both occasions. Had he been, his parents and his teachers would have known how desperately far he had gone astray.
Instead, Martin was “diverted” into nothing useful. Just days after his non-arrest, he was allowed to wander the streets of Sanford high and alone looking, in Zimmerman’s immortal words, “like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something.”
as the trial continues his "playgound" fights may come to light...
"If they had suggested that Trayvon is nonviolent and that George is the aggressor, I think that makes evidence of the fighting he has been involved with in the past relevant," said Mark O'Mara.
had his parents addressed his drug use.. he may not have went for a bag of skittles and Arizona watermelon drink to make some "DRANK"
had they addressed his fighting... he may not have gotten into a fight...
had they stayed home to make sure he was home... he may not have backtracked instead of just walking home...
and some say if Zimmerman had just minded his own business this wouldn't have happened.. unless Trayvon broke into his house to steal some jewelry?
the kid was heading the way a nations black teens are heading.. and no one is brave enough to stop them... until it comes down to a us or them moment..