On Sun., Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon “Trey” Martin was visiting his father at his home in The Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community in Sanford, 20 miles north of Orlando, Florida. During a break from watching the NBA All-Star game, he walked to a nearby convenience store for snacks, which included Skittles for his 13-year-old brother Chad. While on his way back to his father’s home, he encountered George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old college student and self-appointed captain of The Retreat at Twin Lakes neighborhood watch.
According to reports, Zimmerman followed Martin in his car and called 911 reporting “a suspicious person in the area”. Shortly after, an altercation between the two occurred, and by the time police officers had arrived Trayvon Martin was dead.
Zimmerman, licensed to carry the 9mm used to shoot Martin, alleges he did so in self-defense. The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, questions why a neighborhood watchman would carry a loaded weapon. Even more troubling is the fact that Zimmerman remains free.
The Sanford Police have yet to arrest Zimmerman and say the investigation regarding Trayvon’s death is still pending. His family is rightfully demanding answers and held a press conference with Crump on Thursday demanding the State Attorney’s Office charge Zimmerman with murder and the police department release the 911 tape “so we all will know what transpired on that 911 call“. Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s dad said, “My son left Sanford, Florida, in a body bag. George Zimmerman went home to sleep in his own bed. It’s senseless, and the police in Sanford, Florida isn’t giving any answers”:
Right now we’re all on pins and needles. When I asked the police why there’s been no arrest, they told me they respected [Zimmerman's] background, that he studied criminal justice for four years and that he was squeaky clean. My question to them was, did they run my child’s background check? They said yes. I asked them what they came up with, and they said nothing. So I asked if Zimmerman having a clean record, did that give him the right to shoot and kill an unarmed kid?
On Thursday evening, Chief Bill Lee of the Sanford Police Department acknowledged the account of what transpired on the night of February 26. He added that Zimmerman was advised not to follow Martin: “For some reason he felt that Trayvon, the way that he was walking or appeared seemed suspicious to him. He called this in and at one part of this initial call [the dispatcher] recommends him not to follow Trayvon. A police officer is on the way at that point. I believe that Mr. Zimmerman was trying to, by his account, find an address to give the officers and also trying to keep Trayvon in eyesight.”
According to Zimmerman, Lee says Martin noticed he was being followed and asked, “what’s your problem?” The altercation then ensued, and “he felt the need to defend himself. I don’t think it was his intent to go and shoot somebody”. Lee added that their investigation should be complete this week, and all evidence will be delivered to the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office: “We’re going to present all the information, and if they feel that based on all of the evidence that we’re able to produce that Mr. Zimmerman has satisfied the requirement that he shot in self defense, they may, but if not, he would be charged with some type of homicide or manslaughter. It is certainly and absolutely a tragedy, especially for the Martin Family. No one expects their teenage son to go the store and never come back,” Lee said.
An online petition was created to help the Martin Family obtain answers regarding the death of Trayvon, urging Florida’s 18th District State Attorney Norman Wolfinger and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute George Zimmerman. Click here to sign the petition.
This story is very sad.I feel for the family that has to deal with a loss that didn’t have to happen. The world is becoming a scarier and scarier place, and sometimes I am disgusted to say I am even a part of the human race reading things like this. Who knows what world my kids will have to grow up in when I have. SMH
Wat people need to do is picture this story and then imagine the colors roles being reversed. ALL hell would break lose if a white boy was in the “hood” and a black man shot him because he looked like he was “up to something”. If this story does not scream out to our community what will? We need to unite together and demand that this guy serves time. If you ask me it was a race crime, this boy was picked out because of his color, this man is not a cop nor have any crime was committed!!! As a mother of a son, this makes me mad, angry, depressed and sad. I feel for his family and pray that the gun happy coward that did this serves life behind bars. REAL TALK . Isigned the petition i hope many more do to.
This is bullshit ….which dumb ass gave him a gun ….send him to JAIL
Whatever. Black people talk talk talk and do nothing. NATHAANG..
It is amazing to me that everytime a black man is killed, by someone other than there own race, it then becomes a racist thing, or a hate crime. AMAZING. So is it racist or a hate crime, that 2 black boys caught a white boy on fire intentionally? See that’s right, none of you care about that one, but it’s not making the media like this story is about the black kid being killed. LOL. So who calls on racism, that’s right, it’s the black people. You want people to be racist, that is all it is. But this is no different than a white guy killing a white guy or a black guy killing a black you or mexican, asian, and so on. YOu guys need to get it together, I don’t understand why you are so mad, especially over something youdo to yourselves as well as something that happened years ago by YOUR OWN RACE. That is right slavery was started by your motherland, and freed your azz.
Ugh, it’s they freed your azz (white ppl)
Y’all are all stupid as shit they put that picture of this kid to make him seem innocent he beat the hell out of Zimmerman two black eyes broken nose and the back of his head busted from trayvon banging his head against concrete just another excuse for the black community to make it a hate crime, the media portrays y’all to do this, do your research before making assumptions, stop being ignorant
See …I CANT with white people…cant do it!
smh… i totally agree man… i try until things like this happen….
Co-sign, 1000%. Smh…
you know the shooter was mexican right?
Co-sign Demon , !!!!! This is the 3rd time I’m seeing this story and breaks my heart whenever i see it . My condolences to the family , What has the world come to when a young black boy from a affluent neighborhood can’t even walk to the store anymore I thought racial segregation attitudes were over but apparently not! I hope this community is put on blast for their disgusting lackadaisical attitude .As we know if this was a little white boy the story would be on CNN !!!
This is crazy… why is this guy even still free? The lack of regard for human life these days is an atrocity.
So sad and SO senseless! What kind of self defense is it for an unarmed 17 year old kid going get some Skittles? Really? Were you protecting yourself because he told you off because you were following him? How about how scared that kid was that some crazed man was following him WITH A GUN! Seriously!
That is wxactly what I was thinking. What if the boy was acting in self defense because a strange man was following him… He needs to go to jail no questions asked….
17 year old kid….funny how he’s a kid when he gets shot, but tried as an adult when he does the shooting. Media and their propaganda is phenomenal. Those of you who talk about “if it was a white kid and a black shooter it would be on CNN”, I got news for ya, look up the statistics of racial crimes that get news time. Crimes where whites are the victims and hardly EVER broadcast compared to any other race that’s a victim.
This story is tragic and I feel horrible for this young man’s family. The first question that needs to be answered is what made Zimmerman consider Trayvon “suspicious”. When all of the facts come out I suspect that there will be some revelation of bias and profiling.
fact of the matter is young black boy in a “gated” communitity= Racial profiling . period
My thoughts exactly! It was because he was a black boy in a gated community this shit boils me over!!
He killed someone’s child because he was afraid of him based on the color of his skin…. in this day and age it never occured to him that blacks also live in affluent areas…..ROT IN HELL DEVIL, if he remains free his days are numbered, someone will kill him or he will kill himself to be free of the guilt….What a world!
We all know that had this story gone the other way…. black neighborhood watch guy kills unarmed white kid = there would be no bail set for the black guy and they’d try to bury him under the jail!!! I’m so sick of race relations in the U.S!! My heart goes out to this child’s family. I pray that justice will be seen here on earth and not just in Heaven as is the case with hundreds of unsolved crimes against blacks prior to and during the civil rights era. God please heal this land!!!
@DOE ,AMEN PPL LIKE US AND BLACK CELEBRITY’S SHOULD STAND UP !!! AND HELP THIS FAMILY
I just find it odd that a man, driving in a car through a gated community while carrying a loaded weapon, felt the need to “defend/protect” himself from a kid, unarmed and on foot, by taking his life. I find it to be a sack of sh*t that the police think that his reason was enough for them to allow this man to continue to have his freedom. If this boy would have killed this man for following him or making him feel unsafe, he would be in jail with a high bond until they proved him guilty in court. We promote and follow all the nonsense that the media throws our way any other time, this is something that we as a community need to fight for and bang on every politician’s door until we get answers, justice, and change in honor of this young man and his family.
That is exactly my thought. For crying out loud, the killer (which is exactly what he is, a coldblooded killer!) was following an unarmed kid on foot, in a car and then on foot. The child was 100 feet from his residence, and the screams on the 911 calls are most definitely that child screaming for help. I heard 2 gunshots on the 911 calls. I don’t even understand how the number of gunshots can be in question. There wasn’t just 1 gunshot. If a person is feeling threatened and the police say to stop following, THE PERSON STOPS FOLLOWING. They don’t continue on and then shoot. It’s so obvious that this was racially motivated and the police are not doing anything to get a dangerous man off the streets.
If races were reversed, black shooter, white kid murdered. The killer would be in jail in a heartbeat. It’s sad that race still plays such a huge part in society today. Racism is alive and stronger than ever. It’s important to not back down, continue to make noise about this and situations like this. They can continue to kill us one by one, but they can’t kill us all.
Although It makes no difference to any of you because the police ,judge,system,or qhites are alwas the ones racist,Zimmerman is in fact was mexican NOT White, Did he act in self defense? Noone knows yet,,As for carrying a. Firearm He had a legal permit,as for the Panthers bounty and threat,Do what you gotta do,But when you bought yours it wasnt the last one sold,.I also believe somethings not right here but its not Obamas business,or any racist groups business, not even those that are rich by feeding of the loss and pain of families As Al sharptounge,and Fairy-con does I feel for the families on both sides,I too believe hes prob guilty of a crime,but I dont agree with the threats and. Racist remarks against Whites when this was not even the case,So whos really racist here? Get the facts then act
Dear Lord,
I ask that you watch over the Martin Family continue to cover them. Let them remember to seek you in the time of need, for you are Lord GOD onipotent. What is done in the dark will truly come to light. Let us not harden our hearts but pray that you Lord will soften the hearts of those who actually have some authority of this case, so that justice can be served. #injesuschristnameAmen
Amen!!!
Calls should be made to the Sanford police department to let them know we are not going to take this.
This story literally put tears in my eyes. Could have easily been one of fam.
Then what?
Racism is alive and present and things have not changed much since the 1960s, so sad, maybe thats why the rich black men take their money to the poor white or non-black trash, like kobe
I have, like many, been following this murderous tragedy and am gutted. Gutted for the family of this youngster, a family who deserve justice, not the dullard authorities twiddling their thumbs while the ‘alleged’ murderer walks free.
I don’t toss the race card about freely but more often than not, if the shooter was black, he or she would be arrested and charged. One doesn’t have to read tea leaves to predict this fact.
I just watched Trayvon’s mom begging for justice… the fact that she has to beg is repugnant. My prayers and thoughts are with Trayvon, his family and loved ones.
Aww poor kid, Whites are barbarians!
Zimmerman is a Mexican. You can still be racist if your a Mexican.
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Everybody knows that black people like to apologize to the white man.
u must dont have a brain sayin that…u must be white
HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO HEAR THESE STORIES BEFORE WE DO SOMETHING? It makes me SICK to my stomach. White officers etc KILL soooooo many UNARMED blacks and NOTHING happens. NOTHING at all. Had this been a black man all HELL would be break loose. White folks would be rampaging around town screaming “Lynch that NEGRO”. You better believe they would. I don’t care if that mans records were clean, the point is, HE MURDERED AN UNARMED TEEN. Period. I mean….I just don’t understand. Smh. I’ll pray for his family.
I hear you, I am praying for the family. I can’t even imagination what they are going through right now. they deserve answers.
Yea So whitey has never helped anyone black right,? ohhh thats right We are suppose to huh? Civil War,Africa,Haiti and so on….None of that counts,Once again since you hear only what you want to,The man is Mexican ,or do you just naturally still blame a craker when something goes wrong,?
This don’t make any sense. I’m so done right now, this was senseless
Why is a neighborhood watch block captain carrying a gun anyway,shouldn’t he have a flashlight or pepper spray,instead of this whole konny bullshit people need to be talking about this,im so pissed off at these black celebrity’s that are not tweeting or going out to the public and talking about this incident,we got alot of scared black negroes in the entertainment business they are puppets,they would talk about this konny bullshit who’s been dead for years,but can’t talk about this issue? that’s why other nationality feel like they can do things like this and get away,because we let them,other nationality’s wouldn’t let this slide with there own,so why should we? were so busy wanting to be accepted by other nationality’s,that we don’t help out each other,that shit needs to stop,cause it getting old,other races don’t give a fuck about us,so we need to start caring and helping out each other,cause at the end of the day,we all we got,and if we all get on the same mindset,we could move mountains,but we got to get off that slave mentality.
True Build when are we gonna stop appeasing the Europeans and forgiving them for brutalizing us….Every Asiatic Blackman shoud just sit down …no work for one day…that will cost the europeans a billion dollars no work and no consumerism I mean dont buy shit…I bet they will lock that psycho up then
The same was #KONY was retweeted & gained millions in attn thanks to celebs retweeting, PLEASE twitter users tweet this story to your followers and celebs so that this may gain national attn. RACISM has to be stopped & consequences hashed out so that WHITES will know Blacks aren’t tolerating racism deaths the same way Blacks know their place & what would happen if the roles were reversed!! And, of course, sign the petition. God Bless.
Im also tired of tbe blameing and playing the race card everytime something happens,Or you dont get your way,So show us
self defense? bullshit. the kid was unarmed. gosh this is infuriating. this man needs to be prosecuted and jailed.
Dakar, please keep us updated with this story!
I am incredulous & heartbroken for the family of this child murdered senselessly! Who are these authorities to NOT act by jailing this perpetrater! He does not have the right to walk free after killing this child. Investigation should be done while this ‘perp’ sits in jail, for fear that he will flee the jurisdiction. He should be brought up on murder charges for shooting in cold blood. What was he protecting? Property? ZIMMERMAN stalked this child against Police orders! How can He claim self defense? He removed himself from the safety of his vechicle, that’s on him. Atty General Wolfson do your JOB! Atty General Bondi do your JOB! Get justice for this child’s Mother that is ALL she has left!
The police did Not Order him Not to They said “We dont need you dont need to do that” Hes also mexican or Latino ,but being mad at whites is more important than the truth right? And Im white and belive he is guilty,but it still has to be proven,and if it were a white kid black shooter he’d be in jail,well arnt you asking for the same unjust way of doing things? Threats, ect will not get it done,but the truth will Try it legally if you can put your hate away forba race that Zimmerman is not
Wow this is too much. First off why do u have a loaded gun. I also think Security Guards/ Neighborhood Watch should be able to fight or be big enough to defend themselves with their own strength. Let just say Trey was trying to fight him, there is no need for him to get shot. To be honest Trey prolly didnt think he had a gun. I know personally I take security far less serious than the police. Regardless death in this situation is highly ridiculous.
So if He was following him in his car, was told not to by the police, the kid notices you and asks why u following him- WHAT REASON DOES THIS MF###KER HAVE FOR GETTING OUT HIS CAR TO FEEL THE NEED HE WAS THREATENED TO USE HIS GUN. They not gonna charge his ass. Shit if it was my child and he did this shit i would wait 6 months and kill his ass myself (a gang broke into is place and robbed and killed him)
YOU ARE RIGHT MFACTOR IF THIS WAS MY CHILD IT WOULD BE A MOVIE ABOUT ME GETTING REVENGE.THIS ONE REALLY HURTS WHAT IS SO SAD ABOUT THIS IS BLACK YOUTHS AND ADULTS AFTER TOO STOP KILLING EACH OTHER AND REALIZE THESE RACIST PRICKS IN AMERICAN ARE LOVING THIS AND WHEN WE KILLED EACH OTHER. OUR BLACK MOVIE STARS AND STAR ATHLETES HAVE TO HELP.ESPICALLY WHEN OUR BLACK YOUTHS LOOK UP TOO THEM STAY STRONG MFACTOR AND ILL TRY TO DO THE SAME GOD BLESS
This really saddens me, all I can picture is that little boy lying on the ground dead with a bag of skittles in his hand. This is pathetic. I hope that monster that killed him rots in hell, yoy bastard!
Although no justice can be brought for the wrongful death of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman needs to be arrested and heavily prosecuted for his death. I don’t care if Zimmerman has a clean record, that doesn’t tell me anything about his character; he deserves to go to jail.
R.I.P. Trayvon Martin
Agreed. But of note, Zimmerman does not have a clean record. He was arrested in 2005 for suspicion of battery on a law enforcement officer, but the charges were dropped for an unknown reason. The police originally said he had a clean record….because Zimmerman “told them so.” Wow.
Clean record my azz. If this story hadn’t hit the news outlets his record would still be ‘clean’.
George is devastated by the situation. He is not a monster. I’ve known him 3 years now and he doesn’t so much as raise his voice to anyone. It is a shame that this young boy was killed, but let the law do its job. Police are running an investigation to make sure they get the correct story and don’t screw up the case or evidence. The media is turning this into a circus like they do everything else. The police are working fast to take care of this case, let them do their job and stop blasting someone you don’t even know. George may have made a poor decision by not letting the police handle it, but let the law do it’s job.
first off any man who can kill an unarmed kid is a monster and he is not upset about what he has done he is happy because he thinks he has gotten away with it but trust me he has not,if the police doesnt get him some one will kill him bottom line…second we dont have to know him to know he is a worthless sack of shit….oan there is only one side to this and its simple..he was racist and killed that young boy because he was scared of a black person… the police told him not to follow this boy and he still did so…then to say he was suspicious how??? because he was black?? because you can tell this child was no gangbanger or a robber or any of that stuff. you are a moster just for taking up for him..u are a sack os shit also but u stink more because u are taking up for this injustice
I totally agree with Erica. I don’t care how long you have known this killer. It doesn’t make him less of a killer. You are correct, he made a poor decision, and it is a decision that was racially motivated. How obvious can it possibly be? White people can see what an injustice this is that Killer Zimmerman is walking free. We can see exactly what this was, and I can guarantee it makes us just as sick. A child is dead, a family had to bury their son/brother/nephew/cousin/grandson. My heart breaks to pieces for them.
There is no way that Zimmerman felt threatened. And the media is not making it so…..the evidence does. He is an evil bastard that shot and killed an innocent child.
They cant do that,Its not in their nature,His decision was prob negligence but not premeditated,or a hate crime,I dont believe he is a monster,but its very hard to understand why,As you said Let the police do theirvjob,
this is very sad. I am praying for his family. Shame on the security guard and I pray that he goes to jail for this. How would a 17 year old with a bag of snacks be a threat.
Why does it always take a TRAGEDY for blacks to come together? I’m so sick of that .. this just goes to show that blacks are still being LYNCHED by whites but in a whole new form. One reason law enforcement are not interested in locking this man up is because they see this happening so much between young black men .. it’s almost as if they’re saying “How dare the black community come after us” when there are so many young black men who die at the hands of their own kind. Black people WAKE-UP!It shouldn’t have to take a tragedy of this magnitude to truly see how whites feel about us.
well white ppl kill other white pp all the time and mexicans kill mexicans and so forth and blacks do come together u just dont hear about it that much but when stuff like this happens it just really pisses them off and let it be know we not standing for this shit
I’m quite aware of whites killing other whites. I’m quite aware of mexicans killing other mexicans. However this is not about that, this is about trayvon’s murder being treated as a joke by law enforcement.
(1) Because he was black.
(2) Because of black on black violence between young black men.
Whites are already trying to justify this kid’s murder by using black on black violence as an example. I already knew that was going to be their next step because whites are predictable in that sense. Sadly we just keep giving other races more ammunition to use against us. As for blacks coming together, well it’s a bit sad that it seems to only happen under tragic events minus church. Maybe blacks should spend less time tearing each other down on youtube so that we can make our unity more apparent to others.
This is one of those stories that makes me mad and sad at the same time. Its just so wrong and just unjustified. This poor kid had fucking skittles and ice tea. I mean..I jsut cant. Had my black ass shot a white kid I would STILL be in jail and vilified. The fact that he was not even thrown in jail is some bull. Self defense my black ass. That kid looked like a slim guy and the shooter clearly is the heavier of the 2. I just cant with this story. His family doesnt deserve this. The cops need to throw his ass in jail. This is homicide. You can even argue that it was premeditated seeing as he followed him in his car with a loaded gun.
This is such a tragedy. Trayon was unarmed, so whether there was a suppose “disagreement” why would you pull a gun on some one who is unarmed? it doesn’t make any sense at all? George should have let the police handle it and not take the law in his own hands.
now if it was the other way around & the black guy shot the white guy, then im pretty sure they would have locked the black up. but since it’s not like that really the policemen just brushing this situation off their shoulders.
If anyone would like to write the police chief on this matter, his email address is: bill.lee@sanfordfl.gov
I already did that. I suggest, as you did, that others do. And sign the petition. Post on facebook. Do not let the killer get away with this.
Once the POLICE advised him to not follow this young man or just wait for the police…everything after that is Zimmermans fault!!!!He should be held accountable for taking this young mans life. We will never know if he was shooting in self defense but what we do know is he never should have approached this young man at all. I hate that in times like this we immediately run to the race card but as a black woman with children I shudder to think that just because my son is out walking in a neighborhood that makes him suspicious. What was he doing to be suspicious. Its all so tragic and I really feel for his family and will pray that they receive justice for an unjust act.
That man needs to be thrown in jail.
Murder via FL’s “Stand Your Ground Law”. Not the first; won’t be the last.
There is a common law duty to “retreat to the wall” before using deadly force*.
* Offer may not apply in Florida or other parts of the CSA, other restrictions may apply (if y’know what I mean…)
VERY, VERY sad story… the fact that it happens sooooo often is sickening. The POLICE now have public citizens thinking its ok to shoot unarmed, african american people. smh.
This man chose a child to kill because he was afraid to go up against a full grown man. He’s probably a new member of the KKK or the White Supremacy and needed to killed a black person in his initiation and he is not a member I will be willing to bet he is on the honor roll now. This man needs to be off the streets and in jail.
What gave Zimmerman the right to follow this child just because he did not recognize him for the area. Can he honestly say he knows everyone in the neighborhood, if that were so then he would have known Trayvon’s father lived there. And that must have been where this black kid was going considering that is the direction he was heading. The simple fact is and was once he choose to ignored the instructions of the dispatcher not to follow this kid, he initiated the incident and put himself in harm’s way, with the sole intention of doing harm to this person with the loaded gun he choose to remove from his car to confront this person he said looked suspicious to him. I’m not sure why there is a problem in holding him accountable for the death of this young man. It seems pretty simple, maybe I am missing something. Unfortunately we will never get both sides of the altercation, if there was even and altercation because Zimmerman made sure of that.
I read this man back in 2005 had an altercation with the police with assault, but the charges was drop, sounds to me this man has got some pull somewhere, so far it goes his background is not squeaky clean and should have never been allow to carry a gun.
This “self-appointed” thug should receive life in prison without the possibility of parole. He absolutely should be charged with second degree murder. God this is so sad. You see all the hate society has for someone like Casey Anthony, and then you see so little for someone far more dangerous to society.
I have the impression from everything I’ve read, that the encounter went something like this: Zimmerman followed Martin in his car out of suspicion. That suspicion seems to be without a doubt based on his skin color. Zimmerman eventually says something to Martin, and like any other person would to a non police officer harassing them, Martin told him to screw off. Zimmerman then physically engaged Martin, with a shove or an attempt to hold Martin. Martin then bested him in the fight before leaving or possibly fleeing. Out of embarrassment, anger, and retribution, Zimmerman shot Martin in the back, murdering him.
Life in Prison Without the Possibility of Parole
Essentially, this gives any white man in Florida the ability to murder a black man, admit to the killing, and get off scot free as long as there aren’t witnesses.
I’m amazed at the inability of police to have any objectivity or appreciate a different perspective.
Look at it this way: teenager walking home becomes aware of a stranger in a car stalking/cruising him and confronts the man who then kills him.
Looks like the cops are doing everything they can to avoid doing their actual job
I want to sign this petition. That captain of the neighborhood watch had NO right to give himself authority to carry a gun. This guy is guilty of 1st-degree murder.
Shot him in cold blood . . . GUILTY of MURDER 1.
First…my condolences to the family. This is a very unnecessary tragic loss, no one deserves to die….under any circumstance!!!! Unfortunately, we live in a society that is dictated by ignorance. Everything that I have read about this young man ( Trey) wasn’t doing anything out of the norm, and a ” trigger-happy unexperienced gun carrying” person (Zimmerman) decided to take his title seriously ” Neighborhood Watch Guy”…but TOO DARN SERIOUS!!!!!! I agree that yes, he deserves to be locked away…until found not guilty…NOT walking the streets until ” THEY” decide how they want to pursue this….again my heart goes out to this handsome young man family, who’s life has been taken away senselessly.
it was a senseless crime, police officers have taken their authority to a whole new level. killing kids on the street, with out sound evidence of self defense is ridiculous and someone needs to speak for the people who are unable to speak for themselves. this senseless crimes make me sick that these officers can so or say whay=tever theuy want while wearing a badge, they are to protect and serve not seek and destroy
This is not 1950……
My prayers are to all families that have suffer injustice and lost of a love one through the malice of an unjust policed society, be it Rent-a-Cop or the Others. When it comes to No justice, then its Just-us. With the technology in out hands such as cell phones, we need to let out children no to use these as a tool, when they feel they are in harms way or confrontation,or just walking alone like this young man was doing, call someone holla out where you are. It’s one thing about it if our children have cell phones they keep them wherever they go. Let’s teach them how to (TALK FOR THEIR LIVES).
This is an absolute despicable, ludicrous action against a nice young man who had no weapons on him and this horrible man who should have known better shot him in cold blood. If this guy gets off with merely a slap on his hand what has become of our laws so that someone so innocent gets slain for no reason whatsoever by this egotistic bully with a gun. This is ludicrous that no arrest has been made. My heart goes out to this poor Mother. Her heartache she must endure is beyond imagination with this beautiful boy no longer with her.
I am really curious as to why Zimmerman’s father calls his son “Spanish-speaking.” He may be able to speak Spanish, but what does that have to do with the case? He definitely has no accent when he speaks English. I feel that this is a tactic used to try to make it seems less likely that Zimmerman’s coldblooded killing of an unarmed, innocent black kid was not racially motivated. But to me, it is quite the contrary. Zimmerman is a coldblooded killer and needs to be locked away. Personally, I think he deserves a death sentence myself, but that’s probably beside the point.
Zimmerman is a child murderer.He stalked, harassed and murdered that child. That police department in Florida that did not lock that murderer up has a serious problem.That murderer has a criminal record, yet there is no reason not to believe that murderer lies,how pathetic.
This is a FEDERAL CASE and the feds should be looking into this one to not only charge the perpetrator of this vile act, but the Standford Fl authorities as well. Justice is being obstructed here.
I am outraged b this horrific act.. I am so so sorry for the family of this boy….jutice MUST be done…this man must pay for what he did tp the fullest prosection of the law. I want to pray for his family and let them know many people are here for them and to support thim at this time of gief..zimmerman must be in custody NOW…let us all send cards, gifts and strngth to his family.. we must stand strong on this.. I will not give up. this man murdered in cold blood no reason, no just cause, nothing..pettion the State of Florida for zimmerman’s arrest if that is needed and never let him free…
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can’t carry guns in the UK. end of story.
NONE of you are even looking at the evidence just this slighted version of the story.EMOTION AND OPINION ON RACE ISSUES AND GUN RIGHTS ARE NOT EVIDENCE OF A CRIME IT IS SIMPLY A OPINION.parents always say their kid is not the kind of person to commit a crime.
1.the shooter called the cops,,HE CALLED THE POLICE TO COME QUESTION A SUSPICIOUS PERSON,HE DID NOT JUST WALK UP AND SHOOT THIS MAN.he followed to give the cops better info on where to find this guy and question him,(there was a string of robberies in the are by the way) he did not run after the shooting,he stood there waiting for the cops.DUNRING HIS CALL TO THE COPS THE 011 OPERATOR ASKS IS HE WHITE BLACK OR HISPANIC. zimmerman did not make a call on race alone.
2.the 911 callers DID NOT SEE who was screaming for help.ZIMMERMAN WAS SCREAMING FOR HELP,and the 911 calls back up his claim NOT DISPUTES THEM. the reason the screams stop after the single gun shot was not because the screamer died but because the shooter stopped screaming for help..NO ONE CAME TO THE SHOOTERS REPEATED SCREAMS FOR HELP!!! HE SCREAMED FOR HELP FOR OVER 30 SECONDS PLEADING FOR HELP AND NO ONE CAME,his last option AFTER CALLING THE COPS AND AFTER SCREAMING FOR HELP WAS TO DEFEND HIMSELF WITH HIS FIREARM.
3.911 CALLERS ALL said they could not not see what was going on or said they saw 2 men wrestling THATS IT,,THESE NEIGHBORS DID THEIR JOB AND CALLED THE COPS.they have no knowledge of why they were shot or who was calling for help.for the record the shooter is latino not white,some of the 911 callers mistaken the shooter for being black,the 911 callers automatically assumed the shooter was the bad guy and NOT someone defending themselves
4. the shooter had a broken nose and was bleeding from a head wound caused by this teenager who was shot.SUPPORTING HIS CLAIMS HE WAS ATTACKED.
but you people are so quick to jump on a bandwagon because someone told you it was wrong. NONE of you are looking at the evidence you are a ALLLLL going on emotion or political views to push a call to arms against a man who evidence points to defending himself not a cold blooded killer..
You just made one of the most insidious, unsupported and overwhelmingly biased comments every engineered by someone who is feigning an attitude of fairness.
1. If Zimmerman simply wanted to maintain contact until the police arrived and if he understood the most basic rule regarding arresting someone, he would have pulled his weapon from a distance of at least 15- 20 feet and ordered Travon face down. Only an idiot would assume this 17 seventeen year old who happens to be the only one of the two with an unblemished arrest record would have charged Zimmerman with a 9 mm pointed at him.
2. What is it that compels a “law abiding” citizen to disobey the law (his was ordered not to pursue) so he could put himself and a innnocent teenager in peril acting as a seasoned police officier, knowing clearly he was not experienced in this capacity.
It’s not the fact that you feel no compassion for the Martin family, but the fact that you would defend Zimmerman using generalities shows you have absolutely no concern for this life lost.
Hey voice of reason if it were your kid you wouldn’t be saying that would you? Plain and simple……..
My thoughts exactly, there had been several calls about breaking in homes recently an everyone is screaming about Trayvon only having a tea & skittles, well at night with lights hitting the can do you suppose (I mean use your brain just a wee bit, do u think the tea can could have possibly,,just POSSIBLY looked like a weapon???)and a witness says Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman whom some say was the one calling for help (not saying they are right, but that little thing we call resonable doubt comes into play here) and finally..why was ABC so quick to say Zimmerman was a white man?(I’ll tell you…to fuel the flame, no ifs ands nor butts about it), sure looks Hispanic to me..just saying! Finally I’m so sorry for Trayvon’s family for their loss and I agree Zimnmerman should have been arrested on the spot at least for proper questioning, but this Vigilante approach is no better than the KKK back in the 60′s an does our country no good at all!