The politics of hoodie wearing

Me thinks that the state is going to end up laughed out of court if Zimmerman is stout enough to resist their efforts to get him to plead out.....

Makes one think that there was never really interest in the FACTS, but how a sad case fed their political views.

After a decade, I'm well aware of the traffic here, thanks.

Everyone was quite happy to give opinions when there were no witness accounts - and to jump on the Bad Zimmerman bandwagon. I'm not surprised, but still really disappointed, to see no one even remark about the new information and their evolving views.Makes one think that there was never really interest in the FACTS, but how a sad case fed their political views.

When it ceases to do that, they cover their eyes and walk away.

Everyone was quite happy to give opinions when there were no witness accounts - and to jump on the Bad Zimmerman bandwagon. I'm not surprised, but still really disappointed, to see no one even remark about the new information and their evolving views.Makes one think that there was never really interest in the FACTS, but how a sad case fed their political views.

We know that as a result of Zimmerman pursuing Martin a fight happened, and Martin got shot.

Sorry, but we don't know that. The evidence suggests that Zimmerman got out of his car to check an address and was walking back to his car when Martin sucker punched him and then pounced and tried to kill him.

The evidence suggests

I'm sorry that is contrary to the evidence, unless Trayvon somehow dragged Zimmerman between the houses in the complex, far from where any street sign would ever be placed.

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I'm sorry that is contrary to the evidence, unless Trayvon somehow dragged Zimmerman between the houses in the complex, far from where any street sign would ever be placed.

So you're saying that those cuts on Zimmerman's head were from having his head pounded into grass??

You can download the pdf from the left box in this article.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/17/2804442/law-officers-set-to-release-evidence.html

The 911 calls and a diagram of the neighborhood can be found here.
http://www.miamiherald.com/trayvon/




I know... I have way too much time on my hands.

...With the case unraveling, it makes the prosecutor’s behavior look even more outrageous. The prosecutor wasn’t required to go to the grand jury for the indictment, but the fact that she didn’t in such a high-profile case is troubling. Everyone knows how easy it is for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to indict, because only the prosecutor presents evidence and the standard of proof is very low.

A grand-jury indictment would have provided political cover; that charges were brought without one means that the prosecutor was worried that even a grand jury would not give her the indictment.

The Obama administration has been fanning the flames, and it isn’t just President Obama’s attempt to personalize the tragedy.

News reports surfaced Tuesday that the US Justice Department was pushing hard to charge Zimmerman, who is part black himself, with a hate crime because Martin was black. Such a charge can carry a life prison term or even the death penalty.
Yet, Zimmerman and his wife mentored two black children for free.
A recent Reuters report that interviewed Zimmerman’s neighbors found that both black and Hispanics viewed Zimmerman as someone who cared deeply about his neighbors and volunteered to head the community watch to help them.

The claim that Zimmerman referred to blacks as “f***ing coons” has long since been dropped.

Using this case for political purposes has already come at a real cost. In Gainesville, Florida; Oak Park, Illinois; Mobile, Alabama; Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and possibly Norfolk, Va., blacks have attacked whites in what they think is revenge for Zimmerman attacking Martin because he was black, and those are just the cases where the perpetrators would make some comment such as “This is for Trayvon.”
The media has been partially responsible for this aftermath with its sensational reporting. Recent coverage has helped to balance things out, but responsible reporting requires still more.

Bottom line: the medical reports about George Zimmerman are revealing a lot more information than the media have so far let on.

John R. Lott, Jr. is a FOXNews.com contributor. He is an economist and co-author of "Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/16/what-zimmerman-martin-medical-reports-tell-us-and-media-didnt/#ixzz1vKYPiN9i

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I'm sorry that is contrary to the evidence, unless Trayvon somehow dragged Zimmerman between the houses in the complex, far from where any street sign would ever be placed.

So you're saying that those cuts on Zimmerman's head were from having his head pounded into grass??

I'm saying he didn't get out of his truck to look for a street sign. And that

Trayvon didn't likely "sucker punch" him.

http://youtu.be/iuPmu8UUbpQ

I know people will want to use the news outlet (Fox, of course) to discount the report; however, a man gave testimony that led to the initial decision not to arrest Zimmerman.

The man is only known as John - at this point. I've seen more accounts of this story - but so far not on major outlets.

Watching.

I think it is possible that news outlets are loathe to run this - an unpopular angle to the story.

One other thing I've mentioned on another thread... If this had been a prize fight, real life, the commissioner's drug sniffing dog would have walked into the ring and bitten Trayvon Martin (your "role model" for kids) on the ass, and Martin would have been disqualified and lost his license to box.