The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

You have no evidence, but you continue to harp on those facts that have never proven he has stolen them.

Oh stop with the jewelry. No one even reported to the police that the jewelry was stolen, that it was missing from their possession. It was mostly plain wedding bands, not likely the sort of jewelry that even gets stolen from a home burglary, because women usually wear their wedding bands. So, maybe it belonged to a friend, and Trayvon was holding it. But there's no indication that a friend had stolen it either. Maybe it was all bought in a pawn shop and the friend planned on getting more for it by having it melted down. Who knows? Who cares? It doesn't mean Martin was a burglar or a thief. He didn't need to steal--his parents weren't poor--they bought him stuff, they gave him money.

Meanwhile, its Zimmerman who has been accused of stealing $4000+ worth of his mother-in-law's property, from the home she rented to him, and defacing the interior of the home as well.

And, in this picture, Trayvon is 16 years old. According to his parents, it was taken about 7 or 8 months before he was killed.


And this photo was taken about a week and a half before he was killed. Trayvon's in the orange Reese's shirt with his arm around his mother. His brother is on the left in the plaid shirt.

This is a closeup from that photo


He was a kid. He looked like a kid because he was a kid. He really was an innocent kid.

d u see the police pictures of the corpse on the grass?
That did not look like any "KID";

The case has been riddled with claims against Martin’s innocence based upon notions of cultural inferiority. Some, like New Orleans police officer Jason Giroir, who stated ‘Act like a Thug Die like one,’ suggesting that Trayvon brought his murder upon himself, would claim that had Martin made himself suspicious by donning a hoodie. Certainly all individuals in hooded sweatshirts MUST be criminals… Right?

What is of note in this case is that it epitomizes the new face of racism in America. No longer is it acceptable to justify a murder with a barrage of racial slurs. Now, we love to claim we belong to a society that is colorblind. Our new approach to racism is to propagate cultural stereotypes and suggest that culture makes a particular group inferior, not their race. Trayvon wasn’t suspicious because he was black, of course. He was suspicious because he was wearing a hoodie and looking like a “thug.” Right

However, Zimmerman isn’t the only one to support this view. Many conservatives have begun to falsify information to play on the public’s stereotypes regarding black males. It is a clear ploy to reduce sympathy for this tragic case. Martin’s mother, stated, “They killed my son, now they’re trying to kill his reputation.” Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin’s website, Twitchy, posted a photo of “Trayvon Martin” making an obscene gesture and wearing extremely saggy pants. This picture was purportedly from Martin’s Facebook and quickly went viral on the internet, with many conservatives who had seemingly been waiting for an excuse to vilify Martin using the image to portray him as a thug.

This clearly evokes upon racial stereotypes in an attempt to discredit the innocence of Martin. For many, it wasn’t justifiable that Martin was shot because he was black, but it was justifiable if he was one of those blacks—as codified language might describe him. This wasn’t the only photo that surfaced. There have been at least two other photos of unidentified black males in “gangster” garb that have been purported as Trayvon to detract from his family’s credibility. Unfortunately for the Conservative detractors, all the photos were proven false and one is rumored to have originated on stormfront.com, a white supremacist website.

Further, one inventive conservative blogger has manufactured an entire falsified story about Trayvon Martin, pegging him as a drug dealer. This story was picked up by the Examiner’s Kyle Rogers who not once, but twice made false allegations about Martin. First, Rogers claimed that Martin was suspended from school for assaulting a bus driver, although a Miami Herald report story released three days prior revealed that his suspension was due to trespassing. Then Rogers corrected himself with more falsehoods, later claiming in an update that the cause of Martin’s ten-day suspension was smoking marijuana on school property.

The story he referenced actually claims that Martin was found with an empty bag of marijuana, but the self-titled Charleston Conservative Examiner decided to place his own inferences into the story. You know, just to make sure that there was still reason to peg Martin as a thug-like criminal.

The sheer elation of some of the commentators on these articles upon the discovery that Trayvon “wasn’t as innocent as the mainstream liberal media portrayed” is disturbing. These conservatives frequently contradict themselves by complaining that those supporting Martin are race baiters while failing to notice that their propagation of cultural stereotypes would be more accurately defined as race baiting. If we took an image of a white, hoodie wearing skateboarder and substituted it with Martin, it’s unlikely that we would be noticing this conservative backlash. We claim to be post-racial, but this is certainly not so.

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/trayvon-martin-face-racism-america/

Firefly Maybe it was all bought in a pawn shop and the friend planned on getting more for it by having it melted down

And, please don't post the corpse photo.

Re: firefly (Post 5513183)
firefly wrote:
And, please don't post the corpse photo.
He looked at least middle aged in that one;
not like the ones at the start of this media circus.

Bill has a hangup about those jewelry even though nobody claimed them as stolen. He's a very sick man who makes assumptions about other people and their possible stealing of property - without one iota of proof.

His imagination runs wild, because he's not a stable person himself. Why would anyone accuse another person that he doesn't even know - that "they stole it."

Why?

[Here C.I. shows off his telepathic abilities:]
We all know that Bill, hawk, oralboy, and David all know better

than the chief police investigator who said

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that he would not have regarded Martin's behavior as "suspicious" and he wouldn't have called the police about him,

Only a mental deficient Zimmerman acted on his own imagination, that Trayvon was "up to no good."

All these yokels supporting Zimmerman are a laughing stock; bunch of pigs in human form.

doing the job right is defined as following the law, which they did. they better not be unhappy that they did now.

Of course if he had not been a hoodlum that his parents had not taught him to have respect for adults he would be alive today.