I do not have much sympathy for George Zimmerman. The stupid jerk disregarded police instructions not to confront 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The boy’s parents, supported by Al Sharpton and his ilk, demand that Zimmerman be arrested and prosecuted for murder and for committing a hate crime. The nationwide outrage – before all the facts are known – will almost certainly assure that Zimmerman will be prosecuted on some serious charges, regardless of whether or not those charges are truly warranted.
Two factors in the Martin shooting should be considered. First of all, the parents and Sharpton are outraged that the police did not arrest Zimmerman. They played the race card by saying Zimmerman would have been arrested had he been black and the victim white. That’s a big load of crap!
I do not know whether the police crime scene investigation was adequate or not. However, the officers did have evidence that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense because he was found bleeding from the nose and the back of the head while the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.
In Houston, where the cops are pretty hardnosed, the police would not arrest a shooter under those circumstances. Instead they would present their findings to a grand jury to determine if the shooter should be prosecuted. And that’s the way it is done pretty much throughout the country, regardless of the shooter’s race.
But none of that matters to rabblerousing Al Sharpton and the nationwide lynch mob. They’ve even got a bunch of thugs, The New Black Panther Party, calling for the mobilization of 5,000 black men to find Zimmerman and offering a $10,000 bounty for his capture.
The other factor is that Martin was wearing a hoodie. In Houston we have had several smash and grab high-end jewelry store robberies committed by a group of men using hammers to smash the jewelry display cases. The security cameras show that in each of them all the perpetrators wore hoodies. And on an almost daily basis, our TV news reports show one or more convenience store robberies and in almost all of them the robbers wore hoodies. Thus the hoodies are associated with criminals.
Geraldo Rivera entered the fray with this comment: "I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly not to let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangster– you’re going to be a gangster want-to-be. Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace, that’s what happens.” Geraldo has been excoriated for these remarks and thousands of young demonstrators all over the nation protested by wearing hoodies. But like him or not, Geraldo made a good point.
I predict that Zimmerman is going to be prosecuted because the authorities cannot withstand the political heat generated by this case. And that politically fueled judicial lynching will come despite the fact that a credible eyewitness told the police that Martin attacked Zimmerman and that it was Zimmerman who yelled ‘help me’ as heard on the 911 call, and not Martin as his parents claim.
WITNESS: MARTIN ATTACKED ZIMMERMAN
my FOX Tampa Bay
March 23, 2012
ORLANDO - A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.
The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all.
Our sister station, FOX 35 in Orlando, has spoken to that witness.
What Sanford Police investigators have in the folder, they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin few know about.
The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney. Now that file is just weeks away from being opened to a grand jury.
It shows more now about why police believed that night that George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.
Zimmerman called 911 and told dispatchers he was following a teen. The dispatcher told Zimmerman not to.
And from that moment to the shooting, details are few.
But one man's testimony could be key for the police.
"The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said.
Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.
The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.
His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.
"When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.
Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.
Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.
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I understand that, besides the witness, there is forensic evidence to back Zimmerman. Presumably they are also analyzing the voice screaming for help on the 911 tape. If that is indeed Zimmerman it backs his position. If it isn't it will show Zimmerman to be a liar, at least in that one regard, and throw his whole testimony into question. I am content to wait for the actual facts to come in. Too bad our president and presidential candidates are not willing to do so.
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