Thread: Being Black and carrying Skittles amounts to a death sentence in Florida

Originally Posted by 007

Armed response initiated AFTER 17 year old VIOLENT thug attacked the defendant causing actual bodily harm.

Zimmerman was hospitalized for serious facial injuries caused by this violent youth!!

It was self defense.

How do you know who attacked whom? Zimmerman initiated the contact here. He's the one who started harrassing an innocent kid who was doing nothing wrong. Exactly how would you respond if you were walking down the street minding your own business and some idiot comes along and starts asking you who you are and what you're doing. If an actual cop in uniform came up to you and started asking questions like that you wouldn't be under any legal obligation to answer them let alone some wannabe neighborhood watch goon.
Zimmerman went against the advice of authorities and followed Martin. Why wouldn't Martin have felt threatened by Zimmerman? And how do you know that Zimmerman didn't figure himself as some big tough guy and try to physically detain Martin?
Zimmerman looks pretty good in that police video for someone supposedly beaten within an inch of his life. Not so much as a bandage.
And before we label Treyvon Martin as the "VIOLENT thug" here, between George Zimmerman and Treyvon Martin which one has had domestic abuse charges filed against him and had gotten into fights with cops?

Originally Posted by 007

He wasn't told anything by the police, he called 911 and the operator advised him to back off.

Zimmerman was hospitalized with serious facial injuries including a suspected broken nose, self defense seems to be appropriate in that case.
In Florida, under Florida laws self defense would include shooting a person who was shouting at you and behaving In a threatening manner.
That's the law in Florida!!
In Massachusetts it's different.
6 weeks ago a pizza delivery person threatened to kill me and my newborn because I had his car towed away.
Apparently he felt it ok to park in my driveway whilst delivering to my neighbours!
I had his car towed, then parked, he then arrived on scene ranting and threatening.
I Florida I could have shot him, but this is Massachusetts.
I called the police, they dealt with it.
It might have been less expensive if I just gave him a few slaps but you can't be too Carefull when liberals are involved!!!!
The criminal is always right!!!!

Oh bullsit...he wasn''t hurt at all.

Originally Posted by Tedminator

Sanford Police Chief under fire in Trayvon Martin shooting case - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com March 22, 2012
SANFORD – Embattled Sanford police Chief Bill Lee Jr. stepped down from his post "temporarily" today, brought down by a firestorm of criticism over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old. "My role as the leader of this agency has become a distraction from the investigation," Lee said in a brief statement. "It is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process. "Therefore, I have come to the decision that I must temporarily relieve myself from the position as police chief for the city of Sanford," Lee said. "I do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm to a city which has been in turmoil for several weeks."

City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr., said the city was taking the proper steps to ensure the investigation is sound, and the judicial process can run its course. "What the city wants most for the family of Trayvon Martin is justice," he said, adding that city officials would hold regular news briefings to update the press on developments in the case.
...more...


This police chief is a fool if he thinks he still has a job to come back too. He failed in his duty to serve and protect, and then he screwed up the investigation.. so much so that state and federal investigators had to be called in.

Told ya..


Sanford Forces Police Chief Lee Out « CBS Miami
SANFORD (CBSMiami) – The police chief of Sanford is being given his walking papers amid fallout from the Trayvon Martin case.
Bill Lee left the department temporarily last month in the wake of criticism over handling of the investigation in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
In a statement put out by the city on Monday, the commission will authorize “City Manager Norton Bonaparte to execute the separation agreement tendered by the City Manager to Police Chief Billy R. Lee, Jr. Under the separation agreement, Chief Lee would resign from his post, effective at midnight tonight.”
..more..

Originally Posted by Tedminator

Told ya..


Sanford Forces Police Chief Lee Out « CBS Miami
SANFORD (CBSMiami) – The police chief of Sanford is being given his walking papers amid fallout from the Trayvon Martin case.
Bill Lee left the department temporarily last month in the wake of criticism over handling of the investigation in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
In a statement put out by the city on Monday, the commission will authorize “City Manager Norton Bonaparte to execute the separation agreement tendered by the City Manager to Police Chief Billy R. Lee, Jr. Under the separation agreement, Chief Lee would resign from his post, effective at midnight tonight.”
..more..

Now THAT'S the accountability I've been waiting for!