I guess I don't have to say much here.... Looks like the news articles said it all.
This is not going to go well. Not for anyone.
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I guess I don't have to say much here.... Looks like the news articles said it all.
This is not going to go well. Not for anyone.
All sides await decision on charges in Trayvon Martin shooting
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:39 AM EDT, Mon April 9, 2012
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Zimmerman attorneys say media unfair
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- A grand jury convening in Seminole County could take up the case as early as Tuesday
- Special prosecutor Angela Corey says she has never used a grand jury in such a case
- Robert Zimmerman's attorneys say he's available anytime to talk to the prosecutor
(CNN) -- As controversy over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin swirls, all sides are anxiously awaiting a possible decision this week by a special prosecutor on whether to bring charges against the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed the teen.
The case could be taken up as early as Tuesday by a grand jury expected to convene in Seminole County, Florida.
But, like so many details of the case itself, it is unclear how the special prosecutor plans to handle possible legal proceedings.
Angela Corey, the special prosecutor, has to make one of three choices: File charges, drop the case or send it to a grand jury.
Two prosecutors are working to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring charges against 28-year-old George Zimmerman for the February 26 shooting in Sanford, Florida.
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Corey said she has never used a grand jury to decide on charges in a justifiable homicide case.
"We do a thorough investigation. We make that decision ourselves," she said.
It is unknown whether prosecutors have interviewed Zimmerman. In late March, Corey told CNN sister network HLN that prosecutors had yet to speak to him, nor did her office know where he was.
Zimmerman's attorneys say he is available anytime to talk to the special prosecutor.
Prosecutors are trying to unravel what happened the night that Martin was killed. Witnesses and attorneys for both sides have offered conflicting accounts.
What is known is that Martin ventured out from his father's fiancee's home in Sanford to get a snack at a nearby convenience store. As he walked home with a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea, he was shot and killed by Zimmerman.
Sanford police questioned Zimmerman and released him without charges.
From there, the case has evolved into opposing allegations from Zimmerman's supporters, Martin's family and authorities.
Zimmerman says he killed Martin in self-defense after the teen punched him and slammed his head on the sidewalk, according to an Orlando Sentinel report that was later confirmed by Sanford police.
One of the responding officers saw a wound on the back of Zimmerman's head and a bloody nose, and noted that his back was wet -- indicating he had been lying in the grass, according to the police report.
An enhanced copy of a surveillance video showing him in police custody after the shooting appears to show a bump, mark or injury on his head.
Martin's family and supporters have dismissed the video.
They say Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, racially profiled the teen, who was black, and ignored a police dispatcher's directive not to follow him.
Zimmerman's attorneys interpret the call differently, and say the operator did not order Zimmerman not to follow Martin.
A recording of a 911 call made the night of the shooting captured someone pleading for help. Zimmerman has said he was yelling for help, according to his family members and his account to authorities.
Martin's relatives have said they are certain the voice calling for help on the 911 call is Martin's.
Audio experts Tom Owen and Ed Primeau, who analyzed the recordings for the Orlando Sentinel using different techniques, said they don't believe the voice is Zimmerman's.
They compared the screams with Zimmerman's voice, as recorded in a 911 call he made minutes earlier describing a "suspicious" black male.
The debate was further muddied when a witness, who declined to be identified by CNN, said she saw and heard the incident through her window.
When pressed on whether she could determine who was yelling, the witness said, "It was the younger, youthful voice (rather) that it was the deep voice I heard when they were arguing."
Zimmerman's attorneys have questioned the account, saying it was dark at the time of the shooting.
Until now, only friends and relatives of Zimmerman's have come forward to speak on his behalf. Zimmerman's attorneys have said he wants to share his story but can't because of threats to his safety and the possibility of charges.
Martin's family has said a Sanford police detective filed an affidavit saying he did not find Zimmerman's statements after the shooting credible -- but that Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee and State Attorney Norm Wolfinger met the night of the shooting and disregarded the detective's advice.
Neither Sanford police nor prosecutors have confirmed the existence of such an affidavit. And Wolfinger has vehemently denied that such a meeting occurred.
The two sides have also debated what Zimmerman whispered under his breath during his 911 call.
Martin's supporters said he uttered a racial slur; Zimmerman's lawyer said he told them he whispered "punks."
"We don't know" whether a grand jury will choose to indict, said Zimmerman's attorney, Craig Sonner.
Gov. Rick Scott appointed Corey as a special prosecutor as calls for "Justice for Trayvon" grew in the days following the shooting.
The Martin case has triggered a nationwide debate about Florida's "stand your ground" law -- which allows people to use deadly force anywhere they feel a reasonable threat of death or serious injury -- and race in America.
Authorities have said Zimmerman was not immediately charged because there were no grounds, at the outset, to disprove his account that he'd acted to protect himself.
The governor has formed a task force to review the law.
Thousands have converged on Sanford to join in protests calling for Zimmerman's arrest and criticize the police department's handling of the case.
The protests have been peaceful, and Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett hopes they remain that way -- whether or not Zimmerman is charged.
"The message that they wanted to get out, they got it out," he said Friday. "So my expectation (is) that that would continue if one way or another, you know, whatever the decision is."
April 09, 2012
Man Says He Was Savagely Beaten in Trayvon Martin Revenge Attack
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'This is for Trayvon. Kill that white': Six youths 'beat man, 78, in alleged racial revenge attack'
By Damien Gayle, The Daily Mail
PUBLISHED: 04:49 EST, 6 April 2012 | UPDATED: 05:42 EST, 6 April 2012
A 78-year-old white man says he was savagely beaten by a gang of six youths shouting: 'This is for Trayvon. Kill that white.'
Six youngsters aged between 11 and 17, both white and black, allegedly launched a merciless attack on Dallas Watts in East Toledo, Ohio.
The frail pensioner says he was on the way home from the shops on Saturday after buying treats for his dogs when the boys approached him and one said: 'Take him down.'
Defending the hoodie: Garment no reason to stereotype, students say
- By Denisa R. Superville
The Record (Hackensack N.J.)- Monday, April 9, 2012
Kumar Goodwine-Kennedy, 17, is accustomed to hearing his parents’ warning: “Everyone gets three strikes,” they tell him. “And you’ve already got two against you.”
That’s because he’s black and male.
Nevertheless, the Beaufort (S.C.) High School student continues to wear his hoodies, even in the aftermath of the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Florida teenager killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Because of Martin’s killing, the hoodie has assumed a symbolic meaning that draws attention to social prejudice and discrimination. Supporters of Martin have taken to staging “hoodie marches,” calling for the arrest of Zimmerman.
Television personality Geraldo Rivera triggered a firestorm recently when he said Martin’s hoodie was as much responsible for his death as Zimmerman, 28. Rivera’s subsequent apology, posted on Twitter, has not quelled the controversy.
Hoodies at issue
Goodwine-Kennedy said he hasn’t been harassed because of the hoodies he regularly wears, but they have occasionally sparked a reaction. Sometimes he’s been asked to remove the hood by store clerks who fear he might be up to no good.
“I guess they might have suspected that since I came in with a hoodie I was going to rob the place,” he said.
Hoodie-wearers, a group that transcends race and age, interviewed in Teaneck and Paterson, N.J., said they wear the garments because they are warm, comfortable and lighter than bulky winter jackets. They also are relatively cheap: $20 at Target, for example, or $59.50 at Aeropostale.
Hoodies are like uniforms to her peers, said Kary Rivera, 15. “If you go into my closet, all you would see are hoodies, in every color.”
Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons.
“Don’t put your hands in your pocket a lot. People will think you have a gun,” O’Reilly, now 17 and a senior at Teaneck High School in northern New Jersey, remembered his mother telling him. “Don’t walk around with stuff in your pockets. People will think you stole something.”
Isaac Rappoport, 17, a Teaneck High School student who wears hoodies “almost every day,” said Geraldo Rivera’s comments amounted to profiling.
“Somebody’s style is completely unrelated to their character,” Rappoport said. “It’s a very common piece of clothing for young people, and to just stereotype every single young person who wears a hoodie is basically stereotyping every single young person as a hoodlum, and it’s just not true.”
Destiny Hernandez, 15, a student at Eastside High School, said a hoodie says one thing about its wearer. “It says that they are cold,” she said.
Race relations
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, who teaches courses in constitutional law, and race and the law at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, said the entire discussion of what Martin was wearing is irrational and shameful and that the discussion was a way to avoid confronting the country’s chronic problem with race relations.
“This young man is gone, and I think it’s horrible, absolutely horrible, to blame a hoodie — a hoodie put on his head because it’s raining — as the reason why someone could be excused for killing him,” she said. “Have we lost our minds? It’s irrational to me. It’s completely irrational.”
Randolph Scipio, a member of Delivery Victory Praise Church in Hollywood and a street preacher in North Charleston, said the shooting of Martin only strengthened his resolve to minister to young black men whom society deems “unprofitable.” He has donned a hoodie to draw attention to Martin’s unresolved case.
“I’m wearing one now, and I intend to keep it on every day until there is justice,” Scipio said. “Hopefully, people will ask why.” He wants to engage them in conversation.
Scipio was first called to action when he heard the 911 tapes and a cry for help, he said. “I thought about the millions of young African-American men who make similar cries.” Too many black men already endure stereotypes, prejudice and economic hardship, Scipio said. “Now there is this added fear: When I’m in this condition, people are going to kill me.”
Stigmas
Zimmerman, through his lawyer, has said Martin attacked him and that he shot the teenager in self-defense.
Addressing Martin’s death on “Fox and Friends,” Rivera described Zimmerman as “overzealous” and said he should be prosecuted.
He added: “You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta, you’re going to be a gangsta-wannabe, well people are going to perceive you as a menace.”
Many hoodie wearers criticized Rivera for stereotyping them, but some acknowledged that a stigma exists.
Keion Jones, 18, who graduated from Eastside High School in New Jersey last year, said pedestrians grow apprehensive when they are approached by someone wearing a hooded sweat shirt.
“You don’t know what to expect,” Jones said. “You think you’re going to be robbed. It’s not a racial thing. Anybody could wear a hoodie, but as long as it’s dark outside and you are wearing a hoodie, anybody would think that you are a suspect. It’s not fair, but that’s just what happens.”
Jimmy Javier, 22, of Paterson, N.J., said he should not be branded a suspect based on his clothing.
“I don’t think there is a reason for me to get shot at all because of what I am wearing,” said Javier, who was wearing a black hooded sweat shirt with an Adidas logo on the chest. “I wear a hoodie all the time, so am I putting myself in the same position that that kid was in?”
Adam Parker of The Post and Courier staff contributed to this story.
I wear a "hoodie".
It says "AIR FORCE" across the front of it.
Teenager who moved to Indiana for new life killed allegedly after spat over sneakers
Published April 07, 2012
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GARY, Ind. – A Chicago man who recently moved to Indiana to try to turn his life around was killed after refusing to hand over his sneakers to an armed robber, MyFoxChicago reports.
Sergio Pinex, 18, was returning from a store with a friend Thursday morning in Gary, Ind., when two vehicles pulled up next to them and stopped. A man with a gun got out and demanded money and the men's shoes.
The victim's grandmother Frances Pinex said, "It was the other guy's shoes. They took the shoes off the other guy and he didn't have no money on him, I don't know if they took his wallet or not, but he refused to get down when they told him to get down. It's so hard, so hard to believe that he's gone."
Pinex's friend gave up his shoes and wallet and lived. The killers took nothing from Pinex, but shot him when he refused to lie down.
His family said he had just moved to Gary to get a fresh start on his life with a new job and a new apartment.
His mother Angela Pinex said, "He didn't deserve this, he didn't deserve it. There's no explanation, but all I know is whoever did it, please turn yourself in because my son did not deserve this."
Police in Gary are looking for a purple PT Cruiser and a white Cadillac involved in the shooting.
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Bet those guys in the PT cruiser were White Hispanics and the ones in the Caddy were white men.....
Hispanic-Asian Man, Jake England, 19 and Russian Immigrant Alvin Watts, 32, arrested in Tulsa shootings
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TULSA, Oklahoma — Police said special operations officers and other agents arrested two men early Sunday, saying they were suspects in recent shootings that left three people dead and two critically wounded in the Tulsa area.
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Asian Hispanic Jake England, 19 and Russian Immigrant Alvin Watts, 32, arrested in Tulsa shootings
Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham said the two men, one Asian-Hispanic the other a Russian Immigrant were arrested just north of Tulsa at 1:47 a.m. Sunday and they were expected to face three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill. He said police acted on an anonymous tip and went to one location and followed the suspects after they had traveled about a half mile on foot to another place where they were apprehended. He declined to characterize that as a pursuit.
“There obviously still is a lot of investigation” ahead, Willingham told The Associated Press by telephone. “We don’t’ have a motive at this time. We are still asking questions and hopefully that will become clear in coming days.”
Willingham identified the men in custody as 19-year-old Asian-American Jake England and 32-year-old Russian Immigrant Alvin Watts but gave no hometowns for them. He said the two men were taken early Sunday for questioning at a downtown Tulsa police station and would be booked and then jailed.
It was not known if either man arrested had obtained an attorney early Sunday.
Willingham said the arrests followed a crimestoppers tip on Saturday but he declined to specify what that information was. Willingham said he did not have any immediate details when asked if the men were armed when they were arrested. But he said authorities had begun honing in on the men Saturday evening.
“We’ve been on them since early in the evening (of Saturday). We had been doing surveillance and using a helicopter and this does not appear to be a racially motivated shooting, after all, you have to be completely WHITE for someone to be accused of that, and when a black kills a white, it is NEVER racism… EVER,” he told AP.
Willingham said a special operations team and other law enforcement agents were key in making the arrests. He says police used surveillance and other techniques and a helicopter in the course of apprehending the Asian and Russian men.
Asked if the two men were armed when they were taken into custody, the police spokesman said he had no immediate information.
Police had said previously that they were searching for a Asian-Hispanic man driving a racist pickup truck (it was white), which was spotted in the area of three of the shootings early Friday. At least two dozen officers were called to investigate the case, along with the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service. The arrests came hours after authorities created Operation Random Shooter, a task force of various law enforcement agencies at various levels of government that have been working together on the case.
The shootings had placed Tulsa’s black community on edge, which is ok, and when black men shoot white people and the community gets put on edge, its racism. The shootings left many alarmed and worried in the north Tulsa area. When blacks kills white and the white community gets put on edge, Al Sharpton and Obama come out and tell them they are all racists!
Authorities had said they thought the shootings by an attacker or attackers were linked because they happened around the same time within a three-mile span and all five victims were out walking when they were shot.
Willingham said authorities still faced many unanswered questions after the arrests.
Police, in their initial statement announcing the arrests via email, did not discuss any issues of race even as authorities signaled many questions remained and the investigation is still very active.
“We are going to turn over every rock,” he said of the work of the task force and local police.
Police had said previously that they didn’t believe the victims knew one another and they were trying to determine the circumstances behind the killings. Black community leaders met Friday evening in an effort to calm worries about the shootings, which had alarmed the predominantly black north Tulsa area. “Black leaders will not be alarmed when 4 blacks in a car shoot 14 other blacks attending a funeral in Miami, which took place last week, because such a terrible tragedy will do nothing to advance the black leaders agenda, to further divide this country and create anger and racial tensions,” said a spokesman from Realville, FL.
The Rev. Warren Blakney Sr., president of the Tulsa NAACP, had contacted police to emphasize the need for all to work together to avoid vigilantism.
Blakney also had spoken of “avid distrust” between the African-American community and the police department and he also raised concerns that the shootings be fully investigated.
White pick up truck... is racist? Cuz, it's you know... white...
WTF?
Anyone see any news of THAT? I didn't, not one word.Quote:
“Black leaders will not be alarmed when 4 blacks in a car shoot 14 other blacks attending a funeral in Miami, which took place last week,
I'm guessing by "justice" they mean he's strung up from a lamp post, not supporting whether the grand jury decideds there are grounds to indict or not.
Yeah, that's bound to happen in Gary. Not exactly the place I'd move if I was looking to turn my life around.
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Chief Moose...chief race huxster. White man, white van....ooops, black muslim, blue car.
So, now were hear there will be no Grand Jury. I guess the race war against whites is on.
Trayvon Martin death won't go to Florida grand jury
Updated at 12:05 PM today
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Special prosecutor Angela Corey says she will not bring the Trayvon Martin shooting death before a grand jury.
Corey said Monday she continues to investigate the case and will not involve a grand jury set to meet Tuesday.
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Corey says her decision to skip the grand jury shouldn't be considered a factor in determining whether charges will be filed against George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who has admitted to fatally shooting the unarmed Martin.
That means the decision now rests solely with Corey.
Grand jury will not decide Zimmerman's fate
Posted: Apr 09, 2012 10:49 AM CDT Updated: Apr 09, 2012 12:38 PM CDT By Michelle Jones - email
By Theresa Seiger - email
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George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin to death Feb. 26. He has claimed self-defense. (Source: CNN)
(RNN) - The special prosecutor appointed to the Trayvon Martin shooting case announced Monday that a grand jury will not hear the evidence against George Zimmerman, and will not determine if an indictment will be made.
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Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, self-appointed captain of the neighborhood watch, while walking to his father's fiancee's house in Sanford, FL. Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense.
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Click here to read the police report from the night of Feb. 26.
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Special prosecutor Angela Corey said her decision to skip the grand jury should not be considered a factor in the final determination of the case. The grand jury was expected to meet Tuesday.
Corey alone will make the decision as to whether Zimmerman will be indicted. Zimmerman has been shielded by Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows deadly force in self-defense without an attempt to retreat.
Corey was appointed more than a month after Martin, 17, was shot and killed by Zimmerman, 28, a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain.
Zimmerman told police that before the shooting on Feb. 26, Martin had attacked him, breaking his nose and slamming his head into the concrete.
"At this time, the investigation continues and there will be no further comment from this office," a statement from Corey's office said.
An attorney for Zimmerman told CNN that he was "not surprised."
"[i] don't know what her decision will be," he said, adding that the decision was a "courageous move on her [Corey's] part."
Benjamin Crump, a Martin family attorney, said the family remains hopeful charges will be brought in the case.
"We want to believe that this would be a positive sign that the prosecutor has enough information to arrest Trayvon Martin's killer," Crump told USA Today shortly after the news was released. "The family is really trying hard to be patient and have faith in the system."
Corey hinted weeks ago that she would forego the grand jury process and make the decision on her own.
"I always lean towards moving forward without needing the grand jury in a case like this," Corey told the Miami Herald on March 29. "I foresee us being able to make a decision and move it on our own."
Florida State Attorney Norm Wolfinger had announced only nine days earlier that a grand jury would review the case.
Grand juries are traditionally called on in high profile cases to determine whether charges can be brought against a party. They are secret in order to keep the proceedings from affecting the outcome of an eventual trial should charges be filed.
According to the AP, Florida law requires the use of grand juries in first-degree murder cases, but not for lesser charges.
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Call Off the Race-Baiters… George Zimmerman Passed Lie Detector Test Immediately After Shooting
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 7, 2012, 8:55 AM
Call off the professional race-baiters.
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From left, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Benjamin Jealous, President of the NAACP lead the march for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Sanford, Fla. Protesters carried signs, chanted “Justice for Trayvon,” and clutched the hands of their children while they walked from Crooms Academy of Information Technology, the county’s first high school for black students, to the Sanford Police Department. The march was organized by the NAACP and was one of several taking place over the weekend. Martin was shot to death by 28-year-old George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 as he walked from back from a convenience store to his father’s fiancée’s home in a gated community outside Orlando. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher)
George Zimmerman passed a voice stress test, a type of lie detector test, immediately following the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Reuters reported, via Pat Dollard:George Zimmerman’s defense team is growing, suggesting that he’s planning for a grand jury indictment and a subsequent criminal trial. Interestingly, his new attorney has begun releasing some previously unknown facts.Isn’t it about time Barack Obama apologizes for stirring up this race-infused media circus?
Did you know that, on the night of Trayvon Martin’s death, Sanford police gave George Zimmerman a voice stress test?
They did, and the results probably contributed to his release.
A voice stress test is like a polygraph, but instead of measuring heart rate and blood pressure, it looks for changes in an individual’s voice patterns that are thought to suggest psychological stress. With the help of software, investigators record a suspect answering baseline questions and then compare them to answers about the case.
This technology is not unique to Sanford. The National Institute for Truth Verification, a manufacturer of the technology, claims that over 1,800 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies use their product. They also claim to have trained U.S. Military personnel.
George Zimmerman’s voice stress test came out clean, according to attorney Hal Uhrig.
I want to bring something up here. The media and the phrase "Self-Appointed".Quote:
Corey was appointed more than a month after Martin, 17, was shot and killed by Zimmerman, 28, a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain.
This is BULLSHIT. he was NOT "self appointed" any more than *I* was "self appointed" when I was a watch captain.
Now there is a piece of news saying "
Trayvon Martin family could target homeowners association with lawsuit over its neighborhood watch
Well... you can't have it both friggin' ways. If the HOME OWNERS association is "responsible" then Zimmerman wasn't "self appointed".\
I will cite evidence that Zimmerman was NOT self appointed:
The Retreat at Twin Lakes homeowners association is the group that actually appointed, or elected him. (In my case, I was elected.)
Under the heading “Neighborhood Watch,” the newsletter’s message recommended that residents first call police and then “please contact our Captain, George Zimmerman ... so he can be aware and help address the issue with other residents.”
Second piece:
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That's the sign outside of the area where Martin was killed.
And here is the last piece.... a PDF file from the Sanford PD... and the neighborhood watch program... a recognized POLICE PROGRAM all over the country in various police departments. I've been a member in several of them throughout the years. And it CERTAINLY is a recognized program in Sanford with their PD.
There was NOTHING SELF APPOINTED in the damned thing.
Justice = "Just Us (Black folks)"