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Merged Continuation Part 2: Discussion of the George Zimmerman case

Anyone who is beating you might beat you to death. One punch can cause irreversible brain damage or death.

Is that why fistfights between teenaged boys so often end in death? :rolleyes:

Our legal system makes a clear distinction between simple assault and aggravated assault for a reason. Assaults without a weapon are far less likely to cause serious injury than assaults involving a deadly weapon.
 
had not at least until the very last moments of the encounter broken any law.

The very reason he was living with his father was because he had gotten into trouble, was suspended from school, and was sent to live with his as punishment.

"The 17-year-old was suspended three times in a series of incidents that included getting caught spraying graffiti and carrying an empty baggie with traces of marijuana, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by the Miami Herald."

Also, Zimmerman isn't the only one to see Martin "being suspicious":

"The report details an incident from October, when a school police investigator said he spotted Martin on a surveillance camera "hiding and being suspicious" in an unauthorized area at Krop High School.

The investigator later saw Martin mark a door with "W.T.F." or "what the ****," the report said. When the school cop searched Martin's backpack the next day looking for the graffiti marker, he reported he found women's jewelry and a screwdriver described as a "burglary tool," the report said.

According to the report, the 12 pieces of jewelry included silver wedding bands, earrings with diamonds and a watch. The investigator asked about the jewelry and "Martin replied it's not mine. A friend gave it to me," the report said." http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Trayvon-Martin-Suspended-From-School-Three-Times-Report-144403305.html

And even on the night of the shooting it appears what you assume about Martin was not true! Looks like Martin violated Florida law about buying tobacco products because after he apparently is told he is not allowed to buy cigars, it very much looks like he has his money out, and that the 3 guys that go into the 7-11 do buy cigars and it is not until they exit the store do we see Martin finally leave the front of the 7-11. I appears Martin had them buy cigars for him which he could have used to roll a blunt. Martin exited the store at 6:24:33 PM but apparently doesn't leave the front of the store until 6:29:19 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-UTEFhA0M
 
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Julison said on his facebook "check this out" and linked to a Reuters via Yahoo article: " The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday." "Since Trayvon, a high school junior who wanted to be a pilot, was black and Zimmerman is white, Crump said race is “the 600 pound elephant in the room.”" http://web.archive.org/web/20120309...eighborhood-watch-seeks-arrest-044537742.html

Julison also says "Now working with CNN on the Trayvon Martin story" and links to a CNN article which says "According to CNN affiliate WFTV, Zimmerman, who is white, described Martin to a dispatcher as a suspicious black man." http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/12/justice/florida-teen-shot/index.html?npt=NP1

I became aware of his deception from this site: http://theconservativetreehouse.com...acial-media-pitch-in-the-trayvon-martin-case/
But as you can see, I checked and confirmed the original links.

First of all when you wrote:
Julison's faceboook boasts he worked with the media & links to stories he pushed with initial false claims of "Zimmerman is white.
the clear implication is you're quoting Julison. I think now you're backing away from that.

I see your link is to the conservative tree house, they're hardly a neutral source, and I consider them just as bad, much worse actually, than the family lawyer or Ryan Julison. Your news links are from March 2012, sixteen months ago, and at that time Zimmerman -- because of his name and appearance -- was widely considered to be white. Then the story moved past that.

We should move past that too.
 
At approximately 7:09 PM, George Zimmerman called the Sanford police non-emergency number to report what he considered a suspicious person in the Twin Lakes community. Trayvon Martin left the front of the 7-Eleven at 6:29:19 PM which means if Martin had walked at the rate Google estimates, meaning in 18 minutes, then Martin should have reached his father's place at about 6:48 PM and already been home for about 21 minutes before Zimmerman made the call to report seeing him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-UTEFhA0M see links in the video info for Approximate Walking time from 7-Eleven to Martin's father's place Total: 0.9 mi - about 18 mins https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=...d=211599187255891576041.0004e235f2bab58068cc3
 
This is simple physics. Wind noises in a microphone are related to the effective wind speed. When you walk or run into the wind, the effective wind speed is your speed plus the speed of the wind. When you walk or run with the wind, the effective wind speed is the wind speed minus your speed.

Obese George in work boots was running? I think not.
 
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Again, if Zimmerman provoked the final confrontation he was guilty of murder. If Trayvon Martin provoked it, in the manner in which George Zimmerman describes it, than it was a justifiable shooting.

Only there's very little evidence to go on. I'm saying there's no real way to know. That we will never know conclusively what really happened. There's some reason to believe half of the jurors initially wanted to convict Zimmerman. I believe the jury mostly ruled based on the lack of evidence.

That no matter how anyone denigrates Trayvon Martin, his father, Rachel Jeantel, the media, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP etc etal, that does not change the fact:

There is not enough evidence to know conclusively what happened. There just isn't.
Legally, I don't think it matters who started the altercation when it comes to justifiable self-defense.

If Zimmerman took a swipe and Martin got the better of him, and if Martin had killed Zimmerman by beating him to death, that's not self defense. Martin has a right to defend himself from an attack, but he can only kill if he believes his life was in immediate danger, and getting the better of someone you're sitting on doesn't meet that criteria.

That being said, you are right that we don't know what happened and never will. I can see why Martin supporters are upset, of course, but their incessant narrative about him doing nothing wrong is nothing more than an opinion asserted as a fact. And, that's no different than assuming that Martin was the aggressor, jumped Zimmerman, and tried to kill him. Both are based on assumptions, but the 'Martin wasn't doing anything wrong' spiel has been repeated so many times that people seem to believe it's a proven fact.
 
Martin, who was not armed with any weapon much less a gun, had not at least until the very last moments of the encounter broken any law. Yet a simple trip to a convenience store resulted in his death.

Can't you see how misleading the above is? His life didn't end because of a simple trip to the convenience store, it ended because he assaulted someone. Only the last moments were criminal... but only the last moments got him killed.

The Martin's attorney told a rally in Sanford that
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Trayvon's parents, my parents and parents of black males across the country are also living in fear that their children won't come home because someone thought they were dangers to the community.

This loses some of its rhetorical power when we remember that TM was a danger to the community (as his assault on GZ shows).
 
The very reason he was living with his father was because he had gotten into trouble, was suspended from school, and was sent to live with his as punishment.

"The 17-year-old was suspended three times in a series of incidents that included getting caught spraying graffiti and carrying an empty baggie with traces of marijuana, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by the Miami Herald."

Also, Zimmerman isn't the only one to see Martin "being suspicious":

"The report details an incident from October, when a school police investigator said he spotted Martin on a surveillance camera "hiding and being suspicious" in an unauthorized area at Krop High School.

The investigator later saw Martin mark a door with "W.T.F." or "what the ****," the report said. When the school cop searched Martin's backpack the next day looking for the graffiti marker, he reported he found women's jewelry and a screwdriver described as a "burglary tool," the report said.

According to the report, the 12 pieces of jewelry included silver wedding bands, earrings with diamonds and a watch. The investigator asked about the jewelry and "Martin replied it's not mine. A friend gave it to me," the report said." http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Trayvon-Martin-Suspended-From-School-Three-Times-Report-144403305.html

And even on the night of the shooting it appears what you assume about Martin was not true! Looks like Martin violated Florida law about buying tobacco products because after he apparently is told he is not allowed to buy cigars, it very much looks like he has his money out, and that the 3 guys that go into the 7-11 do buy cigars and it is not until they exit the store do we see Martin finally leave the front of the 7-11. I appears Martin had them buy cigars for him which he could have used to roll a blunt. Martin exited the store at 6:24:33 PM but apparently doesn't leave the front of the store until 6:29:19 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-UTEFhA0M

There was no nicotine in his system so he didn't smoke anything that night. All this is coming from the CTH. Some of it is not true and most of it is irrelevant to the actions of that night. GZ didn't know anything about TM or his background that night.

We have only GZs word for what he saw and since he lied about so many other things, I don't believe a word he says.
 
"Julison's faceboook boasts he worked with the media & links to stories he pushed with initial false claims of "Zimmerman is white."

the clear implication is you're quoting Julison. I think now you're backing away from that.

I am not backing away from anything I wrote;
The stories had the initial false claim of "Zimmerman is white" Those stores are the ones the PR guy is promoting and he talks about working with the media. Where do you think "Zimmerman is white" came from?


tI see your link is to the conservative tree
And I wrote "I became aware of his deception from this site: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/...n-martin-case/
But as you can see, I checked and confirmed the original links."

this story was pitched the the media buy a PR Firm, the more I look at this case, the Martin family lawyer and the PR guy they had pitching this story, looks like they are guilty of ethics violations. I think we have been subjected to a massive media deception motivated by greed on the part of the lawyers. The very reason Martin was living there was because he had gotten in trouble again and was suspended and it was the 3rd time getting into trouble. Yet Crump was telling the media "He was a good kid" (the lawyer said this knowing that the very reason Martin was living with his father was because he had gotten into trouble?!

We still are dealing with the negative impact of their deceptive campaign, so it isn't easy to 'get past it." Calling Zimmerman white wasn't "a mistake" it was the result of a PR campaign. I wish we could move on but people are still perpetrating violence and the president is still making this a racial issue. Well there is zero evidence it was racial, in fact the evidence indicates that Martin had someone buy him a cigar at that 7-11 so he could make a blunt.

Dr. Shiping Bao said that the THC (active ingredient in marijuana) found in Martin’s body could have had a physical or mental effect on Martin. Looks like he smoked a blunt by the pool house, looks like that was the reason there was "something wrong with him" to quote Zimmerman.

In spite of the lawyer's efforts to make it into a racial issue: "Since Trayvon, a high school junior who wanted to be a pilot, was black and Zimmerman is white, Crump said race is "the 600 pound elephant in the room."
"Why is this kid suspicious in the first place? I think a stereotype must have been placed on the kid," Crump said.

so the lawyer was trying ot make it a racial issue as he dismissed evidence that pointed to what Zimmerman suspected: "the family’s lawyer acknowledged that the boy was suspended in February for getting caught with an empty bag with traces of marijuana, which he called “irrelevant” and an attempt to demonize a victim." http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/26/2714778/thousands-expected-at-trayvon.html#storylink=cpy

"irrelevant"?! Zimmerman said, "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."

From the evidence it looks like Martin smoked a blunt by the pool house and that his behavior is what made Zimmerman think Martin was "being suspicious"
 
Obese George in work boot was running? I think not.

At the time of the shooting, George weighed about 100 pounds less than the blimp that recently appeared in court. He was also working out with a Mixed Martial Arts class 3 times a week.
 
At approximately 7:09 PM, George Zimmerman called the Sanford police non-emergency number to report what he considered a suspicious person in the Twin Lakes community. Trayvon Martin left the front of the 7-Eleven at 6:29:19 PM which means if Martin had walked at the rate Google estimates, meaning in 18 minutes, then Martin should have reached his father's place at about 6:48 PM and already been home for about 21 minutes before Zimmerman made the call to report seeing him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-UTEFhA0M see links in the video info for Approximate Walking time from 7-Eleven to Martin's father's place Total: 0.9 mi - about 18 mins https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=...d=211599187255891576041.0004e235f2bab58068cc3

Is there a rule that black people must walk home as fast as possible?
 
Our legal system makes a clear distinction between simple assault and aggravated assault for a reason. Assaults without a weapon are far less likely to cause serious injury than assaults involving a deadly weapon.

While correct, what do you consider concrete? Not a deadly weapon? Hum......
 
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That being said, you are right that we don't know what happened and never will. I can see why Martin supporters are upset, of course, but their incessant narrative about him doing nothing wrong is nothing more than an opinion asserted as a fact. And, that's no different than assuming that Martin was the aggressor, jumped Zimmerman, and tried to kill him. Both are based on assumptions, but the 'Martin wasn't doing anything wrong' spiel has been repeated so many times that people seem to believe it's a proven fact.

Can't you see how misleading the above is? His life didn't end because of a simple trip to the convenience store, it ended because he assaulted someone. Only the last moments were criminal... but only the last moments got him killed.

Trayvon Martin wasn't doing anything wrong...until he ran into George Zimmerman. We don't know what happened in those last few moments and we never will.

This loses some of its rhetorical power when we remember that TM was a danger to the community (as his assault on GZ shows).

Yeah, very true. If you take as gospel the account by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old man who had just killed an unarmed 17-year-old boy whom he had caught, "looking around."

Just remember what a co-worker said about Zimmerman.

“When the dude snapped, he snapped."
 
Legally, I don't think it matters who started the altercation when it comes to justifiable self-defense.

If Zimmerman took a swipe and Martin got the better of him, and if Martin had killed Zimmerman by beating him to death, that's not self defense. Martin has a right to defend himself from an attack, but he can only kill if he believes his life was in immediate danger, and getting the better of someone you're sitting on doesn't meet that criteria.

That being said, you are right that we don't know what happened and never will. I can see why Martin supporters are upset, of course, but their incessant narrative about him doing nothing wrong is nothing more than an opinion asserted as a fact. And, that's no different than assuming that Martin was the aggressor, jumped Zimmerman, and tried to kill him. Both are based on assumptions, but the 'Martin wasn't doing anything wrong' spiel has been repeated so many times that people seem to believe it's a proven fact.

You assume that Martin committed a crime, but there is no real proof of that. We only have George's word that Martin attacked first, and George's word that Martin was trying to kill him. The fact that George was clearly exaggerating his injuries and what happened to him during the fight doesn't seem to matter. George's injuries were mild and not life threatening. But he also knows that the dead man will never get to tell his side of the story.

We do know that at the time George called the police, Martin had not committed a crime. At the point were George gets out of his truck to make sure this ******* doesn't get away like all the others, Martin had not committed a crime. We don't know who started the fight, but we do know that George has been pumping himself up to make sure this one doesn't get away. Is the idea that George would try to grab this kid he has already stereotyped as a criminal really that hard to accept?

On what bases did you presume that Trayvon would suddenly decide to beat a man to death?
 
How many times must we have this discussion. A street address is not useful without a street name.


I guess it will keep coming up until you figure it out. Someone just posted a sample dialog of providing directions without knowing the name of the street. The dispatcher on the other end of the line is pretty sharp. He figured out the correct address of the clubhouse even though George flubbed it.


YET AGAIN:
https://www.txantimedia.com/?p=1025
Singleton: Then does, do you say he ran?
Zimmerman: Yes.
Singleton: Then you get out of your car and run after him.
Zimmerman: I didn’t run after him, no. I walked to find the street name, or a street sign. And he had already run, cut out between the houses. So I knew that, if I walked straight through that little sidewalk, I knew that that was my street that I lived on.


Now, didn't you just post that George was not looking for a street sign or was that someone else? I accepted that George was walking to find a street sign. And, it doesn't take a lot of brains to know that the street signs are at the intersections of the streets. In my narative I posited that George did walk to find the street sign. I presumed that once George reached RVC and saw that The suspect was not in sight ("he ran"), George would slow down and leisurely walk the rest of the way. If he moved much faster that about 1.5 m/s he would have reached the sign before he hung up with the dispatcher. But Rachel said the old man's voice was out of breath. Maybe that's just the way George sounded.


I don't see how your simply claiming "he had sufficient time" demonstrates it was bogus.
Did he immediately walk over there ?
How fast did he walk ?
Did he stop while he was walking ?


If you would just read my narative where I provided the numbers I won't have to repeat myself.


Should I likewise assert that JRs claim that TM was walking back from 7/11 is demonstrably bogus, he had more than sufficient time to make it home form 7/11, yet never did ?


You could. Trayvon was walking through a death trap set by George and never made it home.


So now the wind somehow lets you know where GZ is ? :eye-poppi


Yes. And I explained how.


Your assumptions are just that, assumptions. And not very good ones.


Your opinion only.


If GZ was able to see, where was TM when GZ was initially walking down toward and past the TEE ?


If you go back to the earlier installment of my narrative, I have Trayvon begin his run from the mailboxes when George must loose sight of him to pull out of the clubhouse parking lot and pull around the bushes on the corner. Other narratives have George creeping along behind Trayvon in his truck until Trayvon takes off running. I choose the less creepy behavior for George but you are free to challenge that.

Trayvon has a head start and would be around the corner and out of sight before George gets his truck parked. If Trayvon knew George was going to get out of his truck and follow, he would almost have enough time to get home before George turned the corner at the tee. But Trayvon doesn't know what George is going to do. George could have stayed in his truck and driven to the south end of the path and cut him off before he gets home. Then Trayvon would be unable to run while the creepy George would be starting the chase fresh. The best decision would be to find a location to hide with multiple exits. One of the paths between the houses with bushes for cover would be suitable.


How is it GZ walked by without seeing him ?


T'was a dark and stormy night...

Is it not an established fact that George did not see Trayvon when he crossed the cut-through to RVC?. If you dispute that, you should take it up with George.


Your assumption is just that, an assumption. And not even based on the actual dialogue RJ relayed:

BDLR: OK..um…and then what happened?
Dee Dee: And then he told me like the guy was getting close..like..and he told me the guy was
getting real close to him. The next I hear, “What are you following me for?


How many times are you going to play the selective quoting game?


Her credibility is completely suspect. Her statements are just as self-serving as GZ.


She and the Martin family have nothing to gain, nothing left to loose. Unlike George who was fighting for his freedom and a several hundred thousand dollar bonus if he were to be successful in a SYG immunity hearing. You don't accept her statement only because you don't want to accept her statement. I don't even need her statement because it was George himself that said he was walking to find a street sign.


So, in your mind, GZ, criminal mastermind, planted his small key and flashlight back at the TEE after he shot TM, so he could then lie about where the fight happened.


Not far up thread I wrote why George would have dropped his keys after the shooting. You should read what I said instead of making things up. There may have even been a witness but I need to research that further.


And all the witnesses who say the altercation started at the Tee, they are lying or mistaken ?


Could be. Only one witness actually saw them running one after the other but towards the tee.


In your mind the fact that you had to change the dialogue to fit your version of events makes no difference ?


You're the one that is saying the dialog is unreliable. I didn't transcribe this tape myself and I haven't seen the official transcript if even one exists. I did suggest early on that we should be building a common wiki with the known facts so we would at least be debating from a common basis. That at least is what I believe skeptics would do instead of playing gotcha games arguing over trivia. What I probably need to do is find a site where skeptics hang out and debate issues.


Tracy Martin said it wasn't his son crying for help, then lied about it. Javharis Fulton said he didn't know who it was. John good said he thought it was GZ yelling.


That sounds like an important interview. Do you happen to know where I can find a recording of it?


Awfully lucky for GZ that no one else really seemed to think it was TM yelling.


And if you listen to the witness statements, they almost universally say they presumed that it was the person on the bottom that was screaming for help. No one was actually in a position to say for sure. (except for George and Trayvon)


And good thing TM didn't actually turn around and say anything to John Good like "he attacked me" or anything, so that didn't blow GZ secret plan.


Is that something you typically do in a fight, take your eye off your opponent? An adult came out and stopped the fight. Under playground rules you stop fighting and get up. There will be time to present your case later.
 
For those of you that keep hammering about what GZ said, this is what he said to the dispatcher on the NEN call:

"It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about."

GZ never said TM was looking in windows on the NEN call. If he said anything else later on, he was most likely embellishing his tale.
 
If we use Occam's Razor here isn't the presumption that the wind noise was caused by wind? Why is running necessary?


Because the wind noise reduced considerably when he was told by the not-911 to stop following (in so many words).

Obviously.

I assume you would have us believe that the wind just coincidentally died down?

Perhaps.
 

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