ABC News has posted a photo taken three minutes after Zimmerman’s deadly confrontation with Trayvon Martin:
The exclusive image shows blood trickling down the back of Zimmerman’s head from two cuts. It also shows a possible contusion forming on the crown of his head. The original police report that night notes that the back of Zimmerman’s head was wet, and that he was bleeding from the nose and head.
Zimmerman told police that night that he shot and killed the teenager in self-defense after Martin punched him and pounced on him. Zimmerman told police that Martin then bashed his head into the concrete sidewalk during the altercation that took place in the tidy middle-class development of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Fla.
Zimmerman was treated at the scene by paramedics, then cuffed and driven in a police cruiser to the Sanford police station. He was questioned for hours and later released. In police surveillance video obtained last month by ABC News, Zimmerman’s wounds are not apparent, and there were no bandages on his head.
Right, that was the lossy version that ABC first posted. The network later published a clearer version that shows Zimmerman’s head wounds.
About that lossy version of the surveillance video. I think ABC isn’t being entirely honest about it. It’s not as much of a lock as the dishonest NBC edit of Zimmerman’s 911 call, but the fact is, the details apparent in the “enhanced” version are almost certainly visible in the master file of that video. The question is, did ABC obtain that master file or a lossy version of it? When either ABC or its source compressed that clip to post on the web, the clip lost some crucial detail. That’s part of the process of compression, but it’s not unavoidable anymore thanks to improvements that have been made in the compression process over the past couple of years. The loss of detail in ABC’s original clip could have been the result of an inexperienced web producer botching the job, or the file that ABC obtained from its Sanford police source may have already been compressed in a lossy way. Or of course ABC could have intentionally compressed it to lose some detail. The network centered its story about that clip on the lack of visible wounds, wounds which we now know were visible. So someone at some point in the process of ABC obtaining and posting that video handled it in a less than honest manner.
Whatever was the case then, there’s no excuse now for ABC to include this sentence in its story about the new Zimmerman photo (linked here, and warning: It’s graphic):
In police surveillance video obtained last month by ABC News, Zimmerman’s wounds are not apparent, and there were no bandages on his head.
Fact-check yourself, ABC. The part about Zimmerman’s wounds not being apparent in that video is no longer operative.
I know your reflex will be to squelch this post like you do with ever other comment of mine – you can’t help the fact that you’re a petty little guy, but George Zimmerman can use PJM readers’ help. He has a website soliciting funds for his defense, I’ve checked it out as much as I’m able and it appears legit. I donated. How about putting your head trip aside for a moment, do some due diligence, and then at least publish a link to his website:
http://therealgeorgezimmerman.com/
This American citizen is being railroaded and deserves the help of his compatriots. Can you stop being petty for just a moment and pay attention to do a good deed?
What’s with the childish tone? Grow up, there’s no “petty” “head trip” or any other kind of conspiracy against you here. Your comments sail through when you don’t embed them with a lot of links. When they have lots of links, the spam filters tend to toss them. That’s how spam filters work. You ought to be embarrassed for the tone of your comment above.
Yeah, it was a bit churlish. It seems like it was addressed specifically to you, and perhaps it was. Perhaps not.
It’s just that, PJM has been blocking a whole lot of the readers here who are hardline Conservatives like me. You rarely see guys like ETAB and eon here, anymore, along with many others. I have seen most of them comment in some place here that the blocking is a problem. It’s not the Left being blocked; It’s the Right.
I am slowly working my way off the block lists, but I am still blocked by many of the new writers here: Johnson; Baehr; Reddy; Goldman; Radosh; Kimball; a few others. Many of the new writers are far more “moderate” than contributors of the past. Even when I am not blocked, some of my posts get removed, not because I violate the rules, but because they do not like my comments. Yet, they allow the comments of the Lefties who come here, regardless of their content.
This is supposed to be a Conservative site, but it is moving leftwards. It is a source of great frustration. There is a real censorship problem on this site now, and it is directed towards the Right, not the Left. This increases the frustration.
Because of this, I think it might not have been meant for you personally.
Regards
Oh ETAB is a live and well. Check out his ‘right winger’ for ‘black people’ posts here:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/culture-not-race-determines-many-crime-stats/
You’d have to ask Eon and Etab but I suspect they’re not posting rather than being blocked since they never say anything remotely offensive. I also think PJM has some java-script code problems under the hood from time to time.
Very interesting that you should talk about censorship at PJM . Currently on Roger L Simons article about Grenell I am not being offered the option to ‘Reply’ but just to ‘Link to this comment’ . I presume that is so Roger can allow or deny comments as he so wishes.
And yet, Washington76 continues to spam almost every column with his self-promoting junk that isn’t even remotely related to the discussion at hand.
Yeah, I’d be real embarrassed if it hasn’t been happening…
I was banned for a over a year here before. That never stopped me. Think outside the boxeroonie.
Bryan – At the end of the ABC clip they cite statements by the prosecutor that I think are simply false: One statement is that Zimmerman profiled Martin. How the bleep does the prosecutor know that. Is she a mind reader? It is certainly not obvious from the tape. Than the prosecutor said, had Zimmerman listened to the dispatcher and stopped chasing Martin then there would have been no killing (she said murder) that night. 1) The dispatcher never actually told him to stop running after Martin, and 2) he did stop running after Martin and lost sight of him.
I think the prosecutor is over the edge of ethical misconduct. She is lying. She will join Mike Nifong in the annals of unetheical prosecutors.
Alan Dershowitz agrees, Jack. It is clear from the 911 recordings that Zimmerman didn’t “profile” Martin in any racial way. He suspected ill intent based on Martin’s actions, including Martin reaching for his waist band. I think the whole thing was a tragic misunderstanding and Zimmerman did believe Martin posed a serious threat to him. Martin also believed Zimmerman posed a threat to him. Neither, it turns out, was a real threat to the other but the circumstances led to a terrible end. But we’ll see what evidence emerges.
“Neither, it turns out, was a real threat to the other…”
At least until Martin tried to bash Zimmerman’s skull in with the planet.
No kidding.
That was a real gem.
Here’s something from Breitbart about what Alan Dershowitz said:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/20/Dershowitz-prosecution-immoral
BTW – I sure miss Andrew Breitbart. He was taken too soon from us.
It actually doesn’t matter if Zimmerman “profiled” Martin. It’s a complete red herring. There’s no law against profiling, and nothing one way or another about profiling in the second-degree murder statute.
Look! Squirrel!
If you look at the statistics Black youths under 25 who comprise only a MINISCULE 1-2% of the population of the USA commit 52% of all the murders and 60% of all the violent crimes in the USA . So only a moron would ignore a NON RESIDENT Black youth acting suspiciously in a gated community. So if Trayvon, already a violent criminal, was not profiled then that was a FAILURE on behalf of Zimmerman not crime by him.
I agree, Pragmatist.
However, ‘Representative’ Eleanor Holmes Norton was on record recently at a D.C. pow-wow (i.e. hate on Whitey regarding the Zimmerman/ Martin incident) in ‘presenting’ (strong arming via nonsensical lighter melanin guilt, CBC, ‘fairness’ etc.,) an ‘anti-profiling’ Bill.
How/ why the hell would you do that in HUNDREDS of U.S. cities.. I think we ALL know that answer.
Nonsensical ‘Progressive’ s hit Bills such as/like this passes, I see MANY more CC, Zimmerman/ Martin incidents in the future as well as many many victims due to police HAVING to look the other way. To prove they’re not racist. Or something..?
snork;
Yea! Squirrel with an iPad!
Stretching as much as one can to award “benefit of doubt”, I think this female prosecutor is jumping to a conclusion…..it’s the mindset of one blinding herself to any inconvenience.
[I'm not a lawyer....I guess properly, "it takes one to know one."]
…..”anonymous” has popped up because I only filled in the white blanks…I thought that “Click here to cancel reply” was the brown space…I guess this is just my deviant “literal mindedness”. I’ve actually managed to post correctly before this.
…my name is Charlie Griffith.
Everyone who thinks Corey would use the term ‘sweet parents’ if they were white clap your hands.
Insert YouTube link to crickets chirping here.
Fact-check yourself, ABC.
I was thinking of a slightly different phrase.
If Martin’s attorney’s obviously idiotic comment about the wounds and this photo are indicative of things, there’s no way Zimmerman will not go free. They might even not go ahead with the trial. I’m surprised Corey did this. It seems she might have been in a no lose where she can look okay no matter what since she mainly seems concerned about ‘sweet’ black folks.
Result: post-racial riots.
Obama’s response: “Look, look here now. I know how you feel. I feel your pain. I feel Martin’s pain. If I had a son he’d look just like you and therefore feel your pain. Just put me down for pain. Oh, and – the ball-’n'-chain too. We are working on a wrestling grudge match between the NBA and NHL Player’s Associations that will dull the pain. Well, not the player’s pain, but you know what I mean.”
Obama makes out like he’s an AMerican Black, but, in fact, he has no Black American history. His familly has no history in America, except his White familly. He wants to play the race card, but is, himself, illegitimate on this score as on the black side, he has no American Experience.
Born to a Kenyan Black Muslim who was a large percentage of ARAB descent and who was also on the verge of being deported from the USA as a Drunken womanising scrounging UNDESIRABLE ALIEN, Obambi was then ADOPTED by a Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetero that his mother had hooked up with, she had a history of mainly dark skinned partners. So where is the name change Document when he change from being Barry Soetero to Barrack HUSSEIN Obama mmm last time he saw it it was with his original VAULT BC I think. He was raised and schooled, in his formative years, in Jakarta as a Devout Mosque going dog eating Muslim. Upon return to the USA he was brought up by his rich but extreme left wing Grandparents (think Warren Buffet), as his mother was too busy to take care of him, and attended the best school in Hawaii. He was also introduced by his Grandpappy to his friend Frank Marshall a Black, Communist , Homosexual Race Hustler , and this formed the future nature of sought out friends and associates for Obambi Criminals, Muslim and Domestic Terrorists, Black racists and Communists and Homosexuals.
So does half WHITE part Black part Arab brought up in pampered luxury and affirmative Action Obambi have anything whatsoever in common with the African American largely poor and ghetto dwelling descendents of slaves.
What do you think?
Excellent.
With Obama’s, ‘I wasn’t born with a silver spoon..’ soundbite this past week, this empty vessel proves time-and-time again he’s a thin-skinned, emotional reactionist.
He truly NEVER thinks before speaking. His advisers SHOULD tell him to never go off the teleprompter.
For a 50 year old man-child and supposed ‘leader of the Free World’ to act this way..
Honestly, Uhbama can’t ‘fake’ bipartisanship or level-headedness in a SCRIPTED, Uhbama-zombie filled audience most times.
He’s grossly inept and dangerously stupid.
Paul you have just answered the question as to who the “moron” would be.
Ha ha… Good job making up that fantastical story!
……GASP!…..I guess that leaves me open to charges of blatant public Racism.
I sense the faint murmurs of the beginning of a walk-back by the MSM on this whole thing.
They aren’t actually clueless, since their blatant bias is deliberate and orchestrated. Since they are seeing that inconveninent facts are coming out, and that there seems to be something not quite right about this prosecutor, the MSM wants to be ready with serious CYA.
It has also been noted that there was a complex judge shuffle on this case. It was as if various judges were finding suddenly convenient reasons why they can’t preside over this case. Could it be that they don’t want to share the likely eventual embarrassment the DA will subject herself to? Nobody wants to be the “next Judge Ito,” do they?
I think you may be right. It’s subtle but I don’t see how they can avoid backing up and re-evaluating this whole thing. Among other things, watching Zimmerman in the court room it struck me that if you tuned in for the first time and didn’t know his name or his background that there’s no way he could be mistaken for a “white guy.” So even though physical appearance is, literally, superficial, it does present something of a problem for the media. Their natural instinct is to portray him as a “white racist” which would be much easier to do if he looked like Anders Breivik. But he doesn’t. A case involving a Hispanic man and a black man is not what the media wants to highlight. On the other hand, if Zimmerman had been the victim then there’s no doubt that his “white half” would be completely ignored. So, there’s a visual problem with the narrative on top of the myriad of factual problems and media distortion problems.
– be split, you must acquit!
I think I’ll plagiarize that, if you don’t mine.
– please!
So looks like ABC is trying to walk back their lynching of the Hispanic guy a bit.
This guy is so tiny and VERY ethnic looking. The fact that the adopted ‘white Hispanic’ Zimmerman was the only person to stand up for a homeless black man makes the whole narrative even more bizarre by trying to make this about ‘race’.
Just…very…uh…mmmmmmmm…awkward.
Why was NBC so driven to destroy the facts? The fact that they want to walk back the story isn’t the point. Why did they go there in the first place – which had to be a conscious effort?
It’s simple: these people are ivory tower morons who’ve never actually ridden a bus is a bad neighborhood 100 times, 200 times. They literally believe that the angrier someone is about race, the more they should be listened to. If they’d been alive in 1939 they’d be collecting Hitler’s Greatest Hits.
They really think that white America’s pastime used to be hanging black folks while having picnics, and that that went on every day until 1968, when reluctant white men finally stopped raping their black maids. These people really think black people are boy scouts being unfairly profiled while white folks, who really do all the drugs, give a knowing wink to John Law who returns the thumbs up and Mr. Privilege rides off into the sunset with Paris Hilton and ideas for fractal geometry stolen from the black Egyptians who built the library at Alexandria which made amazing clockwork mechanisms like nuclear bombs.
Governor Rick Scott: You appointed this special prosecutor. You see that glint in your eyes? That’s your career dissipation light you are seeing.
Scott appointed Corey to improve his poll numbers with the Center-Left. He’s a fool. That will never work. But he will lose 5 percentage points on the Right. I will not vote for him a second time.
A bipartisan lynching.
thems the best kin’
INNOCENT!!!
http://patdollard.com/2012/04/dershowitz-accuses-zimmerman-prosecutor-of-perjury-in-affidavit/
These idiots in Florida don’t know what’s about to hit them: THE TRUTH.
According to a report in the Daily Rash, the New Black Panthers announced that they are going to use George Zimmerman’s bounty money for a trip to Disney World. http://www.thedailyrash.com/new-black-panthers-use-bounty-money-for-trip-to-disney-world
This is so funny!I was in tears reading this but I bet it is about right.I know that where I work The other race won’t give a dime if someone is out sick but let one of them get sick and they bring the biggest hat they have to get money gathered. Also if we have dinners they usally only want to bring something like a roll of paper towels but they sure don’t Mind piling up a couple of plates to take home.All about them selves,and they say we are the ones with the problem.
PJMedia prior to the release of the bloody head wound photo: “The media and public need stop jumping to conclusions about this case! Let the prosecutors do their jobs!”
PJMedia minutes after the release of the bloody head wound photo: “He’s innocent!!!! The prosecutor is lying!!! The media is racist!!!”
Please. You are embarrassing yourself.
Hey Pastor – It’s not only PJM, but Alan Dershowitz. Go to the link in my comment above. When you’ve lost Alan Dershowitz ….
Mastered by Puppets is just burnt that his narrative of everything black (to pander for the vote) and everything liberal just fell apart once again. His world is really going to be shattered come this November.
As I recall the undertaker said Martin’s body showed no signs of a struggle. This was interpreted as undermining Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. But if Zimmerman alone was injured and if the chronology gives Martin plenty of time to get home while Zimmerman was talking to the dispatcher, the conclusion seems to be that Martin took Zimmerman by surprise. Martin, then, decided to attack.
I’ve wondered the same thing – how does this conflict with anything Zimmerman or the witnesses have said? If anything, doesn’t the fact that Martin’s body had no signs of a struggle actually corroborate the “one-punch-knockout” theory? Furthermore, the new photos of Zimmerman’s skull show two types of injury – a large contusion and multiple cuts. Pure speculation here, but might the contusion be from the initial fall to the ground and the cuts be from having his head subsequently slammed into the pavement as he claimed?
I think this new evidence also provides a clearer picture of what happened – we either have to believe the one-punch theory or believe that Zimmerman shot Martin before any physical confrontation occurred, broke his own nose, battered his own skull, and then found two accomplices willing to falsely testify to police that a physical altercation did in fact occur. From that stretch, I suppose one could certainly argue that Zimmerman was “depraved” and was never in fear for his life, two of the main elements of the crime he is charged with.
This is a pure tragedy. That either man died as an outcome is a difficult thing to swallow without having some basic impulse to see someone punished. But it seems to me that both Zimmerman and Martin made life-altering mistakes that day and that Zimmerman happened to be better prepared for that day’s sad series of events.
Two lessons: 1) If you follow someone around with a gun, and then get out of your vehicle to follow them on foot, the chances that you have to use that gun have just increased substantially. The nightmare that unfolded that day becomes more of a distinct possibility. Let the pros do their job and stay in the car. 2) Resort to physical violence only as a last resort. If you assault someone you run the risk that the person is armed and that, at some point, could be in fear of death or great bodily harm. At that point, not only could you get shot but the person may be within their legal right to shoot you.
Jason,
Excellent analysis. If the MSM and all the others pushing their agenda over the truth had to answer the questions you brought up in the first two paragraphs, it would destroy the hate/race angle they so desperately want. If I were George Zimmerman, I’d pray you were on my jury panel.
In a just world, things wouldn’t look like this. In a just world, the only tragedy would be to the family of Trayvon, not society as a whole. Unfortunately, the left has decided to use this to fan the flames, and they’ll succeed. Where it leads, I don’t know, but I’m not optimistic.
People can ignore reality at their own peril if they like, but I’ve seen teenage thugs before in my life and from what I’ve seen so far, young Mr. Martin was one. Cold hearted though it may be, he picked on the wrong guy and it cost him his life.
As for your two lessons, they pose questions that should be thought of carefully. What remains to be seen is how frequently they need to be asked in the future.
Any comments attributed to me are based solely on my personal opinion, are not legally binding and should be considered accordingly. I have no first hand knowledge that TV was a thug, and should have noted it is just my belief.
And don’t forget, he was able to fake a voice-stress lie detector, initially passed on his right to an attorney before questioning, and went to the scene of the crime the next day to explain what happened to police. All tell-tale signs of a professional liar. Such purposely designed behavior is exactly what you would do if you didn’t want to be caught telling a lie.
Huh?
ty my view also!
So, this guy is a “White Hispanic” ???????……..
I said much the same thing about Obongo:
This guy’s an “African-American”?
Where’s the “-American” part?
“Where’s the American part” indeedy do.
Kenyan father and Commie mama drama.
One has to begin to wonder if this was not ginned up to take headlines away from Obama and his failed policies even if it was just for a while. No way this is a national issue. The local police investigated and did not find evidence to charge Zimmerman with a crime. I wonder why he will not be able to sue the Martin family for defamation. He did not hunt down Trayvon. He was doing his job as a neighborhood watch person. He broke no laws. Why are there no pictures of Trayvon on any security camera in any convenience store showing him buying candy and soda?
The media got the arrest they’ve wanted from the moment they heard the Germanic-sounding name Zimmerman. Will they accept any responsibility for the riots we will see when he is acquitted?
If it bleeds, it leads; If it’s not bleeding, beat it ’til it does.
Riots create revenue for the media. They love turmoil; The more the merrier.
Contribute to Zimmerman’s defense fund. I think he’s an uncomplicated person who was truly trying to do good in this world, hence his rallying to the plight of the beaten Black homeless man. If anything, the police could hold a grudge about that, but I believe they too were trying to do right in a difficult situation by not railroading Z with a bad arrest.
On the news today, Z’s body language as well as words spoke volumes about his regret that he took someone’s life. He and his family do not deserve what is happening. The whipped up crowd has it backwards. They believe–deliberately or ignorantly–that the first step is the arrest, then the investigation, and then the trial. All too often, radical Blacks do not respect our traditional justice system and would drag us back to mob rule. Hopefully, there are many decent Blacks in that gated community who will remember what Z is and what he did for their community, and will step forward to destroy this BS that he profiled Martin.
Back to my original point, donate to his defense fund. No matter what you believe about his innocence or guilt, it’s obvious to anyone with an objective mind that he’s being convicted in the court of emotional racist opinion whipped to a frenzy by hate-filled, opportunistic race baiters such as Al Not-the-Sharpest-Knife-in-the-Drawer and Jesse Jackass.
I believe Zimmerman is innocent of second degree murder. If he is convicted, it will be a travesty beyond words.
As for the banning of posts and posters, I am aware of Ron Radosh and Michael ?, the ‘Mideast expert’ from Oregon banning me. I think Radosh has relented since. I don’t take it personally, but in neither case was ‘free speech’ respected. I am glad that the fellow from Portland blocked me, as it’s now clear that he was one of many eager advocates of the Arab Spring to 1) have been proven wrong, and 2) damaged Israel’s security in the process.
Yes, he is innocent of 2nd degree murder, and far more likely to be guilty of manslaughter.
I think you can add me to the ‘having been banned’ list. {not from Bryan, but from Neo] Not sure, though, because when I would check back sometimes it was ‘waiting moderation’ and sometimes it was gone.
Bottom line: It makes you not only want to stop posting, but to stop reading.
Mike. Google: free website proxy
Thanks Banned Camp Pro.
I need all the help I can get. But I’m not sophisticated enough to know how to use/do this.
You don’t need to be “sophisticated”. Just search, read, and do. It’s pretty simple.
Simple enough for 7th graders to do it routinely.
even left leaning attorneys are calling fowl on this prosecutor. who picked her? the governor why? politics is what i say. short term thinking that will in the end kick both of them is the backside.
clearly the left were looking for a cause to politicize and use. they thought they found one and now it is turning on them. i say good!
Calling fowl? Those mutha cluckers!
Oh, you turkey!
Well, anyway, I think this prosecutor is running around like a chicken with her head cut off. She does NOT have all her ducks in a row, not by any means!
There’s no way she’ll end up without egg on her face. She’s strutting like a peacock now, but once the trial is underway, and the facts are presented, the chickens are going to come home to roost and her goose will be cooked.
The political vultures are already circling her carcass!
Okay, I’ll stop now.
Extinguishing Trayvon’s Bonfire
(See “The Trayvon Martin Bonfire,” http://bit.ly/H28Eaf, which drew parallels between the Trayvon Martin killing and Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and “The Whitewashing of Trayvon Martin,” http://bit.ly/IZkzjK, which made the case for, well, Trayvon’s whitewashing.)
From the outset, the media coverage of the February 26th, 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida has been skewed, biased, and journalistically disgraceful. The prosecution has demonstrated it is equivalently skewed, biased, and disgraceful.
Now that Zimmerman has been arrested and charged with second degree murder, the whole truth is finally seeping out which should dampen the Trayvon fires but I wouldn’t count on that.
At the beginning of this racial and legal fiasco, the only surety was that Zimmerman had shot Martin, which he freely admitted. The hype and lies that he was a racist, that he stalked Martin, etc. was just that, hype and lies manufactured by the MSM and exploited by black race hustlers in order to stir up racial unrest.
A reputable media would have reported the known facts in the case devoid of editorialized “news” stories designed to paint Zimmerman as a bloodthirsty murderer and Martin as a defenseless youth “hunted down like a rabid dog,” according to Democrat Rep. Frederika Wilson.
Instead of objectively reporting the known truth about the case, most of the broadcast, cable, and print media consistently distorted the facts. That distortion was epitomized by the MSM featuring photographs of Zimmerman looking more like a white man when he is actually half-hispanic and depicting Martin as an innocent child when he was actually full grown.
In reality, at the time he was killed Martin was anything but a child. He was a strapping, 6 foot, 2 inch 17 year old with a history of school suspensions, drug and gang associations, possession of a burglary tool, and possession of unexplained woman’s jewelry at school.
In an unorthodox move, on Friday the shackled Zimmerman courageously waived his Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination and took the stand at his bond hearing. He said to the Martin family, “I am sorry for the loss of your son. I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. I did not know if he was armed or not.”
The apology was immediately rejected as “self-serving” and “an outrage” by the family attorney, Benjamin Crump, and the prosecution described his testimony as “a media stunt.”
Zimmerman was granted bail in the amount of $150,000, a far cry from the million dollars the prosecution sought. More relevantly, Zimmerman never said he was guilty of any crime. Nevertheless, indicative of the state’s intent to convict him of all charges at all costs, the prosecuting attorney then asked him a totally unethical and inappropriate question under cross examination.
It’s remarkable that the defendant’s attorneys didn’t strongly object to the misleading question: “After you committed this crime and you spoke to the police, did you ever make that statement to the police? That you were sorry for what you’d done or for their loss?”
Equally remarkable is the prosecutor’s apparent obliviousness that no “crime” had yet been established and that Zimmerman is considered innocent under the law until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Now that a cell phone photo has surfaced substantiating Zimmerman’s contention that Martin had slammed his head into the pavement, one would hope the media would be more objectiveis. However, they are still as committed as the state of Florida to exonerating Martin and hanging the defendant.
The photo, taken by an eyewitness three minutes after the altercation, graphically shows blood streaming from two deep gashes in the back of his head, wounds that supplement neighbors’ statements that Zimmerman also had a bloody, swollen nose.
ABC World News’ Diane Sawyer displayed the picture then proceeded to effectively dismiss it as exculpatory evidence that Zimmerman feared for his life before he shot Martin. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=22073.)
If he was hit, you must acquit.
If some guy is following me; talking on his cell phone while following me; calling people on his cell phone while following me; staring at me . . . I am going to “stand my ground” just like that stupid-ass illegal Mexican and shoot first and ask questions later. Then hope and pray that the useful idiots on “conservative” talk radio and toadies like the ones writing for this site do the same as that stupid-ass illegal Mexican.
Who Is the Real George Zimmerman?
Amid all the twisted, biased reporting, mindless demonstrations and inflammatory rhetoric and the virtual national hysteria over George Zimmerman’s shooting Trayvon Martin, one very relevant factor has been largely overlooked: Who is George Zimmerman?
It’s said that appearances are often deceiving and that adage applies in spades to Zimmerman.
We know for a certainty that he is a killer because he shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin on February 26th, 2012 on a dark, rainy street in a gated, Sanford, Florida community.
Zimmerman freely confessed to killing Martin in self-defense with a single shot from his legally registered Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, a weapon obtained at a cop’s suggestion, while on his rounds as captain in a neighborhood watch group.
Since that evening, Zimmerman has been demonized by the local and national media, persecuted by racial agitators, and threatened with execution by various radicals. He has had a price put on his head, his family has been forced to relocate, and their lives have devolved into a living hell.
Even with new information trickling out proving the details in the case have been wildly distorted by the MSM which still chooses to feature photos of Martin as a child rather than as a 6 foot 2 inch teenager with a murky background, even as new evidence has emerged supporting Zimmerman’s contention that he was viciously beaten and bloodied, even though it appears his prosecution has been politically motivated in order to bring racial peace to Florida, the demonization and threats persist and the bounty has not been lifted.
George Zimmmerman may have killed another human being but he is anything but a murderer.
With all the attention lavished on the unarmed Martin over the past two months, short shrift has been accorded the other victim in this tragedy, Zimmerman.
Surprisingly, the international news agency Reuters, long known for its liberal slant, has finally provided what has been largely and starkly missing from the tragedy’s picture, the humanization of the shooter.
According to Reuters’ “George Zimmerman: Prelude to a Shooting,” http://reut.rs/IoC8Ku, the prologue to the events of that February night as it relates to Zimmerman stands in marked contrast against his portrayal in much of the MSM as well as by black politicians and by those more interested in dissension than in justice.
Rather than a racist vigilante who stalked and murdered Trayvon Martin in cold blood ”like a rabid dog,” George Zimmerman is shown to be a caring, sensitive, community-minded individual from a very religious and socially-involved family. He had been studying criminal justice and hoped to be a judge down the road.
Seriously puncturing the racist charge, the 28 year old Zimmerman is in fact half Latino with ”black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather” and his maternal grandmother babysat two African-American kids who for years took their meals with the Zimmermans and attended school with young George.
At 18, while studying to be a realtor, he worked in Sanford for Lee Ann Benjamin and her husband John Donnelly who said, “George impressed me right off the bat as just a real go-getter. He was working days and taking all these classes at night.” Zimmerman later “partnered with an African-American friend and opened up an Allstate satellite office,” which went bust.
Still, anymore than Trayvon Martin was a saint, George Zimmerman wasn’t saintly either.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=22456.)