First a few general house keeping fyi’s. My sincere apologies for anyone who felt slighted by sending a Twitter DM and not getting a response. We barely use Twitter; The auto-twitter feature that dispatches post notifications is on auto-pilot and we rarely go to the actual Treehouse Twitter home page. Only yesterday I became aware of the DM feature and upon checking the ‘envelopey thing’ realized people had submitted notes that sat unattended. Again, my apologies.
Brass Tacks on the Zimmerman case:
Meet The Clockers: The revelation that Trayvon Martin’s phone holds a video he made of a homeless man being beaten by Trayvon and his team of co-horts is, well, a big deal. A VERY big deal.
This means the State of Florida has known since, well, lets be generous, June/July of last year, that they possessed evidence of a crime. Obviously, it appears they did nothing about it – most likely because it would have presented itself as a diminishment to their case and the narrative of innocent, skittle carrying, teenage Trayvon.
However, now the video is known by both the Defense and the Prosecution, and by consequence the media, I’m sure someone would want to follow up on the criminal activity the video documents. Someone, anyone, right?
Does the video show Trayvon’s 2nd BFF Kit Durant? More than likely, given the descriptions of the video content; And knowing both Krop students, Kit and Trayvon, were friends, there’s more than a possibility that video does contain Durant.
However, regardless of who’s participating in it – it still documents a known criminal activity, and should be easy to match with date-timeline to find the victim and accompanying police report.
If no investigative journalist will track down the victim, and arrange the connections, we’ll do it – but we need the video, the rest is easy.
Boobs of Consequence – The second significant issue is the naked pictures of a girl on the phone of Trayvon Martin. Described as “15 or 17” by Mark O’Mara – an odd use of age descriptive for a man so versed in parsing just the right syntax to avoid controversy.
Then again, we’ve heard more than a few malleable age descriptions associated with “key witnesses” in this case. Perhaps such descriptivism is related? Hmmmmm
Many persons of quizzical inquiry have wondered about all manner of parental angst ever since Benjamin Crump used that media accepted excuse to shield the witness he introduced (he called “Dee Dee”) on March 20th, 2012.
Could the “sexting” be the needed STATE cover to explain away a controversial series of decision(s) surrounding “Dee Dee”? A similar cover strategy they employed when the “hospital lie” was exposed. Obviously it worked once, because the media dropped the inquiry about why such a lie existed.
Could “sexting” be the new “Sybrina was sitting next to me in the room”?
Or, could the issue be similarly attached to the reason the State called W8 and another participant back to Jacksonville on August 2nd, 2012? [*note* strangely, after mentioning it on a few occasions, O’Mara seems to have dropped this line of discovery inquiry about the mysterious August trip. It’s been several months since he asked the State why there is no documentation in their discovery releases about that trip – Hmmmm?]
TrayMom™ – Not surprisingly TrayMom™ and TrayDad™ have lost their voice since the revelations about young Mr. Skittles being kicked out of the house came to light; How would TrayMom™ explain that one against the backdrop of her grief. [Albeit grief that did not lead to her ever travelling to Sanford post shooting until after the Trademark applications were filed – we digress] …
…. And, likewise, it did not go unnoticed that Tracy Martin was absent from the media microphones outside the Orlando courthouse yesterday. After all, TrayDaddy is on record with FDLE in his sworn statement claiming he drove Trayvon half-way to Sanford.
We now know, thanks to Trayvon, that Tracy story is a flat out lie. Trayvon was put on a bus, and dispatched all the way to Orlando where he sat at the non-parental pick-up bench waiting for Tracy’s girlfriend, Brandi Green to pick him up. [On a positive note at least he has quiet unsupervised time to remove the must-have-been-scratchy bag of wrapped marijuana from betwixt his butt cheeks]
Lastly – Given the totality of the latest Trayvon revelations, and contrast against what was previously factually known, the importance/relevance of the M-DSPD comes rights back to the forefront. Only this time, its arrival comes with an even greater level of probability that deserves inquiry:
Was Trayvon Martin, one of Police Chief Hurley’s Baker Act Kid’s?
We know he was in a diversion program; that we are certain and have evidenced.
We know Krop High School Police Resource Officer, Darryl Dunn, falsified police reports in an effort to keep Trayvon out of the criminal justice system – again, a certainty.
We know Trayvon was “suspended” from Krop High School Three times for “SERIOUS” offenses, and we know at least two of those offenses were criminal in nature, and intentionally misreported to avoid a criminal record.
We know, as a consequence of this unethical, and perhaps illegal, diversion activity the Miami-Dade School Police Department Police Chief, Hurley, was suspended and eventually fired. This was the outcome of the internal affairs investigation during the immediate aftermath of the Martin shooting.
We also know that in addition to falsifying reports, the M-DSPD used a process of “Baker Acting” repeat diversion offenders to keep them off the records, and behind the thick screen of HIPPA law. This also led to the removal of Suzy Milano-Berrios, the director of mental health and crisis management in the Miami-Dade school system. She was later fired.
There is every reason to believe Trayvon was, indeed, one of these “baker acted kids”. If so that is incredibly relevant to the case at hand.
The Baker Act, known officially as the Florida Mental Health Act, allows law enforcement to place individuals who are a risk to themselves, or others, under “temporary detention for evaluation.” If necessary, they can be placed in a treatment facility for up to 72 hours. (link)
The “Baker Acting of Kids” is done in Miami Dade Schools by the School Resource Officers who are trained in “CIT” – Crisis Intervention Teams. The SRO, Darryl Dunn, who diverted Trayvon Martin was one of the CIT members. (link)
The only way the information can surface is if Mark O’Mara files a motion to get Trayvon Martin’s medical records released – an uphill battle, but perhaps one worth fighting.