I cannot bring myself to post the whole thing. You are going to have to go to the Huffington Post to *cough* read it. However, these two paragraphs caught my attention.
HuffPo […] For years, I have been discussing the issue of racial profiling, and police brutality/misconduct. Fighting for reforms of the NJ State Police, and championing for fairness in cases like those involving the tragic deaths of Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and more, I’m not naïve to the realities of society and race. But I also understand that the diligent work of activists even before my time paved the way for change to occur and for us as a nation to progress forward. And that is the key.
As we watch the case develop against George Zimmerman, the confessed killer of Trayvon Martin, we cannot get caught in the trap of racial division. Although race may have very well led to young Trayvon being profiled by Zimmerman in the first place, we cannot allow our reaction to be based on race. (more…)
What Can We Find Out? ASAP
ACTION ALERT – Just received a tip from a Treeper as follows: Regarding GZ’s donation website.
I decided to make a donation this afternoon, only to find that his website was down. Figured maybe he was updating it, so I gave it an hour and checked back. Still down. My other option was www.legalboom.org who last week accepted donations on George’s behalf, while keeping donors anonymous. https://twitter.com/#!/legalboom
Anyway, since the donation site was down….on a whim, I decided to search for Mr. O’Mara’s twitter feed to see if he posted anything. Well, apparently he tweeted that GZ “does not and will not have an internet presence” and “all r fake”. He was having the sites reported and shut down!! It appears that he had the legit site with the flag background shut down too or was that also a fake site all along?
Since I don’t subscribe to twitter I couldn’t ask him what the heck was going on. I can surely understand him not wanting George to blog about his experience, but after reading O’Mara’s tweets, I assume GZ won’t be able to get any more donations, right? https://twitter.com/#!/Markomaralaw
Update Puddy Paws (Ad rem) to the rescue (as usual) FOX NEWS – A website set up for George Zimmerman to raise funds for his legal defense after he was accused of killing unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin has been shut down while his attorney tries to restructure the fund, FoxNews.com has learned. (more…)
To answer some questions people are carrying about the anticipated “next steps” one must understand the “immunity defense” as it pertains to the scheduled “arraignment hearing”.
In Florida a person claiming “self-defense” is provided an immunity hearing. Generally the immunity hearing is just prior to the arraignment hearing, usually on the same date, just a little earlier in the day. In essence it is connected to the arraignment and presented as a defense motion to the judge just prior to the prosecution arraignment. Not generally a different day or separate hearing as some are led to believe; Although it could be in this case, but highly doubtful. (more…)
MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) — Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition.
According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink. (more…)
“When you look at those pictures and you see those two little cuts on his head, that is not consistent with your head being pounded into the pavement”… – Benjamin Crump 4/23
Say what, huh?… Now THAT right there is some BRILLIANT Sharpton/Jackson logic. Resist We Much, and about common sense we must rally in opposition.
Remember it was Jesse Jackson that said:
“Disciplinary school suspensions are profiling because black boys cannot be expected to behave”.
And Al Sharpton who said:
“Bail Bonds are racist because they do not accept EBT cards or food stamps for payment”. (more…)
Mark O’Mara just finished speaking with Anderson Cooper and disclosed that George Zimmerman, although out on bail, will not receive police protection.
(more…)
SANFORD, Fla. – The Sanford City Commission has voted to deny the resignation on Monday of Police Chief Bill Lee Jr., who temporarily stepped down from his position in connection to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett called the special hour-long meeting with city commissioners Monday afternoon. Commissioners voted 3-2 against the resolution, with Triplett and Commissioners Patty Mahany and Randy Jones voting against it. The resolution would have allowed City Manager Norton Bonaparte to execute the separation agreement for Lee. Under the agreement, Lee would have resigned from his post, effective at midnight.
“In light of the vote, Chief Lee will remain on paid administrative leave while an investigation continues into the handling of the Trayvon Martin case by the Sanford Police Department,” Bonaparte said. Captain Darren Scott will remain as Acting Police Chief. (more)
ORLANDO, Fla. — The police chief in the city where Trayvon Martin was shot will permanently step down from his post under an agreement that still must be approved Monday by city officials.
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee had temporarily stepped aside as chief March 22 after enduring strong criticism over his department’s handling of the Martin case. Police did not initially charge 28-year-old George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who claimed he shot the 17-year-old Martin in self-defense. Prosecutors later charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder. (more…)
From the very beginning of this now national story I have retained the same gut feeling. Initially the media rush to judgement reminded me of their 1996 attacks against Richard Jewell. Jewell was targeted by the media as a result of an FBI leak to the Atlanta Journal Constitution ambiguously claiming he was a “person of interest” in the Olympic Park bombing.
Jewell, a security guard, discovered the bomb and evacuated the park saving countless lives, but the media took Jewell from hero to villain in days. He fit their “profile”. NBC, CNN, CBS and the Atlanta Journal Constitution along with the New York Times and New York Post were ridiculous in their advancement of the guilty narrative. NBC anchor Tom Brokaw said on live TV:
“The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case. They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case”.
Jewell had nothing to do with the bombing, nothing. Eric Rudolph was eventually arrested, charged, and pled guilty. However, by that time the damage was done. Even though Jewell had nothing to do with the bombing his life was destroyed. (more…)
We knew this was coming – They intended it….
Let there be no doubt the blood of every person killed, injured, attacked or hurt because of the incessent drum beat of hate from the professional race baiting class, and the complicit institutional legacy media, is on their hands.
The legacy media has sold as truth an explosive false narrative created by Benjamin Crump, Daryl Parks and the Sharpton, Jackson, Jealous crew: (more…)
HatTip and Photo Credits – ItsMichaelNotMike – SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — In an unusually low-key turn to a high-profile case, George Zimmerman was released without incident around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
The neighborhood watch volunteer was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag. He walked out following another man and didn’t look over at photographers gathered outside. He then followed the man into a white BMW vehicle and drove away. (more…)