Trayvon Martin

[mikesilvia]

Also regarding the hoodie.. I work in a field known for robberies to occur... It may be profiling but you can bet your life when someone walks into the store with a hood up or sunglasses on when it isnt sunny out I am on alert and watching every move.

Not only that, people stereo type appearance all the time. If I asked someone who would likely be a criminal?





Most will pick the guy with the tattoos without knowing anything about the two. Regardless of what people say, we all stereotype.

[meuandthelot]

All things aside
One thing is for sure...

We SHOULD NOT be fueling MORE HATRED, more division.

But sadly, the majority of emotion being put forth is hatred, racially motivated at that, lets keep the division strong :(
Sad

PS:
Mike has posted some great stereotype, jump to conclusion type examples, as have others.
This thread has more level headed/neutrality than most I've seen.

[Star_Cards]

Also, there is this:
https://www.sportscardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1623273

Doesn't Zimmerman calling so much and NOT shooting anyone actually help his case? I mean he was night watching for so many years and called 9-11 so many times without incident. Then Martin comes along, the evidence suggest he was beating Zimmerman for 60 seconds and is killed.

So, no violence with Zimmerman for so many years and so many calls until that night. I think that actually supports Zimmerman's case, no?

I think it does. I think it probably shows that while he has interest in neighbor hood watch (obviously withe 42 calls in a few years) that he really wasn't out to take the law into his own hands. Even if he followed trayvon that doesn't mean trayvon has the right to attack him, which has been discussed as the most likely pattern of events that night.

[shrewsbury]

i could not imagine being a member of trayvon's family, they must be heartborken at the least.

i could also not imagine being zimmerman, IF he felt his life was threatened, called out for help and no one came, then had to do the last thing he wanted to to save his own life, which was shooting someone.

if he was trigger happy, trayvon would have been shot upon confronting him, not after attacking him.

[mrveggieman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...m_opinions_pop

[shrewsbury]

actually this can show that trayvon was not attacked, he did the attacking, just depends on how you spin it.

and when has a FD ever been involved in a murder case?

[AUTaxMan]

So the legal expert (the state attorney) says there's not enough evidence, and the lead investigator still wants to investigate? Isn't that his job? Why is that news?

[Wickabee]

so the legal expert (the state attorney) says there's not enough evidence, and the lead investigator still wants to investigate? Isn't that his job? Why is that news?

+1

[mikesilvia]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...m_opinions_pop
Then, the mortician who prepared Trayvon’s body for burial told MSNBC last night that the 17-year-old’s body didn’t show any signs of violence to support Zimmerman’s account.

This make no sense at all. Outside of a bullet hole, there shouldn't be any damage to Martin. Zimmerman has scrapes and bruises and Martin did not. That yet again re-enforces Zimmerman's case that he was the one getting beat on, which was confirmed by the 9-11 witness and the 911 audio of Zimmerman screaming.

It's funny how people spin "Zimmerman made tons of 9-11 calls, thus is a racists" and "Martin had no damage to his body besides the bullet wound thus their was no struggle." Because Zimmerman made so many calls and NEVER had an incident shows that he always reported and never attacked anyone physically until meeting Martin. Then with no damage to Martin's body shows that Zimmerman was in fact NOT beating Martin as people claimed the screams on the 9-11 call were Martin screaming.

That blog shows yet again that people will attempt to spin the facts to their agenda. Take out emotion and agenda and these facts re-inforce Zimmerman's claims of self-defense.

[Wickabee]

This make no sense at all. Outside of a bullet hole, there shouldn't be any damage to Martin. Zimmerman has scrapes and bruises and Martin did not. That yet again re-enforces Zimmerman's case that he was the one getting beat on, which was confirmed by the 9-11 witness and the 911 audio of Zimmerman screaming.

It's funny how people spin "Zimmerman made tons of 9-11 calls, thus is a racists" and "Martin had no damage to his body besides the bullet wound thus their was no struggle." Because Zimmerman made so many calls and NEVER had an incident shows that he always reported and never attacked anyone physically until meeting Martin. Then with no damage to Martin's body shows that Zimmerman was in fact NOT beating Martin as people claimed the screams on the 9-11 call were Martin screaming.

That blog shows yet again that people will attempt to spin the facts to their agenda. Take out emotion and agenda and these facts re-inforce Zimmerman's claims of self-defense.

Where on Earth do you get that?