This just beeped across my TV. Sanford City Commissioners just voted for a finding of "no confidence" in the police chief resulting from this case. The City Manager is considering asking for the chief's resignation.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/tensions-rise-rallies-expected-continue-seeking-ju/nLYmF/
Good. I hope he does ask for his resignation. The police chief made a most disgusting comment to me, insinuating that Trayvon was some who instigated his own murder.
IMO Race is playing a huge part in the response to this shooting!Gathering groups ,Calling for jobs,playing on the fears of rioting breaking out in the streets seems to be due to racial tensions brewing.A lot of people here who live in the area seem to fear riots and tension rising.If any injustices were done with a grand jury in a few weeks it will hear the facts and make a decision. I have seen it written here that if this was a white kid killed by an African American man he would have been on death row.How does the white race cause a Hispanic man to get away with killing an African American Teen?
The white race doesn't cause a Hispanic (half, by the way) man to get away with killing a black teenager. But racism in general does.
They couldn't access the phone from "day one", due to not having a warrant, and I think the parents have been quite clear that this girl will only speak to this lawyer, no one else.
I'm not sure why you believe she would have no problem appearing before a grand jury. Her parents have basically said no.
Her parents said she wouldn't appear before a grand jury? And she'll only talk to Trayvon's family's lawyer? Why do you say that? It sounds like you are insinuating that this girl is hiding something or otherwise lying. Can you provide a link?
What if the Grand Jury decides GZ was in the right,and backs it up with evidence then what?What if no heads roll over this?What if GZ was being attacked would anyone believe it?
To me, it defies logic based on the facts and the witness statements. A scared, 17 year old kid is being followed by a large stranger, at night. He communicates his fear to his girlfriend. He tries to get away. He thinks he has escaped the scary man when the man reappears. Trayvon is shot minutes later. Two witnesses hear no sounds of a fight, just the sounds of a kid whimpering and calling for help and then a man standing over the kid's body.
The man claims he was attacked. But the victim has no history of criminal activity, criminal complaints or aggressive behavior of any kind. He is known to be a gentle, soft-spoken kid.
The killer, however, does have a history or violence. He attacked a police officer and his charges were only dismissed after he underwent a diversion program. His ex girlfriend tried to get a restraining order against him citing violence against her on his part, on multiple occasions spanning a few years.
Some residents also claim this killer was overly aggressive in his self-appointed policing of the neighborhood. He has called the police 46 times since January. Most of the calls were about suspicious black people, including children playing the street.
He wanted to be a cop and never was, for whatever reason, but now he has a gun, ignores the police dispatcher's admonition to not follow the kid, after saying, "These a$$holes always get away." He used his gun and shot an unarmed child who he outweighed by double.
Further, his statements to the dispatcher defy credibility and thus, coupled with everything else in this case, including that a frightened child is now dead, indicate he was lying and trying to set up a situation that would allow him to justifiably use his gun.
Trayvon was a good kid. The worst that could be said about him is he was suspended for being tardy at school. (If there was anything remotely bad about this kid, in this internet day and age, with FB, etc., it would have come out by now). He was on his way to get tea and candy for the little brother who will never, ever see him again. Yet, we are expected to believe that this unarmed child, saw a large, strange man following him, at night, in a vehicle, and instead of trying to get away, acted suspiciously, acted like he was on drugs, cased houses, advanced unprovoked towards the strange man and reached threateningly into his waistband? For what, the candy? Clearly, none of that is true. The girlfriend can attest to Trayvon's fear and confusion. Zimmerman simply wanted an excuse to use his gun and make sure one more black "" didn't get away. So if these statements defy credibility then the statements that a frightened, stalked 17 year old boy aggressively attacked his pursuer, are doubtful as well.
But let's say he did attack Zimmerman after Zimmerman stalked him and then chased him down? IMO, the law still would not excuse the killer. He had the right to stand his ground and use his weapon during an unprovoked attack upon him. If Trayvon did try to defend himself from a frightening strange man following him, then Trayvon's "attack" would have been provoked and my understanding of the law would not allow Zimmerman to excuse the homicide.
IMO, Zimmerman made a big mistake assuming that a young black person walking at night would not have a virtually spotless record and reputation. That mistake was due to racism, IMO.
And, IMO, the Sanford police also made a big mistake assuming that a young black person shot by a "law abiding" cop wanna be, would not have a virtually spotless record and reputation. That mistake was also due to racism, I believe.
This case is blowing up because Trayvon was a sweetheart with nothing to suggest he would react the way Zimmerman claimed. The woman crying on the 911 call after Trayvon was murdered, stated emphatically that it was a kid's voice she heard, begging for help. Zimmerman, the liar, claimed it was he. The same way he claimed, after being accused of DV, that he was not the aggressor, his girlfriend was. The same way he claimed that an unassuming teen boy on his way home with candy, suddenly and unprovoked, attacked Zimmerman, a man twice his size, who had a gun.
Luckily, most of the nation sees this case for what it is. And hopefully that will lead to certain justice for Trayvon and his family. May God grant that tiny bit of peace for them.