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Zimmerman stalked Martin. (There is no evidence that Zimmerman ever sought to close with Martin or sought to do anything but observe from a distance.)
Zimmerman volunteered Martins race to police. (No, NBC doctored the 911 recording to make that appear to be the case, the police asked and Zimmerman answered.)
Zimmerman disobeyed police instructions to stay in his truck. (No such instruction was ever given.)
Zimmerman disobeyed police instructions to not follow Martin. (No such instruction was ever given; when it was suggested that he not follow, he complied immediately.)
Zimmerman has a history of convictions for acts of violence. (Simply, no.)
Zimmerman was high on pills at the time. (No evidence of this whatever.)
Zimmerman appointed himself head of the neighborhood watch. (No, HOA offered him that role, he accepted.)
Zimmerman had called the police about suspicious characters dozens of times in the weeks preceding the events with Martin. (No, it was perhaps a half-dozen calls in similar number of months)
Zimmerman used a racial slur in reference to Martin while on the phone to police. (Never happened.)
Zimmerman was a racist seething with anger against young black men. (No evidence of this whatever, despite thorough FBI investigation.)
Zimmerman injuries prove he was never in danger of death or grave bodily harm. (First, no injury need be suffered before self-defense; second, blows to the head always carry a danger of hematoma and death.)
Zimmerman used a gun against an unarmed child. (Had the events not happened nobody would have referred to 6-foot-plus 17-year-old Martin as a child; in any event, Martin armed himself with his fists and the sidewalk.)
Anybody fully armed with the actual facts of the case understands that all of the above claims are untrue, and remain untrue no matter how many times they are propagated by racial activists, the mainstream media, the justice department, and even President Obama.
Zimmerman volunteered Martins race to police. (No, NBC doctored the 911 recording to make that appear to be the case, the police asked and Zimmerman answered.)
Zimmerman disobeyed police instructions to stay in his truck. (No such instruction was ever given.)
Zimmerman disobeyed police instructions to not follow Martin. (No such instruction was ever given; when it was suggested that he not follow, he complied immediately.)
Zimmerman has a history of convictions for acts of violence. (Simply, no.)
Zimmerman was high on pills at the time. (No evidence of this whatever.)
Zimmerman appointed himself head of the neighborhood watch. (No, HOA offered him that role, he accepted.)
Zimmerman had called the police about suspicious characters dozens of times in the weeks preceding the events with Martin. (No, it was perhaps a half-dozen calls in similar number of months)
Zimmerman used a racial slur in reference to Martin while on the phone to police. (Never happened.)
Zimmerman was a racist seething with anger against young black men. (No evidence of this whatever, despite thorough FBI investigation.)
Zimmerman injuries prove he was never in danger of death or grave bodily harm. (First, no injury need be suffered before self-defense; second, blows to the head always carry a danger of hematoma and death.)
Zimmerman used a gun against an unarmed child. (Had the events not happened nobody would have referred to 6-foot-plus 17-year-old Martin as a child; in any event, Martin armed himself with his fists and the sidewalk.)
Anybody fully armed with the actual facts of the case understands that all of the above claims are untrue, and remain untrue no matter how many times they are propagated by racial activists, the mainstream media, the justice department, and even President Obama.
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Once more, Bill Whittle with THE clarification on how this debacle happened:
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I think I've seen this before.
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How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin's Death
By ROBERT STACY MCCAIN on 7.15.13 @ 1:05AM
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday. Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father's girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.
Both of Trayvon's suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criiminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin's death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for "decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011." What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.
In October 2011, after a video surveillance camera caught Martin writing graffiti on a door, MDSPD Office Darryl Dunn searched Martin's backpack, looking for the marker he had used. Officer Dunn found 12 pieces of women's jewelry and a man's watch, along with a flathead screwdriver the officer described as a "burglary tool." The jewelry and watch, which Martin claimed he had gotten from a friend he refused to name, matched a description of items stolen during the October 2011 burglary of a house on 204th Terrace, about a half-mile from the school. However, because of Chief Hurley's policy "to lower the arrest rates," as one MDSPD sergeant said in an internal investigation, the stolen jewerly was instead listed as "found property" and was never reported to Miami-Dade Police who were investigating the burglary.
Similarly, in February 2012 when an MDSPD officer caught Martin with a small plastic bag containing marijuana residue, as well as a marijuana pipe, this was not treated as a crime, and instead Martin was suspended from school.
Either of those incidents could have put Trayvon Martin into the custody of the juvenile justice system. However, because of Chief Hurley's attempt to reduce the school crime statistics — according to sworn testimony, officers were "basically told to lie and falsify" reports — Martin was never arrested. And if he had been arrested, he might never have been in Sanford the night of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.
In fact, the reason Zimmerman was patrolling the townhouse community the night of the February 2012 shooting was that there had been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, although there was no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any of those crimes.
As for Chief Hurley's policy, it was the controversy over Martin's death that accidentally exposed it. In March 2012, the Miami Herald reported on Martin's troubled history of disciplinary incidents at Krop High. Chief Hurley then launched the internal affairs investigation in an attempt to find out who had provided information to the reporter.
During the course of that investigation, MDSPD officers and supervisors described Chief Hurley's policy of not reporting crimes by students. Chief Hurley was subsequently accused of sexually harassing two female subordinates.
He resigned in February, about a year after Trayvon Martin's death.
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How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin's Death
By ROBERT STACY MCCAIN on 7.15.13 @ 1:05AM
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday. Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father's girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.
Both of Trayvon's suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criiminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin's death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for "decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011." What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.
In October 2011, after a video surveillance camera caught Martin writing graffiti on a door, MDSPD Office Darryl Dunn searched Martin's backpack, looking for the marker he had used. Officer Dunn found 12 pieces of women's jewelry and a man's watch, along with a flathead screwdriver the officer described as a "burglary tool." The jewelry and watch, which Martin claimed he had gotten from a friend he refused to name, matched a description of items stolen during the October 2011 burglary of a house on 204th Terrace, about a half-mile from the school. However, because of Chief Hurley's policy "to lower the arrest rates," as one MDSPD sergeant said in an internal investigation, the stolen jewerly was instead listed as "found property" and was never reported to Miami-Dade Police who were investigating the burglary.
Similarly, in February 2012 when an MDSPD officer caught Martin with a small plastic bag containing marijuana residue, as well as a marijuana pipe, this was not treated as a crime, and instead Martin was suspended from school.
Either of those incidents could have put Trayvon Martin into the custody of the juvenile justice system. However, because of Chief Hurley's attempt to reduce the school crime statistics — according to sworn testimony, officers were "basically told to lie and falsify" reports — Martin was never arrested. And if he had been arrested, he might never have been in Sanford the night of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.
In fact, the reason Zimmerman was patrolling the townhouse community the night of the February 2012 shooting was that there had been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, although there was no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any of those crimes.
As for Chief Hurley's policy, it was the controversy over Martin's death that accidentally exposed it. In March 2012, the Miami Herald reported on Martin's troubled history of disciplinary incidents at Krop High. Chief Hurley then launched the internal affairs investigation in an attempt to find out who had provided information to the reporter.
During the course of that investigation, MDSPD officers and supervisors described Chief Hurley's policy of not reporting crimes by students. Chief Hurley was subsequently accused of sexually harassing two female subordinates.
He resigned in February, about a year after Trayvon Martin's death.
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He is still out there <broken link removed> doing good deeds.
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Right you are. And as the headline in my examiner column notes, he's an unlikely hero at that.
After all, would you or I or anyone else expect Mr. Zimmerman to get any credit, particularly from ABC, for doing this kind of thing? But I have to say, the story does give Zimmerman a pretty good touch, which may be the unlikeliest aspect of all.
Amid death threats, Zimmerman emerges as unlikely hero
While the nation's anti-gunners and race hucksters have been using George Zimmerman as a political soccer ball to push their agenda, the now-acquitted Florida man "emerged from hiding" last Thursday to help rescue a family trapped in an overturned vehicle, ABC News is reporting today.
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After his recent ordeal in court, Zim probably contemplated just staying in the car. 
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There are already plenty of comments on the Zimmerman car-rescue story that claim it was staged. Of course, it would just be too easy for a person who has a known history of helping people, to continue helping people.
Also interesting that none of the media outlets mention anything about who the family was. Wonder why.
(Note that the above is a statement and not a question)
Also interesting that none of the media outlets mention anything about who the family was. Wonder why.
(Note that the above is a statement and not a question)
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After his recent ordeal in court, Zim probably contemplated just staying in the car.
Exactly why I used the term 'unlikely hero' in the headline. Here's a guy who will probably spend the rest of his days begging for anonymity and not get it. And here he is, rushing to help some crash victims, and all that does beyond a good deed is get his name back in the headlines.
I have a bit of experience as a public figure, so I kinda feel for this guy.
Unlikely hero? No. After hearing the truth about Zim, I don't think he can keep himself from doing good deeds.
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The "unlikely hero" reference was an allusion to ABC's even recognizing that Zimmerman did something not simply productive but actually heroic and of benefit to the greater good. That doesn't fit the popular narrative. Very unlikely. But it happened.
Talk about multiple minute probability events happening to the same person.
I see your point now. Recall journalism 101, irony is difficult to convey in type.
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Speaking of press bias --- as this thread started to discuss all them eons ago:
Press won't give up on race in Zimmerman verdict
The press will simply not give up on playing the race card as the backdrop to the George Zimmerman self-defense case, and two polls released yesterday added fuel to that fire by reporting that there is "a dramatic racial gap in public opinion" surrounding the case.
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Press won't give up on race in Zimmerman verdict
The press will simply not give up on playing the race card as the backdrop to the George Zimmerman self-defense case, and two polls released yesterday added fuel to that fire by reporting that there is "a dramatic racial gap in public opinion" surrounding the case.
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Me too! Firemen are always the most helpful public servants out there, I just didn't know they were portable!
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Come to think of it, I've never seen them in the same place at the same time..........
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