SANFORD, FL – A jury in Sanford, Florida has found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
George Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 after the two skirmished. Zimmerman claimed self defense; Martin was unarmed.
The case set off a national debate on racial profiling.
According to the New York Times, “the six female jurors entered the quiet, tense courtroom, several looking exhausted, their faces drawn and grim. After the verdict was read, each assented, one by one, and quietly, their agreement with the verdict.”
Zimmerman was released from custody.
The NAACP has urged further action by authorities in the case.
“The Department of Justice can still address the violation of Trayvon’s most fundamental civil right — the right to life, and we are urging them to do so,” the NAACP said Saturday evening after the verdict was reached. “Sign our petition to the Department of Justice. Tell them to file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.”
Hands were not properly “bagged” and the coroner said the palms and fingers on that side of the hands were not tested for blood.
Good article Pete I seen Zimmerman AKA Klanman Georgie boy on TV he was smiling real big he is a sicko. Probably our local Klanman AKA Todd Blodgett is real happy to, what do you bet.
If discrimination is still a MAJOR problem in this country then WHY??? has our President NOT made it a goal to rectify this problem? It is hard to sympathize with those who think they are being discriminated against when it appears that they are truly the racist. The press has sided with the black community on this subject since day 1. If any race in America believes they are suppressed I would believe it would be the Hispanics, but I don’t hear the press touting their struggles (and I’m not talking about immigration). The black community must know that most of America views their place in American society as one they want. They don’t want ‘equality’. That would mean a majority of Black America would have to become integrated and that would put Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP out of jobs. Only Black America can solve this perceived problem.
One other point,
This whole incident would not have been elevated to the level it became if it had not been for the petition with “millions” of names on it calling for Zimmerman’s hide.
Once that occurred, the Politicians/Charlatans saw away to gain more fame. This is one more indication of just how sic our emotional society has become.
Wait, it appears we are not done yet. I am hearing the NAACP asked the DOJ to bring Civil Rights charges against Zimmerman. Should the DOJ hook into this, it will only serve to prove just how far gone this country is!
Nothing thst was written here surprises me, not one word….it’s where I live.
Travesty would have been a conviction! When the dust settles and the whole truth comes out this is what I predict we will find.
Travon Martin was a wayward young man that had started down an early path of drug use crime. His parents could not handle him and I believe they tried to steer him down the right path.
Travon Martin should be remembered as a young man who made some wrong choices that cost him his life.
Zimmerman on the other hand should be remembered as a man that was trying to do the right thing by protecting his neighborhood. A neighborhood that had a current history of break-ins and vandalism. Zimmerman was doing what the people living in that gated community asked him to do.
Good on him!
The good thing about this trial is that it showed when the justice system is used and not manipulated it lays to rest any long term feeling of injustice. The Martin family got there day in court and Zimmerman then got his day in court.
We all won!
@Peter L.-It was the prosecution and the media who lied and embellished not Zimmerman. They doctored the 911 calls that were released and doctored the pictures and covered up what type of person Martin really was. He attacked Zimmerman and was killed for it plane and simple. Never a good idea to attack a man with a gun but then again no one ever said those thugs are smart.
maybe if the media quit showing a 5 year old picture of the kid and showed the gangbanger that he really was people wouldnt be so divided on this. that includes you matt
NOT Guilty. justice was served.. why all the sympathy for some little thug kid. i woulda shot him too
I agree with up up to this point. You say Zimmerman “lied or embellished.”
I listened with interest to everything that has been said and reported. I know it was said that Zimmerman changed his account of what happened, albeit very slight. The prosecution choose to call it lying. I never saw it that way.
My experience of being in a life or death situation has taught me that memories become blurred when you are scared to death.
I won’t call it lying or embellishing. Until you walk in Zimmerman’s shoes you have no idea why he responded the way he did. To label his response a lie or embellishing is nothing more than a stupid opinion. That in turn, in this case, helps fuel the fire of race conflicts in this country. Hustlers and pimps like Jessee Jackson and Al Sharpton latch on this crap and make lots of money off this manufactured crisis. This was never about “race.”
It is precisely those “stupid” opinions that raised this whole incident to a unrealistic level. Society is truly sic.
Travesty!
Ricky was a young boy…he had a heart of stone…