Plain Old Racist American should, too.
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but pissing in your head is fun!
On Mar 22, 3:43 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sanford Police Chief Lee has stepped down.
> Plain Old Racist American should, too.
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> On Mar 22, 1:44 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > another jew crying racism .... yawn
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> > On Mar 22, 1:27 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Walking While Black: The Killing of Trayvon Martin
> > > By Amy Goodman
>
> > > On the rainy night of Sunday, Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin
> > > walked to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. On his way home, with
> > > his Skittles and iced tea, the African-American teenager was shot and
> > > killed. The gunman, George Zimmerman, didn't run. He claimed that he
> > > killed the young man in self-defense. The Sanford police agreed and
> > > let him go. Since then, witnesses have come forward, 911 emergency
> > > calls have been released, and outrage over the killing has gone
> > > global.
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> > > Trayvon Martin lived in Miami. He was visiting his father in Sanford,
> > > near Orlando, staying in the gated community known as The Retreat at
> > > Twin Lakes, where Zimmerman volunteered with the Neighborhood Watch
> > > program. The Miami Herald reported that Zimmerman was a "habitual
> > > caller" to the police, making 46 calls since January 2011. He was out
> > > on his rounds as a self-appointed watchman, packing his concealed 9 mm
> > > pistol, when he called 911: "We've had some break-ins in my
> > > neighborhood, and there's a real suspicious guy ... this guy looks
> > > like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something."
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> > > Later in the call, Zimmerman exclaims, "OK. These a—holes always get
> > > away. ... [Expletive], he's running."
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> > > Sounds of Zimmerman moving follow, along with a controversial
> > > utterance from Zimmerman, under his breath, considered by many to be
> > > "[Expletive] coons." The sound of his running prompted the 911
> > > operator to ask, "Are you following him?" Zimmerman replied, "Yeah,"
> > > to which the dispatcher said, "OK, we don't need you to do that."
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> > > One of the attorneys representing the Martin family, Jasmine Rand,
> > > told me: "The term 'coon' on the audiotape ... is a very obvious
> > > racial slur against African-Americans. We also heard the neighbors
> > > come forward and say, 'Yeah, in this particular neighborhood, we look
> > > for young black males to be committing criminal activity.' And that's
> > > exactly what George Zimmerman did that night. He found a young black
> > > male that he did not recognize, assumed that he did not belong there,
> > > and he targeted him."
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> > > Advertisement
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> > > Another 911 call that has been released is from a woman who hears
> > > someone crying for help, then a gunshot.
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> > > Eyewitnesses Mary Cutcher and Selma Mora Lamilla both heard the cries,
> > > which police say could have been from Zimmerman, thus supporting his
> > > claim, even though he had a gun and outweighed Trayvon Martin by 80
> > > pounds.
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> > > Cutcher said at a press conference: "I feel it was not self-defense,
> > > because I heard the crying. And if it was Zimmerman that was crying,
> > > Zimmerman would have continued crying after the shot went off. The
> > > only thing I saw that night—I heard the crying. We were in the
> > > kitchen. I heard the crying. It was a little boy. As soon as the gun
> > > went off, the crying stopped. Therefore, it tells me it was not
> > > Zimmerman crying."
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> > > Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee has defended his department's decision
> > > not to arrest Zimmerman. They bagged Martin's body and took it away,
> > > labeling him a "John Doe," even though they had his cellphone, which
> > > anyone, let alone law enforcement with a shooting victim, could have
> > > used to easily identify a person. They tested Martin's corpse for
> > > drugs and alcohol. Zimmerman was not tested. Neighbors say that
> > > Zimmerman loaded things into a U-Haul truck and left the area.
>
> > > So, while the police and State Attorney Norm Wolfinger have defended
> > > their inaction, a democratic demand for justice has ricocheted around
> > > the country, prompting a U.S. Justice Department investigation and
> > > leading Wolfinger to promise to convene a grand jury. The Rev. Glenn
> > > Dames, pastor of St. James AME Church in nearby Titusville, has called
> > > Martin's death "a modern-day lynching." His demand for the immediate
> > > arrest of Zimmerman was echoed by the organizers of the "Million
> > > Hoodie March" in New York City, named after the often racially
> > > stereotyped sweatshirt Martin was wearing in the rain when he was
> > > shot.
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> > > The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has
> > > called for the removal of Sanford Police Chief Lee. NAACP President
> > > Ben Jealous, recounting a mass meeting in a Sanford-area church
> > > Tuesday night, quoted a local resident who stood up and said, "'If you
> > > kill a dog in this town, you'd be in jail the next day.' Trayvon
> > > Martin was killed four weeks ago, and his killer is still walking the
> > > streets."
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> > > With his gun.
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> > > More:http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/walking_while_black_the_killing_o...
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> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
> > > Tommy
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> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
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