badgenome said:
That's a fine example of the media doing a shitacular job on this. Martin was a 6'3" football player but they've been relentlessly showing pictures of him when he was 12, and so everyone seems to think, "This big fat guy couldn't defend himself against this scrawny little kid? Bullshit." There are some pictures floating around that are supposedly much more recent ones of Martin, but I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere that they're actually of him. They're almost comically thuggish looking, though, so I'm skeptical. |
It's also probably the only ones his parents wanted to get out there. I've heard they closed his facebook down after this happened. Though, I guess someone got this pic of him (on the right) before that.
And I just read his cousin tweeted him sometime before the incident, asking about Trayvon taking a swing at a bus driver. Or as he put it, "Yu ain't tell me you swung on a bus driver."
