| thismeintiel said: And I bet in the same breath you'll tell me Zimmerman was a racist. Edit: To your above comment. Actually the police did do their job. They questioned Zimmerman at the scene. They took him in hand cuffs to the station for questioning. At that point, the prosecutor didn't think they had a strong enough case since the only thing they had to go on was Zimmerman's story and 2 eye witnesses who saw Trayvon beating on Zimmerman, while Zimmerman yelled for help. Of course, that wasn't good enough for the angry mob of race baiters. No, they HAD to see an arrest and charges pressed against him. Unfortunately, in this case, I'm not sure the police did do their job. I've done a "hold for investigation" for 72 hours with a lot less than what they had to go on. We don't know what the police had. We don't know what photos were taken, what forensics were done, what blood spatter was recorded, etc. All we know is the tainted picture painted by the media. I do know from experience that, if there's a dead body, the investigation has to be REALLY thorough. I've had investigators tell me to drop a case because the odds were against me winning in court and I still pursued them because I felt I was right. I've never had one fall apart on me (usually because the offender pled guilty). Maybe the arresting officer (and I did actually look at the police report--he did have charges that would have stuck had he pursued them) didn't have the balls to stick to his guns. Also, the media reports that it WAS NOT Zimmerman yelling for help on the audio: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/02/forensics-experts-zimmerman-was-not-screaming-for-help-in-911-call/ Now if you want to be mad at anyone for not doing their job, you should be mad at the media. Even when the info was all there from Day 1, they made this about race. They reported Zimmerman as white, when he is Hispanic. They only released images of Trayvon from when he was like 12 or 13 (still haven't seen any recent pics officially released), not him as the 6'3" 17 year old young man. They only showed Zimmerman in his mug shot from a few years ago, when he was much heavier and more intimidating. They edited a 911 tape with the specific intent to make it look like he was only singling Trayvon out because he was black, when it was the dispatcher who asked him Trayvon's race. They tried to report Zimmerman was saying "fucking coon." Then after they enhanced the tape, something they could have done from the get go, he's actually saying "fucking cold." They finally showed the video tape of Zimmerman being detained after the incident (most people thought he was let go right at the scene) to try and show there were no wounds on his head, but after enhancing that footage you can see the lacerations to the back of his head. How anyone can still believe these networks is beyond me. As for the media, from what I've read, they had no interest in this story. It wasn't until over a week had passed and some major network got ahold of the story because the family wouldn't just let the story die on Florida's local news networks. When it hit the mainstream, things went into overdrive. They painted the picture of a babyface Martin just like you said. I still don't know how big Martin and Zimmerman were. Their height and weight seem to fluctuate every day! NBC edited a 911 phone call, CNN was running that "Fucking coon" (Who the hell says "Coon" in this day and age?). And made varying remarks about the existence/nonexistence of a head wound. I'm sure that, if there was a wound on Zimmerman, there's a ton of documentation. We just have to wait until court. Zimmerman was reported to have had a broken nose and other injuries, too. We'll see. |
I learned a long time ago not to fully trust the media. Simple things like editing a picture to make people look more sinister and jumping to false conclusions (Duke Lacrosse Team) have ruined my view of them. Somewhere between Zimmerman's story, Trayvon's dead body, the police investigation, and the eye witness accounts is the truth. Zimmerman didn't wake up and say, "I'm gonna kill me a black guy." and then found a sweet and innocent Trayvon and decide to kill him. Trayvon Martin didn't say, "Why is this guy following me from the store. I'm going to kill him!" and then just assault Zimmerman. We just don't know what happened. We just have these two guys--neither have ever been charged but both have skeletons in their closet--of different races and one guy killed the other. The only evidence I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt at this point is the unedited 911 tapes. It's Zimmerman's words, and nothing else, that make me feel he's at fault here. Glad I never had to work a case like this one!!
