You Asked For It

Stories about the shooting death of the Black 17 year old, Trayvon Martin, by the Neighborhood Watchman, George Zimmerman, has been flooding the news for the past 2 weeks. And many inquiries have been directed through the Thought Dock portal to me asking for my opinion from a law officer's view. So, since you asked…

First off I'll say that anytime a life is lost is a tragedy, and sometime tragedies can be avoided. Whether or not that was the case in this incident, I will not say, simply because I don't know what exactly happened.

What I do know is that the information reported in the news, especially NBC News, is greatly distorted and designed to incite the public. The reports used photos of Martin taken years before the incident, portraying him as a handsome and innocent adolescent-smiling child dressed in a youth football uniform, when in fact he was a very troubled teenager, suspended from school and wearing a hooded sweatshirt which we all should know is the choice apparel of gang members. While at the same time the photo of Zimmerman made him look as an unkept White supremacist.

I also saw that NBC News published a transcribed statement of Zimmerman's frantic call to the police omitting key points in the conversation implying that Zimmerman was a racist pig and that was the true motive for the shooting.
Seems I've seen this kind of reporting during the Rodney King and OJ trials some years ago.

And noticeably absent from all the hoopla, was our very own racist President. You know, the same one that was so quick to defend his Black buddy extremist when the White police veteran arrested him for resisting arrest. Quiet also, is the racist Eric Holder, who refused to investigate the Black Panther's voter intimidation at the polls during the last Presidential election.

This death is simply a case of self-defense which is supported by Florida's "Stand your Ground" law. And since the self defense issue is based solely on Zimmerman's state of mind at the time of the shooting, it is very hard to prove, since we don't know what was in his head at the moment he acted. What we do know is that Trayvon knocked Zimmerman to the ground and slammed his head into the pavement as he beat him in the face, breaking his nose. All of which are supported by eye witness accounts and Zimmerman's screams through the dropped cell phone while the police operator listened.

I've seen no evidence to support the incident was racially motivated, but that is not what the news services and Black spiritual leaders want us to think. Calls from Black leaders to march and voice your opinions loudly and offering a bounty for Zimmerman by the Black Panthers will only cause these fools to burn their own neighborhoods as they have done so many times before.

So, there you have it.