Northwest Indiana Discussion

The Story Unravels:
New Questions about Trayvon
Martin's Final Hour
American Thinker, by Jeff Lipkes

It was a fable for our times:

Once upon a time, a nice young man set off from his dad's fiancée's home before the NBA All-Star game to buy some Skittles and Arizona Tea for his stepbrother. Although the lad was seventeen, he looked like a cute twelve-year-old. Along came a burly ex-con racist vigilante who didn't like the idea of a young African-American male walking around his gated community at night. The cop-wannabe stalked the frightened boy, cornered him, and then shot him. But the racist police didn't arrest the murderer. The conscience of the nation was stirred. Protests erupted from coast to coast. The gunning down of young, unarmed black males by white Rambos -- and the occasional "white Hispanic" -- is an all-too-common occurrence in the US of A.

Now the MSM narrative is unraveling, thanks to Al Gore's nifty invention, the internet. The average MSNBC viewer may not have the smarts and curiosity to do a Google search, but other people do. A lot of the searches wind up at the sites of the Orlando Sentinel and the city's Fox affiliate, Channel 35, both of which have provided good coverage.

Now other local papers are running stories about the "complexity" of the case.

We've learned a little more about Trayvon Martin. Since his record of suspensions and his posts and pictures, with tats and grill, from his Myspace and Twitter accounts surfaced on the web, columnists are less likely to enthuse about him, as a WaPo blogger did on March 18:

By all accounts, Trayvon was a good kid[.] ... He had dreams of becoming a pilot. He was good at math. ... Trayvon's English teacher described him "as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness."

"So what?" the left responds. The fact that he "experimented" with marijuana at a school with zero tolerance -- and maybe experimented with burglary -- and was intrigued by gangsta argot and gangsta values -- has no bearing on the events of February 26. But of course it does. We are being asked to chose between two stories:

1. that the teen was intercepted by Zimmerman, asked "why are you following me?," and was pushed; or
2. that he came back for Zimmerman; asked, "Do you have a f-ing problem?"; and, when told no, said, "You do now," and leveled Zimmerman.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/ ... z1rXuf9SPu

No, they aren't. A bag of Skittles and a can of tea were what seventeen tear old Trayvon Martin bought from 7-11 just before George Zimmerman stalked and shot him.

His Mountain Dew T-shirt obviously refers to something illegal or immoral.

I know. That t-shirt is almost as bad as wearing a hoodie. The guy got what he had coming to him. Maybe the NRA can expand the "Stand Your Ground" law to include having to look at offensive t-shirts!

The guy got what he had coming to him. Maybe the NRA can expand the "Stand Your Ground" law to include having to look at offensive t-shirts!

No, they aren't. A bag of Skittles and a can of tea were what seventeen tear old Trayvon Martin bought from 7-11 just before George Zimmerman stalked and shot him.

PJTV Exclusive:
How NBC Editors Made the
Zimmerman 911 Call Sound Racist
PJ Media, by Bryan Preston

NBC continues to characterize its deceptive edit of George Zimmerman’s 911 call a “mistake.” The edited version, in which George Zimmerman says Trayvon Martin “looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black” appeared on the Today show and on NBC’s web properties. That edit put racial concerns front and center in a story that may not have been about race at all. But could the edit really be a mistake?

Is it possible for such an internal edit that substantially alters the nature of Zimmerman’s call with the 911 dispatcher to happen by chance? As an audio and video editor for going on 20 years, in my opinion it is highly implausible and close to impossible for that edit to have occurred by chance. Watch this video and you’ll see why.

BREAK

Can all of this happen by chance? It’s about as likely as getting struck by lightning, I suppose:Possible but on the very edge of probability. The most likely explanation is that the network edited the Zimmerman call the way it did on purpose.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04/09/pj ... epage=true

I know. That t-shirt is almost as bad as wearing a hoodie. The guy got what he had coming to him. Maybe the NRA can expand the "Stand Your Ground" law to include having to look at offensive t-shirts!

Zimmerman claimed to police that Trayvon punched him in the face, breaking his nose, then jumped on top of him and bashed his head into the sidewalk, putting a gash in his head.

No, they aren't. A bag of Skittles and a can of tea were what seventeen tear old Trayvon Martin bought from 7-11 just before George Zimmerman stalked and shot him.

And the eye witness on the second floor that said he saw Trayvon Martin on top of George Zimmerman. The eye witness must be a racist,sexist,homophobe,.NRA member, redneck to all the liberals of the world?

Trayvon Martin killing: witness says he saw Zimmerman walk away uninjured

Account contradicts allegation from Zimmerman's father that Trayvon Martin left his son with injuries including a broken nose
A man who says he saw Trayvon Martin shot dead claims that the Florida teenager and his killer, George Zimmerman, were scuffling on the ground at the time with one on top of the other.

The first eyewitness account of the 17-year-old's final moments emerged on Thursday night more than a month after the boy lost his life in an altercation with a neighbourhood watch leader in a gated community in Sanford.

The anonymous man said he reported to police details of what he saw on the evening of 26 February, which included watching the gunman walking away from the fight apparently uninjured.

It contradicts an allegation from Zimmerman's father earlier in the day that the unarmed black teenager broke his son's nose during the incident and also left him with bloody injuries from slamming the man's head repeatedly on to a concrete pavement. The eyewitness says he saw no blood and that the entire confrontation took place only on grass.

"I saw two men on the ground, one on top of the other. I felt they were scuffling and I heard gunshots which to me were more like pops," he said in an interview broadcast on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, his voice disguised to protect his identity.

"I don't know if was an echo but it definitely made more than one pop.
"After the larger man got off there was a boy, obviously now dead, on the ground facing down.