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Old 03-27-2012   #121 (permalink)
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The Orlando Sentinel reported that George Zimmerman told police he lost 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in the neighborhood he regularly patrolled and was walking back to his vehicle last month when the youth approached him from behind.
The two exchanged words, Zimmerman said, and Martin then punched him, jumped on top of him and began banging his head on a sidewalk
Right. Except I was questioning your punching-a-cop-in-the-nose-from-behind story.
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It's not. Zimmerman wasn't arrested for shooting Martin - no arrest, no mug shot. So that mug shot isn't current.

It is from 2005 when he was arrested for domestic violence.

Right- so a bit out of date and unfair perhaps to use it?

Also the pic of the sweet little kid on the left- might be also a bit out of date?
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Stogey interjected the cop. I responded to his post, as you can see above.

I did not interject a cop into it.

Happy to straighten you out on that.
In order to reach your conclusion you did exactly that-the kid had no history (that we know of) of hitting Hispanics either,yet he allegedly did.
News reports also allude to corroborating witnesses.
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Latest news reports about his past and his on line conduct are starting to reveal Martin as not exactly an alter boy image.

It's beginning to look like wrong met wrong and wrong won.
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The Orlando Sentinel reported that George Zimmerman told police he lost 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in the neighborhood he regularly patrolled and was walking back to his vehicle last month when the youth approached him from behind.
The two exchanged words, Zimmerman said, and Martin then punched him, jumped on top of him and began banging his head on a sidewalk
The actual eye witnesses that have gone on record stated they saw zimmerman strattling martin holding him face down. Perhaps the boy turned it around and got the upper hand in thr scuffle. "WHILE DEFENDING HIMSELF" Zimmerman instigated the conflict and the scuffle that took place. He can,t then claim self defence because he was loosing.
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Latest news reports about his past and his on line conduct are starting to reveal Martin as not exactly an alter boy image.

It's beginning to look like wrong met wrong and wrong won.
That very well could be the case but use of deadly force by a person that picks a fight is murder.
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The actual eye witnesses that have gone on record stated they saw zimmerman strattling martin holding him face down. Perhaps the boy turned it around and got the upper hand in thr scuffle. "WHILE DEFENDING HIMSELF" Zimmerman instigated the conflict and the scuffle that took place. He can,t then claim self defence because he was loosing.
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That very well could be the case but use of deadly force by a person that picks a fight is murder.
Your problem here, Uno, is that you are being far too logical.
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A cop would not have killed the kid.
How do you know. There are plenty of cases in which a cop shoots. Someone for carrying a water pistol or having a knife.

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It is likely if Treyvon was approached by an actual police officer, even maybe a uniformed security guard and not some unidentidied stranger, have may have peacefully answered questions and not feel he was being assaulted himself.

In the case a cop shots an unarmed boy, you bet he is put under a lot more investigation than Zimmerman has been.
More often than not they're found justified in their actions.
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Do you think there is any chance that Zimmerman might be lying, having left no live witnesses behind, in order to enhance his stature or to save his own butt?
Zimmerman does have a witness.
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In order to reach your conclusion you did exactly that-the kid had no history (that we know of) of hitting Hispanics either,yet he allegedly did.
News reports also allude to corroborating witnesses.
A 17 year old whi just got suspended from school fir having a joint in his back pack. He was probably looking for acfighy. Most juveniles event if they have a record. The record are usually sealed vv
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That very well could be the case but use of deadly force by a person that picks a fight is murder.
Not saying it does. Just pointing out the media would have you believe otherwise. Note where I said Wrong met Wrong.
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In order to reach your conclusion you did exactly that-the kid had no history (that we know of) of hitting Hispanics either,yet he allegedly did.
News reports also allude to corroborating witnesses.
It is very difficult to follow your thinking here.

The kid was killed by the dude, in cold blood, after the dude was told by a representative of the authorities not to follow the kid.
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