Freddie Muse holds a sign at a rally to call for justice in the murder of Trayvon Martin at Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California, March 22, 2012 (Reuters / Jonathan Alcorn)
TAGS: Crime, Hate crimes, Protest, Law, USA,Police
Following the “temporary resignation” of Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee on Thursday afternoon, more than 25,000 protesters gathered in Fort Mellon Park later that evening.
The massive crowd came together to show solidarity for Trayvon Martin and his family. People held signs which read, “I am Trayvon” and “NAACP says…enough is enough,” in the hope of bringing George Zimmerman to justice.
The enormous gathering caught the attention of President Obama. On Friday Obama addressed the tragic shooting for the first time and called the occurrence a “tragedy.”
“I can only imagine what these parents are going through,” said the president.
“Every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this. If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and we’re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Obama added.
A view of a memorial dedicated to Trayvon Martin near the site where he was killed in front of The Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford, Florida March 22, 2012 (Reuters / Octavian Cantilli)
New details revealed could have set the stage for the confrontation between the 17-year-old Martin and Zimmerman.
According to many of the homeowners who live at the upscale Retreat at Twin Lakes subdivision where Martin was shot to death, a string of burglaries in the area may have been to blame for the tragic incident.
According to some of the residents, “a gang of young black men,” were seen hanging around the area during a series of robberies and vandalism cases which occurred last year. Unfortunately many feel Martin was “stereotyped” into the role.
“I was told by a neighbor of ours last year that the men causing our problems were black,” said Jackie Mathews to The Daily Beast.
Demonstrators gather to call for justice in the murder of Trayvon Martin at Leimert Park in Los Angeles, March 22, 2012 (Reuters / Jonathan Alcorn)
Mathews who lives in the complex added that her neighbors told her to “avoid young blackmen at all times and to call the police” if she saw a group of them in the complex.
The case which has now gained international attention has left many unanswered questions.
Many question how Martin was supposed to know about the crime spree of which Sanford PD received nearly 15 reports the year before the confrontation, and claim he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Still Zimmerman’s actions have caused outrage in the black community, especially after allegations of the shooter muttering “fucking coon” in his 911 call to law enforcement.
Family members of the teen have spoken out about the allegations of Zimmerman’s alleged racism.
“How could anyone look at that baby’s face and think he was a criminal? How could they just see him as black, and not as somebody’s child,” said Marion Evans, Trayvon’s grandmother to the media.
The recent reports which surfaced of the self-appointed neighborhood watch leader’s racial slur have many calling the alleged act of “self-defense” a hate crime and carries no merit for shooting a black teen that was carrying skittles and tea while wearing a hoodie.
A man kneels as he prays during a public rally to honor the memory of Trayvon Martin, at Fort Mellon Park in Sanford, Florida March 22, 2012 (Reuters / Octavian Cantilli)
If the Black Negro Americans will put as much effort in their Activism, prayers and emotional-Energy into combating Black on Black crimes, poor educational backgrounds, drug-peddling and gross lack of paternal guidance as they put in perceived discrimination against them, then they would have made even greater strides already but they're too hypocritical.
The least productive elements of American society sure love to whoop and holler. Any time I arrive in downtown Washington, DC, I am met by dirty looking negroes beating on plastic trash buckets and hollering about something as they walk around in a circle shaking their fists in the air.
When a segment of society has nothing to offer to the society, they begin to scream and holler in an effort to disrupt the society. This is what these current street protests are about - disruption of the society. American negroes often scream at the top of their lungs "no money, no peace". In other words, the productive hardworking society has to pay off the disrupters.Now, these negroes are trying to force the government to rush the prosecution of Zimmerman instead of waiting for all the facts to come. And, of course, Barak Hussein Obama jumps right in with the howling mobs of negroes rather than acting presidential. When is the last time Barak Hussein Obama came out in defense of a white murdered by a negro? Never.Anyone have any doubt that America is a dying country? When America hits the bottom of the sewer, that is the time when all hell will break loose and a Dark Age will settle on the United States of America. A Dark Age where every racial group will be at each other throats.The Turkish-American unarmed protester on the Turkish Civilian Passenger ship in the Gaza Peace Flotilla was shot in the face at point blank range multiple times by different Israeli IDF stormtroopers to deliberately make him to ugly for a open casket burial. And THAT was spewed by the US media and Western propaganda outlets as 'Self-Defense'.
That American Citizen was executed then his corpse was brutally abused by multiple Israeli soldiers and that was according to the US and West propaganda outlets as 'Self-Defense'.In a locked, gated community besieged by multiple homes being burglarized during the past three months, one in broad daylight, the neighbourhood watch captain thinks he has spotted one of the burglar gang's look-outs and notify's the police as well as ask him what he is up to. The suspect is dressed in black, has a hood over his head and face and although it is reportedly raining, not a single media outlet has even asked if the teenager who was shot, Travyon Martin's family knew of the multiple burglary's and if not, then how did they not know when the entire gated community certainly did and lived in constant fear of gangs and violent burglars?Zimmerman the neighbourhood watch captain had repeatedly reported on suspects in that area and had cuts, scratches and blood consistent with his alleged statement that Travyon Martin attacked him prior to him having no choice but to shoot him.The aforementioned Turkish-American shot multiple times point blank in the face didn't attack anyone, he was executed and the US/Israeli/Western Media spewed 'Self-Defense' death as their finding.That Zimmerman dude needs the electric chair I think. He followed the boy and shot him.
Zimmerman does NOT represent all Jews!
even though most Jews are NOT terrorists – despite the actions of that small, radical minority – we do have to face up to the terrorism problem. It is a fact that Jews commit more than their share of terrorism – according to FBI statistics, more terrorist acts are committed by extremist Jews than by extremist Muslims, and Jews commit terrorism at a rate more than three times that of the general population. People who regularly visit terrorist propaganda websites that encourage or excuse the actions of the world’s worst terrorist groups, the IDF and the Zionist-co-opted US military – websites like Fox News and the Jerusalem Post and even the New York Times and The Washington Post - need to be pre-emptively incarcerated
veteranstoday.com/2012/03/23/zimmerman-does-not-represent-all-jews/
I hope the police were astute enough to take the dead guy's finger prints and DNA to match to those found in the numerous home burglarized in the area. If there is a match, I am sure the negroes will continue their stomp and holler routine to draw attention to themselves and disrupt the peace.
American negroes quite good at making a noisy ruckus to disrupt the peaceful lives of other people. In any case, an exhaustive FBI investigation of this incident will reveal the truth, regardless of how much the negroes try to disrupt a routine murder investigation with their noisy antics.As I had mentioned earlier, more information is coming out on the case. Here is the latest:
1. The witness that the police interviewed at the time of the shooting said that George Zimmerman was on the ground with Trayvon on top of him and hitting Zimmerman in the face.2. Trayvon is falsely being depicted as a 12 year old in all the pictures his family is circulating to the media. The Trayvon who assaulted Zimmerman is a 6ft 2 inch 180 pound football player.3. Zimmerman had grass stains on his back and his face was bleeding when the police got there.4. Trayvon had been loitering around the apartment building all day since he was suspended from school for five days for assaulting another student.The FBI investigation will reveal what really happened and who Trayvon actually is. No amount of hysterical negro screaming and foot stomping will deter the FBI from arriving at the truth.The local police know that Trayvon attacked Zimmerman, but they could not get the story out because of the screams and threats of hysterical negroes protesting in the streets.By the time the FBI investigation is over, people will recall the case of an ugly negro prostitute falsely accusing white Duke University students of rape. And, Barak Hussein Obama would wish he had kept his mouth shut about wanting Trayvon to be his son.I can't believe the CRAZY comments on this article. WHERE do you people live?!? Or are you nuts just trolls?
Zimmerman was looking for someone to harass and found someone... and killed a kid walking through a gated community. Florida's gun laws (and Zimmeran) were and are TROUBLE waiting to happen.
why for godssakes are there american flags, red white and blue balloons and red white and blue blow-up props at the roadside memorial? someone please explain.
It's disappointing that so many people are so eager to see racism that they find it wherever they look. A lot of the people claiming to hear "coon" in the 911 recording are the same idiots who were protesting a space-themed audio greeting card a few years ago; mistaking the word "black hole" for "black wh*re" (see http://goo.gl/v3pG). style="" />
So far nobody has come forward with actual evidence that Zimmerman's allegation that he acted in self defense is false. Every single person clamoring for Zimmerman's arrest is doing so based on their personal feelings and hunches. In the United States we do not arrest people based on our hunches, whether it's a hunch that a black person is up to no good, or a hunch that a Latino man shot a black person because of racism.