Family of Florida boy killed by Neighborhood Watch seeks arrest

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

A lot of people don't seem to get this, at all. They think that the reaction of widespread outrage is to a single incident, a single trial. It's not. It's a reaction to decades of systemic racism that systematically treats a certain group of people worse on all fronts, long after the courts declared black people equal.

If this was an isolated incident, people wouldn't be on the streets. It's not. Serious racial injustice happens every day, constantly, in every city in the US.

The death of Trayvon Martin, the police failure to properly investigate it, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer was merely the last straw for a lot of people. Underlying that last straw is ubiquitous racial profiling, traffic stops, harassment and violence, black men convicted on circumstantial evidence, blacks convicted at rates far outstripping any plausible explanation that does not include discrimination, ample evidence that blacks are denied housing and employment when they are equally qualified with whites, black convicts being sterilized against their will and without their knowledge in prison, and the sheer stunning disgrace of the school-to-prison pipeline, which black children as young as five are victimized by in stunning disproportion.

Unless you take all of this into consideration when looking at the massive reaction to Zimmerman's acquittal, you have your head up your ass and are crawling around on all fours. For fuck's sake, people need to pull it out and STAND UP so they can see the whole social injustice landscape, and not just this one, relatively tiny, element that has dominated the mainstream press.

[Doktor Howl]

Every few decades, we have to do this.

It isn't like Medgar Evers was the only Black person murdered in his time, either.  Trayvon wasn't a Medgar Evers, of course, he was a kid.  But this also isn't 1965.

[Doktor Howl]

And when I say "we", I mean "America", and when I say "do this", I mean "wallow in our guilt and sin".

[Left]

A lot of people don't seem to get this, at all. They think that the reaction of widespread outrage is to a single incident, a single trial. It's not. It's a reaction to decades of systemic racism that systematically treats a certain group of people worse on all fronts, long after the courts declared black people equal.

Since we're not a racist society anymore, it MUST be an isolated incident.
I suspect the statistics, they must be manipulated.
I don't see that kind of racism, it can't possibly be true.
  All these black people are just overreacting because they hate white people; it's reverse racism, of course, they all just need to go get jobs and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
After all, none of us have it easy.
They just want to sit on their ass, smoke pot and collect welfare...all the women are welfare queens and all the men are thugs who deserve what they get.

...There, did I miss any racist bullshit excuses?

Yes, some whitefolks are that dense.  Fucking nauseating.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/trayvon-martin-merchandise-is-for-sale

The merchandising of this particular incident goes beyond the protest environment. Pro-Trayvon merchandise is all over the internet, but unfortunately there's also a plethora of pro-George Zimmerman gear for the discerning, fashion-forward racist.

The circus has taken a rest, please take this opportunity to make money from the event.

It'd be nice to think that all proceeds are going to some kind of fund or something, but I'm not that hopeful.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Kinda like paying for one of those "kick me" signs to be stuck to your back.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

My mother-in-law cured me of my desire to meet her in person with her reaction to the verdict.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

No struggle, no fight.
He never dropped the goddamn bag.
*****possible trigger warning*****
http://www.laprogressive.com/zimmerman-verdict-truth/

[Left]

No struggle, no fight.
He never dropped the goddamn bag.
*****possible trigger warning*****
http://www.laprogressive.com/zimmerman-verdict-truth/

Oh, wow.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I fucked up, it looks like a rubber glove in this clearer photo
*****trigger warning again*****
http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/63599/mto-super-world-exclusive-we-ve-got-the-trayvon-martin-death-pics-the-poor-boy-was-gunned-down-in-cold-blood.html

Which is fucked up, there's no NEED for the guy who wrote the article in my last post to make shit up and blur the glove so it looks like a bag, everybody heard the 911 calls and KNOWS what happened. Even if they don't want to admit it because they're racist fuckbags.

This just makes us look like we're full of shit. 

[Bruno]

Then suddenly...


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/22/sanford-zimmerman-rescue/2575217/

George Zimmerman, the man whose acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin set off a wave of protests across the nation, helped rescue a family from an overturned SUV four days after the verdict, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday.

The statement said that on Wednesday, at approximately 5:45 p.m. ET, the sheriff's office responded to a single car accident at an intersection in the Sanford, Fla., area not far from where Zimmerman, 29, shot Trayvon, 17, in February 2012. The statement said a blue Ford Explorer had run off the road and rolled over with a family of four inside.

When a deputy arrived at the scene, two men had already helped the family out of the SUV. One of the men was Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch coordinator in Sanford.

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"Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash and left after making contact with the deputy," the statement said. "There were no report of injuries."

A jury of six women acquitted Zimmerman, who pleaded self-defense, of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges July 13. That set off protests across the nation, highlighted by "Justice for Trayvon" rallies held Saturday in more than 100 cities.

Caveat: This information is so fresh, it might just be plain wrong, but it's out there.

[The Johnny]

Then suddenly...


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/22/sanford-zimmerman-rescue/2575217/

George Zimmerman, the man whose acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin set off a wave of protests across the nation, helped rescue a family from an overturned SUV four days after the verdict, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday.

The statement said that on Wednesday, at approximately 5:45 p.m. ET, the sheriff's office responded to a single car accident at an intersection in the Sanford, Fla., area not far from where Zimmerman, 29, shot Trayvon, 17, in February 2012. The statement said a blue Ford Explorer had run off the road and rolled over with a family of four inside.

When a deputy arrived at the scene, two men had already helped the family out of the SUV. One of the men was Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch coordinator in Sanford.

STORY: 'Justice for Trayvon' rallies

"Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash and left after making contact with the deputy," the statement said. "There were no report of injuries."

A jury of six women acquitted Zimmerman, who pleaded self-defense, of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges July 13. That set off protests across the nation, highlighted by "Justice for Trayvon" rallies held Saturday in more than 100 cities.

Caveat: This information is so fresh, it might just be plain wrong, but it's out there.

Where they white?

[Doktor Howl]

Zimmerman was the only person to stand up for a Black man beaten by Sanford police for no apparent reason some years ago.

I don't think he's a conscious racist.  I just think he's a cop wannabe with a hero complex.

ETA:  It wouldn't surprise me if this was staged.  Rollovers always result in injuries.

[Cain]

Zimmerman was the only person to stand up for a Black man beaten by Sanford police for no apparent reason some years ago.

I don't think he's a conscious racist.  I just think he's a cop wannabe with a hero complex.

Yeah, that strikes me as more accurate, based on what we know of him.

[Freeky]

Zimmerman was the only person to stand up for a Black man beaten by Sanford police for no apparent reason some years ago.

I don't think he's a conscious racist.  I just think he's a cop wannabe with a hero complex.

ETA:  It wouldn't surprise me if this was staged.  Rollovers always result in injuries.

It definitely set off my fishy alarm, but subtly.