ZimmerMAN is the hero we deserve

[Am_I_Anonymous]

ITT:

(Image removed from quote.)

I don't have much use for you and your passive aggressive tactics.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

He was out fucking shit up, as evidenced by the dangerous skittles and sweet tea he had.  You don't go out in public with that shit unless you have ill intentions, man.

Seriously... wtf is wrong with you?

You should also look up "aspersions" while you plot how you defile my next post, winner

Signed,

Adults

[Am_I_Anonymous]

i dunno, it seems more like regular aggressive than passive-aggressive to me

Nah, meek bleeds through.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

So what was Trayvon doing besides walking down a street late at night, snacks in hand?

Go ahead, what's your theory?

I didn't have one.

[Boogie]

she was caught lying under oath that she wasn't able to go to Trayvon's funeral since she was in the hospital. She said that the reason she really didn't go was because she felt guilty since she was the last person to talk to him and didn't want to go see his body.

Where and when did she claim that she didn't go to the funeral because she was in the hospital?

[Human Snorenado]

My bad, I guess it's more a case of:



I mean, by your own admission you don't really know what's going on with the trial, so I'll forgive you for not knowing that the gunman is a zealous nutbar that's called the cops like 40 times, was asked not to follow the kid, who incidentally was just waking through HIS OWN FUCKING NEIGHBORHOOD after getting some skittles and a sweet tea at the store, and that after shooting the kid Zimmerman said "fucking punks" when the cops asked him what he was doing following the kid.

Or, you know, maybe you could do what conservatives so rarely fucking do these days:  inform and educate yourself on the particulars of the situation before running your everloving fucking mouth.  How's that for passive-aggressive, you smug fuck?  Eat a bag of dicks.  An entire bag. 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

she was caught lying under oath that she wasn't able to go to Trayvon's funeral since she was in the hospital. She said that the reason she really didn't go was because she felt guilty since she was the last person to talk to him and didn't want to go see his body.

Where and when did she claim that she didn't go to the funeral because she was in the hospital?

I agree. Outside of petty bickering in this thread I do care and need a link to that

[Boogie]

I agree. Outside of petty bickering in this thread I do care and need a link to that

You agree......with what?


and it seems like the chick gave a statement under oath to investigators in which she lied about the funeral thing?  So the lie was from earlier, not during the trial.  okay.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Because my phone quotes for shit let me retort here

1) A bag of your dicks would just be a snack :-)
2) I think Zimmerman shoukd get manslaughter at least based on what I know.
3) Martin wasn't a saint
4) His mom worries me
5) This shit sets back 5 years of relations on both sides
6) I dare you to say different
7) My politics don't matter on this, for obvious reasons
Rotate on a feeldoe.

[Positive Touch]

3) Martin wasn't a saint
4) His mom worries me

[Himu]

So what was Trayvon doing besides walking down a street late at night, snacks in hand?

Go ahead, what's your theory?

He apparently had mj in his system.

So he was walking with skittles in his hands with ice tea, WHILE WALKING REALLY, REALLY SLOW.

Honestly it scares the shit out of me just thinking about it.

[Himu]

Trayvon reportedly stole jewelry from another home. That means he deserved to die because he was already a criminal. Zero tolerance.

[Boogie]

Himuro!  Fix your godamn spelling! 

[Himu]

See? ZERO TOLERANCE.

I deserve to die.

[Himu]

My Final Fantasy VII manual got tore up from people borrowing the game so much.

So I went to a friends house and stole his manual and put it in my case when I got home.

Someone put a bullet to through my chest. I deserve this.

[Steve Youngblood]

My Final Fantasy VII manual got tore up from people borrowing the game so much.

So I went to a friends house and stole his manual and put it in my case when I got home.

Someone put a bullet to through my chest. I deserve this.

Hmm... let me preface this by saying I'm definitely on your side on this issue. But I felt it was worth noting that I'm really not feeling this post. I like derisive sarcasm as much as the next person, but this isn't your best work. But maybe it's just me.

[Himu]

My Final Fantasy VII manual got tore up from people borrowing the game so much.

So I went to a friends house and stole his manual and put it in my case when I got home.

Someone put a bullet to through my chest. I deserve this.

Hmm... let me preface this by saying I'm definitely on your side on this issue. But I felt it was worth noting that I'm really not feeling this post. I like derisive sarcasm as much as the next person, but this isn't your best work. But maybe it's just me.

I'm just...I'm just not feeling it tonight, Steve. I'm sorry. It is currently 91 degrees outside, and it's night.

[Shadow Mod]

I just laughed at the story because that is so what nerds do.

[Phoenix Dark]

Apparently the prosecution was on point today and the jury seemed moved. Still not getting my hopes up.

Just curious, do you really think T was just walking down the street and Zimmerman then mugged him up?

Not casting aspersions here at all.

Yes? He was playing videogames with his cousin, then went to get some snacks. Some dude started following him, he got scared/called his gf, then was pursued by this guy until a confrontation occurred.

[Steve Youngblood]

My Final Fantasy VII manual got tore up from people borrowing the game so much.

So I went to a friends house and stole his manual and put it in my case when I got home.

Someone put a bullet to through my chest. I deserve this.

Hmm... let me preface this by saying I'm definitely on your side on this issue. But I felt it was worth noting that I'm really not feeling this post. I like derisive sarcasm as much as the next person, but this isn't your best work. But maybe it's just me.

I'm just...I'm just not feeling it tonight, Steve. I'm sorry. It is currently 91 degrees outside, and it's night.

I liked the first post, but then you followed up with that double post. My observation was that, like George Costanza, you need to learn to go out on a high note. Leave the people wanting more. You know, showmanship!

[Positive Touch]

ok pd, but it seems you are forgetting that he texted his friends about how cool he thought guns were and also he was a seasoned mma fighter who had rabies. george zimmerman was actually an hero because he saved the entire world from someone who would eventually start the holocaust II.

[Shadow Mod]

ok pd, but it seems you are forgetting that he texted his friends about how cool he thought guns were and also he was a seasoned mma fighter who had rabies. george zimmerman was actually an hero because he saved the entire world from someone who would eventually start the holocaust II.

ok hitler

[DCharlieJP]

Manslaughter?

"F**king punks. These a**holes. They always get away." - this person ignored advice to not follow one of these people he'd identified as being guilty of -something- , something happened and a teen was shot dead.

[Himu]

Manslaughter?

"F**king punks. These a**holes. They always get away." - this person ignored advice to not follow one of these people he'd identified as being guilty of -something- , something happened and a teen was shot dead.

Florida.

[drew]

anybody here think that if he does get off we're gonna get a rodney king riot style affair but on a national level?  black bore whats the vibe like in da hood?

[Himu]

anybody here think that if he does get off we're gonna get a rodney king riot style affair but on a national level?  black bore whats the vibe like in da hood?

Black people are all uncultured monkeys whose only means of communication is violence when they don't get what they want, and clearly all want the same thing due to that collective "brain" we share. Darkies will litter the streets, watermelon will be sold out at all all farmers markets! Kraft will have to resupply their stock of purple Kool-Aid! As soon as he gets that acquittal me, pd, beezy, and anyone else who has a drop of black blood on this site will turn into violent thugs, don our hoodies, and rape your women (men for me).

[Positive Touch]

Black people are all uncultured monkeys whose only means of communication is violence when they don't get what they want. Darkies will litter the streets, watermelon will be sold out at all all farmers markets! Kraft will have to resupply their stock of purple Kool-Aid! As soon as he gets that acquittal me, pd, beezy, maurice, and anyone else who has a drop of black blood on this site will turn into violent thugs, don our hoodies, and rape your women (men for me).

 

the truths are coming out

[Himu]

sorry i meant michelle

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I don't know about anybody else but I'm piledrivering the first white dude I see.


edit: fuck I'm half white this is going to be complicated...

[Human Snorenado]

anybody here think that if he does get off we're gonna get a rodney king riot style affair but on a national level?  black bore whats the vibe like in da hood?

Black people are all uncultured monkeys whose only means of communication is violence when they don't get what they want, and clearly all want the same thing due to that collective "brain" we share. Darkies will litter the streets, watermelon will be sold out at all all farmers markets! Kraft will have to resupply their stock of purple Kool-Aid! As soon as he gets that acquittal me, pd, beezy, and anyone else who has a drop of black blood on this site will turn into violent thugs, don our hoodies, and rape your women (men for me).

YOU FUCKING SAVAGES

...I'm stocking up on Grape Kool-Aid tomorrow, just to be safe.

[Himu]

Please do.

[Himu]

What about taxis

[Human Snorenado]

What about taxis

That's cool, white people have cars 

[Himu]

No eschaton is Indian so he must have a taxi

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm not going to do any looting. I'll probably just illegally download some music and call it even.

[Mandark]

I agree. Outside of petty bickering in this thread I do care and need a link to that

Again, you're at the front of that particular parade with a shiny hat and a trombone.

[Himu]

Escha don't pretend like there is a diff you asshole.

[Phoenix Dark]

No eschaton is Indian so he must have a taxi

those are mostly pakis

:mjpls

either way you wouldn't stop to pick me up

[brawndolicious]

she was caught lying under oath that she wasn't able to go to Trayvon's funeral since she was in the hospital. She said that the reason she really didn't go was because she felt guilty since she was the last person to talk to him and didn't want to go see his body.

Where and when did she claim that she didn't go to the funeral because she was in the hospital?

I agree. Outside of petty bickering in this thread I do care and need a link to that

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/us/florida-trayvon-martin-case/index.html

It wasn't during the trial but I guess it was during a deposition where they can ask you any random question and the defense found out that she was lying and so used that as proof that she isn't credible. I don't really blame her since she was a teenager and probably wondered if he would still be alive if she told him to call the police.

[Shadow Mod]

This thread is making me cry for all the wrong reasons lmao.

[Boogie]

Manslaughter?

"F**king punks. These a**holes. They always get away." - this person ignored advice to not follow one of these people he'd identified as being guilty of -something- , something happened and a teen was shot dead.

Juries, mang.  If there's one thing I've learned in the past year, it's that you can never take anything for granted when it comes to juries.

[Great Rumbler]

Rivera then took his argument a step further in asserting that the six female jurors likely empathize with the defendant, saying that "if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did."

"I see those six ladies putting themselves on that rainy night, in that housing complex that has just been burglarized by three or four different groups of black youngsters from the adjacent community," Rivera said. "So it's a dark night, a six-foot-two inch, hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. How would the ladies of that jury have reacted? I submit, that if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did." 

[Boogie]

I submit that they wouldn't have followed Trayvon in the first place, dumbass.

[TakingBackSunday]

what the fuck at his lawyer

[Himu]

Rivera then took his argument a step further in asserting that the six female jurors likely empathize with the defendant, saying that "if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did."

"I see those six ladies putting themselves on that rainy night, in that housing complex that has just been burglarized by three or four different groups of black youngsters from the adjacent community," Rivera said. "So it's a dark night, a six-foot-two inch, hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. How would the ladies of that jury have reacted? I submit, that if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did." 

Um.

I'm scared.

Like, no joke.

[radioheadrule83]

WTF @ Geraldo.

What relevance would it be if the jurors hypothetically profiled some black kid harder and shot them earlier? Fact is... they didn't. And it still would have been illegal if they did. Self defence isn't pulling a trigger based on fear and prejudice. Fact is, those women weren't out on the streets playing trigger ready wannabe-cops. They're in the box to rule over someone who *was*. It's not even a plausible hypothetical. The whole quote is a poor mental gymnasts' attempt at emotional manipulation.

With manslaughter on the table, I really hope this guy gets nailed. Is the state's case still looking a bit weak or was the stuff with the photos and such looking liable to move the jury?

[Great Rumbler]

Holy shit, that was the lawyer's actual statement?

That was Geraldo Rivera.

[Great Rumbler]

I didn’t know this until just now. But yesterday MSNBC momentarily aired a courtroom image of Trayvon Martin’s dead body at the crime scene. It was seemingly accidental and they quickly panned away. Our video team saw it but didn’t run it, which was totally the right decision by every standard we’ve always followed. I didn’t see it myself or even know about it until a few moments ago when Gawker ran the image.

I’m sure it makes me sound a bit naive saying this but I was shocked when I saw it. Of course, I’ve seen dead bodies before. And I’ve seen countless crime scene photos of dead bodies. In terms of who’s guilty and who’s innocent, it is well worth noting just for the record that seeing a dead body is inherently inflammatory and disquieting. It’s not probative at all in terms of determining guilt, which is why there’s usually a lot of jousting in a courtroom about what jurors get exposed to.

But I wanted to share a personal reaction when I saw it. I felt guilty journalistically that it hasn’t been seen. Not guilty as us, TPM, but guilty in terms of journalism in general. We’re not going to run it because we’ve always had a pretty conservative editorial standard about running images that show gratuitous violence or death, dead bodies, etc. Whatever the merits of that standard, it’s probably not the right decision to depart from it now in this one case at the end of a trial we have not covered closely. And in any case, it’s already published if you want to see it. Before I link to it, seriously, think it over before you click. It’s upsetting. Here it is.

But back to the image itself. Seeing it, for all the tabloid coverage and endless CNN cable news coverage of the case, a big part of me feels like the real story here has been glossed over. Whatever the ins and outs of the legalities here, the odds of this happening to a white kid are just very slim. I knew that an hour ago. But I’m confronting it in a different way now.

I don’t have any other wisdom to share yet beside that. And that’s not much. But I immediately discussed this with our editors after I saw it because I felt it was wrong in a way that people not see it - for all the reasons I described above. So, as part of what TPM is about, it was incumbent on me to share it with you.

The article links to Gawker, who has the actual picture prominently displayed at the top of their page.

[Himu]

Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen people taking his dead body and photoshopping it as well.

[headwalk]

Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen people taking his dead body and photoshopping it as well.

anyone who saw the front page of reddit yesterday has seen it.

[Phoenix Dark]

Rivera then took his argument a step further in asserting that the six female jurors likely empathize with the defendant, saying that "if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did."

"I see those six ladies putting themselves on that rainy night, in that housing complex that has just been burglarized by three or four different groups of black youngsters from the adjacent community," Rivera said. "So it's a dark night, a six-foot-two inch, hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. How would the ladies of that jury have reacted? I submit, that if they were armed, they would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did." 

Can't be overlooked that a lot of people think like this. It's hard to take Geraldo's words seriously considering he has argued the opposite view before, and it almost feels like he was trying to keep his job/spot by saying stupid shit. Still, plenty of men AND women agree with him.

[Himu]

Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen people taking his dead body and photoshopping it as well.

anyone who saw the front page of reddit yesterday has seen it.

I didn't. I saw about a month ago.

[Positive Touch]

shorter geraldo: we should ALL be in the streets killing young black men!

eat shit and die, you old fuck

[Polari]

I feel bad for the family and all but a tiny part of me wants him to be acquitted just to witness the epic shitstorm.

Actually a pretty big part of me, now that I think about it.

[brawndolicious]

Geraldo's statement requires the assumption that a person in Trayvon's situation would be just as likely to run/fight in self-defense if they were being followed by a woman or a dude.

It also requires forgetting him arguing with O'Reilly about how it's not fair to justify being more aggressive about rounding up illegal immigrants for the sake of reducing crime.

[Himu]

I feel bad for the family and all but a tiny part of me wants him to be acquitted just to witness the epic shitstorm.

Actually a pretty big part of me, now that I think about it.

[Positive Touch]

nothings gonna happen except a lot of people being upset, angry and depressed while a lot of assholes high-five each other

FOH

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

nothings gonna happen except a lot of people being upset, angry and depressed while a lot of assholes high-five each other

FOH

This as well as MSNBC sliding back into irrelevance.

[milchs evil twin]

I'm out of the loop, is there any new evidence over the last months that changed anything?

And what are the arguments of pro-Zimmerman people?

[Joe Molotov]

And what are the arguments of pro-Zimmerman people?

Trayvon was a thug, I can tell from some of the pixels and having seen a lot of thugs in my day.