Is it just me, or is this fucking story annoying?
First off, it sucks the kid died. Too many fucking handguns in America mean conflicts are too often resolved with a lethal weapon. That’s another argument thoug.
However why the fuck is this kid always shown in his grade 5 football team photo or wearing a hollister sweater when he was 12? The kid, by the time he was shot, was rocking gold teeth, had tattoos, flashed gang signs and named himself ‘no limit nigga’ (WTF!) on his twitter account. Clearly a confused kid looking for his identity. Sounds like he lived in a nice neighbourhood…but wanted to portray himself as a gangster instead. The media on the other hand wants this to be black vs. white etc. I think that’s fucking dumb. It should be facts first…fuck the racism angle. Fact is, two people came together and one got shot. Let’s look at the facts please…not the hype.
Everyone gets riled up at the perceived racist murder of this angellic little boy when they look at the photo of Trayvon wearing hollister…and they look at a weird driver’s license photo of George Zimmerman wearing an orange golf shirt (that they crop so it looks like a booking photo where he’s in jail).
That’s to make you NOT look at the facts and rush to judgement. Well, here’s another pair of images to help you NOT look at the facts and make a judgement. This is Trayvon’s twitter profile pic. Here’s his twitpics link
http://twitpic.com/photos/NO_LIMIT_NIGGA
Now that the bullshit photos are out of the way, from what I can tell here are some of the key facts:
-Zimmerman is a psycho wannabe cop who put himself in a situation he didn’t need to put himself into
-he caused a phone call to escalate into a confrontation by pursuing a ‘suspect’ (lol he’s mental) after he was effectively told not to by 911 (they said ‘we don’t need you to do that’ when they asked if he was folllowing. Perhaps if they’d said DO NOT FOLLOW HIM this would never happen?)
That’s where his ‘wrongness’ ends based on the evidence we have (yes, I’ve read most of the disclosure). Maybe he’s a racist. Maybe he’s a psycho. Great…let’s hear about it in court. Until then, let’s stick to the facts.
-After that, he and Trayvon got into a fight, Trayvon got Zimmerman on the ground, achieved ‘full mount’ (a witness said ‘the black male in the hoodie was beating on the white male MMA style’)
-A 911 caller whose house they were behind was close enough to clearly hear the screams of ‘HELP’ and HELP ME PLEASE’ coming from the struggle (14 times the word HELP was screamed)
-When that tape was played for Trayvon Martin’s father a few days later at the police station with 2 police officers present (they were explaining why they hadn’t arrested Zimmerman) Mr. Martin was asked “in your opinion was the voice calling for help 14 times that of your son?” to which he replied “No.”
-After the case received national attention weeks later, and Travon was portrayed as a sad hero/victim, his father would later change his story 180 degrees on CNN’s Anderson Cooper (and just about every other tv talk show that would have him) saying it was sad to hear his son’s last words, being cries for help. He was asked point blank by Anderson Cooper ‘You have no doubt that was Trayvon crying for help’ and Martin stumbled…stuttered…paused…then stammered out ‘I’m…I’m…I’m sure that’s his voice’
-Trayvon was unharmed other than the bullet wound, and contusions and lacerations to his knuckles, injuries consistent with having just laid a beat down on someone per the witnesses descriptions
-Zimmerman had a badly broken nose, a laceration on his lip, two lacerations on the back of his head, no wounds to his hands, two black eyes
To me it looks like as I said above, Zimmerman was a wannabe cop, and Travyon was a wannabe tough guy gangsta. A recipe for fucking disaster. Both acted like idiots. If he didn’t have that gun, Zimmerman would have got his ass fucking beat (deservedly I might add), Trayvon would have been pulled off by a neighbour eventually, and it would have been a he-said, she-said fist fight that the cops would have washed away once they realised Trayvon was a kid with family in teh area. Zimmerman would have had some serious wounds to lick and a load of embarrassment, and the cops would have said ‘hey…you’re a fucking moron. Stop pretending you’re a cop’
Instead one ended up dying because the other had a handgun at his disposal and as usual a fight escalated into a murder in an instant.
What do you think?