Travon Martin

Are you fucking kidding me? He followed the kid for no reason. Legitimately NO reason. He was just going to the store for some god damn candy, and he was shot. This fucktard followed him because he was black and was wearing a hoody and therefore was "up to something" (his words.)

George Zimmerman should rot.

Yeah, people tend to over react, you know. The guy probably thought that he was an omnipotent demigod, making the streets safe, and then shit happenns.

(Altough I basically don't know anything about the incident, so don't pay atention )

LampRevolt is right, saying everyone who wears a hoodie is a ' up to no good ' is like saying everyone that owns a tuxedo is a millionair.

well if it was night time, wearing a hoody and raining I think it's pretty hard to see what colour of skin someone is.... I agree Zimmerman is stupid and should go to jail. He was a trigger happy idiot but this is retarded to think oh ya he has a hatred towards black people

He is scum either way.

ya but what my point is that everyone jumped on the "this is racially motivated" bandwagon

From his 9-11 calls, it is fairly clear that he's only nervous about Trevon because he was black.

have you listened to the full 911 call not just the abridged one they used?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nation...6suGY4bZP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National

Now imagine the shitstorm this would have caused if the kid was white.

Imagine the shitstorm if the kid was purple

one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater

This is proof that FLorida's Stand Your Ground Law is ridiculous. This law could actually keep this murderer from being convicted. It's despicable.

The American media's portrayal of this incident has been hilariously biased and inflammatory. Every picture of Martin they show on the news is either a four year old one of him smiling, or the one in the white hoodie which makes him look angelic, solemn and appealing. The picture of Zimmerman they usually choose to air is his mugshot in orange prison clothes. The recordings of phone conversations have been cut and edited to make Zimmerman look bad.

Trayvon Martin was not a 12 year old choir boy. He was an 18 year old football player. I wonder if all the celebrities suppourting him on Twitter know that Martin's Twitter display picture is one of him shirtless, staring right at the camera giving the finger. On that Twitter, he would tell friends to shoot their enemies. The reason he was in that neighbourhood was because he had been suspended from school after being caught with marijuana. On the other hand, Zimmerman has a clean record, has done voluntary community service and has mentored black youths in the past.

Despite the rather incriminating facts and evidence against Zimmerman, I still think it's possible that he was in a situation that got uncomfortable and in the heat of the moment, he shot his aggressor. Was there enough grounds to shoot Martin? Probably not, but we don't know for sure. That's all there is to this story. Was it racially motivated? That's almost certainly a falsehood drummed up by the media to get more views.

But he killed the dude anyways.

I will agree with you that the media has destroyed any credibility of an unbiased trial. I will, however, state my opinion that while Martin was no Mother Teresa, he, at the time, was doing nothing wrong, and that evidence points to misconduct by Zimmerman.

I would agree with that. Though another important piece of evidence is the voice crying out for help, and I think I remember some voice expert saying it could not be Zimmerman.....which means Zimmerman was lying when he said that he was the one crying out for help shortly before the gunshot was heard.

To me the evidence points to self defense on Zimmermans part. Yes he was overzealous but that's all he's guilty of. What I find particularly hypocritical is that every media outlet has gone on for days upon days about this but has almost never mentioned the racially motivated murders of those 2 men in Sarasota. Back in 2007 when the Christian Newsome murders occurred it was barely covered even though once again it was a racially motivated crime. Really this case shouldn't be about race at all but instead it should be about whether the stand your ground law still applies if you followed the one who was shot.

That's why I like it here in Canada most people don't feel the need to carry guns, some may say well the crazies will still get a gun somehow but look at Canada it's a lot safer. For this issue though I think Zimmerman is wrong and the stand your ground law should be reviewed thoroughly.

The reason why this gets so much attention black panthers, they make everything a big fucking deal, I bet you a hay penny if that boy was Cuban or puerto rican, nothing would be covered