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Where is the fucking justice for Trayvon Martin? a 17 year old INNOCENT CHILD shot to death simply because he was walking in his father's gated community.

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chewchewmeaw · 17/03/2012 19:10

Why in gods hell has that MURDERER not been arrested?

Are they looking for riots? they will happen if Zimmerman is not brought to justice. I am so sickened by this.

I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't heard this story yet - very slow in reporting it.

He was begging for his life': Family's anger as police finally play 911 calls made by neighborhood watch captain who shot black teen

Trayvon Martin,17, was shot dead by George Zimmerman, 28, last month, who claims the killing was self defense and has not been charged
Police finally gave into mounting pressure on Friday and released eight 911 calls
The teen's family say the calls show Zimmerman was the 'aggressor' not Trayvon

The police have finally released the 911 calls made in relation to the killing of an unarmed black teenager who was shot by a white neighborhood watch captain.

George Zimmerman, 28, had called 911 to report a suspicious man and can be heard pursuing Trayvon Martin, 17, on foot against the dispatcher's advice causing the teen to run away.
Moments later the police are bombarded with calls from terrified neighbors as a voice in the background can be heard desperately screaming for help before the sound of two gun shots.
When police arrived at Florida's Retreat at Twin Lakes Townhomes they found Trayvon, who had been returning from a store with candy for his younger brother, had been shot dead by Zimmerman.
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Trayvon Martin, 17, left, was killed by George Zimmerman, 28, right, after the neighborhood watch captain pursued him as walked in a gated community

Zimmerman had called 911 after spotting the teen walking through the gated community.
'This guy looks like he is up to no good. He is on drugs or something,' Zimmerman told the dispatcher from his SUV.
He added that the black teen had his hand in his waistband and was walking around looking at homes.

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'These a---. They always get away,' Zimmerman said on a 911 call.
During Zimmerman's initial call, he told the dispatcher he was following Martin and the dispatcher told him, 'You don't need to do that.'
But Zimmerman sounds as if he continues to pursue the teen saying: 'He ran.'
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In Zimmerman's 911 call he said Martin, pictured, looked like he 'up to no good' and on drugs as the teen returned home with skittles for his brother
He then refuses to meet police officers at an agreed location and asks for them to call him on arrival instead so he can tell them where he is.
Sanford police officials, who have not charged Zimmerman after accepting his claim that his actions were in self defense, finally released eight 911 calls on Friday after mounting pressure.
Martin's family had demanded the release of the calls to help better understand how Martin died while walking home from a convenience store last month.
'He was yelling for help, and no one could help him. He saw his life being taken away from him,' the teen's father Tracy Martin said.
He said they will continue pushing for charges to be filed against Zimmerman.
'We?re hoping this doesn?t happen again to another family, and that America opens their eyes ... even though this won?t bring Trayvon back,
we don?t want there to be another Trayvon,' Mr Martin said.
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The teenager's parents; mother Sabrina Fulton, right, and father Tracy Martin, left, are said to be devastated after hearing the 911 calls of their son's last moments

Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Martin's family, said that the 911 calls show that the teenager spent the last few moments of his life terrified and Zimmerman should be charged
After listening to recordings of 911 calls, Martin's family said they're more convinced than ever that the Zimmerman should be charged with a crime.
'You hear a shot, a clear shot, then you hear a 17-year-old boy begging for his life,' said Natalie Jackson, the family attorney. 'Then you hear a second shot.'
The case has been turned over to the State Attorney's Office which can decide whether to file charges or present evidence to a grand jury.
Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is also representing the family, told reporters outside Sanford City Hall that Martin's parents both broke down and cried as they listened to the recordings.
'They are completely devastated, and they are in unbelievable grief,' Crump said. 'The last seconds of his life were in absolute fear.'
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Martin was visiting his father and stepmother in Sanford where they live at The Retreat at Twin Lakes, pictured, when he popped out to buy snacks for his younger brother
He added that a third witness has come forward saying it was the boy who was crying for help.
Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, previously sued to have the recordings released. A hearing for the case had been scheduled for Monday.
Moments after Zimmerman's initial call, dispatchers were bombarded by seven 911 calls from frantic neighbors describing a fight between two men, screaming and then a gunshot.
'There is somebody screaming outside,' one female caller said, as an unknown male voice can be heard crying in the background. Then a shot is heard.
A male caller described a physical altercation between Martin and the shooter.
'I just heard a shot right behind my house,' The caller said. 'They're wrestling right behind my porch. The guy is yelling 'Help.' I'm not going outside.'

By the time police officers arrived, unarmed Trayvon, who had been carrying Skittles and soda, was dead on the ground from a single gunshot
Another woman said a man in a 'white top' was on top Trayvon.
Earlier on Friday, Martin's parents called on the FBI to take over the investigation, saying they no longer trusted the Sanford police department.
Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern said the department stands by its investigation but welcomes help from any outside agency. FBI agent David Couvertier said the agency has been in contact with Sanford police and is monitoring the case.
'We are committed to having somebody review this to see if we made a mistake,' said Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett. 'If we made missteps and there is something there, we will act accordingly'

Trayvon's family believe Zimmerman should be charged and brought to justice for shooting their young son
Several Sanford residents who spoke to The Associated Press said they think there would have been an arrest already if the shooter had been black and the deceased had been white.
They said blacks and whites in this city of 53,000 residents were pretty much in agreement that an injustice had been done with no one arrested, and that there was no racial divide in how the case is being perceived. The city is 57 percent white and 30 percent black.
Zimmerman's father delivered a letter to the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday, saying the way his son is being depicted in the media is cruel and misleading.
He also says his son has received death threats and moved out of his home. George Zimmerman is Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family, the statement says.

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creighton · 20/07/2013 23:33

the irony of Zimmerman's brother worrying about vigilante action! didn't he accuse the boy of going out to buy guns?

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 21/07/2013 00:11

That's what I said to creighton! Whole family come across as bloody racists.

creighton · 21/07/2013 00:21

ah but they are white racists so that's okay.

symfem · 21/07/2013 00:35

You shoot a Black person you are racist

That must mean 6500 black people are racist to other black people each year

Boomba · 21/07/2013 12:51

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23390975

creighton · 21/07/2013 12:54

alialmoore.kinja.com/a-black-womans-opinion-why-we-are-upset-794409415

has anything changed - white americans having a festival

see article and comments

Boomba · 21/07/2013 13:05

strange fruit
Sad

Boomba · 21/07/2013 13:47

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

creighton · 21/07/2013 14:19

boomba, don't waste good words on people who think we are a joke

Boomba · 21/07/2013 14:35

i just didnt want this thread, about the injustice for a poor murdered boy, to end with some insensitive and irrelevant statistics about black-on-black violence

ThePowerof3 · 21/07/2013 14:37

That's beautiful

chocolatespiders · 21/07/2013 18:15

Jayz

Boomba · 21/07/2013 19:12

Barack Obama

Im English, not American. But I would go as far as to say that you would struggle to find even 1 black man in England who hadnt had those experiences

NayFindus · 21/07/2013 19:29

Racism is horrendous. There is no way you can protect yourself from it, because you have done nothing wrong.

When I was little we moved 28 miles. Our windows got broken every month. The people breaking them told us to 'fuck off back to town A where we came from'. My sisters were sent back to town A to stay with relatives because they were abused at their school. I was told I 'must be doing something wrong' because I was also being abused at school. My mother had one nervous breakdown too many and I was placed in care. It destroyed my life.

We're white. The people who abused us are white.

Boomba · 21/07/2013 19:39
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Boomba · 21/07/2013 20:26

I recwived the following email from MNHQ;

We wanted to drop you a line about your recent posts on Mumsnet as Boomba, as we have had a lot of complaints from other posters about the tone of your posts.

While we have absolutely no problem with you (or any other Mumsnetter) expressing strong opinions, we are a little concerned with the way you have been expressing them.

We would like to remind you that our raison d'être is to make parents' lives easier by pooling and sharing advice and support. We ask members to respect each other's opinions even if they don't agree with them.

We'd be grateful if you'd bear this in mind in your future posts.

Best
MNHQ

As I enjoy MN, I will stop swearing at you because I dont want to get banned

I find it ludicrous that you are so offended by swearing whilst expressing such hideous and prejudice views, and winking and grinning all over the memory of a murdered child.

I would get your moral compass checked, if i were you

Surely the people who are in any need of 'shared advice and support' in this particular instance are people whos lives and families who are affected by racial profiling and racist attacks...NOT supporters of Zimmerman

FreudiansSlipper · 21/07/2013 20:31

i posted very early on about white supremacy in our society that we just can not see as it is so ingrained

this whole thread and this last bit of input from MNHQ is a very good example if they have bothered to read the whole thread

OldMacEIEIO · 21/07/2013 20:38

I am sure that the victims of the black on black violence are not racially profiled. There seems to be an awful lot of it about though
I wonder why they do do it

NayFindus · 21/07/2013 20:40

If the only way someone can get attention is to grin and wink on a thread like this, being that person is their crime, but it is also their punishment.

Is that someone that seems like they got friends to you? Nice family life? Anything to look forward to?

Nope.

Boomba · 21/07/2013 20:42

there is a lot of information about the reasons for that old
Barack Obama, mentions it briefly in the last link i posted...if you want a starting point. Alot of the other links posted on this thread also

OldMacEIEIO · 21/07/2013 20:46

thanks for the link Bomba, I just need to know if I should feel guily about it. I need to understand how its all my fault

please let me know my responsibility, on a scale of 1 to 10.

Boomba · 21/07/2013 20:48

why dont you do some reading and decide for yourself old

OldMacEIEIO · 21/07/2013 20:53

because when I read and decide for myself, you will come along and tell me that you have read, decided for your self and that I am wrong.

so lets cut out the middleman - tell me what to believe