walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[Duchess]

If people really care, they care about all of the kids, not just this one.

Bullshit. I have no problem whatsoever caring more about one dead kid than I would another. Some of those little bastards deserve to die, I don't care if they die by a bullet to the head or a car crash trying to outrun the cops, the world will be a better place without some of them, the same cannot be said about others who die violently. I don't care about all of them equally and I don't have to.

[IMaDick]

Cracker has a problem with his,her,whatever roots.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

This should work out well

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationw...4484.story
Trayvon Martin case: New Black Panthers offer $10,000 bounty for capture of George Zimmerman

By Arelis R. Hernandez, Orlando Sentinel

2:54 p.m. EDT, March 24, 2012
SANFORD — Members of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward for the "capture" of George Zimmerman, leader Mikhail Muhammad announced during a protest in Sanford today.

When asked whether he was inciting violence, Muhammad replied defiantly saying: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Sanford Police Department The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 5,000 black men to capture George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin last month.


Muhammad said members of his group would search for Zimmerman themselves in Maitland and Jacksonville -- where the 28-year old worked before the shooting, employees there told the Orlando Sentinel. But he declined to say when they will begin their hunt.

Muhammad said the group's national chairman, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabaz of Washington, D.C. is receiving donations from black entertainers and athletes. They hope to collect $1 million by next week, Muhammad said.

The party said they would not release the names of donors nor would they provide documentation to support the existence of donations.

The New Black Panthers announced the reward at a protest in Sanford Saturday, the activist group's third protest in the past two weeks over the fatal shooting of the Miami Gardens teen.

The group called for Zimmerman's arrest and threatened to find and detain him if police were not willing to do so. But group members didn't call for the mobilization of thousands until Saturday.

Muhammed led the group in chanting "Justice for Trayvon!" and "Black Power!"

"If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, leading his group of eight party members in chants like "freedom or death" and "justice for Trayvon" while making the iconic gesture of raising their fists into the air.

The party members said they are tired of the inaction of government officials — from Sanford city officials up to the Governor, accusing them of lying and delaying justice.

They accused newly-appointed special prosecutor Angela Corley of being an enemy of the black community.

"She has a track record of sending innocent young black men and women to prison," he said.

Sanford police arrived toward the end of the demonstration Saturday asking onlookers and media to avoid walking into the street in front of The Retreat at Twin Lakes where Trayvon was killed.

As the officer walked back to his cruiser, Muhammad berated and pointed angrily at him saying "If you'd had shown this much concern, Trayvon may still be alive today."

The fiery rhetoric and often profanity-laden diatribes made some visitors to the impromptu memorial uncomfortable.

Pastor Moses Brown of Tampa said he was disappointed with the Panthers' approach.

"We believe in a message of justice, not hate," said Brown, who was in town to pray at the memorial and attend the Monday event at Sanford's Civic Center. "We believe justice will come through the court system."

Brown, who is also the Chief executive officer of Feed Our Children, said he has been meeting with other Christian ministers to discuss the case.

While the Panthers chanted behind him, Brown said "I see parallel versions of how we are coping with this as a community. Some in anger and us, in prayer. But we are in America where we have our rights to expression."

The Southern Poverty Law Center says the New Black Panther Party, a black-separatist group founded in 1989, is "virulently racist and anti-Semitic," and its leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law officers.

Trayvon was killed Feb. 26 in the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes community while walking back to his father's fiancee's town house. Zimmerman spotted the unarmed teen and called the Sanford Police Department's nonemergency line to report a suspicious person.

Zimmerman shot Travon before officers could respond. Zimmerman told police he acted in self-defense. He has not been arrested and is not charged with a crime.

This is a breaking-news story. Check back for updates.

[username]

I don't know why I find that reward funny and kind of pathetic but I do.

[ZEROSPHERES]

Sounds to me like a (unspoken) 'Wanted Dead or Alive' thing...

[Adub]

i think Maggot was asking if dad in fact reported him missing next morning.
that's what i said Maggot.
i don't know why he waited.

Yes why did he wait all night?

Why didn't the police answer Trayvon's cell phone that the father kept calling?

[SIXFOOTERsez]

i think Maggot was asking if dad in fact reported him missing next morning.
that's what i said Maggot.
i don't know why he waited.

Yes why did he wait all night?

Why didn't the police answer Trayvon's cell phone that the father kept calling?

Probably in an evedince box somewhere. Of course barney fife couldn't figure out how to call anyone in the phones contact list to figure out who he was.

[Adub]

17-year-old Trayvon had been spending time with his 20-year-old cousin which is why his father, Tracy Martin, tells People he wasn't worried when Trayvon wasn't at home that night.


"I had gone out for dinner," Tracy says. "And when I got home, Trayvon wasn't there. I tried calling his cell phone several times, and it went straight to voicemail. I wasn't that worried because he had been spending time with my 20-year-old nephew who was a responsible young man. There wasn't a panic that he wasn't at home. I figured that they had gone to the movies, because they had said they might. So I laid down, thinking they would show up later."

It wasn't until the next morning, when Tracy's nephew said he hadn't seen Trayvon, that Tracy became worried. He called the Sheriff's department, told them Trayvon was missing and that it was unusual for him not to return home.

Shortly after that, three police cars arrived at the house and a detective asked for a recent picture of Trayvon.

"I had one on my phone, so I showed it to him," Tracy told People, his voice tightening. "He told me he was going to show me a photo and ask if it was my son. He pulled out a photo of Trayvon's dead body. And the nightmare began."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tr...wIKsq03ypN

[ZEROSPHERES]

It wasn't until the next morning, ........He pulled out a photo of Trayvon's dead body. And the nightmare began."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tr...wIKsq03ypN

Then it's impossible that Trayvon's body was on a slab for 3 days as mentioned earlier in this thread.

Also I retract my suspicions that Trayvon may have made a habit of staying out all night 'Chillin"

[Lady Cop]

laying on a slab for 3 days at the morgue was what Mike Brooks/HLN reported.
you just can't rely on the damn news stations.

here is the black panther leader, he is calling for a lynching as far as i'm concerned.





Mikhail Muhammad

[Lady Cop]

the new black panthers are circulating this poster. that IS incitement if not solicitation to commit murder.

[IMaDick]

Now neither side of this can claim moral superiority.

I do not see posters like this for black on black murders.

[Duchess]

They are shit stirring. I hope the family & those associated with the dead kid distance themselves from this bs.

[JsMom]

Yah, this is getting way out of control. I understand the outrage but this is not helping bring Justice to Trayvon in the correct manner. I just hope LE will make an arrest soon so this doesn't turn into riots.

[sally]

They're making a circus of the poor kids death, it's not a race issue. First of all the guy is a spic and second he's a fucking nut. He reported suspicious activity 46 times, clearly he's not all there. They have a HOA where they have meetings to decide if you can put rain gutters on your house or not, meanwhile this nut is allowed patrol the neighborhood with a concealed weapon. That's the real issue.

[Lady Cop]

someone is going to end up taking out zimmerman.

the looting and burning should be starting soon too.





Zimmerman's attorney Craig Sonner

[Cracker]

The difference with this one is they know who the shooter was and they didn't even take him in much less arrest him.

99% of the time people know who the killer was. They just don't say. Ask LC or one of the other cops. They prefer to try to kill the person themselves (like this case, apparently).

This IS a race issue. If the shooter's last name was Gonzales, nobody would be marching.

Some of the attention this case is receiving should point inward to the angriest people. Why is it a stereotype that young black men wearing hoodies are criminals? Maybe because many of them are. Why do people get suspicious when they see a young black man walking around the neighborhood at night? Maybe because that group commits a large percentage of the crimes there.

I am suspicious if I see a truckload of white trash driving around my neighborhood, too, because I think they are looking for houses to rob. Not my fault I was given the impression. I am also suspicious of people walking around in black pants, short sleeved white shirts and black ties...

[username]

They're making a circus of the poor kids death, it's not a race issue. First of all the guy is a spic and second he's a fucking nut. He reported suspicious activity 46 times, clearly he's not all there.

Even spics can be racist! I don't know what was going on in his head but I'm pretty sure he was muttering "fucking coons" as has been speculated. I can faintly hear it on the enhanced tape.

I'd be interested in knowing the nature of those 46 calls and more importantly, if he repeatedly called about black people.

[Cracker]

Duchess gets worried if I go into ATL late at night. I never ride MARTA at night, either. Because we all know why.

As much as I hate what happened to that cute kid (and the sense of no/delayed justice), it happened for a reason and I think white people and police are the wrong people to blame. People shouldn't have to have neighborhood watches. Your home is your castle and you should feel safe in it, not worried somebody is going to harm you or your belongings if you don't have a roving guard.

[sally]

I don't have a neighborhood watch and don't want one. I don't feel the need to have some asshole going gung ho on every nigger that walks down the street.