UPDATED: Trayvon Martin Case To Go To Grand Jury, Feds Open Investigation, Trayvon On Phone With Friend During Incident
First, the Feds have arrived:
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have opened an investigation into the “facts and circumstances” surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager shot and killed last month by a neighborhood watch captain in an Orlando suburb.
The department will “conduct a thorough and independent review of all evidence and take appropriate action at the conclusion of the investigation,” according to a statement late Monday.
Sadly, I’m not sure what evidence exists, and it doesn’t exist for because either the Sanford Police cast themselves as judge and jury and declared Zimmerman not guilty, or they are completely incompetent. Sorry, those are the only two choices on the table. Consider this… The Sanford Police did not test Zimmerman for drugs and alcohol. Not kidding. Not sure how a professional police force could be so sloppy, unless they arrived on the scene and decided, without evidence, Trayvon was the guilty party.
Second… Trayvon was on his phone with a friend during the incident.
ABC News was there exclusively as the 16-year-old girl told Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump about the last moments of the teenager’s life.
“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” Martin’s friend said. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”
Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin.
“Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”
The line went dead. Besides screams heard on 911 calls that night as Martin and Zimmerman scuffled, those were the last words he said.
I had actually wondered if he had a phone on him. My first thought was… why didn’t he call his father? My second was… Hello? Who would your kids call, Pandora? My son wouldn’t have had his phone, since he never has his phone!, and my daughter would have called a friend, or not ended her call with her friend to call me. Guess I have to update the rule book at the pandora household.
This call sheds new light on the situation. To me, it still comes down to George Zimmerman getting out of his car, when he was specifically instructed not to, and following Trayvon Martin. That’s the key point… the difference between life and death.
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I’m sure the authorities will get to the bottom of this shooting. A senseless killing is always a tragedy especially when it is a young person.
Every week in cities around the country, the killing of toddlers and small children is happening at an alarming rate, as a byproduct of gang violence.
The mayors, police chiefs, city council, and all elected officials in these cities, including Wilmington, need to be held more accountable. We need to hold them accountable, not to make political hay, but for the sake of a civilized society. Maybe the Feds should be investigating these people as well.
That’s actually a good point FBH.
Not all gun nuts are suburban conservatives. There are a lot of heavily armed urban gangs who arent bible humpers. How do you deal with gangs who have military weapons?
Militarize the police? have the national guard patrol the streets? flood the city with ak47s?
or maybe.. JUST MAYBE reducing the number of firearms available is the only way.
Normal every day persons will probably handle weapons in a responsible way…
PEOPLE, however prove again and again they are not capable of the responsibility of handling a weapon that can take a life with one tiny finger movement.
I agree socialistic ben, It should be harder to obtain certain firearms, but when you have our own Justice Department flooding the market, it’s not likely that it will happen anytime soon.
i think you have the DoJ confused with the NRA.
socialistic Ben Eric Holder got caught with his pants down shipping guns to Mexico in order to catch drug gangs a plan started by the Bush and Cheney folks a Fact that Fox Noise never mentions.
Excuse me, but last I checked we have a right to bear arms.
It’s a right…like the right to a trial, can’t be denied.
Following the logic on this page would make it more difficult for you folks to exercise your right to free speech and deprive me the right to laugh my asshat off at your dumb comments.
The lesson hear is simple, don’t run from the law and have some respect.
Except Trayvon didn’t run from the law? And I don’t see a right to respect in the Constitution.
And nobody is trying to take your pacifier away.
No, the lesson is simple: when ordered by the police to stay in the car and not be a vigilante, you stay in the car and not be a vigilante.
You have no right to use your weapon to murder someone. That is a crime punishable in Florida by death. This murder can be justified if there was an imminent threat to the life of Mr. Zimmerman. No evidence has been produced to show that. Evidence has been produced to show that Mr. Zimmerman is a racist fuck who hunted this kid down and killed him.
You have no right to murder a child just because you are scared of the color of his skin. In many ways, this looks to me like a modern day lynching — a white man witnessing a black (young) man not behaving in accordance to some code this white man has made up for him and decides to punish that young man for not submitting to that white man’s rules.
And then there is Will Bunch who speculates on the similarity of this to Emmett Till’s murder.
“Consider this… The Sanford Police did not test Zimmerman for drugs and alcohol. Not kidding.”
Also, the first policeman to speak with Zimmerman was a narcotics detective, not homicide. And this detective conducted an interview instead of asking Zimmerman for his story and letting him answer. And the police corrected witnesses who said they heard Martin screaming. And witnesses who called the Sanford PD have had their calls go unanswered.
The list of screwups by the Sanford PD goes on and on and on.
And Tidewater, this has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, although there is no “well-regulated” militia in Florida, just a Wild West mentality.
Zimmermans punk azz needs to FRY
and so does his lyin azz punk azz Father.
and that uncle tom Joe character.
Wrong. Zimmerman needs to stands trial. That’s all anyone is asking.
“The list of screwups by the Sanford PD goes on and on and on.”
screw-ups are unintentional. The sanford PD seems to have engaged in a conspiracy.
“uh oh… Judge Zimmerman’s paranoid son killed a little black kid…. anyone know who his parents are? no one important? ok… here’s what happened…..”
Put Zimmerman in a padded room, put the PD in Harlem.