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.