freedombecki said:
The forensics gleaned at the crime scene showed a clear case of aggression by the person shot who was a clear and certain threat to the shooter.
What forensics were those? Most of the evidence at the scene was ignored or overlooked by the incompetent or blasé SPD.
2. The shooter was a trained neighborhood watch patroller.
No he was not! GZ did NOT go through the NHW parent organization (The National Sheriff’s Association) to form his unaffiliated entity. Probably because the real NHW program forbade following, they discourage the use of guns and other vigilante tactics GZ seemed all too ready to employ! Besides, he likely would have been rejected due to his past history of violence!
3. The neighborhood watchman communicated the problem to the police.
And there is where it should have ended. He could have followed Martin in a less conspicuous manner until the police arrived if he indeed had to follow him at all!
4. Police could not catch the thieves without citizen help.
There is NO evidence that Martin was a thief just because he was black and wearing a hoodie! Martin could not know who GZ was. TO HIM GZ was a criminal stalking TM’s neighborhood!
5. The neighborhood watchman was bushwhacked by the person he'd just questioned.
Are you sure that was the way things went down? I am not so sure!
6. The bushwhacker told the neighborhood watchman he was going to kill him.
Did he? Did you hear him say that?
7. The bushwhacker broke the neighborhood watchman's nose.
Good! He broke the nose of a strange man who seemed to be stalking him!
8. Then the bushwhacker beat the neighborhood watchman's head into concrete and wouldn't stop.
Where is the evidence supporting that? Surely you aren’t going to allude to those superficial cuts on the back of GZ’s head! I would have liked to see the actual blood stained concrete where the head bashing was alleged to have occurred. Too bad an inept police presence did not preserve that evidence if it was there at all!
9. As a last resort, the neighborhood watchman successfully retrieved his gun and shot his assailant.
It is still a mystery as to how GZ was able to “retrieve” a gun from his waist area with someone straddling him. It is highly improbable!
10. After an all-night questioning, the neighborhood watchman was set free because his story description matched the forensics evidence they gathered at the scene.
What evidence was that besides the pictures. The rest of the story is that one lead detective wanted to charge GZ with murder but was over ridden by his superiors!
11. A re-examination of the forensics evidence showed it was a clear case of self-defense.
Yep, it was about as clear as a group of bigots and co-conspirators could make it
2. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the money-hungry race-baiting jackals of the black community decided the case would get them more money and laws passed to protect black criminals from people they assailed.
That’s quite a stretch, but it goes along with the rest of your biased thesis!
13. The prosecution decided to cooperate with Sharpton and Jackson and file charges in spite of the on-the-ground police report.
There was no cooperation at all with Jackson or Sharpton. The appearance of such cooperation was demanded by the public but the good ol’ boys in the Florida Justice system controlled the outcome from beginning to end. Nothing was arbitrary.
14. The prosecution illegally withheld evidence that the youth had a burgeoning file of run-ins with the law and photographic evidence of his thefts they found on the assailant's phone. The jury never saw these facts.
I doubt anything found on TM’s phone could be used as evidence to supoort the idea that he deserved to be shot while standing HIS ground.
15. Omission of facts is a lie.
No, circumstantial fodder is irrelevant. GZ’s violent past was not introduced so TM's record could not be either,
16. In spite of mistakes by lawyers on both sides, the judge proceeded with the case.
As planned!
17. Even with omitted evidence, and after long consideration of charges, the jury agreed with the initial police report showing CLEAR self-defense. Even the woman who hated the neighborhood watchman agreed that self-defense was established that was clear and irrefutable.
No, reasonable doubt was established..not actual guilt or innocence! Don't over use the word irrefutable, it does not apply here!
18. The jury was instructed to follow the law. They did.
They could have found GZ guilty and still followed the law, just look at how many people sat on death row for years in Texas only to be exonerated years later. Reasonable doubt by a jury dumb-inated by southern whites helped to set GZ free, not the law.
This is a nation of the rule of law.
As long as those laws are just and equitable, I have no problem with your statement. But even so, it’s the people who are sworn to carry them out that we have to worry about!