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A family spokesman says slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was suspended from school last month for having a baggie that contained marijuana residue in his book bag.
Trayvon, 17, was suspended by Miami-Dade County schools because traces of marijuana were found in a plastic baggie in his book bag, family spokesman Ryan Julison said.
Zimmerman’s attorney went on to say his client is in hiding since the shooting February 26 and that he is well aware of death threats against him.
He also says Zimmerman's nose was broken and the back of his head injured --wounds Zimmerman told police he suffered when the unarmed teenager attacked him, although that aspect of the incident is under considerable dispute.
While Zimmerman’s attorney started defending his client publicly, Zimmerman himself remains nowhere to be seen or heard--except for the message he left on his neighbor’s telephone answering machine revealed on NBC’s Dateline.
On Tuesday, lawmakers take up the issue when the House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on racial profiling and hate crimes. Martin's parents are expected to attend.
Ahead of the hearing, protesters plan to march to the White House demanding a federal investigation.
Originally posted by timetothink
reply to post by SpaceJ
It goes to the point that he was indeed big enough to be a danger to GZ...
The whole defense was he was innocent...he was too skinny...then when we prove that wrong...it doesn't matter?
How convenient.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Pictures on the web showing Martin to be very muscular, too,
Originally posted by game over man
reply to post by Freenrgy2
Who are you to judge my being as from a post on ATS? I am no better than the MSM? Really you are an internet troll!
There is no reason to have used a firearm. ZERO. I am so furious to even be trolled into your pathetic argument at defending Zimmerman, but here it goes, sigh:
If Trayvon was the one who was making all these burglaries, then Zimmerman just killed the main suspect or criminal. In the United States of America, we don't kill suspects. They are properly arrested and go through the process.
I don't know what part of the world who are posting from, but maybe the citizens where you live shoot and kill everyone they are afraid of.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
The only injuries to Martin were the gunshot and abrasions to his knuckles from striking Zimmerman.
Originally posted by LErickson
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Pictures on the web showing Martin to be very muscular, too,
Where?
Is this thread populated by a bunch of skinny little wimps or what? I have not seen anything skinny pictures of a skinny kid. Please show me this muscular kid you are all speaking of. Maybe get into photoshop and point out the muscles.
Originally posted by LErickson
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
The only injuries to Martin were the gunshot and abrasions to his knuckles from striking Zimmerman.
Thank god he did not get a bloody nose, then he would have had the right to kill Zimmerman.
There is no evidence that he was doing anything but fighting for his life against someone with a gun. And he is a lazy idiot because had he been fit, or able to fight, he would have pinned that skinny kid and held him for the cops. Instead he shot him over a bloody nose and you all think that is just fine because, well it is sort of legal. Even though the people that wrote and signed the SYG law do not support that defense in this case.
Rewrite that so it makes sense to me.
Originally posted by Cowgirlstraitup7
reply to post by SpaceJ
Facts please!!!
Originally posted by Cowgirlstraitup7
reply to post by redrose123
Haven't read the whole thread and I really don't intend to,.....
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Martin pinned Zimmerman to the ground, and was banging his head into the pavement. Broke his nose as well. Not bloodied, BROKE. the ONLY injuries to Martin were the gunshot and abrasions to his knuckles from striking Martin. Zimmerman shot to prevent his head from being MORE split open, thus possibly killing him.
As for the guy that worked on the law, he's playing politics, pretending to know facts he doesn't, and acting as though he's more informed than the police, that state Zimmerman WAS within the law.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Originally posted by game over man
reply to post by Freenrgy2
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There is no reason to have used a firearm. ZERO
Well sure there is, lil treyvon was trying
to kill zimmerman!!!
Originally posted by LErickson
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
The only injuries to Martin were the gunshot and abrasions to his knuckles from striking Zimmerman.
Thank god he did not get a bloody nose, then he would have had the right to kill Zimmerman.
There is no evidence that he was doing anything but fighting for his life against someone with a gun. And he is a lazy idiot because had he been fit, or able to fight, he would have pinned that skinny kid and held him for the cops. Instead he shot him over a bloody nose and you all think that is just fine because, well it is sort of legal. Even though the people that wrote and signed the SYG law do not support that defense in this case.
Rewrite that so it makes sense to me.
Well treyvons parents are seeing $$$ signs
This is just insane none of this was racially motivated.
THESE peopl are slanderous. zimmerman is a innocent man.
The race wars are getting started
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by popsmayhem
Well treyvons parents are seeing $$$ signs
This is just insane none of this was racially motivated.
THESE peopl are slanderous. zimmerman is a innocent man.
The race wars are getting started
With your amazing ability to view incidents from a great distance and read the minds of others, you should be posting in "Predictions and Prophecies." Why are you so obsessed about the racial angle in this case? It's really about the wisdom of allowing private citizens to act as though they were cops. Zimmerman is an example of what happens when you let a hot-head carry a gun and act like Batman. He should consider himself lucky if he just gets committed, rather than the death penalty.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by popsmayhem
Zimmerman is an example of what happens when you let a hot-head carry a gun and act like Batman.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to
The kid didn't jump him Zimmerman most likely tried to detain a kid he admitted he thought was getting away that he showed actual resentment and hatred towards.edit on 27-3-2012 by GogoVicMorrow because: (no reason given)