Neighborhood watch captain shoots innocent black youth and doesn't even get arrested

[Bump]

This is some ****ED UP SHIT, they aren't sure if the racist neighborhood watch idiot should be arrested? If anything, local gangs might take notice of this and start shooting up that neighborhood or just random white neighborhoods. I could never live in the south, it's ridiculous. The guy shoots an innocent teen walking to the store to buy skittles. Should be life in prison, that's cold blood man.

http://news.yahoo.com/family-florida...044537742.html




ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.

"He was a good kid," Crump said in an interview, adding that the family would issue a call for the Watch captain's arrest at a news conference on Thursday. "On his way home, a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him."

[Related: Fla. teen avoids deportation]

Trayvon, who lived in Miami with his mother, had been visiting his father and stepmother in a gated townhome community called The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, 20 miles north of Orlando.

As Trayvon returned to the townhome, Sanford police received a 911 call reporting a suspicious person.

Although names are blacked out on the police report, Crump and media reports at the time of the shooting identified the caller as George Zimmerman who is listed in the community's newsletter as the Neighborhood Watch captain.

Without waiting for police to arrive, Crump said, Zimmerman confronted Trayvon, who was on the sidewalk near his home. By the time police got there, Trayvon was dead of a single gunshot to the chest.

"What do the police find in his pocket? Skittles," Crump said. "A can of Arizona ice tea in his jacket pocket and Skittles in his front pocket for his brother Chad."

Zimmerman could not be reached for comment on Wednesday evening at a phone number listed for him on the community's newsletter.

Crump said the family was concerned that police might decide to consider the shooting as self defense, and that police have ignored the family's request for a copy of the original 911 call, which they think will shed light on the incidents.

"If the 911 protocol across the country held to form here, they told him not to get involved. He disobeyed that order," said Ryan Julison, a spokesman for the family.

"He (Zimmerman) didn't have to get out of his car," said Crump, who has prepared a public records lawsuit to file on Thursday if the family doesn't get the 911 tape. "If he never gets out of his car, there is no reason for self-defense. Trayvon only has skittles. He has the gun."

Since Trayvon, a high school junior who wanted to be a pilot, was black and Zimmerman is white, Crump said race is "the 600 pound elephant in the room."

"Why is this kid suspicious in the first place? I think a stereotype must have been placed on the kid," Crump said.

(Editing By Cynthia Johnston and Peter Bohan)

[Comrade Crapski]

Originally Posted by McMillan

A "minority" possibly having more money than you ?

Just a thought.

Yeah um no.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by McMillan

Less than 5,000 Black people were killed by homicide in 2010. Nearly 1 million Black people however are incarcerated nationwide.

So which one is the 'bigger' problem???

The fact that Trayvon Martin had a statistically greater chance to be murdered by another Black youth, OR, that we live in a society where INSTITUTIONAL RACISM deems it unnecessary to arrest his admitted murderer on probable cause because his death was regarded as insignificant??

Conservatives throw out that Black-on-Black crime nonsense to suggest WHO CARES if a non-Black kills someone who is Black because THOSE PEOPLE are killing each other like it's going out of style.

Soooo, you think the guy in the video I posted is an Uncle Tom?

[Comrade Crapski]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Soooo, you think this guy is an Uncle Tom?

I think he's a white kid pretending to be black, like John Walker Lindh.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Tom.Jay61

I think he's a white kid pretending to be black, like John Walker Lindh.

Heh, I was talking about the guy in the video I posted, but you may be right on McMillan.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by McMillan

As I have said earlier in this thread, this is one of the reasons why integration never should've existed.

Uhhhh.. what?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by McMillan

Less than 5,000 Black people were killed by homicide in 2010. Nearly 1 million Black people however are incarcerated nationwide.

So which one is the 'bigger' problem???

The fact that Trayvon Martin had a statistically greater chance to be murdered by another Black youth, OR, that we live in a society where INSTITUTIONAL RACISM deems it unnecessary to arrest his admitted murderer on probable cause because his death was regarded as insignificant??

Conservatives throw out that Black-on-Black crime nonsense to suggest WHO CARES if a non-Black kills someone who is Black because THOSE PEOPLE are killing each other like it's going out of style.

No. People who point out "that Black-on-Black crime nonsense" in connection to the Martin killing are pointing out the absurd reaction of people/groups like Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and The New Black Panther Party who beat the drums of outrage over this killing while apparently having a "WHO CARES" attitude about blacks who are killed by other blacks. It's really more about the reaction of leftwing race merchants than about the attitude of conservatives.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Uhhhh.. what?

Yeah, the dude is THAT out there.

[Comrade Crapski]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Heh, I was talking about the guy in the video I posted, but you may be right on McMillan.

Oops.

What page is the video on?

[McWickedson]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Soooo, you think the guy in the video I posted is an Uncle Tom?

Misguided.

[McWickedson]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Heh, I was talking about the guy in the video I posted, but you may be right on McMillan.

No. I'm all black.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by McMillan

No. I'm all black.

Well how nice, congrats!

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Tom.Jay61

Oops.

What page is the video on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUAF...&feature=share

[McWickedson]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Well how nice, congrats!

Well, you wondered, so....

[McWickedson]

I ask again, where's the outrage on white-on-white crime ?

[Comrade Crapski]

This is an interesting read:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/fountai...-stadiums.html

It's actually written by a black guy, not a fake one posting jibberjab on the internet.