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I know the media distorts things but here are some facts.

1. wearing a hooded sweatshirt doesn't make you a thug or a criminal.

2. skittles and a can of sweet tea is not a weapon. Not anymore than a persons fist or foot.

3. The picture of the shooter shows no black eyes, not busted lip, no blood. No swelling on the face. Nothing like that.

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Originally posted by Jason Baldwin
I know the media distorts things but here are some facts.

1. wearing a hooded sweatshirt doesn't make you a thug or a criminal.

2. skittles and a can of sweet tea is not a weapon. Not anymore than a persons fist or foot.

3. The picture of the shooter shows no black eyes, not busted lip, no blood. No swelling on the face. Nothing like that.

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Better not let me catch nobody sneaking around my farm in no hoodie all thug looking. Thats a fact..No matter what happens. This country is headed to hell in a hand basket. I'll tell ya what. Its kinda hard for me not feel a little racist with the way these dumb azzes are acting about this. Danged idiots! All these people claiming to stand up for blacks rights. Who the crap is standing up for the middle of the rd white mans rights?? Huh? Ok I'll stop now before I say to much.

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Originally posted by Okie Dawg
When it comes down to it a neighbor hood watch person should not make contact with a suspect. They should keep there mouth shut and call it in.
Then the one he is questioning should not start whaleing on him either. He should just tell him to mind his own buisness or call the cops and let them question me.
Both were in the wrong as I see it. If the kid attacked him first though he had the right to protect himself.

The guy that did the shooting should get his right to carry taken away though. Sounds like the power goes to his head like it does a lot of cops.

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Yea, I know he is Latino, but I heard the New York Times called him a white Mexican! You can`t make this stuff up.

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WHAT IN SAM HE!! IS A WHITE MEXICAN? LOL. MORE MEDIA BS. THE MEDIA SCREWS EVERYTHING UP. JUST LOOK WHEN THEY REPORT EVERYDAY THAT GAS PRICES ARE GOING UP, THEY KEEP GOING UP. WHEN THEY STOP TALKING ABOUT IT IT SLOWS DOWN. MOST OF THEM REPORT CRAP ANYHOW. MY OLD RETIRED BOSS ALWAYS SAID WE SHOULD BE ALOUD TO SHOOT THE NEWS MEDIA PEOPLE. THEY SWAY THE VOTES, TRENDS, LAWS ETC. THEY KEEP THE HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN EVERYTHING. LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANIMAL RIGHTS AND HUNTING. THEY JUST PLAIN SUC.

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Right now in Dayton, Oh., 2 security guards shot and killed a thug
that was trying to run them over with his car! They shot and killed him. It was reported he had been trespassing, but not exactly why. They tried to arrest him first, but that wasn`t happening. Now, the black ministers and professional marchers are wanting national publicity, and justice to be served, or they said they will shut down the city! I`m sure he was a good boy, who was turning his life around, and just got in with the wrong crowd! Excuse my sarcasm!

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Right now in Dayton, Oh., 2 security guards shot and killed a thug
that was trying to run them over with his car! They shot and killed him. It was reported he had been trespassing, but not exactly why. They tried to arrest him first, but that wasn`t happening. Now, the black ministers and professional marchers are wanting national publicity, and justice to be served, or they said they will shut down the city! I`m sure he was a good boy, who was turning his life around, and just got in with the wrong crowd! Excuse my sarcasm!

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I really have no idea what happened and neither do any of you. All we know is that something happened and a kid was killed. I was suspended from school multiple times for fighting but that didn’t make me a thug nor does how someone dresses. Yall are jumping to conclusions about the kid just like the media is about the shooter.

I do know this getting your azz kicked doesn’t give you the right to kill someone. Cops get into fights all the time do you see them shooting every drunk that take a swing at them? The guy was not trained and was carrying a gun around confronting people something was bound to go bad. I feel for both sides of this because of bad decisions by both parties someone has lost a son that they loved just as much as you do yours.

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I really have no idea what happened and neither do any of you. All we know is that something happened and a kid was killed. I was suspended from school multiple times for fighting but that didn’t make me a thug nor does how someone dresses. Yall are jumping to conclusions about the kid just like the media is about the shooter.

I do know this getting your azz kicked doesn’t give you the right to kill someone. Cops get into fights all the time do you see them shooting every drunk that take a swing at them? The guy was not trained and was carrying a gun around confronting people something was bound to go bad. I feel for both sides of this because of bad decisions by both parties someone has lost a son that they loved just as much as you do yours.

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Yep I agree Joey............

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What business did the boy have in that neighborhood. It was early morning and he was wandering about in someones yard. If the boy was such an upstanding citizen then why was he not at home in the bed. The media and civil rights activist have esculated this into a racial violence issue. How is it racial violence? The so called kid was prowling and it came to a tragic ending. The guy wasn't a white mexican. He is a latino with a white name. The fine folks with the naacp didn't research anything. They heard a white sounding name and bam made a race issue out of it. That's where the racism is at. At this point no one really knows the facts of the case. They just know the media says a racist white mexican blatantly shot an innocent little black boy. What I get from this is a community is fed up with crime from thugs. They are tired of breakins and feeling threatened. George Zimmerman took matters in his own hands. It had an ugly ending. But, the child should have been home where children belong.

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I`m pretty sure justice will be served, now that Rosanne Barr, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, the REVEREND Al Sharpton, the REVEREND Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, the NEW Black Panthers have done all their in-depth, well informed, thorough investigation of the case! Who needs police and attorneys when you have these genuises?

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I`m pretty sure justice will be served, now that Rosanne Barr, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, the REVEREND Al Sharpton, the REVEREND Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, the NEW Black Panthers have done all their in-depth, well informed, thorough investigation of the case! Who needs police and attorneys when you have these genuises?

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A few people have wondered what this kid was doing in the neighborhood. He lived there. he was staying with his father.

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Better not let me catch nobody sneaking around my farm in no hoodie all thug looking.

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You know what really makes me sick! Sharpton and his ilk have done the same thing before. Remember the Tawana Brawley case, or how about the Duke Lacross case. These allegations brought on by that race baitin pimp, almost ruined the lives of innocent men! What`s worse, is he was never held accountable
by the media, or the black caucus, the NAACP, Oprah, Spike, or anyone else, other than family members of the accused.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by truly

So basically what you`re saying, is, don`t bring a knife to a gunfight!

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Justice will be served because now someone other than the Sanford PD will be doing the investigation.

As a black man If I'm walking down a sidewalk minding my own business and you walk up to me asking questions the first thing I'll do is ask to see a badge, if you tell me you don't have one the next thing I'll do is tell you to mind your own business.

I don't know if any of you have every been in fight where thought you were fighting for your life, but trust me you won't look anything like Mr. Zimmerman did on the tape when he walked into the station house.

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Why is everyone using the race card on this issue. Zimmerman was not a Klansman. He's a Latino. I don't think they allow Latinos in the Klan either. All the civil rights turd stirrers haven't had anything to get tuned up about lately so they jumped on this one. Say the jewlery in Trayvons bag was stolen from a white woman. What does that make Trayvon?

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If your contention is that race didn't have anything to do with what happened then we'll never solve the racial issues in this country. You seem to think just because Zimmerman isn't white then we should be okay with what happened. Personally, I don't care what Zimmerman's race is/was. That fact that he shot and killed an unarmed young black man that wasn't committing a crime is enough for me.

The fact that the cops took Zimmerman at his word and didn't even see fit to drug test him tells me volumes. Tell ya what, tonight go out shoot your unarmed neighbor and claim self-defense. When the cops get done giving you a rectal exam as part of their investigation get back with me and tell me how long it took for them to finally believe your story.

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Justice will be served because now someone other than the Sanford PD will be doing the investigation.

I don't know if any of you have every been in fight where thought you were fighting for your life, but trust me you won't look anything like Mr. Zimmerman did on the tape when he walked into the station house.

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Justice will be served because now someone other than the Sanford PD will be doing the investigation.

As a black man If I'm walking down a sidewalk minding my own business and you walk up to me asking questions the first thing I'll do is ask to see a badge, if you tell me you don't have one the next thing I'll do is tell you to mind your own business.

I don't know if any of you have every been in fight where thought you were fighting for your life, but trust me you won't look anything like Mr. Zimmerman did on the tape when he walked into the station house.

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I would be interested in the opinion of a black man on the way guys like Sharpton and Jackson sensationalize these incidents and wheather you feel they acomplish anything positive or if you would agree with me that they only serve to further divide us.

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John,

That would be like me asking your opinion as a white male how you felt about Rush Limbaugh. I'm sure sometime you agree with him and sometime you probably disagree with him, same for me. Your making a common mistake by assuming that one or two individuals speak for or to an entire race ... wrong!

As far as sensationalization, no not in this case. I along with many of my friends are simply dumbfounded at how the investigation was handled from the very start, and we are all thinking that could have been our kid! And no I don't believe for one second that if racial tables were turned, the behavior by the cops would have been the same.

BTW its not about Sharpton or Jackson, its about the fact that a unarmed young black man can be shot dead walking home from a store while the person who did it claims self-defense and gets to go sleep in his own bed after doing the shooting.

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John,

That would be like me asking your opinion as a white male how you felt about Rush Limbaugh. I'm sure sometime you agree with him and sometime you probably disagree with him, same for me. Your making a common mistake by assuming that one or two individuals speak for or to an entire race ... wrong!

As far as sensationalization, no not in this case. I along with many of my friends are simply dumbfounded at how the investigation was handled from the very start, and we are all thinking that could have been our kid! And no I don't believe for one second that if racial tables were turned, the behavior by the cops would have been the same.

BTW its not about Sharpton or Jackson, its about the fact that a unarmed young black man can be shot dead walking home from a store while the person who did it claims self-defense and gets to go sleep in his own bed after doing the shooting.

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