George Zimmerman, right, with his attorneys, Mark O’Mara, left, and Don West, center, watch as an evidence video is projected on a screen during the 16th day of his trial in Seminole circuit court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 1, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
At first I was cautious. Then, I evolved into skeptical. But now that the prosecution has rested their case in the George Zimmerman trial, I am flat-out disgusted at what clearly has been exposed as the worst racial prosecution since Jim Crow. If we recap Friday’s testimony, the prior testimony from witnesses called by the State Attorney’s office, then we will come to only one two-fold conclusion:
- The prosecution has fallen grossly short of their burden of proof, or even to justify the charge for that matter.
- The evidence and timeline of events clearly points to a racial prosecution. The State Attorney’s office folded under political pressure from race-baiters, such as Al Sharpton, who knowingly or unknowingly act as “useful idiots” for the antigun culture and an unethical anti-gun national media. Progressive elites, who are mostly white, rang the dinner bell on the progressive plantation, and everyone came-a-runnin’.Watch
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Court Testimony Friday
The mothers of both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman testified Friday that it was their son’s voice calling for help on the now well-known 911 call. Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother, testified that her 17-year-old son could clearly be heard on the tape recorded Feb. 26, 2012. After the 911 audio was played, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda asked Fulton, “Who do you recognize that to be?” “Trayvon Benjamin Martin,” she replied.
During cross-examination, Defense attorney Mark O’Mara alluded to the idea that Fulton may have been influenced by others who listened to the 911 call, including relatives and her former husband. But the most concerning development was where Sybrina Fulton first heard the recording, which was in the Mayor’s office.
This is not exactly protocol but seems to be par for the course in this case. Rachel Jeental, the last one to speak to Martin on the phone just prior to the incident, testified that the first time she was interviewed by police was in Sybrina Fulton’s home, when police made the unconventional decision to pick her up and have a group pow wow coaching session, and of course, only after the political pressure from race-baiters had been mounting for weeks.
O’Mara also asked Fulton hypothetically whether she would have to accept it was Zimmerman yelling for help if the screams did not come from her son. O’Mara also asked if she hoped Martin didn’t do anything that led to his death. Fulton said:
I heard my son screaming. I would hope for this to never have happened and he would still be here.
Trayvon’s brother, Jahvaris Fulton, 22, also testified Friday that he recognized Trayvon’s voice on the 911 calls. However, as O’Mara asked the older brother, then why last year did he tell a reporter that he wasn’t sure if the voice belonged to Martin? “I didn’t want to believe it was him,” Jahvaris Fulton testified.
At 2:58 Jahvaris Fulton admits he’s not positive the person screaming is Trayvon.
Then the prosecution turned to Shiping Bao, who performed Martin’s autopsy a day after he was killed. Bao, also tasked to bypass the facts with emotion, testified that Martin was in pain and suffered for up to 10 minutes after being shot by Zimmerman. Under questioning by defense attorney Don West, however, Bao said he changed his opinion regarding the length of time Martin lived after being shot from his original estimate of 1 to 3 minutes to up to 10 minutes. He changed his opinion following another autopsy roughly three weeks ago that was “very similar” to that of Martin’s, Bao claimed. But the opinion was suspiciously changed after a conversation with the prosecution in preparation for testimony, which is typically not allowed in such a short duration.
Bao also testified that the marijuana found in Martin’s system could have had no effect or some effect in the confrontation with Zimmerman. When asked if Martin would be able to move his arms or hands after being shot, Bao responded that “only one person in this court knows.” On Wednesday, an expert testified that none of Zimmerman’s DNA was found under the fingernails of Martin, despite defense attempts to portray Zimmerman as only firing his gun in self-defense.
But again during cross-examination, Bao admitted that it was the chief’s call not to take fingernail clippings even though it is clearly in the paperwork, and admitted that his prior work in Texas among other locations always included fingernail clippings. Furthermore, any DNA that may have been present most assuredly was compromised or degraded when the police made the decision not to bag Martin’s hands, which of course, is standard protocol when investigating a murder. Perhaps, the hands were not bagged because the police first to arrive and the detective on the case, before the race-baiter bus rolled into town, did not believe George Zimmerman was lying?
In an interview with Jamie Colby on Fox News, Judge Alex Ferrer – a veteran judge in Florida courtrooms – said that Bao was the most absurd expert medical witness he had ever seen, “a complete loose cannon” who gave inappropriate opinionated testimony, which Judge Debra Nelson should have sustained when Mark O’Mara objected. Judge Debra Nelson has overwhelmingly sided with the prosecution and should have granted the motion to dismiss, because the state did not even meet the burden of proof for either charge.
After Judge Debra Nelson ruled against a defense motion for acquittal late Friday afternoon, the prosecution announced it was resting and the defense began by calling Zimmerman’s mother, Gladys, who also testified the voice heard screaming for help on the tape was her son’s and she knew it was him “because he’s my son.” The defense followed-up with George Zimmerman’s uncle Jorge Meza, who is a deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. He testified that he overheard the screams while watching television and, ” It was Jorge screaming for his life.”
Zimmerman’s father also said the screams were from his son rather than Martin. The screams are considered to be crucial pieces of evidence because an expert testified earlier in the week that a person familiar with a voice is in the best position to identify it. But the Zimmerman family, unlike the family of the victim, have been consistent the entire time that they were able identify the voice on the tape to be George. However, Trayvon Martin’s family members who have claimed the same, did not always sing that tune, and only did so after situations that carry a reasonable suspicion of collusion by authorities under severe political pressure.
Prior Testimony
If the media didn’t use headlines, then you couldn’t help but think that the prosecution’s witnesses were called by the defense. They are the following:
For what reason the prosecution called a neighbor Jonathan Good, who said he saw Trayvon on top of and striking Zimmerman moments before the teen was shot is unknowable. He also claimed the person on the ground was the individual screaming for help. His testimony is consistent with the crux of George Zimmerman’s story, and the “ground and pound” induced-injuries he sustained.
Sanford Police Officer Christopher Serino, the lead investigator on the case, said that while Zimmerman “may have been profiling” Martin, he believed Zimmerman was telling the truth when he said he was attacked. He also stated that the little inconsistencies in Zimmerman’s story are not only normal, but to be expected from someone who is not a pathological liar. The judge later told the jury to disregard the testimony that Serino believed Zimmerman, but the cat – or the truth – was out of the bag.
Rachel Jeantel testifying in the murder trial of George Zimmerman (left), Trayvon Martin as depicted by liberal media at 16, in an August 2011 family photo, but was no longer an accurate assessment of the teen, at all.
Rachel Jeantel was supposed to be “Trayvon’s voice from the grave,” and was built up by the prosecution and the media as the star witness. But Jeantel came across much the way I imagine she is everyday, as aggressive and hostile and that her testimony completely lacks credibility. She also admitted to lying twice, and ridiculously expected the jury to believe that Trayvon’s comment – “creepy ass cracker” – was not a racist comment. It proved that Martin injected race into the confrontation, not Zimmerman. Al Sharpton, naturally ignored the lies and racism toward whites. He responded on his show to only those voices that called out Rachel Jeantel for what she is.
“The three most troubling issues with Jeantel were that her accounts regarding what she heard were not consistent, her testimony appeared to be inappropriately influenced by the state, and she didn’t appear to take testifying seriously,” said Elizabeth Parker, a former prosecutor who is now a criminal defense attorney in Palm Beach, Florida.
Perhaps, the worst witness the prosecution called to the stand was Professor Alexis Carter, who taught Zimmerman at Seminole State College. Prosecutor Richard Mantei told the court that Zimmerman’s legal studies would help jurors understand his “state of mind” and “ambitions and frustrations” before shooting Martin. But Professor Carter, who is black, testified how Zimmerman’s injuries were not to be quantified as the prosecution has done, and if anything further indicates a justifiable defense. Whether or not he lied about understanding the law is inconsequential to the law. Bob Beckel, for instance, bought the claim and his comments exemplified how progressives are not interested in the facts of the case:
I think that the prosecution got back in the case today for a very simple reason: this professor made it very clear that Zimmerman knew everything about the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and in that ‘Stand Your Ground,’ according to the professor, there are reasons that you could use your gun if necessary but this was not an extreme enough case to do that. I think that the prosecution is back in it, back in it strong.
I am not sure if he even listened to the testimony or if he is just talking out of his @$$, but Beckel’s comments demonstrate the liberal mentality, and are factually incorrect as it relates to the law. Under Florida law, people can use force to protect themselves when they have a “reasonable belief” it is “necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to themselves.” The testimony of the Jacksonville medical examiner, Valerie Rao, that Zimmerman’s injuries were “insignificant” is largely legally irrelevant, because “Stand Your Ground” simply replaced the previous law that required someone attempt to retreat as far as possible before using lethal force.
The only question surrounds whether or not a person on top of Zimmerman caused him to “reasonably believe” that there was a threat of “imminent death or great bodily harm to himself,” and if so, he can make a decision to take the appropriate action.
And there in lays the problem that Bob Beckel and other progressives have with the law, and why this case matters so much to them. It is all about dismantling the culture of individual empowerment and the laws that protect that culture.
The comments by President Obama are especially despicable, because the political tone of the nation’s first black president has a profound impact on the black American public. Race-baiters like Al Sharpton, who keep sticking their fingers in to the national racial wounds to prevent them from healing, are single-handedly responsible for the many cases of blacks attacking whites to avenge Trayvon Martin, such as the instances in Gainesville, Florida; Oak Park, Illinois; Mobile, Alabama; Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Norfolk, Virginia.
As a parent of two beautiful children, I have a broken heart for Trayvon Martin’s parents, but they are tools that came running to the dinner bell on the progressive plantation. When the progressive left thinks it is okay to sacrifice the life of an obviously innocent man, and the law and order Republican-built state government caves to race-bater pressure, it is time to take a stand.
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Notice how Sharpton, who clearly implies a white jury cannot provide justice for Trayvon, disputes the fact that the “protestors” engaged in violence. He focuses on juror B-37 because the juror referred to them as riots, and held a concealed weapons permit. Krump askes:
The question I really have, Reverend Sharpton: once the jury bases their verdict on the evidence—and the evidence is overwhelming—and they come back with a just verdict holding George Zimmerman guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, will the other guys act right?
“The other guys” Mr. Krump? If that was a comment from a white conservative, then all hell would break loose on the progressive plantation.
