Obama Files Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman Following Acquittal in Shooting Murder of Trayvon Martin
Just when we thought the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case was over after Zimmerman’s acquittal, the Obama Administration has taken the steps needed to file federal charges, thus sidestepping the well established double jeopardy, against Zimmerman. Unidentified sources within the Administration have confirmed that Obama, and Justice Eric Holder at the Department of Justice have filed charges against Zimmerman for “violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights”.
Double jeopardy is an often misunderstood concept in American Law. The rule merely states that an individual cannot be tried twice for the same crime in the SAME COURT. Liberal Justice Department officials often charge Americans with crimes from which they have previously been acquitted by filing federal charges on a similar crime in a federal court.
Comedian Chris Farley look-alike Justice Debra Nelson
At approximately 10:01 pm EST this evening Judge Debra Nelson (pictured right) announced that the all women jury had found Zimmerman not guilty of fatally shooting and killing the 17-year old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL, just over one year ago.
The case has received national attention and nearly wall-to-wall coverage on all mainstream media outlets. While Al Sharpton and the entire staff at MSNBC has advocated heavily for a guilty verdict, we on the right have been praying for an acquittal for Zimmerman who was simply exercising his right to “Stand your Ground” (a Florida statute that apparently allows individuals to follow, track, then attack young Black youth before shooting them dead if feeling at all threatened throughout the process).
Obama has actively used his influence throughout the case (think “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon”). Earlier this week, multiple sources, including Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the entire right wing, has reported on the involvement of the Federal Government in spending millions of dollars in support of anti-Zimmerman protests (race riots). According to Fox News, ” The Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.”
Trayvon Martin: Was He Responsible For His Own Death? George Zimmerman: Was He Responsible For Trayvon's Death?
Logic would tell us that the entire tragedy, the Murder of Trayvon Martin would never have occurred had George Zimmerman never followed Trayvon. If this unemployed, wanna-be-cop (who failed to become a police officer) had only stayed in his car instead of following Trayvon whom in error Zimmerman thought was one of those "ass holes who always get away" then Trayvon would not be dead. No one can dispute this because the bottom line is that Mr Zimmerman shot and killed him. It is simply 'Cause and Effect'!
Zimmerman's actions, getting out of his vehicle and following Trayvon is why Trayvon was shot. The effect is that Trayvon is now dead! Because Trayvon is no more his family has been tragically and emotionally affected. Subsequently, this nation has been affected. We have once again been thrust under the racism microscope. As well Florida's gun laws have come under scrutiny.
I just returned from Florida. I was very close to Sanford and even went there twice while the trial was underway and what I heard from most people black and white was that Zimmerman should go to prison and pay for his crime. These I assume were rational thinking people. George Zimmerman was not a rational thinking man. He should never have had a gun to begin with.
Trayvon Martin's parents want 'justice' for son in Zimmerman trial
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NBC News' Kerry Sanders sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Trayvon Martin's parents before the George Zimmerman trial began (Interview was on May 9). Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, saying he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense.
The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin say they want to see "justice" in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman.
A month before the trial began, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin told NBC News' Kerry Sanders that they believe their 17-year-old son was doing nothing wrong on Feb. 26, 2012—the night he was shot and killed by Zimmerman, 29, who told police he acted in self-defense.
Martin's parents haven't spoken publicly since testimony began, but on May 9 they sat down with NBC News for an extensive interview that lasted over an hour.
"Justice, to me, would be for the person who killed our son to be held accountable and for all the evidence to come out and for, you know, a jury to hear everything that happened that night of February 26," Fulton said.
"We believe that Trayvon did nothing wrong, that he was just walking from the store," Fulton said, referring to the convenience store the teen had visited before he was observed by Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch coordinator. "He wasn't committing any crime. He wasn't bothering anybody. He was minding his own business."
Lawyers for Zimmerman, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, have said their client was attacked by Martin during their encounter and that Zimmerman then fired his gun in self-defense.
Fulton, when asked what was "stolen" from her the night of the fatal shooting, said she lost "a precious gem that cannot be replaced, a life of a child that has so much potential."
"We never said that Trayvon was perfect," Fulton said. "Nobody is. But he was ours. And I don't think you can replace that, you know. I mean, you can have other kids and there's other kids in the world, but it's just nothing like your own."
When asked if he was prepared for the prosecution to attack Trayvon's character during the trial, Tracy Martin said he and his ex-wife knew the "truth" about their son.
"One thing I can say about that is you can't tear apart what we know we built," he said. "You can try to demoralize. You can try to assassinate his character. You can try to make him out to be the baddest kid in the world."
"We know our son," he said. "And we know that's far from the truth."
The defense team during pre-trial proceedings asked a Florida judge to allow the admission of evidence they claimed bolstered their theory that Trayvon Martin was the aggressor in his fatal encounter with Zimmerman, including a suspension from school, prior marijuana use, allegedly incriminating text messages and past fighting.
Judge Debra Nelson on June 2 ruled those alleged details of Martin's past are not relevant to the case.
"Did George Zimmerman know anything about Trayvon's school records? He didn't know anything about Trayvon," Tracy Martin said. "So anything prior to February 26, 7:17(p.m.), to me is totally irrelevant. What matters to me is what happened that night he pulled the trigger."
Tracy Martin said that, should the jury acquit Zimmerman at the conclusion of the trial, "we will still put our faith in God."
"My answer to that would be God is in control. You know, we continue to put our faith in God. And God forbid, if acquittal is handed down, we still put our faith in God, you know, it's out of our hands. There's nothing we can do and we'll continue to pray," he said.
"And we'll continue to be the voice of Trayvon whether there's an acquittal (or) whether it's a guilty verdict."
Editor’s note: George Zimmerman has sued NBC Universal for defamation. The company strongly denies the allegation.
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Tempers flare as crowd at courthouse waits for Zimmerman verdict
Casey Kole, center in white shirt, has watched the George Zimmerman case unfold on TV and believes he is innocent. Outside the courthouse on Saturday he talks with a group of Trayvon Martin supporters.(Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times / July 13, 2013)
SANFORD, Fla. -- The white-haired old man waded into the crowd that was shouting “Justice for Trayvon!” in the shade of the courthouse here Saturday, smiling as he murmured, “George Zimmerman is an innocent man.”
Terrie Ann Campbell, 38, who works for the school district in Orlando, looked on from a lawn chair on the courthouse lawn where she had propped up her “Justice 4 Trayvon” sign in the damp grass on what had already become a hot and humid day.
About 50 people gathered in the morning to protest as jurors deliberated the fate of Zimmerman, 29, a neighborhood watch volunteer who identifies himself as Latino and who is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the Feb. 26, 2012, fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman maintains he shot Martin in self-defense after Martin suddenly attacked him in a confrontation on that rainy night in Sanford.
“It was peaceful in the beginning, but it seems like there are certain people out here trying to provoke a reaction,” said Campbell, who is black and was hoping for a guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial that has transfixed the nation.
As the six-woman jury continued their second day of deliberations Saturday, local authorities staffed the emergency operations center and sheriff’s deputies lingered at the edge of the courthouse lawn, where metal barricades had been erected.
“Shouting at each other -- it’s not going to do anything,” Campbell said.
As the white-haired man made his way through the crowd, a chorus of angry voices trailed him.
“Zimmerman’s a killer!”
“He’s a murderer!”
“You’re a racist!”
Eventually, half a dozen protesters surrounded the man with signs, chanting. One of the young women wore a T-shirt that said, “What if it were your son?” They talked about the O.J. Simpson case, one holding a sign that said, “The glove don’t fit.”
They tried to convince the white-haired man that he was wrong, but the man just shook his head.
“He has a right to self-defense,” he said of Zimmerman.
Tempers flared. Voices rose. But no one came to blows.
In the end, the old man walked away to talk to more Martin supporters, including a young black man wearing a T-shirt with Zimmerman’s face in the cross-hairs.
Across the barricade, a few Zimmerman supporters held signs that said “Not guilty” and “Free George.” They did not tangle much with the other group.
The white-haired man, Casey Kole, who is white, wanted to talk to the other side.
Taaffe was sparring with Grace during a discussion on Zimmerman's decision to carry a gun. When Taaffe grew so heated that he did not let Grace speak, the HLN host asked her producer to cut off his mic. Grace then spoke over a silence Taaffe and said, "Yes, everyone has a right to carry a gun but it it's still extraordinary that you think it's so normal that [Zimmerman] carries a loaded gun—with ammo, no safety—to walk his dog."
Grace has clashed with Taaffe in the past. He appeared on Grace's show last month, when the HLN host dismissed his defense of Zimmerman.
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