On the night of February 26, Trayvon Martin, 17, walked to a convenience store to buy his little brother some candy. As he was walking home, he was murdered.
The shooter, George Zimmerman, 28, is a volunteer crime watch captain in the predominantly white gated community where he lived. So, upon seeing an unknown young black man walking in his neighborhood, he did what any good old boy would do, and called the cops.
Despite being told by police to NOT approach Trayvon, Zimmerman got out of his car and confronted Trayvon. By the time police arrived, Trayvon was dead
George Zimmerman was toting a gun. Trayvon was found with the candy he'd bought for his little brother in his pocket.
The po-po took Zimmerman in for questioning, but released him, once Zimmerman told them there had been an altercation, and that he'd shot Trayvon in self-defense.
Sanford police chief Bill Lee says there's not enough evidence to arrest Zimmerman. “In this case Mr. Zimmerman has made the statement of self-defense,” Lee said. “Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don’t have the grounds to arrest him.”
I call bullshit on Lee's lame statements. The police are refusing to release the transcripts of several 911 calls that came in, purportedly from people who claim Zimmerman and Trayvon were fighting prior to Trayvon being murdered, as they claim their investigation is ongoing.
How did the supposed fight start? Zimmerman was advised to stay in his car and wait until the police arrived. Trayvon was killed less then 70 feet from his father's home. Had Zimmerman ignored his itchy trigger finger and stayed put, Trayvon would more then likely have been safely home by the time police arrived.
And I call bullshit on Zimmerman's lame self-defense story. Zimmerman was trolling "his" neighborhood, with a gun in his car. He got out of the car, with his gun in hand. I don't know of any young kid, black, white, or green, that might not have thought he was about to be attacked, or robbed, or worse, if someone had approached them with a gun.
If a fight erupted, as Zimmerman said, one has to ask who instigated the altercation? The police, for the moment, are professing satisfaction with Zimmerman's self-defense claims, based on the fact that Zimmerman had blood and grass stains on his shirt.
Zimmerman got out of that car
expecting trouble with Trayvon, because Trayvon was unknown, but, more importantly, because Trayvon was black. Had Trayvon been white, I strongly doubt Zimmerman would have given him a second glance.
Yet Zimmerman remains a free man - a free man who also was arrested back in in 2005 for resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin begs for justice to be served. Unfortunately, it appears that all that's going to be served in this case is one big can of whitewash.
The police appear willing to sweep the entire incident under the rug.
Zimmerman will remain free, his lame claim of self-defense sufficing as a worthy excuse for a cold-blooded murder.
And Trayvon Martin, who deserved so much more, got nothing but a bullet.
Sickening.
