HIP-HOP COMMUNITY, STAND UP!!! AND SUPPORT #Trayvon Martin
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This is not only a racial issues but THIS IS A SOCIAL ISSUE and JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE SERVE. This young black male was Murdered in Florida walking from a store, who pose no risk. HIP-HOP it's TIMES to to take it back to our roots when hip-hop was political and stand for justice. That could of been our younger brother, cousin, neighbor. The Murderer have not been convicted or taken to jail even though he have a record of violence.
How much longer will they ? our children, the party is over. the lies on the radio that everyday is a party and a club that keep our minds on ? is over. There is a strong movement in the black community online and in the streets going on right now please signed this Petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-17-year-old-trayvon-martin
I will drop any breaking news when i can, add to this thread. Discuss this topic.
How much longer will they ? our children, the party is over. the lies on the radio that everyday is a party and a club that keep our minds on ? is over. There is a strong movement in the black community online and in the streets going on right now please signed this Petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/prosecute-the-killer-of-17-year-old-trayvon-martin
I will drop any breaking news when i can, add to this thread. Discuss this topic.
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Why This Is Important
On February 26, our son Trayvon Martin was shot and killed as he walked to a family member's home from a convenience store where he had just bought some candy. He was only 17 years-old.
Trayvon's killer, George Zimmerman, admitted to police that he shot Trayvon in the chest. Zimmerman, the community's self appointed "neighborhood watch leader," called the police to report a suspicious person when he saw Travyon, a young black man, walking from the store. But Zimmerman still hasn't been charged for murdering our son.
Trayvon was our hero. At the age 9, Trayvon pulled his father from a burning kitchen, saving his life. He loved sports and horseback riding. At only 17 he had a bright future ahead of him with dreams of attending college and becoming an aviation mechanic. Now that’s all gone.
When Zimmerman reported Trayvon to the police, they told him not to confront him. But he did anyway. All we know about what happened next is that our 17 year-old son, who was completely unarmed, was shot and killed.
It's been nearly two weeks and the Sanford Police have refused to arrest George Zimmerman. In their public statements, they even go so far as to stand up for the killer - saying he's "a college grad" who took a class in criminal justice.
Please join us in calling on Norman Wolfinger, Florida's 18th District State's Attorney, to investigate my son's murder and prosecute George Zimmerman for the shooting and killing of Trayvon Martin -
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Our blog-in for Trayvon Martin continues. Call SPD's Bill Lee: (407) 688-5070. Tell him to arrest George Zimmerman
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FAMU & FSU LAW are organizing a student rally 3/19 @ 8am @ the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center in Sanford, Fla
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how can i show my support online ?,i don't have a Twitter account
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how can i show my support online ?,i don't have a Twitter account
in the first post there is a petition so the Judge, Sheriff, council person can get off there ass and arrest this man, Please sign. I just signed it to support. -
Nice drop I been Tweeting about this all morning. @Bruthadee
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Trayvon Martin Case: 911 Audio Released Of Teen Allegedly Shot By Neighborhood Watch Captain (AUDIO)
SANFORD, Fla. — Police have released audio 911 tapes in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager allegedly killed by a neighborhood watch captain while walking home from a store.
In eight chilling recordings, made the night of February 26, listeners can hear the frightened voices of neighbors calling to report screams for help, gunshots and then that someone was dead.
In perhaps the most disturbing of the recordings, a frightened voice cries out for help and pleading "No! No!" and then wailing.
And for the first time, we hear the voice of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who admitted to police that he shot Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store to his father's home in the gated community. Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged in the shooting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmnqKotpSD0
"This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something," Zimmerman tells the 911 operator. "He's just staring, looking at all the houses. Now he's coming toward me. He's got his hand in his waistband. Something's wrong with him."
Zimmerman described Martin as wearing a hoodie and sweatpants or jeans. He continues: "He's coming to check me out. He's got something in his hands. I don't know what his deal is. Can we get an officer over here?"
"These ? always get away," he says to the operator. Zimmerman is then heard giving directions to the dispatcher. "? , he's running," Zimmerman says.
"Are you following him?" the dispatcher asks.
"Yes," Zimmerman responds.
"We don't need you to do that," the dispatcher says.
In other recordings, callers tell the 911 dispatcher that someone has been shot. One person tells the dispatcher that two guys were wrestling behind his back porch and that one of them was yelling for help. Then the male caller stammers in shock. "I'm pretty sure the guy is dead ... Oh, my ? ! ... The black guy looks like he's been shot and he's dead."
"The guy on top has a white T-shirt," another caller said.
"Is he on top of someone?" the operator asks.
"Mmmhmmm," a female caller responds.
Yet another caller says, "Someone was screaming 'Help! help! help!' Then I heard a gunshot."
One caller, a teenage boy, said that as he was walking his dog, "I saw a man laying on the ground that needed help. He was screaming."
Then, he told the operator, he heard a gunshot and said the screaming stopped.
Martin's family and their attorneys were allowed to hear the audio before it was made public.
"You hear a shot, a clear shot, that we can only assume is a warning shot," said Natalie Jackson, a family attorney. "Then a 17-year-old boy is begging for his life. Everything tells me that that was Trayvon Martin."
Tracy Martin, the teenager's father, broke down crying as he listened to the audio on Friday, the family lawyers said. "My son was crying for help, and he still shot him," Tracy Martin, the teenager's father said, according to Benjamin Crump, another family attorney.
The local state attorney is reviewing the investigation and will decide whether to prosecute the volunteer watchman.
Police in Sanford initially told Martin's family that Zimmerman had not been arrested because he had a "squeaky clean" record, according to Tracy Martin. Zimmerman had been arrested in 2005 on charges of resisting arrest with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to court records. Those charges were later dropped.
"Do we really believe that if Trayvon Martin would have pulled the trigger, he would not be arrested?" said Crump. "This is obviously a cover-up, and we need a sweeping overhaul of the Sanford Police Department."
Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett said he spent Thursday meeting with the state attorney's office discussing the release of the tapes. "It was as simple as us saying, 'We're going to do this, what do you think?'" Triplett told HuffPost.
Earlier Friday, Triplett met with Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), Police Chief Bill Lee and city manager Norton Bonaparte to discuss the 911 recording.
The police chief serves at the pleasure of the city manager. Bonaparte was asked by HuffPost whether the furor jeapordizes Lee's job. "We're reviewing all of our options at this point," he said, adding that he currently sees "no reason" to remove Lee.
Zimmerman had been the subject of earlier complaints by residents of the gated community in which he and Martin's family lived. At an emergency homeowner's association meeting earlier this month, "one man was
escorted out because he openly expressed his frustration because he had previously contacted the Sanford Police Department about Zimmerman approaching him and even coming to his home," a resident wrote in an email to HuffPost. "It was also made known that there had been several complaints about George Zimmerman and his tactics" in his neighborhood watch captain role.
The case has drawn national attention and has outraged many residents of Sanford, a town about 20 miles north of Orlando, particularly in the African-American community. Many have suggested a history of strained relations between the police department and blacks. -
Nice drop I been Tweeting about this all morning. @Bruthadee
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Signed it.
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THE MURDERER who is still free
Walking to the store, while being young and black. That’s what lead to Trayvon Martin being murdered. He wanted an iced tea and some skittles for his cousin. He committed no crime, he was in front of his father’s house, where he was supposed to be. But now he’s dead and the man that killed him with a nine millimeter shot to his chest, has not even been arrested.
George Zimmerman, a 28 year old neighborhood watch captain and college student murdered Trayvon because he thought he looked suspicious. He called 911, but decided to take matters in to his own hands, and so far he’s literally gotten away with murder. But of course George Zimmerman is white and Trayvon is black and this is the color of justice in America.
Just imagine if George Zimmerman would have killed a neighborhood dog that was strolling around its owners yard. He not only would have been arrested but vilified in the media and by organizations like PETA and others. Hell, they probably would have protested in front of his house and the jail.
Sadly a young black male’s life in this society has little to no value. So we can be beaten and killed with no justice. In Pittsburgh, where I’m from, Jordan Miles was beaten almost to death, by undercover cops, for simply walking to his Grandmother’s house. Those officers were given awards, time off with pay and overtime, found not guilty and are back on the job.
Walking while black is now just as dangerous/threatening as driving while black. The main question is, what are we gonna do about it? -
waterproof wrote: »Nice drop I been Tweeting about this all morning. @Bruthadee
i am bout to follow you
Followed you back.
This is so tragic yet so typical...are we to believe that if a Black teenager would have shot this white man that he wouldn't be locked in a cage right now fighting a murder charge?
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waterproof wrote: »Nice drop I been Tweeting about this all morning. @Bruthadee
i am bout to follow you
Followed you back.
This is so tragic yet so typical...are we to believe that if a Black teenager would have shot this white man that he wouldn't be locked in a cage right now fighting a murder charge?
I'm enraged right now, this is sad and there is no way Zimmerman should be walking free. It's a tragic story that is so all common in our community, we can't even walk in gated community without being killed. If it was a black man and a white child that brother would of been sentenced to death already -
The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin
“He said that Tray was gone.”
That’s how Sybrina Fulton, her voice full of ache, told me she found out that her 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, had died. In a wrenching telephone call, the boy’s father, who had taken him to visit a friend, told her that Trayvon had been gunned down in a gated townhouse community in Sanford, Fla., outside Orlando.
“He said, ‘Somebody shot Trayvon and killed him.’ And I was like, ‘Are you sure?’ ” Fulton continued in disbelief. “I said ‘How do you know that’s Trayvon?’ And he said because they showed him a picture.”
That was Feb. 27, one day after Trayvon was shot. The father thought that he was missing, according to the family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, but the boy’s body had actually been taken to the medical examiner’s office and listed as a John Doe.
The father called the Missing Persons Unit. No luck. Then he called 911. The police asked the father to describe the boy, after which they sent officers to the house where the father was staying. There they showed him a picture of the boy with blood coming out of his mouth.
This is a nightmare scenario for any parent, and the events leading to Trayvon’s death offer little comfort — and pose many questions.
Trayvon had left the house he and his father were visiting to walk to the local 7-Eleven. On his way back, he caught the attention of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, who was in a sport-utility vehicle. Zimmerman called the police because the boy looked “real suspicious,” according to a 911 call released late Friday. The operator told Zimmerman that officers were being dispatched and not to pursue the boy.
Zimmerman apparently pursued him anyway, at some point getting out of his car and confronting the boy. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman had a 9 millimeter handgun.
The two allegedly engaged in a physical altercation. There was yelling, and then a gunshot.
When police arrived, Trayvon was face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to the chest. Zimmerman was standing with blood on his face and the back of his head and grass stains on his back, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
Trayvon’s lifeless body was taken away, tagged and held. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned and released. Zimmerman said he was the one yelling for help. He said that he acted in self-defense. The police say that they have found no evidence to dispute Zimmerman’s claim.
One other point: Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.
Trayvon was buried on March 3. Zimmerman is still free and has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
Yet the questions remain: Why did Zimmerman find Trayvon suspicious? Why did he pursue the boy when the 911 operator instructed him not to? Why did he get out of the car, and why did he take his gun when he did? How is it self-defense when you are the one in pursuit? Who initiated the altercation? Who cried for help? Did Trayvon’s body show evidence of a struggle? What moved Zimmerman to use lethal force?
This case has reignited a furor about vigilante justice, racial-profiling and equitable treatment under the law, and it has stirred the ? of racial strife.
As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them “suspicious.” That passions may run hot and blood run cold. That it might all end with a hole in their chest and hole in my heart. That the law might prove insufficient to salve my loss.
That is the burden of black boys in America and the people that love them: running the risk of being descended upon in the dark and caught in the cross-hairs of someone who crosses the line.
The racial sensitivity of this case is heavy. Trayvon’s parents have said their son was murdered. Crump, the family’s lawyer, told me, “You know, if Trayvon would have been the triggerman, it’s nothing Trayvon Martin could have said to keep police from arresting him Day 1, Hour 1.” Even the police chief recognizes this reality, even while disputing claims of racial bias in the investigation: “Our investigation is color blind and based on the facts and circumstances, not color. I know I can say that until I am blue in the face, but, as a white man in a uniform, I know it doesn’t mean anything to anybody.”
Zimmerman has not released a statement, but his father delivered a one-page letter to The Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. According to the newspaper, the statement said that Zimmerman is “Hispanic and grew up in a multiracial family.” The paper quotes the letter as reading, “He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever” and continues, “The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth.” And disclosures made since the shooting complicate people’s perception of fairness in the case.
According to Crump, the father was told that one of the reasons Zimmerman wasn’t arrested was because he had a “squeaky clean” record. It wasn’t. According to the local news station WFTV, Zimmerman was arrested in 2005 for “battery on a law enforcement officer.”
Furthermore, ABC News reported on Tuesday that one of the responding officers “corrected a witness after she told him that she heard the teen cry for help.” And The Miami Herald published an article on Thursday that said three witnesses had heard the “desperate wail of a child, a gunshot, and then silence.”
WFTV also reported this week that the officer in charge of the scene when Trayvon was shot was also in charge of another controversial case. In 2010, a lieutenant’s son was videotaped attacking a black homeless man. The officer’s son also was not initially arrested in that case. He was later arrested when the television station broke the news.
Although we must wait to get the results from all the investigations into Trayvon’s killing, it is clear that it is a tragedy. If no wrongdoing of any sort is ascribed to the incident, it will be an even greater tragedy.
One of the witnesses was a 13-year-old black boy who recorded a video for The Orlando Sentinel recounting what he saw. The boy is wearing a striped polo shirt, holding a microphone, speaking low and deliberately and has the heavy look of worry and sadness in his eyes. He describes hearing screaming, seeing someone on the ground and hearing gunshots. The video ends with the boy saying, “I just think that sometimes people get stereotyped, and I fit into the stereotype as the person who got shot.”
And that is the burden of black boys, and this case can either ease or exacerbate it -
BREAKING NEWS in Trayvon Martin Case: Officer in the Case Has A Prior Record of Racial Controversy
WFTV, a local Florida television station, reports that the supervising officer who initially responded to the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford has a prior record of racial controversy. In 2010, Sergeant Anthony Raimondo declined to arrest Justin Collison, who brutally attacked a black homeless man, leaving him unconscious and breaking his nose. Collison, who is white, is the son of a Sanford police officer and the grandson of a former Florida judge.
Collison was intoxicated at the time of the unprovoked attack. Also, a Youtube video captured the attack while it occurred. Despite having possession of the video, Raimando still refused to arrest Collison. Police only arrested Collison after the national media released the video and criticized police handling of the case. -
I applaud you brotha for creating this thread, but if this legal stuff doesn't pan out somebody needs to just put hands on dude.
The fact that this man hasn't been arrested is already a big slap in the face.
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damn yo ....... sad sh*t ..... what can i do to help
sign that petition brother, Trayvon Martin mother started the petition to get justice, it's a movement that is bubbling right now on twitter and in the streets -
Signed this and shared this. This is one of the main reasons I feel people need to stop glorifying these ? criminals in our community. What happens is as a race Blacks are continuously vilified for crimes they have not committed. It is disgusting and very tragic to see. From someone who is mixed as myself and most people can not tell I am black I feel when I say how bad things are, people take me as just a white boy and dismiss it. Why do we wait for tragic things to happen. Our forefathers had it way worse and had to fight. It is still alive to this day and people have this illusion that everything is ok. ? that! This ? is not ok by any means. This is total ? . I want to kick this guys face in. He took it upon himself to follow an unarmed CHILD because he looked suspicious to him. Mom told me about this before I heard anything else about it. This just ? me off.
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so with the information that surfaced on zimmerman, he still has not been arrested?
Thats messed up, if the shoe was on the other foot..... -
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I called that ? and left a message for some lady cop. Did I press the right option? I chose the investigations line and left a message bro. -
High Revolutionary wrote: »I applaud you brotha for creating this thread, but if this legal stuff doesn't pan out somebody needs to just put hands on dude.
The fact that this man hasn't been arrested is already a big slap in the face.
A big slap in the face but Justice is going to be served one way or another -
is that site legit to leave my address and such ??
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is that site legit to leave my address and such ??
yeah it's legit, i already vetted the site, the server just got overloaded right now. twitter shut it down -
is that site legit to leave my address and such ??
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Listen at this reporter how she treats Trayvons mother.
