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The fight starts @ 6:25 The black guy is a former Mixed Martial Artist A self proclaimed “superhero” by the name of Phoenix Jones knocked a man out during a fight in Seattle, Washington early Friday morning. Police officers on the scene allowed the man to fight an opponent who threatened to follow home the former MMA fighter and self anointed neighborhood watchman. For those who aren’t familiar with the story of [...] SANFORD, Fla. — Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester set George Zimmerman’s new bond at $1 million on Thursday, WFTV found out. Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, but claims he shot Martin in self-defense. MORE: Doctor: Zimmerman suffered no serious head trauma Zimmerman’s original bond was revoked last month after Lester ruled Zimmerman and his wife were untruthful about their finances. Zimmerman is still in protective custody at the Seminole County Jail. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/263027/483/Judge-sets-Zimmermans-bond-at-1-million JUDGE GRANTS GEORGE ZIMMERMAN [...] Judge Kenneth Lester has decided to once again release George Zimmerman on bond.
But this time, he’s making things more difficult for the neighborhood watchman accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Lester granted Zimmerman a $1 million bond, according to documents from a Florida state attorney’s office. Lester initially revoked Zimmerman’s $150,000 bond after prosecutors claimed he and his wife lied about their finances in open court. In his ruling, issued today, Lester took Zimmerman to task for [...] The intense public attention on the case is a chief reason certain information should remain out of the public eye, Bernardo de la Rionda of State Attorney Angela Corey’s office said in a motion filed earlier this month.
He argued that releasing too much “will result in this matter being tried in the press rather than in court, and an inability to seat a fair and impartial jury in Seminole County.” [...] Several witnesses in the Trayvon Martin slaying changed their accounts of the 17-year-old’s death, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.
A Florida state prosecutor released a trove of evidence last week in the second-degree murder case against neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. The evidence revealed that three witnesses changed their accounts of the teen’s slaying in ways that cast Zimmerman in a negative light, the Tribune is reporting. Witness 12 During an initial interview with police, this [...] Traces of THC, found in marijuana, discovered in blood and urine Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system [...] The skin on Trayvon’s knuckles was broken when his body was autopsied Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from ‘intermediate range’, [...] A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation. Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the [...] SANFORD, Fla. - The attorney for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, announced on Monday he has received the evidence against his client and a “credible threat.” Attorney Mark O’Mara posted on his defense website, GZLegalCase.com, that he received the discovery for the Zimmerman case just after 5 p.m. on Monday. According to the website, the discovery package included, “67 compact discs and numerous hardcopy documents, including [...]
SANFORD, Fla. - A group of students protesting the Trayvon Martin shooting on Monday blocked the entrance to the Sanford Police Department by kneeling in front of the doors, forcing the department to close. It has since been reopened. No arrests were made in the protest, which came a day after the students, who call themselves the Dream Defenders, completed a 40-mile, three-day march from Daytona Beach to Sanford, where Martin, 17, was [...] A poll has revealed Americans are sharply divided by race over the killing of black teen Trayvon Martin by a Hispanic neighbourhood watchman. Nearly three-quarters of black Americans (73 per cent) think shooter George Zimmerman would have been arrested if the teen had been white. Yet just a third of non-Hispanic white people agreed, according to the poll conducted by Gallup and USA Today this week. More than half of black people said [...] The teen was suspended from school three times As George Zimmerman’s supporters work to stem the rising tide of public outrage aimed at the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin last month, a new picture of the victim—culled from the 17-year-old’s Twitter account and witness testimony leaked from local law enforcement—has emerged. “With a single punch,” the Orlando Sentinel, citing police sources, reported Monday, “Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer … climbed on top of [him] and [...] An explosive new t-shirt has come out with a picture of Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman, with the words ‘P***Y A** CRACKER’, adding fuel to the racial firestorm following the shooting of the unarmed teen. The first picture of the offensive shirt was posted on Twitter showing Florida rapper Plies who has joined the growing list of celebrities supporting the Martin family’s fight. The slogan on the t-shirt appears to be a [...] Ever since the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman who pursued him on foot, much of the commentary has revolved around whether Florida’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law played a role in the tragedy.
The law is an extension fo the “Castle Doctrine” which allows people to defend themselves with deadly force against a home intruder.
Stand Your Ground laws empower citizens to defend themselves–using [...] The parents of a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida marched in his memory today with hundreds of other people demanding arrests in the case. ‘We’re not going to stop until we get justice,’ said the teenager’s father, Tracy Martin, after thanking the crowd. ‘My son did not deserve to die.’ Martin’s son, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was killed February 26, in Sanford, Florida. He was [...] Martin,17, was shot dead last month as he walked home from a convenience store with candy for his younger brother Mother Sybrina Fulton claimed George Zimmerman targeted Trayvon because of ‘the colour of his skin’ Rallies held across Florida calling for his arrest Police [...] |
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