What you won’t
hear from the liberal news media . . .
How George
Zimmerman bravely worked to find justice for a homeless, black man . . .
“At
a pre-trial hearing on May 28, the attorney for accused murderer George
Zimmerman, Mark O'Mara, slipped a time bomb into the public record that no
one in the major media seemed to notice. It had to do with a homeless
man, and the relationship between that man and the victim of Zimmerman's
alleged crime, Trayvon Martin.
O'Mara's
allusion had particular resonance in this case because Zimmerman first surfaced
publicly in Sanford, Florida, in a case involving a homeless man. As it
happened, in December 2010, a police lieutenant's son named Justin Collison
sucker-punched a black homeless man named Sherman Ware outside a Sanford bar,
with seeming impunity.
Although
Ware suffered a concussion, and there was video evidence of Collison's action,
no action was taken against Collison for nearly a month. Upset at the
lack of media attention, Zimmerman and his wife Shellie printed fliers
demanding that the community "hold accountable" officers responsible
for any misconduct.
They
then drove the fliers around to area churches and passed them out on a Sunday
morning. Later, at a public meeting in January 2011, Zimmerman took the
floor and said, "I would just like to state that the law is written in
black and white. It should not and cannot be enforced in the gray for
those that are in the thin blue line."
This
meeting was recorded on video. As a result of the publicity, Police Chief
Brian Tooley, whom Zimmerman blasted for his "illegal cover-up and
corruption," was forced to resign.
Ironically,
perhaps, Zimmerman headlined his fliers with a famous quote from Anglo-Irish
statesman Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing." He would have been better off
quoting another Anglo-Irishman, Oscar Wilde: "No good deed goes
unpunished."
The
local NAACP, with whom Zimmerman worked on the Sherman Ware case, instinctively
turned its back on him as soon as he was accused of racist profiling in the
shooting death of Trayvon Martin. On March 26, a month after the
shooting, George's older brother Robert sent an impassioned letter to local
NAACP head Turner Clayton asking him to "call off the dogs. Period.
Publicly and swiftly."
As
Robert reminded Clayton, Zimmerman's "was the only non-black face in the
meetings for justice" in the Ware case. "It's time for you to
end the race issue in this matter and call for cooler heads to prevail,"
Robert pleaded -- but without success, or even
the expectation of it.
Ware's
attorney, in fact, was Natalie Jackson, now a key player on Team Trayvon.
When the Zimmerman family talked publicly about George's involvement in
the Ware case, Jackson denied that Zimmerman had handed out any fliers and
dismissed the family's attempt to establish Zimmerman's commitment to racial
justice. "It's a PR strategy, a propaganda campaign," said
Jackson. "His friends and family are doing him a big disservice by
race-baiting."
Although
Judge Debra Nelson ruled against the inclusion of almost any negative
information about Martin in the upcoming trial, the defense had managed to get
much of that information into the public sphere. CNN, for instance,
headlined its article on the May 28 ruling "Marijuana, fights, guns:
Zimmerman loses key pretrial battles." Below the headline was a
photo of the young Martin, a near-saint only months back, recycling a lungful
of marijuana smoke. If nothing else, the media were catching on to
Martin's less than saintly behavior.
The
media missed, however, O'Mara's reference to homelessness and Martin's attitude
towards it. O'Mara informed Judge Nelson that Martin had a keen interest
in fighting and that he had video proof of the same. The charmless Nelson
made one of her rare stabs at humor by implying that if attendance at a fight
were proof of criminality, half of America would be in jail.
O'Mara
countered by saying that Martin not only attended fights, but that he also
recorded them on video, including "one where two buddies of his are
beating up a homeless guy." The video recorded a crime. The
State of Florida had had this video in possession for months and took no
follow-up action. As O'Mara made clear at the most recent hearing, the
State had concealed critical evidence all along. He even produced a
whistleblower from the state attorney's office to hammer home his point.
Judge
Nelson made no comment on the beating of the homeless man. She had a case
to misdirect, and she wasn't about to quibble over something as insignificant
as justice.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/trayvon_george_and_the_homeless_man.html?utm_source=05-31-13&utm_campaign=AT+Newsletter+05-31-13&utm_medium=email#ixzz2UtGHHipW
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