George Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, put on a fascinating show for the in-person and online audiences watching Zimmerman's bond hearing in Florida on Friday.
O'Mara took on the prosecution through his questions of its witnesses, including one of three officers who questioned Zimmerman after the Trayvon Martin shooting. And he proved to the court that the physical evidence in the case, as well as the circumstantial evidence, more readily supports that Zimmerman was the victim of a beating by Martin than vice versa.
It was hard to watch the officer attempt to answer O'Mara's questions, yet time-after-time be unable to properly do so due to not either having knowledge of the facts of the case (like the reports detailing Zimmerman's wounds from that night), or because he wasn't sure which of the three officers wrote down (or witnessed) certain aspects of the events that night.
There was also the embarrassing segment when the officer being questioned showed a certain amount of bias in his report writings, using the word "confront" when there was absolutely no evidence to support Zimmerman confronted Martin at all, according to the Fox News televised video of the legal proceedings.
The judge had no choice but to award bond in the matter, as the prosecution definitely didn't put up any significant defense against it.
And how could he? It's obvious that the defendant isn't a flight risk, and he posed no threat of violence to anyone in his community prior to the night a stranger wandered onto their premises.
And furthermore, the facts seem to bear out that George Zimmerman may be in on trial more due to being a white-Hispanic male who shot a black male in a racially charged political year than anything else.
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In other words, whites who kill black males should get away with it~pathetic...and, obscene!
OK JB, I've followed this case pretty closely, I have not seen one shred of a bonafide report (not evidence, we're not in court~not a friggin' opinion blog, either) that supports this~SHOW ME!
I think it is VERY IRONIC that black on black crime doesn't make the headlines. There is MUCH media hypocracy...
Example from the Goldberg Report:
"Let’s not be naïve: If Trayvon Martin had been shot that night by another black teenager there would be have been nothing from president Obama, no nationally televised demonstrations, no demands for justice by prominent civil rights leaders, and nobody outside his immediate circle of family and friends would even know his name.
We know about Trayvon Martin only because the man who shot him looks white. Actually, Zimmerman’s mother is Peruvian, which makes him half Hispanic, a fact you might not have known if you get your news from the usual places. That would only detract from the storyline: black kid shot by overzealous (and probably racist) white vigilante. For what it’s worth, the New York Times refers to him as a “white Hispanic,†a politically correct description to make sure we know Mr. Zimmerman is a white man – and not “a person of color.†You think the Times would call him a “white Hispanic†if he had won a Nobel Prize for curing cancer?
And this explains why there are no rallies and no national outcry over Delric Waymon Miller IV. If you just said, “Who?†you are not alone. It’s a safe bet that not one in a million Americans has the vaguest clue as to who Delric Waymon Miller IV is.
Delric was a 9-month old baby – a 9-month old African American baby – who was sleeping on a couch at home in Detroit a few weeks ago, when in the early morning hours, someone fired 37 shots from an AK-47 into the house. One shot killed Delric Waymon Miller IV.
Delric’s 19-year old mother said to get away from the gunfire she grabbed her baby and took him into the basement. That’s when she saw the blood. The baby wouldn’t wake up, she said.
Police think the shooting may have been an act of retaliation stemming from a fight between rival gangs a few days earlier at a bar.
So of course there would be no national outcry, no comments from the president, no rallies led by Al Sharpton demanding justice for Delric, no pieties from Jesse Jackson about how “blacks are under attack†in America. It’s a safe bet the shooter was black. This was just one more case of black on black crime, the kind of story that gets ink in the local papers but that’s about it.
Hundreds of young black men are shot and killed in this country every year. In almost all the cases, the shooter is also black. Try to name one of those dead black men. Just one."