Shades Of The Duke Lacrosse Case: Zimmerman Injuries Consistent With Self-Defense

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ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting 

Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles

The medical report for George Zimmerman shows injuries that may strengthen his claims of self-defense.  The report notes a broken nose, two black eyes, lacerations on the back of his head, and a back injury.

This whole story brings back recollections of both the Duke lacrosse player case.  In that case, media hysteria and group think falsely accused innocent men of committing horrendous crimes, which were later found to be completely without merit.  The reputations and lives of these men were forever changed, and their reputations tarnished, by a media unconcerned with facts and armed only with their own preconceived prejudicial worldview.  For the media, it had all of the makings for ratings: well-to-do white college students playing an elitist sport, a young black woman, and sex.  It was inconceivable to the liberal elites that these young men might be innocent, or that the "victim" had fabricated the whole thing.  Just as in the Trayvon Martin case,  it was an election year and the DA saw the case as a chance to bolster their tough-on-crime platform.  As we all know now, the Duke players were innocent, the girl did make up the story, and the political hack DA was forced to resign, convicted of ethics violations, and disbarred.

We now have the Trayvon Martin case, which was not heard of outside of Central Florida until ten days after the incident, when the New York Times picked up on the story.  The difference with this story was that the Times and the rest of the MSM has to find an angle to sensationalize it and make it a national story.  The Times went right for the tried-and-true liberal fallback of using race to promote the story.  Only one problem: Yes, Trayvon Martin was black, but George Zimmerman is half Hispanic, which in any other story would make him simply Hispanic.  But the New York Times, twisting logic worthy of contortionists, ran the story with George Zimmerman described as a "white" Hispanic. The rest of the media now had their template, as did race-baiters such as Al Sharpton, to make this case a national circus meant to enflame racial tensions.  The story is now about race, and not the tragic shooting of a young man.

Like Mike Nifong in the Duke Case, the DA in this case is in an election year fight. And like the Duke case, especially if you listen to legal minds like Alan Dershowitz, 2nd degree murder charges against Zimmerman are "irresponsible and unethical".  At most, the charges might have supported an involuntary manslaughter charge. On top of this, the FBI is considering charging Zimmerman with a hate crime, which would make him eligible for the death penalty.

All of this, despite claims that DA in his case has been accused of withholding evidence which supports Zimmerman's claims in the arrest affidavit.  It is eerily similar to the types of ethics violations in the Duke case.

This is instructional, and a reminder, of how the media works.  As more and more evidence leaks out which supports Zimmerman's account, the media have become more and more silent.  Rush Limbaugh's coining of a 'Drive-by" media is wholly apropos in this case.  They came out of the gate, guns blazing, convinced in Zimmerman's guilt, stirring up racial animus, and as the smoke clears, and the truth starts to come out, they have moved far down the road to the next drive-by target.

The George Zimmerman's of this world, as well as the public, expect and deserve a media which reports the news. Not one which advocates for an outcome.

Have Spike Lee and America's Race Hustlers Set The Stage for Another Rodney King Riot in C. Florida?

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Fanning the flames of manufactured racism

Spike Lee,  director of movies like "Do The Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever", jumped head first into the Trayvon Martin hysteria, retweeting the wrong address for George Zimmerman, the shooter in this whole tragedy.
The fact is is that Lee shouldn't have sent it out at all.  He didn't "do the right thing" but instead did the dumb thing. Everyone from Lee, Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton, Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson, the New Black Panthers, and the President himself have fanned the racial flames in this case.  For the President, this is just another in a long line of jumping into local law enforcement cases in which he does not calm the high emotions, but further enflames them. Once a community agitator, always a community agitator.
Just as in the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case, and the Atlanta Olympic bombings, the media have created a firestorm based on little more than their own biases, and their own desire to manufacture news. In both of those cases the media got it completely wrong.  The Duke players and Richard Jewell (who was labeled "the Olympic Bomber") were both completely cleared of any wrong-doing. Even after those cases, the media issued no mea culpas or did any introspection on what went wrong.  It didn't matter whom had gotten hurt, or had their reputations destroyed. No, they just moved on down the road to the next big ratings getter.
To further their racial bent, they have gone as far as to label Zimmerman a "white hispanic" because of his mixed heritage. What the hell is that?!  If Zimmerman had been half white and half black, would the have labeled him a "white black"? Hell no!  We would not have heard of this case at all.  The template is set, and the media is not going to come off of it.
As more information comes out we are finding that the actual facts of the case are not as cut and dry as the initial hysterical reporting intimated - that this was a racially motivated shooting. The truth is, we don't know what the motive was. The more information that comes out through witnesses and from the initial reports, the murkier the initial media reports become.
We have learned that Trayvon Martin was on top of Zimmerman and that it was Zimmerman that was screaming for help, and not Martin. The thing is is that the investigation is ongoing and not all the facts are out there as yet.
It may be that Zimmerman will be charged and go to court. But what if the jury finds Zimmerman not guilty.  Have Spike Lee and all of these race-hustlers now set the stage for another "Rodney King Riot" for Central Florida? Will they spread across the country because of the absolute media malpractice that has been, once again, been perpetrated on the public?
Let's hope calm heads prevail

Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet Star erroneously linked Floridians to man who killed Trayvon Martin

MARCH 27--With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home is actually the longtime residence of a married Florida couple, both in their 70s, who have no connection to the man who killed Trayvon Martin and are now living in fear due to erroneous reports about their connection to the 
shooter.


The mass dissemination of the address on Edgewater Circle in Sanford--the Florida city where Martin was shot to death last month--took flight last Friday when director Spike Lee retweeted a tweet containing Zimmerman’s purported address to his 240,000 followers.
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