Zimmerman Not guilty

[Formaldehyde]

Remember the incompetent medical examiner who kept interrupting the attorneys who were questioning him on the witness stand? He was finally fired, apparently based at least in part in how he conducted himself during the trial.

Not only is he planning to sue them for wrongful termination and supposedly making him a scapegoat, he has also filed a $100M lawsuit which claims the prosecution deliberately screwed up the case so that Zimmerman would walk. That he has proof that Martin wasn't the aggressor and couldn't have been on top at any time during the confrontation, but he was not allowed to state those opinions or the evidence which supported them.

Attorney for Trayvon Martin medical examiner preparing $100M lawsuit

Dr. Shiping Bao's testimony raised eyebrows during the George Zimmerman trial.

"I believe it is my opinion that Trayvon Martin was in a lot of pain, and that he was suffering," Bao said July 5 during testimony in the George Zimmerman trial.

On the stand, Dr. Bao changed his testimony about key statements he'd made and said he'd changed his mind about Martin only being alive for as many as three minutes after the shooting.

"I believe he was alive one to 10 minutes after he was shot. His heart was beating until there was no blood left," Bao said.

Dr. Bao is dropping another bombshell -- his attorney is preparing a $100 million lawsuit.

Through his high-profile attorney, he claims the medical examiner, state attorney's office, and Sanford Police Department were all biased against Martin.

"He says their general attitude was that he got what he deserved," Attorney Willie Gary told Channel 9.

Gary said Dr. Bao was made to be a scapegoat and was wrongfully fired from the medical examiner's office. He said his client was prepared to offer proof that Martin was not the aggressor.

"He was in essence told to zip his lips. 'Shut up. Don't say those things,'" Gary said.

Gary said prosecutors never asked Dr. Bao a question crucial to their case.

"He wanted a question that would have allowed him to explain to the jury with scientific evidence how there was no way Trayvon Martin could have been on top of George Zimmerman," Gary said.

Gary said that question never came.

 

[bhsup]

I am curious as to why he is only saying all of this now that he's been fired. Why didn't he tell the press about this 'question' right after the case had been decided? Oh, that's right, he's suing for $100 million now.

 

[civ_king]

What you continue to show is that you will believe virtually anything if it supports your own preconceived notions.

If poor George Zimmerman was again in fear of his life, this time from being viciously assaulted with an iPad, why didn't he "stand his ground" and put Shellie down? She wasn't wearing a hoodie at the time? Why did he have to destroy it? Because it might attack him on its own?

"Wow, you can't let this go huh?"

I doubt he was in fear for his life. I'm pretty sure there are reasons why some might refuse to shoot their spouse even if they hate them as long as they weren't in fear for their life.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Glad you caught the obvious sarcasm.

But what makes you think that wrestling with someone when there are witnesses around would ever cause Zimmerman to be "in fear for his life", especially when he knew the police would soon be there?

Someone who would punch a middle-aged / elderly man in the face in the home he was gracious enough to allow George to stay in, while destroying an iPad because it was recording what he was doing?

"Dad, get inside the house! George might start shooting at us, I don’t know,"

"He’s just threatening all of us with his firearm, and he’s gonna shoot us," she said on the call. "He punched my dad in the nose, my dad has a mark on his face, I saw his glasses on the floor. He accosted my father, and took my iPad out of my hand, and smashed it and cut it with a pocket knife."

"Zimmerman is a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen," the resident, Santiago Rodriguez, told Bracknell in his first email, seeking an explanation for why Lake Mary officers did not charge Zimmerman.

"Your reference to Sandy Hook … I agree," Bracknell replied.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am curious as to why he is only saying all of this now that he's been fired. Why didn't he tell the press about this 'question' right after the case had been decided? Oh, that's right, he's suing for $100 million now.

Sad but true. Sounds like another fine specimen of a human.

 

[Azurian]

Wait, Zimmerman was involved in another episode?

The Medical Examiner may sue for 100 million, but I doubt he would receive even a couple million if he wins.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Zimmerman's wife suspects he wasn't innocent based on his behavior and threats towards her and her father since the trial.

(HLN) -- George Zimmerman's estranged wife said Thursday that while she respects the jury's not guilty verdict in his second-degree murder trial, she now has doubts about his innocence.

"I believe the evidence, but this revelation in my life has really helped me to take the blinders off and start to see things differently," Shellie Zimmerman told NBC's Matt Lauer on the "Today" show. Zimmerman was referring to the couple's struggles since the verdict, including an ugly spat earlier this month that resulted in police being called -- and headlines being made.

"I think anyone would doubt that innocence because I don't know the person that I have been married to," she said.

George Zimmerman was acquitted on July 13 in the death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman told police he shot the teen in self-defense.

Despite her doubts about her husband's innocence, Shellie Zimmerman said she believes he did not profile the teen, who is black.

"So had Trayvon Martin been white, you think the night would have ended in the same tragic fashion?" Matt Lauer asked.

"Yes, I do," she said.

Shellie Zimmerman called 911 just days after filing for divorce, claiming her estranged husband punched her father in the nose, took her iPad out of her hands, smashed it and cut it with a pocket knife.

She also said the former neighborhood watch volunteer threatened her and her father with a weapon. She stands by that story, despite police saying they never saw or confiscated a gun at the scene.

"I did not see a gun, but I saw -- I know my husband. I saw him in a stance and a look in his eyes that I have never seen before," she said. "His shirt was halfway unbuttoned and he was putting his hand in his shirt and saying, 'Please step closer, please step closer,' so I think that logically I assumed he had a gun on him."

Shellie Zimmerman has not pressed charges but police are still investigating the case. They say it could take months to recover video evidence from the damaged iPad.

While she stood by her man through his trial and the months of living "like gypsies" in the woods leading up to it, she said everything changed after the verdict.

"He just kind of treated me like I was disposable ... after standing by him," Shellie Zimmerman said. "He kind of left and I guess kind of went on a victory tour without me, and I thought that I was living a life with him and that we were going to kind of rebuild after all of this, (but) he had other plans for me."

Meanwhile Zimmerman's brother continues to try to get even more doses of 15 minutes of internet fame:

Conservative activist Ben Shapiro says George Zimmerman’s brother backs his Ritz Crackers boycott

Conservative activist Ben Shapiro breathlessly announced an endorsement Friday of his boycott of Ritz Crackers.

The Breitbart News editor and author called for the boycott because the snack food advertises during the MSNBC program hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who Shapiro chides for referring to white people using the word “cracker” in a 1994 speech.

The boycott drew at least one semi-famous supporter in Robert Zimmerman Jr., brother of the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in July of manslaughter in the fatal shooting 2012 of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

“There is perhaps no one more undeserving of the title ‘Reverend’ in the world than Al Sharpton,” said Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman.

Shapiro hyped the announcement by saying that Robert Zimmerman, who has appeared on cable news programs to suggest the 17-year-old killed by his brother was a drug dealer and had purchased guns illegally, spoke to him exclusively.

“It is clear to me that inciting and promoting racial discord have proven far too profitable vehicles of wealth for Sharpton to abandon on his own but we can force the hand of his sponsors and send a message that he can’t ignore by hurting him where he’s bound to feel it — his wallet,” Robert Zimmerman said.

A petition drive associated with the boycott has drawn just over 8,400 signatures, although it doesn’t demand anything more specific than telling “advertisers to stop backing Al Sharpton.”

How ironic. You can't make this stuff up.

And far-right propaganda sites are incensed by the latest South Park, which are being led by a "zany" tin foil hat conspirator in their latest witch hunt against common sense:

SOUTH PARK' JUST 'WRONG' ABOUT ZIMMERMAN

“South Park had it absolutely wrong and it’s really a shame because they are one of the few sources of common sense on the mainstream media,” Cashill declared to WND.

Cashill believes there are a couple reasons that the creators of South Park decided to follow the politically correct view of the controversy, instead of upholding their “contrarian” reputation.

“Two reasons: A. They might’ve not known enough about the case and B. This is an area that frightens them. If they’re going to take this on, they have to be careful, more careful than if they were taking on Muslims or Barbara Streisand or Mormons. If they’re going to make fun of Mormons, try making fun of an angry mob of thousands of black people!” Cashill reasoned. “That’s what bothered me about the episode is that South Park usually takes the contrarian point of view, but here they did not – they took the tried and true.”

In “If I Had A Son”, Cashill tells the inside story of how, as the result of a tragic encounter with troubled 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the media turned Zimmerman into a white racist vigilante, “the most hated man in America.”

“If I Had A Son” tells how for the first time in the history of American jurisprudence, a state government, the U.S. Department of Justice, the White House, the major media, the entertainment industry and the vestiges of the civil rights movement conspired to put an innocent man in prison for the rest of his life.

All that stood between Zimmerman and lifetime internment were two folksy local lawyers, their aides, and some very dedicated citizen journalists, most notably an unpaid handful of truth seekers at the blogging collective known as the Conservative Treehouse.

“If I Had A Son” tells the story, too, of the six stalwart female jurors who ignored the enormous pressure mounting around them and preserved America’s judicial system.

In the wake of the verdict that acquitted Zimmerman of charges from Martin’s shooting, skeptics in the Martin camp claimed that the state of Florida did not play to win. In the course of his research, Cashill came across some startling evidence which suggests that those skeptics may indeed be right.

“If I Had A Son” is the one and only comprehensive look at the most politically significant trial in decades.

 

[Kyriakos]

Why exactly was this bumped again? :/

And to say something more than just that: Is there anything to gain from reading more stuff on Zimmerman, including a 'south-park' episode mocking him? Really, south-park is now something anyone wishes to support?...

 

[peter grimes]

I think, perhaps, South Park's satire hit a little too close to home for Cashill.


Full Disclosure: I don't know all the details of the Zimmerman Affair, nor have I seen World War Zimmerman or World War Z.

 

[JollyRoger]

Isn't WND the rag that is still going full birther?

 

[Formaldehyde]

I think, perhaps, South Park's satire hit a little too close to home for Cashill.

It is almost as though Cashill was parodying himself:

If they’re going to make fun of Mormons, try making fun of an angry mob of thousands of black people!”

Outbreak of the Worst Kind: World War Zimmerman

 

[woody60707]

Good to see this will never die.

 

[JollyRoger]

Unless it ends up getting stalked by Zimmerman.

 

[Berzerker]

do you know why Zimmerman is innocent?

because he sustained numerous injuries before using the gun

how do you explain that if you think he was planning to use the gun before he "stalked" Martin? Yeah, I hunted a kid down and shot him with my gun, I just let him pound my head into the ground a few times before I pulled the trigger.

The guy was trying to give the police he called the approximate location of the suspect - after the police dispatcher asked him where the suspect went. The kid stood at the T out of sight and ambushed Zimmerman when he walked back thru it towards his truck. Now the last part is my interpretation but we do know the scuffle lasted a while before the gun was used.

And I pray the scum at (MS)NBC gets sued for libel and loses big time.

 

[JollyRoger]

 

[Berzerker]

I hope Z laughs all the way to the bank

 

[JollyRoger]

I think he already did that when skimming his legal defense fund.

 

[Rashiminos]

do you know why Zimmerman is innocent?

Zimmerman wasn't provably innocent, just not provably guilty either.

 

[Berzerker]

he was provably innocent

if he was stalking Martin he wouldn't have waited to use the gun

thats all the proof I need

 

[Rashiminos]

he was provably innocent

if he was stalking Martin he wouldn't have waited to use the gun

thats all the proof I need

Here we hope you don't work in law enforcement or the judicial system.