Many around the country were glued to the television when it was announced that the jury had reached a verdict in the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. If you do not know, Zimmerman killed the 17-year old in self defense, while Martin was only walking down the street eating skittles and wearing his hood up. Just like all of us, lots of NBA players were also tuned in to see if Martin would get his justice.
Turns out, Zimmerman walked out a free man and was announced innocent by the jury.
Look below at what some players around the association thought of what occurred tonight as the Zimmerman trial came to an end.
Not guilty wow smh
— cj watson (@quietstorm_32) July 14, 2013
But Ocho Cinco went to jail for….nah I’m chillin !! — Marshon S. Brooks (@Marshon2) July 14, 2013
Our justice system is broken! Attorneys skills are deciding cases, might as well be sport, theatre. Justice should be more thorough. #Reform — Royce White (@Highway_30) July 14, 2013
America justice system is a joke.
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) July 14, 2013
Knew Zimmerman was walkin!
— Jordan Craig Hill (@jordanchill43) July 14, 2013
Our Judicial system failed us today not an black or white thing but an right thing you heard the case….#Crazy#Bogus — Caron Butler (@realtuffjuice) July 14, 2013
I don’t understand the law…. — Aaron Brooks (@Thirty2zero) July 14, 2013
Zimmerman got off? that’s crazyyy
— Kendall Marshall (@KButter5) July 14, 2013
As you can see, many, if not all were shocked with the verdict. As it surprised all of us, it seemed like it shook a lot of NBA players to their core. Many questioned the judicial system and Zimmerman overall. Also, it makes you re-think a lot of things to when a young child gets shot, as some players have one.
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I wonder how many of those who commented, actually followed the case and evidence closely, or had already made up their mind, as seems to be true of most in the Twitter World.
This case never should have gone to trial. There was never evidence to support that a skilled High School football Linebacker, chose not to continue to walk or run home (1 football field), but rather hung around and used his Linebacker skills to bring George to the pavement (like he would a quarterback) and threatened to kill him. All George was doing was to report the Suspect to the police, so he could be questioned, but once the Suspect started playing “games” by doubling around and hiding until George got off the telephone, George had to at least make sure the police would come to the right location, and find the Suspect.
Every single viewer of this incident should have asked themselves, WHY would Zimmerman, knowing that the police were coming any moment, want to attack his Suspect? Never made any sense. And George’s voice was filled with fear on the 911 call, not some Charles Bronson Vigilante.
Trayvon had stolen jewelry at his home, damaging videos on his cell phone that the prosecution refused to release (until a whistle blower came forward – just before before being fired yesterday). Trayvon seemed to be wearing something on his waistband (George feared was a weapon), so George proceeded carefully, while talking with the police dispatcher, and his side arm properly holstered, the whole time. Had there been a need for a re-trial, all of this would have been presented, truly tarnishing Trayvon’s memory. Atty. O’Mara showed class not to use the Marijuana evidence.
All George wanted to do is to wait until the police came, so that they could question the suspicious person, acting very strangely, just 2 weeks after a frightening break in at the complex by teenagers fitting the same description (is it Profiling to follow the evidence?)
The real question now is whether the State Prosecutor (I forget her name) who orchestrated this effort and withheld evidence, as well as and the Sanford City Manager (or the Mayor), who fired the Police Chief and improperly played the 911 audio, will be fired after an investigation. Repeatedly the Police Chief said there wasn’t enough evidence to bring charges. Instead the Media and special interest groups chose to make this into a National Race issue, and inflamed the nation.
Shame, Shame on the Media – for allowing people like Al Sharpton (and all of MSNBC who were almost in Silence with the Verdict) to a lying Pierce Morgan on CNN, who wanted Zimmerman to pay a price, just for “the cause”, to a totally INSANE Nacy Grace on HLN and Dr. Drew, who continued to put the Racist Ms Ali on every night. I normally don’t watch Fox News, but that was the only place to see Fair & Balanced coverage, especially by Geraldo Rivera.
The real shame is that you can watch a case in which the only other true witness was killed that night and still think that we should believe everything that his murderer says and consider that fact. Even though he told several different accounts of what happened. Maybe you didn’t watch the case. I wonder if this was your child would you be saying the same thing. There was no fear in the voice of Zimmerman on the phone, most normal people without an appetite to kill don’t go following things they fear in the dark. But when you are on the side of privilege it’s easy to live in denial. Just because he got off doesn’t mean his accounts are true, he just so happened to murder the only other witness. This should be concerning for woman in Florida who want to go for a jog in the evening, just know that someone can follow you, engage you, start a fight, you can then defend yourself as if you are fighting for your life, and they then have the right to kill you in “self defense”. Sad day in America.
I wonder if You watched the case, because like everyone else including the Lawyers on TV who argue for Trayvon, as you do, use the same line of reasoning – Emotion, and not facts.
I followed entire case very, very closely, as well as all the evidence that wasn’t allowed to be shown to the jurors, like the stolen jewelry on Travon’s bed and the fighting videos on Trayvon’s cell phone. The State attorney was corrupt, and she could be disbarred for her actions, for withholding evidence.
George DID have fear in his voice when talking to non-emergency Operator. He would have been dead if he didn’t have a weapon.
And there were ZERO clear inconsistencies in his story, despite the fact he wouldn’t be normal (per police detective) if he same the story exactly the same each time.
Inconsistencies include saying Trayvon came out of the Bushes, but as it turns out there was a tool, that is used to break into cars, found in the nearby bushes (not brought up be defense).
In one interview George said he never heard of “Stand you ground”, but it was never revealed in the testimony (a blunder by the lawyers?) whether George’s Instructor used the term, or did he just call it the “Castle Doctrine” as it was specifically named?
Certainly George knew what self-defense was – just common sense law in Florida.
Anyone who doesn’t know the details I am citing, obviously didn’t follow the case closely, but rather are resorting to emotional “catch phrases”, and not armed with the facts.
Trayvon a young child? He was 17! Younger people than him have murdered people.
He was a star football Linebacker, and what are Linebackers trained to do?: Bring down people with lightning speed. It was unethical for the media to keep portraying an Angelic child, by showing photos of him at age 13.
However, I can understand why most basketball players identified with this case. Its unfortunate that dark skinned young males have to fear being profiled. The root cause of the problem is that there are too many bad Apples that are spoiling the Bushel. Until that is acknowledged, this problem will continue.
Everyone who wishes to comment, should at least know ALL the details of the case and be able to present a plausible scenario. The prosecution sure couldn’t. They tried to rely on only emotion to try to sway the Jury. Some legal experts said that too was unethical. The Prosecution is supposed to represent the truth.