Zimmerman and Ketman

[bonnie]

Zimmerman and Ketman

By Jeff Lipkes

The most interesting question at this point in the Trayvon Martin case may be who believes the Party line and why.

As for the incident itself, after the case became the latest and noisiest cause célèbre of the left, the police released seven 911 tapes on March 16, and then disclosed further details from their investigation to the Orlando Sentinel on March 26. All are a couple of clicks away, and until the Seminole County Grand Jury convenes on April 10, or the special prosecutor files charges, which may happen earlier, any account of what happened has to be based on what the tapes disclose.

Of the 911 calls, only two are from actual eyewitnesses: a man identified as "John," who later spoke with the Orlando Sentinel and the local Fox station, and George Zimmerman.

"John" told police that he saw two men on the ground, fighting. The one on top, beating the one underneath, was Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, in a red sweater, was yelling "Help, help!" You can hear his screams on other 911 tapes. A tape was played for Martin's father, and he confirmed that the voice crying for help was not his son's.

The Zimmerman call runs for four minutes and twelve seconds. He reports seeing a suspicious character in his gated community. Despite the relentless focus on the hoodie, what disturbs the neighborhood watch captain is Martin's behavior, not his clothes. It was raining, according to Zimmerman and at least one other 911 caller, but the teenager is not walking briskly and purposefully, as people tend to do in the rain. He seems to be wandering aimlessly, as if on drugs, looking at the houses. Zimmerman then reports, nervously, that the guy is staring at him, then coming toward him, his hand concealed in his waistband. At about 1:42 on the tape, he can no longer see him. "The assholes always get away," he mutters. At about 2:15, he spots the guy in the distance, running. He starts following him, and the dispatcher tells him that he doesn't need to do this. "OK, he replies (2:29). "He ran," he says under his breath ten seconds later. At 3:38, asked for his address, he hesitates. "I don't know where this kid is," he says. Zimmerman proceeds to give directions to the dispatcher, asks police to meet him at his truck near the mailboxes, then requests that he be called when the cops have come through the gate.

According to Zimmerman's later testimony, he had returned to his truck and was waiting for the police when he was surprised by Martin. The teen asked him if he had a problem. When Zimmerman said "no" and reached for his cell phone, Martin punched him in the face. Zimmerman fell to the ground; Martin jumped on top of him and began slamming his head against the sidewalk.

Zimmerman was not arrested for the simple reason that the physical evidence corroborated his testimony and "John's." According to the police, he had a bloody nose, a swollen lip, lacerations on the back of his head, and scuff-marks or grass stains on the back of his jersey. The police had no reason to believe that these were self-inflicted. If Zimmerman's statement is accurate, Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, the subject of so much vitriol, may not have been relevant; it applies to individuals who are standing, not lying on their back being beaten. In no state do you not have a right to defend yourself with lethal force if your head is being slammed into concrete.

A key piece of evidence not disclosed so far is where Zimmerman's truck was parked. If it was close to where police found Martin's body, this would support his version. Even more interesting when it's released will be the paramedics' report. ABC has featured a police surveillance video which, they initially claimed, shows no injuries to Zimmerman. Embarrassed by a high-definition version on Breitbart.com, the network enhanced the video, and it now shows "what appear to be a pair of gashes or welts on George Zimmerman's head."

The case for the prosecution, repeated ad nauseam, rests on the assumption that Zimmerman ignored the advice of the dispatcher and continued to follow the teenager, then cornered him and shot him. Though assiduously searching the tape for a racial epithet, and seizing, in lieu of one, on "the assholes always get away," reporters and commentators apparently haven't registered that this comment would seem to indicate that Zimmerman has lost sight of Martin. Zimmerman agrees not to follow the teen, and by 2:39 on the tape, he has again lost sight of him. The one eyewitness account also clearly contradicts the claim that the neighborhood watchman stalked his prey and gunned him down.

The way in which the story has been spun by the media should not surprise anyone who remembers earlier National Hate campaigns: the Tawana Brawley, Duke lacrosse team, Jena 6, and Jared Loughner cases. Five-year-old pictures of Martin were repeatedly shown. Photos of the 6'2" or 3" seventeen-year-old wearing gold teeth, sporting two prominent tattoos, and making gang signs, readily available on the internet, were suppressed, as were other images from his Myspace and Twitter accounts, where he called himself "No_Limit_Nigga."

Also missing was any background on the teenager. He happened to be in Sanford because he'd been suspended from his high school in Miami for ten days on suspicion of selling marijuana. (His brother seemed to believe that he had punched a bus driver.) This was Martin's third suspension. Last October, he was caught with twelve pieces of woman's jewelry, a man's watch, and a flat-head screwdriver. He told authorities that a friend had given him the jewelry, but he couldn't identify the friend. When this information was released, the family and left-wing commentators accused those responsible of smearing the teenage martyr.

The media were no more unbiased in their identification of Zimmerman. The one photo invariably shown of him has been a police mugshot from 2005. No images of George as a cute twelve-year-old. His brushes with the law were publicized: he had beenarrested for pushing an officer who was trying to arrest a friend in a bar. He was the subject of a restraining order filed by his ex-fiancée; he filed one against her as well. His wages were garnished in a dispute with a credit card company.

Zimmerman was also described repeatedly for many days as a "white man," though, as is clear in his picture, he is half-Hispanic. His mother is Peruvian. (This has provoked endless discussions about the term. Of course "Hispanic" is not a race, but comparatively few immigrants from Latin America are of solely European ancestry. The dispatcher initially asks Zimmerman: "Is he black, white, or Hispanic?" "Asian" was not an option.)

Above all, Zimmerman has invariably been represented as an overzealous cop-wannabe, a nutcase who had made forty-six 911 calls in a year. The calls, it turns out, were over a period of eight years, and, like the call he made on the night of February 26, they were to a non-emergency number. Police did not consider the number of calls excessive. Zimmerman has been characterized repeatedly as a "self-appointed" neighborhood watch captain, as if any volunteer in a hospital or animal shelter is not also self-appointed. It turns out he was not on patrol that night, but was, like Martin, returning from the store.

Now comes the part of the story that has been scrupulously avoided by the national media.

Zimmerman's concern about a young black male stranger has been represented as pure racism -- that is to say, paranoia. This is the assumption that frames the entire narrative spun by the media. The corollary is that across the nation, young black males, especially those who choose to wear hoodies, are being targeted by white vigilantes. The Rambos are armed and dangerous, and it's open season on young black males. (For the genteel WaPo version of this Sharpton charge, see this column.)

Is this what's happening?

At the very beginning of his 911 call, Zimmerman tells the operator that there have been a lot of break-ins recently. In fact, there were eight burglaries in the previous fifteen months. Where the intruders were identified, most were young black males, including two who invaded the home of a young mother and tried to break into the bedroom she had locked herself into with her infant son. This must have been a terrifying experience, but it was not of interest to the MSM. Zimmerman met with the woman afterward.

Is Twin Lakes in Sanford an anomaly?

Like the 911 calls, Justice Department statistics are a click or two away.

Between 1976 and 2005, African-Americans, 12.6% of the population in the last census, committed 52.2% of all homicides.

That is, over the 30-year period, African-Americans committed murder at about 7.33 times the white rate. (Whites here include Hispanics.)

Of homicides committed by strangers, on average, 18.77% involved blacks killing whites, while in 5.08% of the cases, whites killed blacks. African-Americans were therefore nearly 3.7 times more likely to kill a white than a white to kill a black

To provide some raw numbers, in 2005, the last year for which the DOJ statistics are available, 10,285 African-Americans committed murders. As 8.8% of these were "black on white," there were, assuming only one death per murderer, 905 whites killed, almost 2.5 per day. In the same year, again assuming one killing per perpetrator, 267 blacks were murdered by whites (3.2% of 8,350 killings).

Crime is a young man's métier. The vast majority of the 52.2% of U.S. murders committed by African-Americans are the work of the roughly 2% of the population who are black males between the ages of 15 and 25.

Would these figures, courtesy of Eric Holder, surprise most Americans?

Not if you scroll down to the comments in local papers below stories of murders, like this one on March 31.

Not if you judge by demographic trends since the 1960s.

But this is a subject that cannot be mentioned by the national media. With rare exceptions, when blacks kill whites, it's local news.

One of the exceptions was Eve Carson, student body president of UNC, killed by two African-American men on March 5, 2008. Another white student, Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn, was kidnapped and killed by a black man the day before, but because of Carson's position, her record of public service and academic accomplishments, and, no doubt, her attractiveness, the story was picked up. But not by Barrack Obama. Less than two weeks later, the candidate gave his famous oration on race, dubbed "A More Perfect Union" by an admiring media. Eve Carson was not mentioned. Instead, Obama called out his white grandmother, who once confessed to him that she sometimes feared "black men who passed her in the street." But despite this display of raw racism, the benevolent senator said that he was not willing to "disown" Madelyn Dunham, just as he refused to disown Jeremiah Wright for his inflammatory comments.

Even when there's been a widespread outbreak of violence by young African-Americans, as in the flash-mobs of last summer, where scores of European-Americans were attacked in more than half a dozen cities, it's not going to be discussed in "the paper of record" or the non-Fox channels -- only among the local outlets. And from the president, other politicians, editorialists and op-ed writers, and commentators on TV, come the sounds of silence. There are no demonstrations by activists protesting the violation of the civil rights of the victims, and no hand-wringing by African-American leaders.

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[phkrause]

Interesting article Bonnie, here's another one I came across today:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tray...-175656087.html

[Woody]

Thanks Bonnie. This is most interesting.

[Guest]

Good article.

[bonnie]

Interesting article Bonnie, here's another one I came across today:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tray...-175656087.html

It really isn't going to matter much now how many articles come out.A young black teen is dead and the damage is done to Zimmerman.

Regardless of what comes out now,NBC and ABC retraction and the more complete stories coming out it will forever more be in the minds of many a murder of a black teen only because he was black. The rush to declare this racial and all the politicians,the bounty,posting addresses of innocent people have laid the groundwork for real trouble if the conclusion is not what the likes of Jackson and Sharpton want.If someone else ends up dead in this would they even have the slightest bit of remorse? .I don't think so.A very real possibility. If a white person ends up dead,especially Zimmerman it will be declared justice.If a black person ends up dead,it will be "war on blacks" on steroids"

Without any real indication this was a racial crime the race baiters and the real racists have been doing what they can to

to further their own ends.

If you don't agree it is a racial crime,then you are the racist.

[Woody]

Originally Posted By: pkrause

Interesting article Bonnie, here's another one I came across today:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tray...-175656087.html

It really isn't going to matter much now how many articles come out.A young black teen is dead and the damage is done to Zimmerman.

Regardless of what comes out now,NBC and ABC retraction and the more complete stories coming out it will forever more be in the minds of many a murder of a black teen only because he was black. The rush to declare this racial and all the politicians,the bounty,posting addresses of innocent people have laid the groundwork for real trouble if the conclusion is not what the likes of Jackson and Sharpton want.If someone else ends up dead in this would they even have the slightest bit of remorse? .I don't think so.A very real possibility. If a white person ends up dead,especially Zimmerman it will be declared justice.If a black person ends up dead,it will be "war on blacks" on steroids"

Without any real indication this was a racial crime the race baiters and the real racists have been doing what they can to

to further their own ends.

If you don't agree it is a racial crime,then you are the racist.

Exactly. Point on Bonnie.

[bonnie]

Gets a little tiring

If you(general) say you believe the homosexual lifestyle is wrong your homophobic.First you have to give a litany of like sins that you believe are wrong and definitely worse and then possibly you can be considered maybe a christain.

If you think all those that can work should work when and where possible,regardless of their skin color,you want poor people to starve.

If a story is made known and you do not agree it must be racist,you are absolutely a racist.

Especially if you do not spend your lifetime apologizing for the sins of the past and others.

That means you are insensitive at best.

If you can't accept poverty of minorities as a sin caused by whites and an excuse for criminal behavior then you really are unchristian and racist.

Most people create their own poverty by bad choices. Some don't,life blindsides many but it is not my fault because I am white.

Generally speaking the biggest sin of all is to have formed an opinion.

[Woody]

Quote:

is not my fault because I am white.

[Dr. Rich]

Gets a little tiring

If you(general) say you believe the homosexual lifestyle is wrong your homophobic.First you have to give a litany of like sins that you believe are wrong and definitely worse and then possibly you can be considered maybe a christain.

If you think all those that can work should work when and where possible,regardless of their skin color,you want poor people to starve.

If a story is made known and you do not agree it must be racist,you are absolutely a racist.

Especially if you do not spend your lifetime apologizing for the sins of the past and others.

That means you are insensitive at best.

If you can't accept poverty of minorities as a sin caused by whites and an excuse for criminal behavior then you really are unchristian and racist.

Most people create their own poverty by bad choices. Some don't,life blindsides many but it is not my fault because I am white.

Generally speaking the biggest sin of all is to have formed an opinion.

As Sarah Palen would say, Ubetcha But then look what the media did to her.

[Guest]

Rich, who let you in here? I didn't know you had access to politics.

This is a mistake right? Where's Shane when you need him?

SHANE!!!

:)

[phkrause]

Rich, who let you in here? I didn't know you had access to politics.

This is a mistake right? Where's Shane when you need him?

SHANE!!!

good one richard