Plenty of kooks and scumbags in this story. There's the shooter himself, who comes across as erratic (maybe mentally ill?); there are the people on his side, who've spun out some crazy notions of why their boy is the innocent victim here, not the dead kid; then there are the dung-slinging wingnuts from Newt Gingrich on down to the lowest cave-dwelling racist assholes who bring on the batshit in ways that make Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann seem rational.
Of course, It's All Obama's Fault!
[NOTE: Somehow most of the links got mangled while I was putting the dump together. This has been fixed]
Here we go:
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17-year-old Martin was on suspension from school in Miami (bag w/pot residue); he was staying in a gated community (apartments?) with his father's GF; walking home from C-store w/Skittles and a drink, was stalked by shooter, then chased; some sort of scuffle/confrontation, then he was shot; shooter claims "self-defense" [wingnuts say shooter had right to "stand his ground" but the kid, threatened by someone armed and bigger, didn't have the same right, even though he was close to home]
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killer's father a retired judge; makes us wonder whether the cops refused to charge Zimmerman because the judge wanted the matter to go away.
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map of gated community where Martin lived and died
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cops tried to coach a witness into changing her story
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kid was shot in late Feb 2012; body kept in cooler for 3 days before parents notified [link somewhere down below]
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wingnuts (including Bankrupt Check-Bouncing Failure Newt Gingrich) blame the kid for his own murder
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shooter was self-appointed Neighborhood Watch (and ARMED, when NW folks are specifically told they're not cops); called 911 frequently in 2011 for meaningless things like trash in street--
and a suspicious 7-9 year old
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the shooter was told to back off by the 911 dispatcher
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the Zimmerman media circus
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shitstorm picks up as people start claiming shooter said "fucking coons"
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Obama speaks out; Gingrich the Bankrupt Failure and other wingnuts screech at him
for pandering; Frothy goes to a shooting range campaign event; stupid woman tells him "Pretend it's Obama!"
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faux noise commenters do their usual racist shit-throwing
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Geraldo "The Moustache" Rivera says if the kid wasn't wearing a hoodie, he wouldn't have been shot
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'witness' claims he saw Martin beating on the shooter, says shooting was self defense [3/23/12]
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Gun Owners of America supports 'witness' and 'self-defense' claim, supports the "stand your ground" gun laws
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PBS holds roundtable on the killing
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Breitard claims kid's photo was 'lightened' to make him look 'innocent' (and picks fight with LGF blogger)
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a different Trayvon Martin's pic used to smear the kid
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convenient 'black friend' of shooter claims Zimmerman said "fucking goons,' it's what the kids call each other these days when they like each other [3/25/12]
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Stand Your Ground, Castle Doctrine--and now what?
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Daily Kos tag roundup
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Killer 'can't stop crying'
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NOLA cop --under investigation for fatal shooting)--to Trayvon: "Act like a thug, die like a thug"
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Miami Herald makes excuses, claims shooter thought Trayvon looked "drugged out" (so smoking pot is a capital offense? Doesn't editorializing belong on the OPINION page?)
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wingnut dickhead says Obama "lynching" shooter
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investigator wanted to charge shooter with manslaughter, was instructed not to
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faux noise commenters go racist (again) (they had a field day with Whitney Houston's death)
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not to be outdone, Breitard commenters go even more batshit racist against Trayvon
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shooter's lawyer abandons chair, runs out on "The Last Word"; chair footage for an entire segment (Lawrence grills it at one point; chair refuses comment)
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shooter's "buddy" Oliver grilled on "The Last Word"; his claims all fall apart (he's a coworker, didn't know him all that well, hadn't seen him in awhile)
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shooter claims he was attacked; broken nose, blood on his face and back of his head from being beaten up by the kid--but police video calls bullshit on that
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funeral director says no injuries on Trayvon's hands (he didn't put up a fight)
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shooter's father claims Martin told shooter, "you're gonna die now" or "you're gonna die tonight"
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keeps blowing up: Trayvon Martin was identified but kept as John Doe until his father filed a Missing Persons report; shooter didn't have blood or broken nose; cops didn't drop the ball so much as put it down and walk away from it
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Spike Lee fucks up, reposts incorrect address for shooter posted by some Twitter dumbass (the address was was actually that of a 70-year-old woman and her 72 year-old husband; they had to bug out because of all the hate mail, phone calls, and visits in the middle of the night).
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wingnut bullies target children
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Snowbilly makes desperate attempt to be relevant, says Obama "orchestrated" his remarks on Trayvon.
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Longer video of shooter's arrival at PD
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breitards say Hispanics--and the shooter--aren't white
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wingnut blames Obama for "Kill Zimmerman" Twitter account
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shooter's pearl-clutching father: "so much hate coming from the President"
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the Gated Community mentality
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Trayvon Martin: License to Kill
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Roseanne Barr joins the "let's post people's addresses online" club, deletes her post, claims she thought Twitter was private
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Spike Lee apologizes, settles with couple whose address he posted
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Rep. Bobby Rush removed from House floor for wearing a hoodie; scumbag Allen "One-Term Lying War Criminal" West lies about it
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more racist scumbaggery from the Breitards
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forensics experts: shooter wasn't screaming for help
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moron says forensics experts don't know how to do their job, says they can't use screams to identify shooter vs. Martin
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Breitards start deleting some racist comments, after a week
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If Martin had been white and the shooter black
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a view of Trayvon from the UK (why the US is an insane police state)
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Breitards still racist scumbags after another week (4-5-12)
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Neo-Nazis "patrolling" Sanford, FL in case race riot breaks out
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fox affiliate in Orlando calls Nazis a "civil rights" group--then they delete the page and rewrite it as "White rights group" and edit that to finally say "Neo-Nazi group"
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Sanford, FL puts National Guard on standby
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a look at sloppy copwork in Sanford, FL (the Martin case is just the latest)
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shooter fan defaces a black cultural center at OSU
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shooter launches fundraising website
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Grand Jury will not get the case; it's in the Special Prosecutor's hands, but there won't be a 1st Degree Murder charge (4-9-12). Could still try him on manslaughter.
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this isn't the first time "stand your ground" has farked things up--in OK, a man was killed in 2010 by a robber, who was allowed to walk because he was "attacked" first. The "attacker's" son and an older friend went on a shooting spree, killing 5 black people who had nothing to do with his father's death (4/2012)
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America's stooopitest blogger says spree-killer was "understandably upset"
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smug yuppie Mark Judge of Daily Caller casts off his chains of "white guilt" 'cos someone stole his bicycle
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Idaho's lone black lawmaker receiving klan mailings
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racist dirtbags whining that criticism is "leftist censorship"
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shooter's lawyers drop him, say he's been unreachable, not in FL, been ignoring advice to STFU, going to the media (specifically Hannity) and trying to call the Special Prosecutor. His website stunt was the last straw.
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NBC fires producer who heavily edited 911 audio
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school fires literature teacher who encouraged kids' Trayvon fundraiser
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shooter's family says US Attorney General Eric Holder protecting "New Black Panthers" because Holder is black
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shooter's family makes awkward literary reference, comparing shooter to the Tom Robinson character from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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bonus conspiracy red meat from a Daily Caller reader--Obama, Trayvon, Sharpton, Jackson, and Eric Holder are working with the NEW BLACK PANTHERS!!!11! and the shooter stumbled onto it! Obama's building a blah militia!!
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shots fired at empty cop car in Sanford
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shooter charged with 2nd Degree Murder (4-12-2012)
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shooter's new lawyer's best defense should be to
SHUT UP (awww, he can't go into a 7/11 without being recognized)
