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Man given George Zimmerman’s old phone number gets threats
A man assigned the old phone number of a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager is seeking compensation, after a rash of threatening calls. Junior Alexander Guy, 49, got his first cell phone last month. Immediately he was besieged by callers angry at George Zimmerman. “You murderer!” “You deserve…
U.S. civil rights commission to investigate ‘stand your ground’ laws for racial bias
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted on Friday to review so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws nationwide to determine if they have a racial bias. According to Ryan J. Reilly of Talking Points Memo, the commission voted 5-3 in favor of reviewing laws like the one cited as a defense…
Zimmerman team requests new bond hearing as donations to defense fund spike
Attorneys for George Zimmmerman, Jr., the Florida man who fatally shot teenager Trayvon Martin earlier this year, are requesting a second bond hearing after they admitted that their client lied to the court about his financial situation, according to Think Progress. The defense team has asked the court to put…
Zimmerman returns to jail after bail revoke
A neighborhood watch volunteer accused of shooting dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida was in jail Monday after a judge revoked his bail for allegedly misleading the court. George Zimmerman, 28, faces second degree murder charges over the death of Trayvon Martin, 17, who was heading home from a…
Florida judge orders Zimmerman back to jail
At a hearing Friday afternoon, Seminole County Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. revoked a bond keeping George Zimmerman out of jail, giving him 48 hours to surrender to authorities and return to jail pending his criminal trial. Prosecutors claimed that Zimmerman had “misrepresented” his financial situation and “deceived the…
Southern Baptist ‘ethics chief’ reprimanded for racial remarks and plagiarism
Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, was officially reprimanded twice on Friday and had his radio show canceled following a series of racial remarks and about Trayvon Martin’s slaying and evidence that he had plagiarized conservative publications. “We reprimand Dr. Land for…
Four George Zimmerman witnesses change their stories
Four key witnesses for George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin in February, made major charges to their stories of the incident in what could be a key moment in the second-degree murder case. According to The Orlando Sentinel, the witnesses were reinterviewed in mid-March after…
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin was ‘dressed in thugwear’
Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera once again offered some critical opinions of Trayvon Martin’s attire on the night of his death Friday, labeling the late teenager’s attire as “thugwear.” Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor, Rivera dismissed the focus on new evidence released by special prosecutor Angela Corey that revealed Martin…
Cenk Uygur: America is ‘sick in the head with guns’
Friday night on Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” host Cenk Uygur charged that there’s one party in the Trayvon Martin slaying that is truly, undeniably guilty, but it isn’t a person. “Guns are the real problem,” he said. Rolling recently released store camera video of 17-year-old Martin buying a pack…
Video released of Trayvon Martin buying iced tea and Skittles
Prosecutors have released video footage of Trayvon Martin buying sweets and a drink in a Florida convenience store minutes before he was shot and killed in a confrontation with a neighbourhood watch leader. The scenes recorded at the 7-Eleven close to the Retreat at Twin Lakes development in Sanford show…
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