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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:09 PM Mar 2012

It seems George Zimmerman has some friends in high places

Source: Sanford police chief, state attorney made Zimmerman 'no charge' call in person
http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon-martin/source-sanford-police-chief-state-attorney-made-zimmerman-no-charge-call-in-person.php#46882946


It seems George Zimmerman has some friends in high places. Despite the fact that at least one Sanford police detective did not buy Zimmerman's story that Trayvon Martin posed a threat to his life, officials at the highest level of local justice said to "cut him loose."

Joy-Ann Reid reported earlier Wednesday for TheGrio that state attorney Wolfinger and the Sanford Chief of Police were at the scene that evening before telling the police department to let him go. While there's no way to know whether these officials and former Virginia Supreme Court Magistrate Robert Zimmerman play golf together or hang out or what. What is known is that these officials visited the crime scene and then told police to release Zimmerman without taking any pictures of the alleged broken nose or cut head, without getting blood samples from the bloody t-shirt at least one officer alleges he saw, without even performing the most basic investigative procedures.

None of these things happened, and Zimmerman went free.
Trayvon Martin's phone records corroborate his girlfriend's account that he was on the phone with her just moments before the shooting, yet George Zimmerman's father insists she's lying about talking to him.

So far the only story that has been corroborated with fact is Trayvon Martin's, posthumously. Yet George Zimmerman is not yet facing any legal action for shooting an unarmed kid

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the rest:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/did-trayvon-martins-killer-walk-out-jail-co


this explains NO GLOVES
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It seems George Zimmerman has some friends in high places (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP
Time for a full Federal Investigation of this whole mater. n/t teddy51 Mar 2012 #1
I often wonder how much stuff like this goes on day after day without any RKP5637 Mar 2012 #2
Yep, Has happened in my family. This happens EVERYDAY all over the country but most aren't as Ecumenist Mar 2012 #5
WITHOUT TAKING ANY PICTURES??!! That's because there was NOTHING TO PHOTOGRAPH. Ecumenist Mar 2012 #3
And what about "Daddy?" KansDem Mar 2012 #16
I found one tidbit in common between Zimmerman's father and Wolfinger which... Spazito Mar 2012 #4
Naw ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #8
I would agree but Zimmerman's father did not serve as a magistrate in Florida... Spazito Mar 2012 #10
You're correct ... I jumped the gun on that one. 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #13
sometimes it's not friends in high places, but just Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #6
Something else ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #7
And if Zimmerman had a scalp wound that 'required stitches', didn't get them, but Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #9
The Sanford town fathers are wondering "What's the big deal? Happens all the time." TahitiNut Mar 2012 #11
The Grio is citing an unamed source and some of their reporting is contradicted elsewhere ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #12
DO YOU SMELL WHAT I SMELL? drynberg Mar 2012 #14
This is Florida DonCoquixote Mar 2012 #15
Another Blue Blanket cover up. penndragon69 Mar 2012 #17
Just like Bushpig told the FBI to lay off the Saudis prior to 9/11 just1voice Mar 2012 #18

RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
2. I often wonder how much stuff like this goes on day after day without any
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:19 PM
Mar 2012

national attention, a lot I bet. Just from the peripheral, there sure seem to be some strange shenanigans going on.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
5. Yep, Has happened in my family. This happens EVERYDAY all over the country but most aren't as
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:23 PM
Mar 2012

clearly egregious as this case.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
3. WITHOUT TAKING ANY PICTURES??!! That's because there was NOTHING TO PHOTOGRAPH.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:22 PM
Mar 2012

This stinks to high Heaven!! Everything that can be corroborated leans toward Trayvon. So, the girlfriend is lying about a phone call that is backed up by PHONE RECORDS? Wow, I knew we are suspected of having superhuman powers sometimes but this takes the cake. Daddy needs to stop lying. He beginning to look like a fool and he's making his son look more and more guilty.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
16. And what about "Daddy?"
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:30 PM
Mar 2012

I just walked by a public big-screen in the building I work and saw a silhouette (or shadow) of Daddy Zimmerman commenting. I believe it was CNN.

A silhouette? Why doesn’t this guy want to show himself?

Here it is--
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/03/29/exp-point-palumbo-two.cnn

Spazito

(50,326 posts)
4. I found one tidbit in common between Zimmerman's father and Wolfinger which...
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:22 PM
Mar 2012

may be something or nothing at all, the common tidbit is both served in Vietnam. I found the Vietnam connection re Wolfinger in a wikipedia page and I believe Mr. Zimmerman talked about his service in his Fox interview. Could they have served in the same unit?

I just think there has to be more than Zimmerman's father being a retired judge being the reason for the actions taken by the SA in this case.

Again, the tidbit I mention could mean nothing at all but it did pique my interest.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
8. Naw ...
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:16 PM
Mar 2012

I think the closer, and undisputed, connection is that State Attorneys and Judges work together all the time.

Spazito

(50,326 posts)
10. I would agree but Zimmerman's father did not serve as a magistrate in Florida...
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:20 PM
Mar 2012

he served in Virginia so, unless the SA in question also worked in Virginia, they would not have had any working relationship either past or present.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
6. sometimes it's not friends in high places, but just
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:29 PM
Mar 2012

"He just killed some ghetto thug who obviously isn't from around here...Why waste the time and paperwork??"

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
7. Something else ...
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:13 PM
Mar 2012

Look at the immediately above photo ... Look at the Officer.

L/E routinely wear gloves when escorting, and possibly having to handle, bleeding prisoners/detainees. The officer doesn't have on gloves.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
9. And if Zimmerman had a scalp wound that 'required stitches', didn't get them, but
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:18 PM
Mar 2012

was 'treated at the scene by paramedics', where is the bandage?

Either there is NO wound to treat, or someone is lying.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
12. The Grio is citing an unamed source and some of their reporting is contradicted elsewhere
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:42 PM
Mar 2012

They are quite right in pointing out the Zimmerman is still free.

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
14. DO YOU SMELL WHAT I SMELL?
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:06 PM
Mar 2012

There is a distinct odor of cover up no? These clowns need to be replaced by some serious FEDS who will be charged with finding Justice Is that asking too much in 2012 Amerika?

 

penndragon69

(788 posts)
17. Another Blue Blanket cover up.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:07 PM
Mar 2012

Daddy must have a lot of dirt on the Sanford PD to get them to let junior go
and fabricate such a weak cover story.

Time for some major arrests to be made!

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
18. Just like Bushpig told the FBI to lay off the Saudis prior to 9/11
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 10:51 AM
Mar 2012

Which is why Coleen Rowley was repeatedly ignored despite having massive evidence of the 9/11 hijackers intentions prior to the terrorist attacks.

But just look the other way Americans, impeachment was off the table as all accountability is now.

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