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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
11. You're much nicer about it than I am
Tue Apr 3, 2012, 08:32 PM
Apr 2012

The video doesn't seem to be up yet, at least I couldn't find it, but while I was looking for it after you said it was on hardball, I came across this.

This is terrible! I had no idea this is how they broke the news to Trayvon's father

I knew the father was the one who had to call the police and they tagged Trayvon as a "John Doe" in the morgue but this detail is upsetting

...

After a flurry of phone calls back and forth, an officer told him a police unit was on the way. "So I went outside waiting for Trayvon to show up," Martin said.

Instead of one squad car with his son in the backseat, three vehicles pulled up: a police cruiser, an unmarked sedan and another official-looking car. Martin would discover the third car belonged to a chaplain.

BREAKING THE NEWS

When Tracy Martin greeted the police that morning, a plainclothes detective asked him to describe his son. "He asked me what he last had on. He asked me if I had any recent pictures," Martin said.

"I showed him a recent picture in the camera and he shook his head and said, 'OK, let me go to my car and get something.'" The detective returned with a folder.

It was drizzling, and he asked Martin if they could go inside. When they were seated he pulled out a photo. It was Trayvon, dead at the scene - his eyes rolled back, a tear on his cheek, saliva coming from his mouth. "From that point, our nightmare," Martin said.

...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/03/us-usa-florida-shooting-trayvon-idUSBRE8320UK20120403


WTF is wrong with these people?

Please somebody, post the link when the video's up.
Isikoff Is A Twit, Ma'am: Collaboration With The Coup Of '98 Makes Him Permanently Suspect The Magistrate Apr 2012 #1
I'll have to look that up, Magistrate. I never realized he was such a twit ! n/t K Gardner Apr 2012 #2
Federalist Society People, Ma'am, Including Coulter, Played Him Like A Mark In Gypsy's Parlor.... The Magistrate Apr 2012 #8
Wonder who's paying him now. Nt DevonRex Apr 2012 #3
How is "he's black, he's acting strange..." Skittles make you trip? don't think so rustydog Apr 2012 #4
What show was this on? Catherina Apr 2012 #5
Hardball. And he stated he wasn't talking about the "Trayvon Tape", but was talking K Gardner Apr 2012 #7
Apparently if you dont use the words "fucking coon" Solomon Apr 2012 #9
You're much nicer about it than I am Catherina Apr 2012 #11
I'd heard they showed him Trayvon's pic, but I had NO IDEA they showed him the DOA at scene K Gardner Apr 2012 #14
I don't either Catherina Apr 2012 #16
I saw it. Really pissed me off. Solomon Apr 2012 #6
Itchycock is a moron guitar man Apr 2012 #10
I saw that Bohunk68 Apr 2012 #12
I loved when Joy Ann Reid pointed out what should have been obvious... Spazito Apr 2012 #13
His nickname isn't "Spikey" for nothing grasswire Apr 2012 #15
Here's the video Catherina Apr 2012 #17
I don't think I can watch it again. It makes me want to smak him upside the head, as my K Gardner Apr 2012 #18
I wouldn't be able to either Catherina Apr 2012 #21
I thought profiling was something police did. Glimmer of Hope Apr 2012 #19
Please. What Zimmerman does is so obvious to me Mariana Apr 2012 #20
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