[This is an excellent piece]
April 14, 2012
Like many people — I hope most of us — I have been shocked and
horrified, both by the shooting of Trayvon Martin and by the
hyperpoliticized reaction to it. Conservatives have been dredging up
all sorts of facts about Trayvon, such as his school record, which would
be relevant only in a case of premeditated first-degree murder. I have
read on both Twitter and Facebook that on Fox News and similar hate
media, Trayvon is consistently portrayed as the criminal and George
Zimmerman as Trayvon’s innocent victim.
I have been wishing and wishing that someone more expert than I am
would make an animated video showing George Zimmerman’s version of
events — how a 17-year-old boy jumped the 28-year-old Zimmerman, who
outweighed the boy by a minimum of 30 pounds; how Trayvon beat Zimmerman
up next to Zimmerman’s truck
while Trayvon was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone;
how Trayvon then picked 190-pound Zimmerman up and carried him 400 feet
to where he could pound Zimmerman’s head on the sidewalk; how, after
pounding George Zimmerman’s head on the sidewalk, Trayvon picked him up a
second time and carried Zimmerman another hundred feet toward Trayvon’s
home; how, since Trayvon’s corpse bore no marks except the gunshot
wound, Zimmerman must have done nothing to defend himself; and how
somehow the two changed places approximately 500 feet from where the
alleged beating of the much larger man allegedly began and the unarmed,
30-pounds-lighter aggressor was shot dead. According to phone company
records, Trayvon was talking to his girlfriend from 7:12 until his phone
went dead at 7:16, meaning that Trayvon beat up and terrorized George
Zimmerman while
simultaneously telling his girlfriend he was being frightened by a “strange dude.”
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