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Rap Sheet of George Michael Zimmerman - Is This The Trayvon Martin Murderer?
Trayvon Martin was fatally shot on Feb. 26
Father Wants Man Who Shot His Son Arrested
Trayvon Martin was fatally shot on Feb. 26.
The mother of a Miami boy who was fatally shot in central Florida said Friday she cannot understand why the shooter has not been arrested. "As a mother, my heart is broken," Sabrina Fulton said. Her son Trayvon Martin, 17, a junior at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School in Miami, was in Sanford visiting his father when George Zimmerman allegedly shot him on Feb. 26. Police said Zimmerman told them that he shot Martin in self-defense. Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Jr. said that evidence and testimony may corroborate Zimmerman's story, because he had a bloody nose and had grass clippings on the back of his shirt, like he had been in a defensive posture.
The mother of a Miami boy who was fatally shot in central Florida said Friday she cannot understand why the shooter, the captain of a neighborhood crime watch group, has not been arrested.
"As a mother, my heart is broken," Sabrina Fulton said.
Her son Trayvon Martin, 17, a junior at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School in Miami, was in Sanford visiting his father and his father’s fiancée when George Zimmerman allegedly shot him on Feb. 26, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
“Why isn’t this guy in jail? He said my son was a threat," the boy's father Tracy Martin was quoted as saying. "How was he a threat? I don’t know what he could’ve done to generate that reaction; a 140-pound kid.”
Martin said at a press conference Friday that "my son left Sanford, Florida in a body bag, while George Zimmerman went home to sleep in his own bed."
Zimmerman, 26, is the captain of a crime watch group at The Retreat at Twin Lakes, the gated community where Martin lives.
Authorities said Zimmerman made a call to police using a non-emergency line and reported a suspicious person in the area. He followed Martin from his car, according to police.
Several callers told police that they saw a fight and heard a gunshot. Zimmerman, with the gun, was bleeding from his nose and head when authorities arrived, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Martin had a bag of Skittles and iced tea with him.
Police said Zimmerman told them that he shot Martin in self-defense. Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Jr. said that evidence and testimony may corroborate Zimmerman's story, because he had a bloody nose and had grass clippings on the back of his shirt, like he had been in a defensive posture.
Martin's parents and their lawyers are calling on police to arrest Zimmerman and release details.
Lee said Friday that the dispatcher asked Zimmerman, after he called, "to wait until we got there."
"He just disregards their instructions, and he goes like a loose cannon with a gun and shoots this kid in cold blood," responded lawyer Benjamin Crump.
He said of Trayvon Martin: “As far as we know, all he was doing was walking back from the 7-Eleven.”
Martin was out of school because he was suspended for a week, and his father told the Herald that he brought him to Sanford “to disconnect and get his priorities straight.”
Police said the investigation should be completed by next week.
On Friday Martin's family filed a lawsuit asking the police department to release the 911 tapes.
Michael French, a classmate of Martin's at Krop Senior High, said "he was smart and funny and he always kept to himself, too, so I know he wouldn’t start anything."
French said said the incident happened because Martin was black, “and it was a predominantly white neighborhood, so he looked suspicious. So that’s probably why.
What Happened to Trayvon Martin? Slain Teen’s Family Demands Answers
What Happened to Trayvon Martin? Slain Teen’s Family Demands Answers
THURSDAY MAR 8, 2012 – BY BRITNI DANIELLE
It’s been over a week since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murderedoutside of his father’s Sanford, Florida home, but his family is still looking for answers.
According to his father and stepmother, the teen was visiting from Miami when he walked to the store. Upon returning to their gated community he was confronted by George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch leader, and ended up shot to death just steps from his father’s home.
Police officials say Zimmerman turned himself in after the incident, but have yet to charge him in the teen’s death. They claim they are still investigating the slaying, but Trayvon’s family wants answers.
“My son left Sanford, Florida in a body bag George Zimmerman went home to sleep in his own bed. Its senseless and the police in Sanford Florida isn’t giving any answers,” Trayvon’s father Tracy Martintold the local Fox News affiliate.
The Martins have hired Ben Crump, an attorney, and are pressuring Sanford police to release the 911 tapes that may lead to more answers.
“We are here to demand that the state attorney charge this home owner’s association loose cannon with murder,” said Crump. “We all deserve answers. The police department simply has to release those 911 tapes so we won’t have to speculate further.”
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For more info on A24 email: info at occupythejusticedepartment dot com call: 215-600-6626 To get on the bus: Philadelphia: 215-600-6626 Occupy the Hood, NY: 718-600-5857 New York Coalition to Free Mumia: 212-330-8029 www.megabus.com www.boltbus.com | next stop -Mumia's Freedom Now that the celebrated, radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, is off death row, many dare to imagine the next step--his release from prison. On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia's incarceration, Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice" and called for Mumia's "immediate release." And when Frances Goldin--Mumia's literary agent--called on the audience to OCCUPY the Justice Department, the call was met with a roar of excitement. On April 24, 2012, Mumia's 58th birthday, we will gather at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC. A large-scale, vibrant and colorful rally will amplify our formal request that Eric Holder immediately meet with a delegation to discuss police corruption and civil rights violations in Mumia's case and in the cases of hundreds of other defendants in Philadelphia. Some demonstrators will engage in acts of civil disobedience to draw greater attention to these injustices. I pledge to occupy the DOJ On April 24, consider joining a group of renowned citizens in an act of civil disobedience, among themDanny Glover, Frances Fox Piven, Norman Finkelstein, and M1 of Dead Prez. Your pledge to engage in an act of civil disobedience will be critical to reaching our goals of enlisting the participation of other activists and ensuring news coverage of the case and of our broader demands. If you cannot commit to civil disobedience, you can pledge to be at the demonstration. Because Mumia's removal from death row coincides with the dramatic shift in consciousness brought by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the execution of Troy Davis, we now have a unique window of opportunity to fulfill one of the most important moral assignments of our time: to build a movement that will link all of the violations in Mumia's case and his fraudulent trial to the crisis of mass incarceration, so as to win this innocent man's freedom. Short term goal: release Mumia. Long term goal: end mass incarceration. Attorneys will be available to answer questions and to support this important demonstration. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE PLEDGE AND SIGN-UP! "there is something in the soul... ...that cries for freedom!" Twenty-first century social movements around the world are illuminating the root causes of social crises, class inequality, bigotry, human rights violations, and environmental degradation. 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The DOJ suit maintained that the Philadelphia police’s practices of “shooting nonviolent suspects, abusing handcuffed prisoners, suppressing dissension within its ranks, and engaging in a pattern of brutal behavior ‘shocks the conscience.’” Only days after the end of Mumia’s fraudulent trial and conviction, 15 of the 35 police officers involved in collecting evidence in his case would be convicted and jailed, as a result of this federal investigation, on charges which included graft, corruption, and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction. Chief among these officers was Alfonzo Giordano, the police inspector who led the crime scene investigation in Mumia’s case. The DOJ investigation remains unfinished: it did not provide relief for defendants like Mumia who were convicted by the testimonies and work of these corrupt and convicted cops. our demands
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From The Atlanta Journal and Constitution: Man gets life plus 2 years after impregnating 13-year-old
A 34-year-old man was sentenced to life plus two years in prison after being convicted of charges related to sexual assaulting a 13-year-old girl whom he impregnated, the Fulton County District Attorney's office announced Monday.
A jury found Stephen Troy Kendrick guilty Thursday of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and criminal trespassing.
College Park police found Kendrick sleeping with the 13-year-old, whom he first claimed was his 18-year-old cousin, in a vacant unit of the Cypress Glen Apartments on Godby Road last February, authorities said. The two are not related.
Investigators discovered that Kendrick met the girl while he was a boarder in her family's home. The girl's parents became worried about Kendrick's closeness with their daughter and asked him to leave, but he continued to sneak into the house to visit her, authorities said.
The girl ran away from home and lived on the streets with Kendrick. After police found the pair, the girl was reunited with her parents, who had reported her missing two months earlier, the DA's office said.
The girl was pregnant with Kendrick's child, investigators later discovered.
"The injury and pain of child birth associated with the young girl’s pregnancy" led to the aggravated child molestation charge, the DA's office said.
A jury found Stephen Troy Kendrick guilty Thursday of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and criminal trespassing.
College Park police found Kendrick sleeping with the 13-year-old, whom he first claimed was his 18-year-old cousin, in a vacant unit of the Cypress Glen Apartments on Godby Road last February, authorities said. The two are not related.
Investigators discovered that Kendrick met the girl while he was a boarder in her family's home. The girl's parents became worried about Kendrick's closeness with their daughter and asked him to leave, but he continued to sneak into the house to visit her, authorities said.
The girl ran away from home and lived on the streets with Kendrick. After police found the pair, the girl was reunited with her parents, who had reported her missing two months earlier, the DA's office said.
The girl was pregnant with Kendrick's child, investigators later discovered.
"The injury and pain of child birth associated with the young girl’s pregnancy" led to the aggravated child molestation charge, the DA's office said.
From WXYZ.com Former DPD lieutenant charged with running a criminal enterprise
Posted: 02/16/2012
DETROIT (WXYZ) - A former Detroit top cop is charged with drugs, fraud and running a criminal enterprise.
Bill Rice has been hit with 16 criminal charges.
Rice is a former lieutenant who ran the homicide section before his retirement. He was arraigned on these serious criminal charges Wednesday.
His girlfriend Cheryl Sanford was also charged.
The 16 charges lodged by the Wayne County Prosecutor include mortgage fraud, running a criminal enterprise, and possession of drugs with the intent to deliver.
The mortgage fraud charges involve three homes in Detroit and Taylor.
Rice and Sanford allegedly gave false information to get federal funds for mortgages on the homes.
Rice's Detroit home was raided Wednesday morning. He was with the Detroit Police Department for decades.
Investigators have some heavy muscle in this case. It involves the state police, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Wayne County Sheriff's Department.
7 Action News spoke with Rice by phone. He confirmed the raid on his home but says he has been advised by his lawyer not to talk about the case.
Read more: http://www.wxyz.com//dpp/news/region/detroit/former-dpd-lieutenant-charged-with-running-a-criminal-enterprise#ixzz1ncIk8gQG
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