Eleven Pieces of New Notable Evidence in Trayvon Martin Case

From [HERE] Last night, prosecutors released a large amount of evidence — including 183 pages of documents and numerous multimedia files — related to their murder case against George Zimmerman. Here are eleven notable pieces evidence that were just made public:

1. Police Interview with Trayvon's Girlfriend. Girlfriend Recounts Phone Call Right Before Fatal Shooting

She and Trayvon were talking on the phone in the moments leading up to his death. "I know he was scared," the girl recounts. "I told him, 'Keep running!' ... He told me the guy was getting real close to him. And the next I hear is [Trayvon saying], 'Why are you following me for?' … I heard this man... say, 'What are you doing around here?' ... And I call Trayvon, 'Trayon, what's going on? What’s going on?’ ... Then, I am calling him and he didn’t answer...You could hear someone had bumped Trayvon...I was still screaming, I was saying, 'Trayvon! Trayvon!'...And then the next thing the phone just shut off." [Audio here] 

2. Two days after Trayvon Martin’s death a woman called the police to say that George Zimmerman has “racist tendencies” and is “fully capable of instigating a confrontation.”

The woman refused to identify herself.

3. PHOTO: Trayvon Martin’s can of Arizona Iced Tea

According to the police, Martin’s body was under the yellow tarp in this photo.

4. The lead police investigator wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter.

“The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman, if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and waitied the arrival of law enforcement, or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialogue in an effort to dispel each party’s concern.” The lead investigator wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter notwithstanding the fact he believed it was Zimmerman, not Martin, yelling for help on the 911 tapes.

5. PHOTO: The gun George Zimmerman used to shoot Trayvon Martin.

6. One witness was “adamant that there was no physical fighting at the time the gunshot rang out.”

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Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Yesterday the Census Bureau made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The new projections predict that groups that are now labelled minorities will form the greater part of the country's population by 2042. [more] What does it mean?

The Coming Death of the Republican Party

Pat Buchanan explained that it almost surely means the end of the Republican Party as a national governing institution. Republicans now depend on the vanishing majority for fully 90 percent of their votes in presidential elections, while the Democratic Party wins 60 to 70 percent of the Asian and Hispanic vote and 90 to 95 percent of the black vote.The Democratic base is growing inexorably, while the Republican base is shriveling.

Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost. The GOP has not carried any of the three in five presidential elections. When Texas – where whites are a minority and a declining share of the population – tips, how does the GOP put together an electoral majority? [MORE]

A Non-White Planet 

Also, the new census data is simply a reflection of the reality that the worldwide white population is somewhere below 10% and shrinking. In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population. Now the number of people from European descent is estimated to have dropped to 9.8 percent or less. [MORE] and [MORE]

According to the National Policy Institute "more arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in relative but in real terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth - a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany - will vanish by 2060."

I suppose it also "arresting" that white genes are recessive. As a result, the white race cannot reproduce when it intermingles or mixes with non-white persons. As stated by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, "White can be genetically annihilated. White plus Black equals Colored. White plus Brown equals Colored. White plus Yellow equals Colored." Her words have immediate relevalnce to yesterday's story.

Racism = A System of Survival

According to Welsing, racism is a system of white behavior and survival: "I say that this [genetic annihilation] is the fundamental motivation of people who classify themselves as White, whether it is conscious and/or subconsciously determined. In other words: what the White Collective is doing on the planet is engaging in behaviors—in economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and more—in order for them to survive on the planet, by any means necessary. 

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Kansas governor apologizes for century of segregation

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized on Thursday to blacks for segregation in his state in the last century as he marked the anniversary of a ruling that struck down segregation in schools.

The Republican governor said Kansas had never really apologized for the "hateful practice" of segregating black people from white in public places after the abolition of slavery.

Brownback signed the proclamation on the 58th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education in which "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were declared unconstitutional. Topeka is the state capital of Kansas.

The proclamation apologized for the dehumanizing nature of laws that allowed racial segregation in public places and said it was "important for the citizens of Kansas to at last move forward and seek reconciliation."

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ACLU alleges rights violations at immigration detention centers

The report, “Prisoners of Profit,” was based on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as tours and interviews at Georgia’s four federal immigration facilities.

Three of those facilities, including the 1,750-bed Stewart Detention Center, are run by private corporations. The report challenges the wisdom of the private model, alleging the “systemic violation of immigrant detainees’ civil and human rights while detained in substandard prison-like conditions ill suited for civil detainees.”

The report highlights a number of instances in which detainees were allegedly coerced by staffers at the centers into signing “Stipulated Orders of Removal,” which allow them to be deported without a court hearing. In some cases, guards at the jails allegedly screamed at and threatened immigrants who would not sign the orders. In two cases, a officer allegedly physically forced immigrants to sign.

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Government and Private Sector Preying on the Poor

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. When supplemented with late fees (themselves subject to interest), the resulting effective interest rate can be as high as 600% a year, which is perfectly legal in many states.

It’s not just the private sector that’s preying on the poor. Local governments are discovering that they can partially make up for declining tax revenues through fines, fees, and other costs imposed on indigent defendants, often for crimes no more dastardly than driving with a suspended license. And if that seems like an inefficient way to make money, given the high cost of locking people up, a growing number of jurisdictions have taken to charging defendants for their court costs and even the price of occupying a jail cell.

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Protests after All White Jury Acquits Houston cop of Videotaped beating of Unarmed black teen

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The day after an all-white jury acquitted a former Houston police officer for his role in the beating of a 15-year-old African American burglary suspect, community activists rallied a crowd of at least 200 people on the courthouse steps to protest.

Andrew Blomberg was acquitted by an all white jury in Houston on Wednesday in the alleged beating and stomping of Chad Holley two years ago.

Houston is the country's fourth-largest city and among the most diverse, with an African American chief of police. However, the jury in this case was chosen from surrounding conservative Harris County, represented by a white, Republican district attorney who began her career as a Houston police officer.

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Republican Election Strategy in Florida: Purge Legitimate Voters

From [HERE] Once again Florida is trying to purge voter rolls of people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. And, once again, there are questions about the validity and fairness of the proposed purge.

In 2000, Florida officials mistakenly threw thousands of eligible voters off the rolls after incorrectly determining they were felons. There were accusations at the time that the state government, which firmly was in Republican hands, was targeting voters likely to vote Democratic.

This time the state has asked elections supervisors to purge their lists of people ineligible to vote because they are not U.S. citizens. The list contains up to 180,000 names.

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Killer Zimmerman Raised $215,000 from Online Donations to pay Defense Lawyer

From [HERE] Supporters of the man accused of killing Trayvon Martin have donated $15,424 to his legal defense fund in less than two weeks, according to a website set up by his lawyer.

Most of the money came in through a PayPal account link which debuted May 3.

Most donations to Zimmerman's legal defense fund were $25 to $100, and "many include notes of support for Mr. Zimmerman and his family," the website set up by his lawyer says. The largest donation received was $3,000, while the smallest was $1.The fund is maintained by a third party who Zimmerman's defense team says will "ensure the monies raised are allocated to reasonable living expenses for Mr. Zimmerman, defense costs and legal fees."

Previously, Zimmerman raised more than $200,000 through another account he set up himself. About $30,000 of that money was used to help Zimmerman go into hiding while $20,000 has been kept liquid for Zimmerman's living expenses. That initial account was shut down in April.

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Owner of Chicago Cubs Invested Millions in Familiar Racist Playbook to Smear Obama

From [ThinkProgress] A front-page New York Times story today exposed a shocking $10 MILLION racist campaign to smear the president that was prepared by GOP operatives and was merely awaiting final sign-off from a politically active right-wing billionaire. The campaign was to focus on the president’s previous ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a racially inflammatory topic that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared firmly off-limits during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Here’s the rundown on the latest right-wing effort to attack the president.

What was the smear campaign going to involve?

• A 5-minute “film” meant to “inflame opinion” about Obama’s character and former ties Wright.
• More than $8 MILLION in television and online ads.
• A national tour of spokespeople, specifically to include an “extremely literate” black male.
• A launch press conference and other activities in Charlotte, NC to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.

You can check out the entire 54-page attack plan, entitled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good,” here.

Who was going to pay for it?

Joe Ricketts, a right-wing  billionaire who founded TD Ameritrade and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs. Ricketts, who just so happened to sell $10.46 MILLION in TD Ameritrade stock last month, was to bankroll the project through his Ending Spending Super PAC.

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White People Disappearing: White births are no longer a majority in the United States

white America Deadline is 2042

From [HERE] and [HERE] WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history.

Such a turn has been long expected, but no one was certain when the moment would arrive — signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration.

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NO Justice for Chad Holley: All White Jury Acquits Houston Officer in Videotaped Stomping of Unarmed 15 yr old Black Boy

From [HERE] and [HERE] -- An all-white jury found a white former city police officer not guilty Wednesday in the videotaped beating of 15-year-old African American burglary suspect Chad Holley, eliciting cries of outrage from community members.

The jury had deliberated for less than a day.

“The jury sent a message that the life of a black man don’t mean a damn thing in Houston,” African American community activist Quanell X told the Los Angeles Times. “ I believe that allowing an all-white jury to be impaneled in this case was absolutely wrong and a miscarriage of justice.”

Houston is the country's fourth-largest city and among the most diverse, with an African American chief of police. However, the jury in this case was chosen from surrounding conservative Harris County, represented by a white, Republican district attorney who began her career as a Houston police officer.

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The Fix is in: Police 'Incompetence' and 'Tentative' Prosecution May Lead to Injustice in Trayvon Martin Case

On the night of the shooting, door-to-door canvassing was not exhaustive enough, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. If officers had been more thorough, they might have determined that Mr. Martin, 17, was a guest — as opposed to an intruder — at a gated community called the Retreat at Twin Lakes. That would have been an important part of the subjective analysis that night by officers sizing up Mr. Zimmerman’s story. Investigators found no witnesses who saw the fight start. Others saw parts of a struggle they could not clearly observe or hear. One witness, though, provided information to the police that corroborated Mr. Zimmerman’s account of the struggle, according to a law enforcement official.

¶ The police took only one photo at the scene of any of Mr. Zimmerman’s injuries — a full-face picture of him that showed a bloodied nose — before paramedics tended to him. It was shot on a department cellphone camera and was not downloaded for a few days, an oversight by the officer who took it.

¶ The vehicle that Mr. Zimmerman was driving when he first spotted Mr. Martin was mistakenly not secured by officers as part of the crime scene. The vehicle was an important link in the fatal encounter because it was where Mr. Zimmerman called the police to report a suspicious teenager in a hooded sweatshirt roaming through the Retreat. Mr. Zimmerman also said he was walking back to the vehicle when he was confronted by Mr. Martin, who was unarmed, before shooting him.

¶ The police were not able to cover the crime scene to shield evidence from the rain, and any blood from cuts that Mr. Zimmerman suffered when he said Mr. Martin pounded his head into a sidewalk may have been washed away.

¶ The police did not test Mr. Zimmerman for alcohol or drug use that night, and one witness said the lead investigator quickly jumped to a conclusion that it was Mr. Zimmerman, and not Mr. Martin, who cried for help during the struggle.

¶ Less than two full days after the shooting a woman called an investigator. She refused to identify herself or give any callback numbers, but told the investigator that Mr. Zimmerman “has racist ideologies and that he is fully capable of instigating a confrontation that could have escalated to the point of Zimmerman having to use deadly force.”mThe police were never able to track her down. [MORE] 

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Lawsuit Claims Cincinnati Officer Disarmed Black Teen, Then Shot Him - Captured on Video

From [HERE] CINCINNATI -- The family of a teen fatally shot last summer by police downtown have sued the officers involved in his death. The suit claims Officer Oscar Cyranek was told by another officer that some black teenagers had been seen with guns near the Black Family Reunion at Sawyer Point.

Cyranek saw 16-year-old Davon Mullins with a gun several few blocks away at Fountain Square, wrestled him to the ground and searched the teen, the suit says. According to the suit, Cyranek tossed aside the gun he found on the teen, drew his own service weapon and shot Mullins multiple times in the chest.

Cyranek then retrieved the discarded gun and placed it near to the teen's body before calling for assistance, the suit claims. Attorney Eric Deters is representing the teen's family, who claims that Cincinnati police have refused to produce any findings from their own investigation. Deters said he believes the department is hiding something.

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Feds to decide whether to review fatal shooting of Black Man by New Brunswick police

From [HERE] The U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark today said it will review circumstances surrounding the fatal police shooting of a New Brunswick man in September and determine if it will begin a full investigation.

"We will evaluate the facts to determine whether a federal investigation is warranted," said Rebekah Carmichael, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.

On Thursday Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan announced that a grand jury decided not to indict New Brunswick police officers Brad Berdel and Daniel Mazan in the September shooting of Barry Deloatch, 46, in an alley on Throop Avenue in New Brunswick.

After the release of the grand jury decision, questions were raised about the investigation of the shooting, noting a judge had refused to impanel a special grand jury, and that the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office is located in the same building as New Brunswick police headquarters.

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7 deputies from L.A. County sheriff's gang unit placed on leave

From [HERE] Seven deputies from the Los Angeles County sheriff's gang unit have been placed on leave on suspicion that they belong to a secret clique that celebrates shootings and brands its members with matching tattoos, sources confirmed.

The move is a sign of the intensifying nature of the investigation of the "Jump Out Boys." Suspicion about the group's existence was sparked several weeks ago when a supervisor found a pamphlet describing the group's creed, which promoted aggressive policing and portrayed officer shootings in a positive light.

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