Michael Baisden
The following are details from a press conference by the former attorneys for George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who authorities say fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Florida. The attorneys said Tuesday that they’re no longer representing him, because they have lost contact with him. [Updated at 4:52 p.m. ET] Attorney Hal Uhrig said he and attorney […]
CNN’s Don Lemon directed viewers not to send him any more incendiary tweets over his coverage of Trayvon Martin’s death on Sunday. Martin was unarmed when he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in late February. His death and the local police department’s failure to arrest Zimmerman took the country by storm weeks […]
(RNN) – Tornadoes have been reported in Dallas County and other nearby counties in northeast Texas on Tuesday. A tornado neared the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, according to CNN, while a second was sighted on the ground in downtown Dallas. Schools in the area were secured for safety. A tornado warning is in effect until 3 p.m. for southwestern Collin County, […]
Regions of Texas received tornado warnings on Tuesday, as possible tornadoes touch down in the state. One of the warnings issued for Eastern Dallas County in North Central Texas by the National Weather Service stated that “National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed a large and dangerous tornado near Hutchins. This is a dangerous situation … seek […]
Last week, a video was released showing George Zimmerman at the Sanford Police Department the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. It originally appeared as though the neighborhood watch volunteer showed no signs of the violent confrontation he told police took place between himself and the teen that night, but ABC news has enhanced […]
Robert Zimmerman, father of George Zimmerman, spoke publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview with My Fox 35 News in Orlando, Florida. In the nineteen minute interview, Zimmerman’s father went on the defensive saying that it was Martin, not his son, who was the aggressor. In fact, papa Zimmerman says Trayvon beat his son for more than a minute before trying to defend himself.
House Speaker John Boehner commented Thursday on the hoodie Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was thrown off the House floor for wearing. "I think the rules are enforced evenly...We expect all members to follow the rules," he said, according to Yahoo's Chris Moody. Rush wore a hoodie under his suit to the chamber on Wednesday, then took off his suit jacket and put on sunglasses to protest the Trayvon Martin shooting.
On the "Laura Ingraham Show" on Thursday morning, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) attacked Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) for wearing a hooded sweatshirt on the House floor, calling the act "immature gimmickry...that does not have any place, especially on the House floor and, really, in the United States." Rush was removed from the House floor on Wednesday morning for violating the chamber's dress code. At the time, he was wearing a hoodie in support of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was shot and killed last month in Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, the local resident who shot Martin, told police he was suspicious of the teen in part because he was wearing a hoodie. Zimmerman said he acted in self defense and has not been arrested.
Police say up to 100 students who walked out of class Friday to protest the shooting death of Trayvon Martin ransacked a nearby Walgreens drug store. The North Miami Beach High students were walking peacefully before a group split off into the Walgreens at 163rd Street and 15th Avenue. Surveillance video shows the teens running through the aisles before a man identified as the school's vice principal orders them to leave the store.
For 20th Century Fox, the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy "Neighborhood Watch" just got a bit more serious. Following the tragic death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, the studio has pulled posters for the film and the teaser trailer from Florida theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The teaser poster will get replaced nationwide with a new poster in the coming weeks. "We are very sensitive to the Trayvon Martin case, but our film is a broad alien-invasion comedy and bears absolutely no relation to the tragic events in Florida," a Fox spokesperson told THR.
The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin, pulled a controversial cartoon about the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case on Tuesday. The cartoon critiques the media coverage of Martin's death, which has become a national episode. A woman reading to a child from a book labeled "Treyvon [sic] Martin and the Case of Yellow Journalism" says in a speech bubble "And then, the BIG BAD WHITE man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent colored boy." It ran in the March 27, 2012 edition of the DT.
The more Joe Oliver defends George Zimmerman with his ridiculous rational and “what the hell did this Negro say” quotes, the more we have to wonder if it was him, not Trayvon Martin (allegedly), who once experimented with the purple haze. Over the past few days, we’ve heard Oliver say that coon is not really a racial slur. Or, in his words, “matter of interpretation.” Then he suggests that Zimmerman is a victim, too. Oh, hell to tha naw!