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Mar 20, 2012 31 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

Cooper: “So you saw Mr. Zimmerman on top of Trayvon Martin?”

Lamilla: “Trayvon, exactly”

Cooper: “When you say on top of, how so?”

Cutcher: “Straddling him”

Cooper: “His legs were straddling him?”


  • JDelta

    This man is being tried in the court of public opinion.

    And these de facto witnesses for the prosecution are the very people he was apparently out there trying to protect.

  • The Truth

     Tragically because the politicians cannot politicize that

  • realtawlk

    He isn’t being tried by anyone and that is exactly the problem. That is the reason for this national outrage. We care about the other murders of course, but this was no self defense. Even if the young man did start this situation, the threat was gone when Zimmerman was on top and this boy was begging for help. To shoot someone minutes after hearing them scream for help is not only crazy, but it shows the lack of respect for life especially Black life here in America. Hope nothing like this happens to you or someone you know.

  • realtawlk

    I don’t understand the hold up on his arrest. How do you claim self defense when you initiate the trouble. To follow someone that you have already pegged as being: “suspicious, on drugs, reaching in waistband, checking you out” blah blah, means you already have an idea of what you’re going to do to them. Neighborhood Watch means just that…WATCH! It’s not called neighborhood shoot and kill. And who the hell are you to say someone is dangerous and suspicious when the only perspn out there with the record was you!? Those parents are going through probably the worse time in their lives and here the police are adding insult to injury. Slap the crap out of someone, they hit you back now it’s self defense wow! Trayvon we will continue to be a voice for you!

  • LCPLDMT

    Look up uniformed crime report, blacks go after whites at a 5x higher rate than vice versa.  Don’t talk about “black” life, they segregate themselves and don’t want equality, you want preferences. 

  • Jason

    So two women saw Zimmerman after the shooting, they can not contribute to the reasoning behind the shooting or the circumstances that lead up to the shooting. They only saw the after match. When you shoot someone from your back and they are over you the force of the round impacting you will knock onto your back. As that being the case why were there grass stains on Zimmermans back? Why did Zimmerman have a bloody nose did the women that saw the aftermath see him injure himself? This is just another example of people not being happy with decision of the police so they want to try him anyway.

  • richwill

    Not much hype about a couple of blacks lighting a white boy on fire for no other reason than the boy was white.  Muslims and blacks are always looking for a reason to be outraged and then riot.

  • realtawlk

    Do they really go after Whites or is that just wha they call and say happened? Because that’s exactly what Zimmerman did! The dispatcher told him not to go after the “suspicious” person that they were sending someone out. Clearly the 911 recording told the story of that boy begging for his life. And I can talk about Black life because I have been living it for a long enough time to know the things that still go on here in America.

  • realtawlk

    He had a bloody nose because he approached Martin and pushed him after he asked why he was in that area. There was a witness that heard that much over the phone he was using at the time. There were grass stains on his back because the two were fighting after the police dispatcher told Zimmerman not to follow the “suspect”. This young man was yelling for help almost a minute before he was shot and that was heard through a neighbor’s 911 call. Even if Zimmerman was attacked, the threat was no longer present when he shot Martin so that type of force was not needed to aid in his apprehension. Stop trying to make excuses for this barbaric action because there is an over abundance of evidence that shows Zimmerman is clearly in the wrong.

  • realtawlk

    You damned right we are outraged! That is someone’s child. Dead, for no reason! We are not as outraged about the murder as we are the lack of law enforcement in fulfilling its duty. If the Black boy was the trigger man, he would be on trial by now. All we want is equality. I pray you never experience something so painful as losing someone dear to you to a senseless act of violence only for the law to tell you that there isn’t anything it can do for you. Matter of fact, I hope it does happen to you so I can see your riduculous, double-standard a$$ comments about it

  • jkpalmdale

     So your saying the White kid who was burned on his OWN porch by the black kids while they said to him you get what Whitey deserves was not someones kid??

  • jkpalmdale

     Also if the trigger man was black and the victim white it would not have even made the national news.

  • JDelta

    You are tawlking out of your ass. How do you know law enforcement isn’t fulfilling it’s duty? Is it only it’s duty to go after the shooter regardless of facts or procedure? And to do that just because he’s white (which he’s not) and the victim is black? It’s difficult to believe if the situation were reversed you would be saying what you are. How the hell do you know if the shooter was black he’d be on trial by now? There is so much wrong with your attitude and point of view it’s difficult to know where to begin. You are the one with the double standard and a complete inability to recognize reality. The type of knee jerk reaction you are having and advocating is a very foolish and dangerous thing. It’s hardly necessary to mention how incredibly cruel it is to wish such grievous harm on anyone, especially just to see their comments about it. You are in desperate need of some serious life changes, my friend.

  • JDelta

    Clearly you don’t understand the hold up on his arrest and that’s the problem. You are having a knee jerk reaction, making assumptions and appear to be extremely prejudiced and unconcerned with the facts.

  • realtawlk

    I know law enforcement is not fulfilling its duty because a killer is free! KILLER!!! He killed someone that was begging for his life!! Begging for help!! I know and you know if he was Black what would have happened. Pull up one article on this internet of a confessed killer that is Black that was not convicted, not even put in cuffs, not drug or alcohol tested. My attitude is right on point because this was a 1st degree murder. I wish it on you so that you feel what so many of us feel from day to day. And I know what race the cold blooded murderer is and that still doesn’t change the fact that this was racially motivated. He hunted that boy!! That boy was screaming for help!! How in the hell is he right for taking that boy’s life?? I’m far from having double standards it’s just that enough is enough!!! He did not deserve that!!

  • Just a Girl

     The most terrifying aspect of your absolute shit fest on this thread is that you don’t care about your own people being smoked in record numbers by your own people.

    And don’t pretend to be outraged about small black children getting gunned down by thugs that share the color of your skin. You couldn’t care less….there is no agenda there for you to cling to, and no “whitey” to blame .

    Deny it all, call me a racist, and have a nice day, you pretentious, hypocritical, race baiting piece of shit.

  • realtawlk

    It’s not an assumption!! Listen to the 911 call where u can clearly hear Trayvon screaming help. He didn’t have a gun. He didn’t have a record. He wasn’t chasing Zimmerman!!! The police dispatcher told him to stop following the “suspicious” person. He followed anyway. Does that make sense to you? Does it? He said the boy went into his waistband and had something in his hand. Would you go after someone like that? He didn’t see he hurting another person, or burglarizing someone’s house. He saw a Black kid and that made him look suspicious in the eyes of someone who instead has a record of violence himself!! I know the facts believe me I do. Maybe you need to read and LISTEN to the evidence.

  • realtawlk

    I care a hell of a lot about us “smoking” one another. I am a homicide victim survivor, so that is the reason why I am very upset because I know how it feels. The difference between those cases and this one is that when they have a confessed gunman and someone that was taped begging for their life, they arrest them. And once again another one hiding behind the hood-like avitar to call someone names. We just want justice as we would if one black killed another and got off. Just as much as I wanted justice for the Anthony chick that “smoked” her own baby. Walk a mile in mine, then talk that shit to me

  • JDelta

    You’re right. Enough is enough.

  • JDelta

    I have. Any way you look at it this is a tragedy. However, this will not lead to any kind of frank and honest positive turning point. It is being, and will continue to be, used to manipulate people — all of us — and make things worse. That is equally tragic.

    If things continue down this path then we all have a very bleak future ahead of us.

    Again I caution you against your rush to judgement and unlike you, who wishes me harm, I wish you well. Good day.

  • Just a Girl

     - You’re right, and how silly of me. Your life is so much harder than anyone else here because you’re black.

  • realtawlk

    White, Black, orange, green  or purple this man killed someone and that is all. This is about the murder of and unarmed man, not about whatever this bullshit is that u keep writing that has nothing to do with THIS murder, THIS suspect, THIS victim. Be gone

  • Just a Girl

    No, this is obviously about you and you alone, and your rage towards everyone. The only difference is that now you think you have something to vent about, and wish harm upon people who do not share your warped mentality.

    “Black life in America”…you said it, not me. So tell me again this isn’t about color, hypocrite. – And I will never be gone. I’m going to call you out on every dumb shit thing you say.

    See, I don’t pity you because you’re black, but you’re scared shitless any and every time you might not be able to scream “racism” !! You can’t use it here, no matter how many times you spin and bob and weave and twist around. It simply doesn’t wash.

    Next.

  • Jason

    He had a bloody nose because Martin asked him why he was in the area. It has not been proven that Martin was the one yelling for help in the phone calls. If Zimmerman was attacked, what makes you think that there was no longer a threat when he shot Martin. But I could be wrong since you were there and saw the whole thing. I am not making excuses for this ass hat but, since every one who wasnt there has judged him as guilty figured I would be devils advocate. Since he was “scuffling” with Martin what should his level of response been if he felt like his life was in danger?

  • Magikcharm1334

    you are stupid.

  • Magikcharm1334

    this could be anyones child..anyones! and im pissed b/c nothing has been done about it..b/c the cops screwed things up..but now its getting too deep..

  • Kp2723

    It would not have made national news because justice is served without a doubt in that case.  In this case, justice is being demanded.  Racial crimes happen often on both sides without us knowing.  This has become racial because of the world’s closed mind.  And because of the lack in comparison with this man and child, it only points to race.  Let’s not be ignorant and blame a culture for what was beaten into their history.  People act and do what they are taught.  There is racial hate in all forms.  Get over it, wait and look above for the true Judge.

  • GDC

    Anderson Cooper IS a pathetic LIAR and has a HISTORY of MAKING UP LIES.

    The Woman said she HEARD the shot then went to see what was going on.  Well by then it is obvious that by then Mr. Zimmerman had moved Trayvon from on top of him.  Do these DUMB witches think he was going to just lay there with Trayvon on top of him?  They HAVE NO creditability.

    Both of them Should be locked up in a PSYCHIATRIC hospital..
     

  • GDC

    It ALSO seems like they ARE changing their story.  And they are NOT eye witness if they did NOT see the shooting the fight.  And it was TO DARK to SEE as one said.

  • GDC

    The only way things can be fixed IS for all the niggers to move back to Africa or be  KILLED.

  • GDC

    NBC has been PROVEN to have MADE UP ANOTHER ONE of THEIR LIES.  Watch Hannity