Just wanted to share this awe inspiring video of the greatest live performance I've ever seen. Let us not lose focus of the amazing gift Whitney shared with us all. She was truely blessed and every time she sang she blessed us all with her talents. Just beautiful....
1. Zimmerman called the police to report Martin’s “suspicious” behavior, which he described as “just walking around looking about.” Zimmerman was in his car when he saw Martin walking on the street. He called the police and said: “There’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good, on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about… These a**holes always get away” [Orlando Sentinel]
2. Zimmerman pursued Martin against the explicit instructions of the police dispatcher:
Dispatcher: “Are you following him?”
Zimmerman: “Yeah”
Dispatcher: “OK, we don’t need you to do that.”
[Orlando Sentinel]
3. Prior to the release of the 911 tapes, Zimmerman’s father released a statement claiming “[a]t no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin.” [Sun Sentinel]
4. Zimmerman was carrying a a 9 millimeter handgun. Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. [ABC News]
5. Martin weighed 140 pounds. Zimmerman weighs 250 pounds. [Orlando Sentinel; WDBO]
6. Martin’s English teacher described him as “as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.” [Orlando Sentinel]
7. Martin had no criminal record. [New York Times]
8. Zimmerman “was charged in July 2005 with resisting arrest with violence and battery on an officer. The charges appear to have been dropped.” [Huffington Post]
9. Zimmerman called the police 46 times since Jan. 1, 2011. [Miami Herald]
10. According to neighbors, Zimmerman was “fixated on crime and focused on young, black males.” [Miami Herald]
11. Zimmerman “had been the subject of complaints by neighbors in his gated community for aggressive tactics” [Huffington Post]
12. A police officer “corrected” a key witness. “The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.” [ABC News]
13. Three witnesses say they heard a boy cry for help before a shot was fired. “Three witnesses contacted by The Miami Herald say they saw or heard the moments before and after the Miami Gardens teenager’s killing. All three said they heard the last howl for help from a despondent boy.” [Miami Herald]
14. The officer in charge of the crime scene also received criticism in 2010 when he initially failed to arrest a lieutenant’s son who was videotaped attacking a homeless black man. [New York Times]
15. The police did not test Zimmerman for drugs or alcohol. A law enforcement expert told ABC that Zimmerman sounds intoxicated on the 911 tapes. Drug and alcohol testing is “standard procedure in most homicide investigations.” [ABC News]
The Martin case had been turned over to the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office. Martin’s family has asked for the FBI to investigate.
Information provided by HappyLiberal regarding his 5 Day Suspension, everything else was received in a chain email, if you know the original news source please let me know!...Thanks!
On that 5 day suspension smear.... here is what his teacher had to say...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/os-trayvon-martin-shooting-tension-20120317,0,3347110.story
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"He was extremely creative," said Michelle Kypriss, Trayvon's English teacher at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami. "He just loved building things. He really was intrigued by how things worked."
She described Trayvon, a junior, as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.
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Trayvon was under a five-day suspension when he was shot that Sunday night, but Kypriss said it was due to tardiness and not misbehavior.
"Trayvon was not a violent or dangerous child. He was not known for misbehaving," the teacher said. "He was suspended because he was late too many times."
His favorite subject was math. He wanted to major in engineering and eventually become a pilot. He was attending aviation school part-time.
I was going to write on the newly passed VA abortion law but I didn’t feel like doing all the research this morning so I settled on Peyton Manning. Yes seemingly polar opposite topics as one affects real people and their freedoms and the other is about a rich man from a rich family that doesn’t even need this job. Despite the perceived shallowness of this topic, I’m standing firm and am going to talk about what Peyton Manning has taught us.
Disclaimer: I do fantastically well in my fantasy football leagues, always making it to the championship round and maintaining the number 1 position in my division. Not that that matters but I don’t want to hear any shit. Please and thank you. :)
Peyton is the son of former NFL QB Archie Manning and the older brother of current NFL QB Eli Manning. He is part of the Manning dynasty and I’m sure he’s been shitting football shaped turds since birth. During college he led the University of Tennessee to the 1997 SEC Championship his senior year and in 1998 he was the 1st overall draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts. He has won a record four league most valuable player awards was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI, has been named to eleven Pro Bowls, has eleven 4,000-yard passing seasons (including a record six straight), and is the Indianapolis Colts' all-time leader in passing yards (54,828) and touchdown passes (399). In 2009, he was named the best player in the NFL and Fox Sports along with Sports Illustrated named him the NFL player of the decade of the 2000s. Unfortunately in 2011 he had two neck surgeries which resulted in him missing an entire season and now he’s cut from the Colts and a free agent.
Some people are upset feeling that he deserved to retire as a Colt, or the Colts owed him another season to prove himself. Others are saying it’s just business. IMO it is and always has been just business. In the NFL they don’t really care about these players, it’s always about what can you do for me? In the real world your company only cares about you for as long as you’re keeping their profit margin high. You miss a year of work because you got cancer, do you really think they’re going to keep you on their payroll? Everyone is replaceable! The first big lesson I learned about applying for jobs is that no one cares about why you want to work for them. They care about why you should work for them. Why should they hire you? What can you offer? If you think your job is secure look at Peyton Manning’s stats, family history, reputation, and work ethic. Never been in trouble always the golden boy. Plenty of sponsorships and Colts fans adored him! It’s called business not friendship.
So, let this serve as a reminder to all of you thinking that your jobs are secure and all is well in lala land…keep 3-4 months of living expenses stashed somewhere just in case because you never know what could happen. Nobody is in business to hand out lollipops and pacifiers….NOBODY.
P.S: Peyton has already been contacted by 12 teams including the Broncos (uh uh Tebow!)…so unless he goes to the Redskins he should be fine. :)