A Fighter's View of the Zimmerman-Martin Confrontation

"And what about the screening? You don’t need a voice expert or witnesses to figure out who was doing the screaming..."

Dear friends,

Nobody seems to want to mention it. However, many European Americans, so-called “white” people, take the acquittal of George Zimmerman as an “in your face” to African-Americans for the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in 1995.

Yet, Simpson did not admit to killing anyone. Therefore, there was actually a burden of proof on the prosecution. In the case of George Zimmerman, he admitted killing the youngster. That means that, unless it was accidental, the killer needed a convincing excuse for taking Trayvon Martin’s life.

Having been involved in hundreds of street fights, both as a young knucklehead and later as a legendary bouncer in Philadelphia’s old “red light” district at 13^th & Market streets in Center City, aside from my amateur and pro boxing careers, as well as teaching about 3, 000 individuals how to fight, for a living, for the past 25 years (and that doesn't include the troops in Iraq http://djatajabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pioneer-valley-boxing-school-was-in.html), I know that there is no way that a grown man and a skinny teenage boy rumbled from a curb to a spot over 20 feet away in the grass without, at some point, the two of them standing on their feet.

Now, if in fact, the confrontation continued, then that means at some point George Zimmerman could have ended the altercation, by simply shooting a bullet into either the air or grass.

Moreover, considering the fact that Trayvon was initially considered a John Doe, then it makes no sense to me why, at least by the next morning, the police and the complex management didn’t go door to door, trying to identify the dead victim. If it had been a European-American would they have been so callous?

And why would George Zimmerman be so callous and uncaring about a complete stranger that he had just killed? After all, unless he is an experienced killer, it would seem, at least to me, that he would be frantic, knowing that almost never does an excuse like self-defense work. So who did he talk to immediately following the incident? To be sure, a frightened coward who needed to shoot a young boy had to talk to someone, even if he spoke to police right after the killing. Who is that person? Was it the neighbor who so seemingly Frank claimed that he recalled Trayvon being on top of Zimmerman? And since they traveled over 20 feet, at what point did he actually see them fighting?

And what about the screening? You don’t need a voice expert or witnesses to figure out who was doing the screaming. In other words, if in fact a man’s head is being banged against the sidewalk, he is not screaming. Additionally, the person doing the banging is in a vicious fight, as opposed to being an attacker. An attacker would have knocked Zimmerman down, then kicked or stomped head, not be down on the ground with him banging his head on the cement. None of the cops thought of that? Come on.

 As a lifelong fighter, I know that from experience. As I said earlier, I was a knucklehead when I was young. However, if a young man is on top of another person, and suddenly that person pulls a gun out, that guy on top is definitely going to start yelling/screaming. So Zimmerman can’t have it both ways. That is, if Trayvon was on top, then it was he who was screaming from a surprise that he knew was life-threatening - not Zimmerman. And the screaming stopped with the sound of the gunshot. Duh? That's MURDER not SELF_DEFENSE!!!

Besides, if it was self-defense, then thousands of, especially, men should be released from US prisons, since many of them are currently doing murder sentences after being involved in fistfights at house parties and bars, where they've pulled out a gun or knife or some other weapon and used it. That is exactly what George Zimmerman did. The police should have arrested him for murder immediately following the fight.
 

By the way, if the altercation lasted for 45 seconds, then it means that both parties were engaged in a fight. Consequently. if Zimmerman first engaged in a fist fight with Trayvon, then that means that in the middle of the fistfight he decided to change the rules. Hence, the gun and the screaming. At best, that’s manslaughter.
 

Finally, I cannot imagine that members of the Sanford Police Department did not collude with George Zimmerman in providing a false account of what occurred.

G. Djata Bumpus

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Zimmerman case highlights Literacy & "Race"

Dear friends,

We need a national literacy campaign in this country. After all, good reading comprehension will allow the populace to engage in the sharing of ideas, while simultaneously deepening the mental stamina of our citizens.

People often think of stamina in terms of its physical sense - such as running the marathon. Yet, we can increase our thinking capacity, so that we are able to understand phenomena more deeply. Obviously, the poorly-educated jurors in many cases have very low levels of mental stamina. As a result, the decisions made by the aforementioned jurors have more to do with their personal insecurities and inadequacies about their inability to reason. Conjoined in a small herd or group, it is then easier for them to live with themselves.

Nevertheless, the prosecutors jurors and witnesses all lacked integrity, as well as intellectual capacity, in the George Zimmerman case. And this is the real dilemma.

The issue of “race” obscures the more relevant problem of the huge identity crisis in this country. I mean, living in a market economy that is based upon people using one another as a means to an end, as each member of society strives to be the best personality/latest model for consumption, for either whoever or whatever reason, makes the notion of “race”, as it were, simply another excuse for people to gain both self-worth and societal worth at the expense of their fellows.

Let’s face it. The kind of impropriety that the Martin family is facing happens all over the world, on all five of the peopled continents, ALL IF THE TIME!!!.

Finally, those who are the most culpable for human suffering today are ruling classes, in collusion with the governments that they sponsor- governments, by the way, that are themselves legitimized, not by the vote, but through the threat capacity of their police and military.

And so we must build genuine communities, as species beings, where we are able to embrace the humanity of which we are all capable.

G.  Djata Bumpus 

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