George Zimmerman rescues family from car wreck:

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Death threats are a lot less than what Trayvon Martin got from this thug.

The only way Zimmerman ever would have received equal punishment is if he got the death penalty. I doubt you're suddenly for that just for political expediency.

(And just by the by, I am not one of the crowd who thinks that this alone makes up for what he did. In most cases, I do believe in redemption, but it takes a lifetime of doing, and rightly so.)

I've said before that I don't support the death penalty, but if I did, I would support it for Zimmerman.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Can I just say too that I really hope Family Guy does a bit about Zimmerman? If they do they'll probably portray him as a Klansman or something. Should be hilarious.

[Old Man Svensson]

Can I just say too that I really hope Family Guy does a bit about Zimmerman? If they do they'll probably portray him as a Klansman or something. Should be hilarious.

No. There has not been one instance where Family Guy's "political commentary" has been insightful, witty, or entertaining. It's all insulting tripe, and I'd rather we not have Seth MacFarlane defile another serious issue of the day.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Can I just say too that I really hope Family Guy does a bit about Zimmerman? If they do they'll probably portray him as a Klansman or something. Should be hilarious.

No. There has not been one instance where Family Guy's "political commentary" has been insightful, witty, or entertaining. It's all insulting tripe, and I'd rather we not have Seth MacFarlane defile another serious issue of the day.

Not even this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDl_Q5xpZU

[Sbane]

Honestly I think it's shameful how many of my fellow left-wingers have reacted to this story. Literally everything from people comparing him to Assad's security forces to people desperately trying to "handwave" the entire incident by suggesting it somehow "never even happened". Jesus don't you people have any nuance or perspective about things? You have this notion in your heads that it is somehow physically impossible for George Zimmerman do do anything good ever, or have anything other then sheer malice in his heart.

You should be personally ashamed of yourselves for saying it's okay for death threats to be delivered on Zimmerman's family because Trayvon is dead.

I'm really offended by people having the stupidity and Gaul to compare the violent beating and savaging of Emit Till to this shady grey situation involving someone defending himself. Was it stupid for Zimmerman to follow Trayvon? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that the law was not broken until Trayvon attacked Zimmerman. Fact. I'm sick of watching MSNBC and hearing my fellow liberals advocate practically making it illegal to defend yourself outside of your home in response to this. Stop acting like it's the 1920's where a black kid can be shot 20 times, hanged, and thrown in the river and the death ruled a suicide.

I heard on NPR the other day this guys who said "nothing has changed". ing seriously? That is the dumbest thing I've heard all week.

I'm personally glad the President and others are shifting the conversation away from the case itself so we can finally have a real conversation about the "soft" unconscious racism in America. But foe heaven's sake can we stop trying to project literally everything bad onto George Zimmerman personally.

Why are you assuming Trayvon attacked him? What does that say about you? What does that say about the case? Doesn't your comment basically prove the point many of us have been making that the justice system is inherently biased towards blacks?

[Sbane]

Honestly I think it's shameful how many of my fellow left-wingers have reacted to this story. Literally everything from people comparing him to Assad's security forces to people desperately trying to "handwave" the entire incident by suggesting it somehow "never even happened". Jesus don't you people have any nuance or perspective about things? You have this notion in your heads that it is somehow physically impossible for George Zimmerman do do anything good ever, or have anything other then sheer malice in his heart.

You should be personally ashamed of yourselves for saying it's okay for death threats to be delivered on Zimmerman's family because Trayvon is dead.

I'm really offended by people having the stupidity and Gaul to compare the violent beating and savaging of Emit Till to this shady grey situation involving someone defending himself. Was it stupid for Zimmerman to follow Trayvon? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that the law was not broken until Trayvon attacked Zimmerman. Fact. I'm sick of watching MSNBC and hearing my fellow liberals advocate practically making it illegal to defend yourself outside of your home in response to this. Stop acting like it's the 1920's where a black kid can be shot 20 times, hanged, and thrown in the river and the death ruled a suicide.

I heard on NPR the other day this guys who said "nothing has changed". ing seriously? That is the dumbest thing I've heard all week.

I'm personally glad the President and others are shifting the conversation away from the case itself so we can finally have a real conversation about the "soft" unconscious racism in America. But foe heaven's sake can we stop trying to project literally everything bad onto George Zimmerman personally.

Why are you assuming Trayvon attacked him? What does that say about you? What does that say about the case? Doesn't your comment basically prove the point many of us have been making that the justice system is inherently biased against blacks?

[tik 🪀✨]

Well, this thread went straight to hell.

[Cory]

Why are you assuming Trayvon attacked him? What does that say about you? What does that say about the case? Doesn't your comment basically prove the point many of us have been making that the justice system is inherently biased against blacks?

For heaven's sake, even the defense attorney conceded this.

[Sbane]

Why are you assuming Trayvon attacked him? What does that say about you? What does that say about the case? Doesn't your comment basically prove the point many of us have been making that the justice system is inherently biased against blacks?

For heaven's sake, even the defense attorney conceded this.

What the hell are you talking about? Citation is most certainly needed.

And just to be clear, we are talking about who attacked first. That is the most important fact, not who was getting their ass kicked.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

The guy has a hero complex. I would not be surpised if it came out that he has a police radio and was looking for an accident to play hero in. I would not be surprised if he is arrested for arson after rescuing people from a burning building.

This is actually the first thing that came to my mind reading the story, too.

[Lambsbread]

I totally agree with Sanchez's post. Just saying.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

if we were talking a Federal Marshal radio, Sanchez might be right, but I'm not sure they discuss accidents.

by the way, it turns out the car was on fire, so it was a good thing he and the other guy showed up.

[Fritz]

http://ivn.us/penigma/2013/07/25/george-zimmermans-heroic-car-crash-rescue-appears-to-be-a-fraud/

[Link]

http://ivn.us/penigma/2013/07/25/george-zimmermans-heroic-car-crash-rescue-appears-to-be-a-fraud/

Wow.

The internet rumor/conspiracy machine is working overtime on this one.

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http://newsball.com/exclusive-pictures-of-the-family-that-george-zimmerman-saved-from-a-burning-car-or-was-it-staged/

Is any of this legit?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hey the suspicions were right!

[Cory]

Hey the suspicions were right!

Not they Fing weren't. For the love of Christ can you please being stop being a pathetic hack for once god dammit! You are arbitrarily choosing to believe some random "alternative" news site.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well I don't arbitrarily follow black kids around my neighborhood that are "suspicious", or call 911 every time I see someone I don't recognize, so I will never provoke anyone like Zimmerman.

[Cory]

Well I don't arbitrarily follow black kids around my neighborhood that are "suspicious", or call 911 every time I see someone I don't recognize, so I will never provoke anyone like Zimmerman.

You are trying to dodge. Why are you choosing to believe some random "news" site against the information of several more reliable sources? Because you want to believe this material.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And because the entire story was fishy and suspicious to begin with.

[Cory]

And because the entire story was fishy and suspicious to begin with.

Again, conformation bias.

[barfbag]

Were Democrats this infuriated when Gary Condit got away with the disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy?

[Brittain33]

Were Democrats this infuriated when Gary Condit got away with the disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy?

No, because if we are talking about the injustice of a justice system that values some people's lives much lower than others, the effects of racial prejudice are more widespread, serious, and rooted in tragedies of U.S. history than a one-off case involving congressional privilege.