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BREAKING NEWS: Report: Special Prosecutor Will Charge George Zimmerman

Via email alert from Fox:

Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey will charge George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Washington Post reports, citing a law enforcement official close to the investigation.

More headlines from FoxNews.com.

MSNBC’s Kendall Coffey thinks it could be second degree murder or manslaughter. Corey will make an announcement today at 6 pm Eastern.

Added, via Think Progress: EXPERTS: Hannity Could Be Required To Testify About His Conversation With George Zimmerman

 

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BREAKING: Zimmerman’s lawyers withdraw from Fla shooting case; say they have lost contact with him.

Zimmerman’s lawyers were just on MSNBC and said the following (liveblog):

They are withdrawing as counsel. They’ve lost contact with George Zimmerman. He wouldn’t talk to his own lawyers.

The Zimmerman website had a Paypal account, and according to the attorneys, the money went to George’s father. But on Sunday, George wouldn’t return calls, but set a site up on his own.

George also called Sean Hannity directly, not through his lawyers, and they believe he spoke to Sean Hannity OFF the record without telling them.

Zimmerman contacted special prosecutor who will decide on charges, against advice (Added, per an email alert).

So, George Zimmerman has not been arrested and now has no legal representation.

VIDEO: Vendors profit from Trayvon Martin case; teen’s family wants to prevent offensive use of image

Vendors are profiting from Trayvon Martin merchandise, but the teen’s family has taken action to prevent offensive uses of his image.

As they should. There’s been enough smearing and lies on the Internets to last a lifetime. The last thing they need is another flock of vultures profiting off offensive tee shirts or other merchandise, as was done here with racist Obama stickers.

VIDEO-BLUNT Trayvon Martin BLUNT: Noyz in the Hood

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VIDEO- ABC News: Enhanced Video Shows Injury To Zimmerman’s Head

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Via NPR. The ABC report is here.

If the wounds were from a struggle with Trayvon Martin, it still doesn’t justify his stalking Trayvon, who was unarmed and apparently “stood his ground,” nor do they explain away George Zimmerman’s claims that the screams were his, when experts say otherwise.

Trayvon Martin Watch: “Maybe Dick Cheney is not the only Republican who needs a heart transplant.”

Today’s L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter:

Trayvon Martin as a symbol

Re “Playing the race card,” Opinion, March 27, and “Florida teen’s parents take case to Capitol Hill, ” March 28

What if the inability to view Trayvon Martin so personally, the incapacity to grasp and understand and identify with him, is the very same twisted trait that sees America’s middle class, poor and minorities as someone else’s people and someone else’s problem?

The cold objections of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to President Obama’s words reveal a lack of understanding, and their reactions add more wood to the fire of America’s chronic problems with race. Maybe Dick Cheney is not the only Republican who needs a heart transplant.

Think of it this way: If Gingrich, Santorum and many of the rest of us were able to look at Martin and say “that could be my son,” we might have fewer such tragedies.

Frank Robinson
Palmdale

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Most coverage of the Martin shooting has focused on the complex problems of racism and stereotyping.

Yet the tragedy also highlights a simple fact:

When people who lack professional training, discretion and accountability carry guns, we are all at the mercy of their prejudices and impulses.

Howard Padwa
Santa Monica

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In all of the coverage, what I am not seeing mention of is the real reason for Martin’s death: the gun.

Guns continue to be a plague on our society. There is no place for handguns that are only used to kill other humans.

Without guns, maybe these young people would have had a fistfight. Nobody would be dead.

Ken Christensen
Los Osos

Security VIDEO: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer, on Police Surveillance, FULL VERSION

Added: As Keith Olbermann pointed out, the video is stamped 7:52 PM, just 35 minutes after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.

I still see no visible signs of George Zimmerman having been beat up, no obvious bruises, cuts, broken nose, and no body language of someone who just went through the trauma of having to “stand his ground,” and kill an unarmed boy.

The L.A. Times has a good summation of the case, including Zimmerman’s background, version of events, and Sanford Police Officer Timothy Smith’s description, including, of course, this old standard:

He noticed that Zimmerman had a bloody nose and blood on the back of his head. Zimmerman was placed in the back of a squad car.

Yet not a mark on him, at least from all the new camera angles provided in this security video.

Booman has a good post up that begins with:

Pretty much everything George Zimmerman’s father says in this interview is demonstrable bullshit. All you need to do to prove this to yourself is to read the 911 call, look at Google Maps, and look at the video of Zimmerman arriving at the police station on the night of the incident.

And then he takes us through the incident step by step, point by point. Please read this one.

H/t: Think Progress