george-zimmerman
John Cook · 07/13/13 10:11PM
The Zimmerman Jury Told Young Black Men What We Already Knew
Cord Jefferson · 07/13/13 09:43PMTonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy serves as a Rorschach test for the American public. For conservatives, it’s a triumph of permissive gun laws and a victory over the liberal media, which had been unfairly rooting for the dead kid all along. For liberals, it's a tragic and glaring example of the gaps that plague our criminal justice system. For people of color, it’s a vivid reminder that we must always be deferential to white people, or face the very real chance of getting killed.
George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 07/13/13 09:04PMWill George Zimmerman Get Away With Murder?
Tom Scocca · 07/12/13 04:26PMThis, Courtesy of MSNBC, Is Trayvon Martin's Dead Body. Get Angry.
Adam Weinstein · 07/12/13 09:36AMA reader of mine sent me this photo last night. As the murder trial of George Zimmerman wheezes to its conclusion, the TV networks dutifully pipe in live pool video from the courtroom, as if it is force-fed to them and they have no choice but to excrete it, soft and undigested, into our living rooms, bedrooms, offices. Sometimes, the pool recorder or the networks' producers don't switch to a mundane image of lawyers being lawyerly quite fast enough, and we get to see snippets of the human cruelty, stupidity, and frailty that occasion trials such as this.
The Zimmerman Trial Closes Today as Nuts Push a New Conspiracy Theory
Max Read · 07/12/13 07:28AMTom Scocca · 07/11/13 11:56AM
The jury in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin will also be allowed to consider manslaughter charges, judge Debra Nelson ruled today. The judge has yet to rule on the prosecution's request that the jury also consider charges of third-degree felony murder—on the grounds that Zimmerman's violent confrontation with an unarmed teenager was an act of child abuse. UPDATE: The third-degree felony murder charges have now been ruled out.
Is It Time to Give Up on CNN?
Sid Bedingfield · 07/10/13 08:00AMTrayvon Martin's Mother Testifies: “I Heard My Son Screaming"
Maggie Lange · 07/05/13 09:30AMWatch Dozens of Idiots on Skype Call the Zimmerman Trial on Live TV
Max Read · 07/03/13 10:33AMAccused murderer George Zimmerman's college criminal justice professor was testifying in his trial over Skype today, providing a nice object lesson in why Skype testimony for nationally televised trials is probably not a good idea.
Will You White Crackers Please Stop Whining for the Love of God
Hamilton Nolan · 06/27/13 02:32PMCord Jefferson · 06/26/13 02:33PM
George Zimmerman's Stupid Brother Can't Seem to Stop Tweeting About 'Black Teens'
Max Read · 03/25/13 02:53PMLet's say your brother was going to stand trial in June for shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager. What would you do? Would you keep your mouth shut? Or would you tweet at the NAACP and the NRA about black teens? Robert Zimmerman, brother of the George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin last year, has chosen the latter:
Don't Cry For George Zimmerman, Who Got Screwed By a Security Firm That is Now Suing Him
Jordan Sargent · 12/28/12 12:13AMGeorge Zimmerman — who you may remember as the man who accosted and then shot a teen named Trayvon Martin for the crime of being black and wearing a hoodie — is in a bad place as the calendar slides towards 2013. Well, you knew that, but here's just one example of the pit that Zimmerman is currently in: he's being sued by a security firm that says he owes them $27,027 for services rendered. The response from Zimmerman and his attorney?
Tea Party Nation: Lack of God, George Zimmerman to Blame for Sandy Hook Shooting
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/17/12 03:10PMProsecutors in Trayvon Martin Case Mistakenly Release Confidential Records, Photo of Martin's Body
Max Read · 08/09/12 02:20PMIn First TV Interview, George Zimmerman Expresses No Regrets, Says Killing Trayvon Martin Was 'God's Plan'
Taylor Berman · 07/18/12 11:10PMGeorge Zimmerman Accused of Molesting Family Member in Newly-Released Witness Testimony
Max Read · 07/16/12 12:17PMFirst Photo of Trayvon Martin's Hoodie Released with Other Evidence
Max Read · 07/12/12 11:16AMAbove, on the right, you can see the hoodie that Trayvon Martin was wearing the night he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. On the left his his shirt, on which a bloodstain is clearly visible. Prosecutors released the photographs today along with documents detailing the Sanford police response to Martin's death; among them include a statement from lead investigator Christopher Serino holding that Zimmerman "profiled the unarmed teen because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, not because he was black." [WTSP]