George Zimmerman sues family of Trayvon Martin, publisher, prosecutors for $100 million - The saga that never ends continues

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article238030539.html

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted of homicide charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, is suing Martin’s family, prosecutors and others involved in the case he claims rested on false evidence, according to a copy of the suit sent to the media Wednesday.

Zimmerman is represented by Larry Klayman, a high-profile legal crusader tied to conservative causes and the founder of Judicial Watch before splitting with the activist group.

The suit in Polk County Circuit Court cites information in a documentary about the case that accuses the Martin family of engineering false testimony, and the director has scheduled a press conference this week in Coral Gables to coincide with a film screening there. The suit seeks $100 million in civil damages, alleging defamation, abuse of civil process and conspiracy. A copy of the suit was distributed to media Wednesday by the movies’ director, Joe Gilbert. The case does not yet appear on the online docket of the Polk court system.

The lead defendant in the suit is Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother who became a national figure in the wake of her son’s death as a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton and a national advocate for social justice and reducing gun deaths. She’s running for the District 1 seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission being vacated by a term-limited Barbara Jordan in the Miami Gardens area.

Martin lived with Fulton, then a county employee, in Miami Gardens, and was visiting his father, Tracy Martin, in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012, when he died in a gated community where his father’s fiancee lived. Martin was returning from a store with candy. Zimmerman, 28 at the time, reported Martin as suspicious to police in a recorded call after 7 p.m.

The details that followed remain in dispute, with Zimmerman claiming he was attacked by Martin and defended himself. Police and prosecutors described an unjustified shooting of a teenager in a hoodie with Skittles and a drink. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of all charges in 2013.

The lawsuit presses the Zimmerman version of events, with allegations of efforts by the Martin family to produce a false narrative through dishonest accounts from witnesses. The suit also names prosecutors in the Zimmerman case, alleging false prosecution, as well as book publisher Harper Collins over the October release of “Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People.” The book is by Ben Crump, who represented the Martin family. Crump is also named in the suit, which states all defendants “have worked in concert to deprive Zimmerman of his constitutional and other legal rights.”

Crump, Klayman and a campaign representative for Fulton did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

 

[The Last Stand]

After the LA riots race relations had seemingly reached a sort of... equilibrium in America.

This may be reaching, but I believe that race relations were ... equilibrium up until 2012 is because of 9/11. That was the main focus of international coverage, understandably. A major terrorist attack in the United States. Outside of some xenophobia against Muslims for a couple years, Americans for the most part came together as one, regardless of race.

Not to say there wasn't racism prevalent, but everybody was focused on Bush and his reelection, technology and the War on Terror. 2008 with Barack Obama was the gas in the air, 2012 with Trayvon Martin & Zimmerman was the spark that ignited and exploded race relations back in the forefront.

Edit: let me expand on my technology point for a second. After 9/11 happened, live coverage of the attacks were on full display on all major news networks. MSM got their clicks and then some for a while. With technology advancing with Internet and social media, it went from Internet being just on a computer to being widespread with smartphones.

Not everybody is tuned in to TV as much anymore. Everybody is on their smart phones nowadays. Print and MSM TV is dying; they want to stay relevant by any means necessary. Trayvon Martin was their way to have people talk about it and tune in, log in, vice versa. Whether you care about what happened or not, it got people talking. It was the LA Riots meet 9/11 with social media.

I wish race relations would improve in America, but it's a multi-faceted issue that requires all of us to fix.

 

[SilkGnut]

Beside the point, but:

I used to know a Mexican dude named Ivan. Not Juan, Ivan. He didn't have a drop of Rooskie in him. Last names are even more of a crapshoot because of marriages and passing on names.

Ivan, Juan, Johann, Giovanni, all names are just imitating John.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Zimmerman case was a fucking revealation for America.

That niggers are not innocent in their demise. They are their own worst enemies. Faggot media and liberal elites cover up this fact like charletan they are.

I mean it was so black and white it shouldve been nothing controversial. Yet they made this Trayvon nigger thug into an innocent lil kid who clearly had zero future and absolute trash of family.

I mean is it worth it? Was it worth it? No. It wasn't. This nigger family shoulsve been subjugated to absolute humiliation for being so trashy but no. They were "martyred"...because they were trashy and worthless.

What a fucking insanity.

It wasn't quite black and white, Zimmerman was a dickhead who was looking for trouble, as others have said "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" but the media's handling of the whole situation was bizarre to say the least, it's like they purposely went out of their way to stoke racial resentment.

You ever notice how it happened right after OWS? As did the rise of "woke" culture in general? I think it was all by design, it's in the elites interest to keep the populace at each other's throats, divide us by race, by gender, by whatever, so long as we're not paying attention to who's pulling the strings is what's their agenda.

But they're playing with fire when it comes to race in America, there's so much bad blood, race relations in America is not something you want to fuck with, it's all fun and games to the idiots and assholes in the media but if things get bad enough something like what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s could happen here.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

He already killed their son and made a public pariah of himself

No. It wasn't Zimmerman himself, but the media that turned Zimmerman into a pariah.

Arguably, Zimmerman literally did nothing wrong during the event itself.

 

[escapegoat]

Yeah, it was 9-11 that made everything reasonable for a while. Even Black comedians commented on it at the time.

 

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then it was Freddie Gray, some dope dealer who ran and got caught and killed via "excessive force", then each one following Freddie seemed to have a worse and worse background that the media tried to justify.

In fairness to Mr. Gray, he did get choked to death by cops for loitering. That's a little less 'deserving' than Trayvon getting his just deserts for trying to pound the head of Zimmerman (a mild-mannered if officious man who likely would have tried to stop the cops choking out Gray if he'd been there) into the ground.

 

[Longjack Attack]

This was pretty dumb on Zimmermans part. This faggot managed to lay out the stepping stones for all of the trashy race relations in America today let alone all of the pain he put his family and you would think he would just try to lay low especially with the MSM already hating his guts. What's the point of beating someone while there already down?

 

[The Last Stand]

In fairness to Mr. Gray, he did get choked to death by cops for loitering. That's a little less 'deserving' than Trayvon getting his just deserts for trying to pound the head of Zimmerman (a mild-mannered if officious man who likely would have tried to stop the cops choking out Gray if he'd been there) into the ground.

That wasn't Freddie Gray. It was Eric Garner; he was choked via chokehold and suffocated to death. He was caught selling cigarettes on the street in Staten Island without a tax stamp. One of the officers involved in that was fired.

 

[Syaoran Li]

This may be reaching, but I believe that race relations were ... equilibrium up until 2012 is because of 9/11. That was the main focus of international coverage, understandably. A major terrorist attack in the United States. Outside of some xenophobia against Muslims for a couple years, Americans for the most part came together as one, regardless of race.

Not to say there wasn't racism prevalent, but everybody was focused on Bush and his reelection, technology and the War on Terror. 2008 with Barack Obama was the gas in the air, 2012 with Trayvon Martin & Zimmerman was the spark that ignited and exploded race relations back in the forefront.

Edit: let me expand on my technology point for a second. After 9/11 happened, live coverage of the attacks were on full display on all major news networks. MSM got their clicks and then some for a while. With technology advancing with Internet and social media, it went from Internet being just on a computer to being widespread with smartphones.

Not everybody is tuned in to TV as much anymore. Everybody is on their smart phones nowadays. Print and MSM TV is dying; they want to stay relevant by any means necessary. Trayvon Martin was their way to have people talk about it and tune in, log in, vice versa. Whether you care about what happened or not, it got people talking. It was the LA Riots meet 9/11 with social media.

I wish race relations would improve in America, but it's a multi-faceted issue that requires all of us to fix.

Agreed, although I think the equilibrium started with Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was extended by 9/11.

Clinton was very popular with the black community in the 1990's and he also had a lot of popularity with middle class and working class whites since he was a charismatic Blue Dog moderate that presided over a long period of widespread economic prosperity that was felt across both racial and class lines.

Back in the early 90's, a lot of people in the black community touted Bill Clinton as "the first black president" in a cultural sense due to his poor Southern upbringing and his ability to appeal to poor blacks like no other major politician at that time.

Bush's neoconservative stances and popularity with the fundies and rednecks should have been enough to set back race relations but 9/11 happened within his first year in office and that unified people. Obama got elected and a lot of people were convinced that the race struggle was finally over now that a black man was in the White House, partly because of the previous two presidencies spanning an era of extended racial detente/equilibrium.

Of course, Obama was an empty suit who got elected on false promises and exaggerated claims and the economy was in the midst of a massive recession that shook the American public to its very core. People on all sides were pissed and it didn't help that the MSM ended up accidentally fueling resentment by trying to silence any criticism of Obama as racism, even if the criticisms were legitimate.

Then came Occupy Wall Street and after that, the rise of SJW culture and events such as the Zimmerman trial, and all of a sudden, the MSM was no longer accidentally dividing the American public, but intentionally doing so instead.

 

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That wasn't Freddie Gray. It was Eric Garner; he was choked via chokehold and suffocated to death. He was caught selling cigarettes on the street in Staten Island without a tax stamp. One of the officers involved in that was fired.

D'oh, my mixup. The Gray case was some bullshit too. Not that he was any real loss to the world but pigs deliberately smashing a guy around in the back of a van until his spine is broken is a pretty far cry from the clear self-defence in the Martin and Brown cases.

Zimmerman called the cops when he spotted a suspicious character around his complex. The cops said they'll handle it.

I don't know if Zimmerman ever talked about his motives for sticking around keeping an eye out for the prowler he'd spotted, but he likely simply didn't trust the police to do anything about the report without something more specific. As we know, he had very good reason not to trust the local cops.

George Zimmerman gave a scathing review of the Sanford Police Department and accused its chief of engaging in a cover-up during a public meeting in January 2011.

Zimmerman's anger stemmed from the case of Sherman Ware, a black homeless man who was beaten by the son of a white police lieutenant...

Last year in September, Zimmerman wrote an e-mail to Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee saying, "In the past, I have not had a positive perspective of Sanford Police Department, due primarily to the Sherman Ware incident."
A video from the night of Ware's beating showed Justin Collison hitting the young man. Collison ended up pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery

Zimmerman's outrage over the incident was clear at the public meeting the previous January...

"I would just like to state that the law is written in black and white. It should not and cannot be enforced in the gray for those that are in the thin blue line," he said at the hearing. CNN obtained a recording this week.
He mentioned Brian Tooley, who was Sanford's police chief at the time of the Ware incident. "I'd like to know what action the commission intends on making in order to repeal Mr. Tooley's pension. I'm not asking you to repeal his pension. I believe that he's already forfeited his pension by his illegal cover-up and corruption and what happened in his department."

While Zimmerman is not heard specifically mentioning Ware in the recording, the official minutes from the hearing state that citizen demands included "a full review of the Sherman Ware cover-ups on behalf of" Sanford police.

Public outcries of police misconduct forced Tooley into early retirement. He was not charged with illegal activity...

The January 8, 2011, recording from the meeting at Sanford's City Hall is a reminder that the relationship wasn't always positive.

"I also have had the opportunity to take ride-alongs with the city of Sanford Police Department and what I saw was disgusting," Zimmerman said at the time. "The officer showed me his favorite hiding spots for taking naps. ... He took two lunch breaks and attended a going-away party for one of his fellow officers."

 

[Perspicacity]

Zim Zam and Andy Warski have a lot in common. They are both dumb spics who provoked a fight so they could pull out a gun to look cool. They both got away with it. Zim Zam just decided to leave no witnesses to him acting like a giant pussy.

 

[Superman93]

Georgie was gonna get his ass beat by a little kid because he wanted to play cop so he shot him. It's not bad enough that he got away with it but now he has to launch a lolsuit against the family now too.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

the pain he put his family

loooool lmao that's a good one. You almost had me.

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't know if Zimmerman ever talked about his motives for sticking around keeping an eye out for the prowler he'd spotted, but he likely simply didn't trust the police to do anything about the report without something more specific. As we know, he had very good reason not to trust the local cops.

Although that's not fair that the local police department isn't helpful towards the citizens they are paid to protect and serve, I can't help but think Zimmerman's prior run ins with police have something to do with it.

About the Eric Garner case, it raises the question of how police conduct themselves on duty. As with any other job, you have rules and guidelines to follow based on your job. With police, you should have training on how to handle each situation.

I understand that being a police officer isn't easy, and there are split second decisions you'd have to make in the heat of the moment. For cases like Eric Garner, the defense I get is how police use and execute force. If you mess up a routine job like that, you deserve to get fired.

There should be more involvement with police and the community they are supposed to protect.

 

[thismanlies]

So now it's the word of a fat guy with a gun vs dead guy with skittles and the fat guy walked, and then proceeded to make an ass of himself for the next 6 years.

‘It’s better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by six. Incidentally, that’s why they say you always shoot to kill if you’re ever defending yourself. You never know what the other guy will say to cover the second hole in his ass.

 

[ZXO]

Rekeita is covering this now. Rate me late.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The only thing I'll say about the 2013 case is this:

The prosecution fucked up ROYALLY. Anybody who actually paid any sort of attention to the trial would realize this. For starters, they should have never tried to "get" George Zimmerman for First Degree Murder, as there was zero evidence to suggest that he killed somebody in cold blood (in fact, there's evidence to suggest otherwise, with the ballistics showing that Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin when Martin was on top of him). Second Degree/Manslaughter, though? That would have worked out significantly better for the prosectution. They had no evidence presented for their case, and their star witness was a living meme for ALL of the wrong reasons-- an absolute joke. The prosecution only ran on fee fees, and the news media swayed enough public opinion to believe that it was "obvious" that Zimmerman committed first degree murder ... When that wasn't the case at all.

That said, though, some people back in 2013 were exceptional when they propped Zimmerman up on this pedestal as some kind of "hero" for the Second Amendment. Nah, Zimmerman is actually a garbage human-- just look at the shit he's gotten himself into since that trial. I just think that the jury absolutely made the right call, because it wasn't first degree murder. Neither Zimmerman or Martin were angels in this scenario.

I do feel bad for Martin's parents, though. Regardless of their son's character, it must suck to lose a kid that way. And I think the media totally exploited their grief to create some kind of race-baiting narrative.

Also ... "White Hispanic" George Zimmerman. I will never fucking forget that term the media used. Race baiting pieces of shit.

 

[Harnessed Carcass]

"I cleaned up niggas from our ghetto streets . . . And all I got was this stupid subpoena"

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I hope he wins and then starts a self defense school that teaches people how to deal with violent niggers.

 

[Stoneheart]

Also ... "White Hispanic" George Zimmerman. I will never fucking forget that term the media used. Race baiting pieces of shit.

the Concept of Hispanic is just stupid...