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]

So you trust the post that said that someone called for help, but filtered out that it explained that it was definitely Zimmerman who did it?

You know, generally when you acknowledge bias you're supposed to try to work against it. This reads more to me that you're trying to posture as reasonable without actually changing your stance.

Zimmerman said Help! I apologize. I will keep that in mind. I'd rather not take a side for this case, they're both despicable people. Only one is dead.

 

[Arkancide Pact]

Zimmerman said Help! I apologize. I will keep that in mind. I'd rather not take a side for this case, they're both despicable people. Only one is dead.

No, your grasp of the facts is flat wrong still. One person called the cops on a suspicious motherfucker prowling around a house recently burglarized. The other person told the person he was on the phone with he was gonna attack that "fag".

He's suing the family because they knowingly participated in passing off a different person as the person who was on the phone with Trayvon. That person refused to testify to the racial angle, so they subbed in a different person and lied to the court.

The Martin family knowingly lied, and attempted to send an innocent man to jail. If they had a real case, why lie?

Or just ignore this and yell "Zimmer Man Bad" like the media told you to.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Or just ignore this and yell "Zimmer Man Bad" like the media told you to.

Objectively and outside of the Martin case, Zimmerman is not a good person. I don't care if the media made him this way, or he's been a narcissist since childhood. Even if he was "wronged", there's basically nothing he can do about it because he's already tainted his reputation beyond belief. It really doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong anymore....even though Trayvon is portrayed as a victim in many circles, to me, this is still a case of 2 brown people acting like idiots and colliding like two idiot traits on the same track. Sure one might have technically been on the right track (under the law), but it had several junctions where it could have switched tracks and avoided the collision. This train got away and was repaired with minor scratches, but the conductor is still doing the same damn thing, looking for rogue trains to collide with...and since then, he's been the one on the wrong tracks several times. You're blaming the media a lot, but the laws on the books are also to blame. Laws are extremely subjective from a county to a federal level in the US, and a lot of dumb people just don't understand how or why they work. Also, laws were written by a lot of dumb people.

 

[The Last Stand]

No, your grasp of the facts is flat wrong still. One person called the cops on a suspicious motherfucker prowling around a house recently burglarized. The other person told the person he was on the phone with he was gonna attack that "fag".

He's suing the family because they knowingly participated in passing off a different person as the person who was on the phone with Trayvon. That person refused to testify to the racial angle, so they subbed in a different person and lied to the court.

The Martin family knowingly lied, and attempted to send an innocent man to jail. If they had a real case, why lie?

Or just ignore this and yell "Zimmer Man Bad" like the media told you to.

I'll agree to disagree with you. Objectively, by written law, Zimmerman was in the right to did what he did. He owned a firearm legally, he felt his life was in danger and acted upon it with the tools provided. His attacker was defeated, and by Florida law, he was practicing his Stand Your Ground law. As such, he was clear of his charges.

Subjectively, the neighborhood he was in was a piece of shit. Shit community, multiple law infractions, it was basically unsafe for anybody innocent to live. I find it ironic that given Zimmerman's criminal history, NOW the law would work in his favor. As @Mariposa Electrique mentioned, Travyon was a product of his environment. Maybe he could've reformed, maybe not. It doesn't matter, the kid is dead. Zimmerman was th judge, jury and executioner.

Your frustration with this case should be with the media obstructing and manipulating this local story into destroying race relations in this country, when they were at best, subsided. My frustration also comes from Zimmerman's past.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Holy hell. This thread is golden.

I doubted Null when he warned us about A&H, but this thread is an absolute fuckfest. Absolute hilarity seeing you guys sperg out like this. Lol.

I'm seeing the more recent posts are getting more civil though...at least through our autism, comes compromise.

 

[haurchefant]

After following along for 11 pages I believe there are some points that should be made.
- Basketball-Americans cause trouble wherever they go unless they have a much larger majority to pressure them to stay in line. They are still human and have human rights but they also smell bad and get addicted to crack.
- Spics are not white no matter how light skinned they are, Zimmerman is not a hero, he's a mulatto that got saddled with a germanic name.
- Le 56% Amerimutts really don't have any ground to stand on when complaining about other races. Any Amerimutt can have Jew or Basketball DNA, probably also feathernigger DNA if your granddad so much as looked at a local reservation. If you would get kicked out of Richard Spencer's based white ethnostate then it's pretty lulzy to whine about muh niggerssss when you most likely have nigger blood yourself.
- George Zimmerman was only in a victim in the sense that Travyannie Martine attacked him. The dude himself is only a middle of the road person. He has emotional problems and entanglements with police way before Trabyone yeeted himself at his gay ass. He's already had a wife divorce him over domestic violence.

Of course he shouldn't have been attacked by the local wildlife but following a black kid around when you suspect him of being a criminal is akin to driving out into the jungle, rolling your window down, drinking your lunch, falling asleep, and then being shocked when a cheetah drags you out of your dumb jeep and eats you when you're too drunk to fight back. When monitoring wildlife you do not antagonize them or let them know you are there because animals react violently to unknown factors which they perceive to be threats.

- Life would have been better for Zummeman and Travyone both if they had simply adhered to white values:
1) saving money for the future
2) working hard and building relationships
3) investing for retirement
4) not being a crackhead that wanders around neighborhoods at night with a gun
5) not being a thief
6) speaking proper English
7) not beating your wife
8) Getting married at 35 to a college graduate who bears you several children
9) working until you're 48-50 and hitting your midlife crisis after gaining too much weight: cheating on your wife, taking out a second mortgage on your house to pay for expensive vacations and gifts for your mistress, coming home to find your wife is divorcing you after she read your facebook chat
10) calling your wife a cheating whore when you see her in a photo with her young cousin who graduated college and trying to use this as evidence of abuse in the divorce proceedings
11) having your mistress betray you and side with your whore wife to build a case against you, resulting in your whore wife taking all of your money leaving you upside down on your mortgage
12) blame your financial mismanagement on the Jews when your bank comes calling for your mortgage payment, you can't pay it because you blew everything on the mistress and your wife took the rest but don't worry the Jews stole everything from you its their fault.
13) lose the house to those dirty jews at the bank when they repossess it and you have to move in with your parents; you spend several months getting high with your dad in the basement while your elderly mother struggles to lift the weight of your morbid obesity sized clothes into the wash
14) hang yourself in your mother's kitchen after her funeral when you've just turned 56. Your ex wife does not speak to you, your mistress has married someone else, and your children hate you for cheating on their mother. Your father is in an assisted living home.

Zimmerman and Traynyon could have had this successful life if they had simply abided by the unspoken rules and culture of the white master race. Sadly they did not. The black was a thief and tried to murder the spic; the spic has a history of acting ret~arded and he spooked the black into attacking him. The true tragedy is that this altercation resulted in the death of a young man and incited a mass campaign by the media because Obongo was in office and they thought they could strengthen black turn out on the next voting period: the media most likely realized Obona is an empty suit and they were worried the blacks would catch on. But if they inflamed racial tension then OBono would be able to spin it into his next election campaign, which he did very successfully.

Sadly its all a big mess and it was caused by two non-whites following their instincts instead of observing their more successful white superiors and imitating them.

e: fixed typos

 

[X Prime]

I'll agree to disagree with you. Objectively, by written law, Zimmerman was in the right to did what he did. He owned a firearm legally, he felt his life was in danger and acted upon it with the tools provided. His attacker was defeated, and by Florida law, he was practicing his Stand Your Ground law. As such, he was clear of his charges.

Are you ignoring the multiple posts which told you that Zimmerman's defense did not invoke Stand Your Ground?

 

[Mikeula2099]

I wonder if Trayvon and Mike Brown gay it up in hell?

 

[The Pink Panther]

I wonder if Trayvon and Mike Brown gay it up in hell?

Trayvon is obviously a top.

 

[Arkancide Pact]

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Are you ignoring the multiple posts which told you that Zimmerman's defense did not invoke Stand Your Ground?

This is what's so frustrating. I don't even think @The Last Stand is doing it on purpose.

If this is the best you can do as far as reading comprehension, we're never going to agree, and I'm not going to "agree to disagree" on falsehoods easily verified. You are impenetrable to facts that don't support the conclusion you've arrived at.

Opinion is opinion, there's no right or wrong. But the facts those opinions are based on can be wrong. When every opinion you have on the matter is backed by things that are not true, and you are shown the truth, if your opinion stays the same, what's the point of talking to you?

If you feel so strongly on the matter to keep insisting on your opinion, at least take the basic step of reading the facts of the case.

 

[Caesare]

I was 15-16 around that time. You're right; my memory of that was fuzzy.

I thought so, I remember you telling me that you were a younger guy. And you weren't remembering some of the big points that the media was carrying on about at the time. It makes sense cuz at that age you're more interested in sports and playing with your friends than watching overhyped news stories.

It doesn't help that a number of posts on here are mainly racist /pol/ sperging, which rationalizes the whole race argument.

Yeah, you're gonna get that on threads like this. It's best to just skim and skip through posts like those in my opinion. They're not really helpful, it's just shit talking for the sake of shit talking.

I think you can hold individuals accountable and be critical of the bad behavior of certain groups of people while still remaining respectful.

I also think horribly offensive and cruel jokes are okay as long as the funny is there, but a lot of the commentary was just mean and edgy with no hilarious payoff.

 

[Mrs Paul]

I know the Farms likes to be edgy and shit, but c'mon.

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.

BINGO. You said it far, far better than I could. I do think Zimmerman most likely instigated the whole mess, but that doesn't equate to premeditated murder. Unfortunately, we'll never truely know what all went down.

Why is he suing for so much money? 100 million is completely ridiculous. Ultimately, Zimmerman should have stayed (as much as possible) out of the public spotlight after his case was over. If he really needs money he should have wrote a book or something jesus christ, at least then people could support him. He looks like a total weasel here.

That's because he IS a total weasel. Let's face it: the guy isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, he's just a piece of garbage. Martin may not have been an angel, but considering Zimmerman's actions since the trial, I really wouldn't be shocked to find out that he (Martin) was acting out of fear, or self-defense.

 

[Caesare]

- Le 56% Amerimutts really don't have any ground to stand on when complaining about other races. Any Amerimutt can have Jew or Basketball DNA, probably also feathernigger DNA if your granddad so much as looked at a local reservation. If you would get kicked out of Richard Spencer's based white ethnostate then it's pretty lulzy to whine about muh niggerssss when you most likely have nigger blood yourself.

The vast majority of Americans are white, and nearly every single white American has zero Sub saharan African DNA. I'm not sure what the 56% figure you're talking about refers to, but the United States is about 80% or so white.

White Americans have a lot of different European groups in their background, but not black at all.

A good bit of white and black Americans have indian in their DNA, and quite a few black Americans have European DNA.

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.

Strongly disagree with this point. Racial relations in the United States are pretty awesome. It's arguably the most widely diverse society on the planet, and it's definitely the safest diverse nation on the planet. It takes a lot to get people angry enough to riot, and even the extremely rare situation when they do happen, they're more about destructive, violent people feeding off of one another's violent energy and stealing shit in the process than it is a genuine expression of frustration over social injustice.

The United States will never be like the Balkans because there isn't anything close to the tribal differences and genocidal tendancies between the various groups. No group in the U.S. has any built up anomosity stemming from earlier massacres. Nobody in this country was living when anything close to that was happening, and even a very long time ago, when racial violence was at it's peak, it was still nowhere as bad as other places, especially the Balkan peninsula.

 

[Caesare]

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.

Best, most accurate and succintly worded post in this entire goddamn thread. Thank you.

 

[c-no]

As someone who's brother nearly got shot because of a coked up white meth head going nuts your blatant racism isn't impressing me it just makes you look like a dumbass.

Go be an internet tough guy somewhere else.

One has to be honest: it don't matter if you're a black crackhead or a white methfiend or any ethnicity. Everyone will have their own tales of when Cletus got high off meth and tried to shoot at his neighbors or when Jamal took part in a fight between two ethnic-minority gangs over control of some drug trade in a neighborhood.

Regardless, I find the whole Zimmerman-Martin shitstorm to be just that, a complete shit storm where it's all fucked regardless of whether one saw Martin as either some hood thug or complete saint of a youth and Zimmerman as either a white supremacist hispanic or an innocent watcher of his neighborhood. This thread may as well of done the job in making some users spazz the fuck out over who was in the wrong or about who is truly guilty. All I wanna see how much attention Zimmerman can try to get from this before it all crashes and burns.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Well, one of these days Zimmerman will most likely pull his gun on the wrong person at the rate he's going.

 

[The Last Stand]

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This is what's so frustrating. I don't even think @The Last Stand is doing it on purpose.

If this is the best you can do as far as reading comprehension, we're never going to agree, and I'm not going to "agree to disagree" on falsehoods easily verified. You are impenetrable to facts that don't support the conclusion you've arrived at.

Opinion is opinion, there's no right or wrong. But the facts those opinions are based on can be wrong. When every opinion you have on the matter is backed by things that are not true, and you are shown the truth, if your opinion stays the same, what's the point of talking to you?

If you feel so strongly on the matter to keep insisting on your opinion, at least take the basic step of reading the facts of the case.

At this point, we've reached 11 pages of discussion about the Zimmerman case. In my defense, it is a bit hard to read through a 8 year old case that should've died a week after it happened. Doing what on purpose? I'm not here to troll or provoke somebody intentionally.

Also, lol, they leaked Zimmerman's transcripts. Why?

One clarification I gathered was that Travyon attacked Zimmerman first. And there was no Stand Your Ground case, just murder.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

This thread is why there legit should be another freeze on American politics on A&H. Maybe the /pol/ kiddies will learn to control their powerlevel enough to not just spew posts that are 55% nigger (and synonyms thereof) by volume.

 

[Caesare]

Well, one of these days Zimmerman will most likely pull his gun on the wrong person at the rate he's going.

No, when you're a mostly regular guy like G. Zimmerman, and not a career criminal, you tend to behave yourself when you have a brush with the possibility of going to prison.

This thread is why there legit should be another freeze on American politics on A&H. Maybe the /pol/ kiddies will learn to control their powerlevel enough to not just spew posts that are 55% nigger (and synonyms thereof) by volume.

It's so easy to ignore the edgy posts by the youngsters and let the adults have a conversation. Nobody needs to cry about those silly posts, or even really read them for that matter.

 

[God of Nothing]

This thread is why there legit should be another freeze on American politics on A&H. Maybe the /pol/ kiddies will learn to control their powerlevel enough to not just spew posts that are 55% nigger (and synonyms thereof) by volume.

At the very least, I was redpilled on just what happened in that incident. Never bothered or cared about the usual overblown white-on-black crime fiasco except the clusterfuck that was the Martin Brown shooting with King Nigga condoning riots. Good work, sensible mad fags on the internet. Now step away from the keyboard and breathe.