Not the Onion: Fox News explains how Trayvon could have used Skittles and Iced Tea to kill Zimmerman

[Bjorn Against]

Fox News Speculates Trayvon Martin Could Have Killed Someone With Skittles and Iced Tea
by Rebecca Leber

On the first day of George Zimmmerman’s murder trial, a Fox News guest suggested that the defense may be able to establish that Zimmerman acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin, because “you could probably kill somebody” with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea.

To earn an acquittal, Zimmerman’s defense team must establish that he used reasonable force when he shot the unarmed teen. “There’s certainly a very good argument to be made that the force used was out of proportion to what was going on, and the kid was unarmed,” Fox guest Doug Burns, a former federal prosecutor, told the Fox host in an online interview. But then he ventured that in a “totally different case, let’s say the kid had a gun.”

Martin, of course, did not have a gun. He was found with only Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea can.
“I know everybody keeps sarcastically saying about he Skittles,” Burns said. “You could probably kill somebody with Skittles.”

Fox host Jamie Colby replied, “But he didn’t take that iced tea and bang Zimmerman over the head with the bottle.”

“The thing is, yeah, you’re spinning a lot of hypotheticals,” Burns said. “And you could break a bottle of iced tea, right, with the jagged edge, and you could kill somebody with it.”

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/06/10/2131091/fox-news-speculates-trayvon-martin-could-have-killed-someone-with-skittles-and-iced-tea/?mobile=wt

Guns don't kill people, Skittles kill people.

[pacalo]

1. Empty the bag of Skittles, put it over Z-boy's head & Trayvon would have had a deadly

smothering device.

Z-boy did claim Trayvon tried to smother him. Poor, poor lil' Z-boy.

[Mnemosyne]

5. You can't find a Skittles bag large enough for that killer's head. nt

[pacalo]

8. If he would have thought of that scenario, you can bet that he would've claimed it happened.

[Mnemosyne]

12. In a split second. The coating does have a rough edge when bitten. What a murderous creep. nt

[Summer Hathaway]

2. Fair enough.

You DID warn that this wasn't from The Onion.

But I laughed through the entire thing, nonetheless.

[OilemFirchen]

3. That's just stupid.

Everyone knows that Twizzlers are ghetto yutes weapon of choice.

[Aristus]

14. "A YUTE? What the hell is a 'yute', Mr. Gambini?"

[quinnox]

4. "Ok, Put down the skittles, slowly!"

lol

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. Good grief.

[Nine]

7. Good thing it wasn't Mentos and Coke.

They'd accuse him of planning a domestic terrorism attack.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Trayvon intended to give Zimmerman diabetes.

Yup, that's the ticket!

[oberliner]

10. It might look something like this

[csziggy]

11. "Break a bottle of iced tea" - when their article states it was a CAN

Where is that smilie for "The stupid it burns!"?

[rustydog]

13. FoxNews, not the Onion, still a Parody of a news organization

[R B Garr]

15. Fox News - Not the Onion. Perfect replacement motto for Fair and Balanced

And here I was sure this was a parody, except then there is the clip of Fox News. Utterly pathetic.