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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:09 PM Jul 2013

Oh, SURE...this fucker's track record makes me believe him without QUESTION. Go, Brownie, GO.



http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/justice/sanford-bill-lee-exclusive/index.html

CNN) -- The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked "in a number of ways" by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida.

Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, told CNN's George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice.

"It was (relayed) to me that they just wanted an arrest. They didn't care if it got dismissed later," he said. "You don't do that."

When Sanford police arrived on the scene on February 26, 2012, after Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they conducted a "sound" investigation, and the evidence provided no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene, he said.
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Oh, SURE...this fucker's track record makes me believe him without QUESTION. Go, Brownie, GO. (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Jul 2013 OP
Yeah, I'm sure there was pressure. Ilsa Jul 2013 #1
I dont think he'd pony that explanation if the races were reversed burnodo Jul 2013 #2
Um, let's see... NV Whino Jul 2013 #3

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. Yeah, I'm sure there was pressure.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:16 PM
Jul 2013

I mean, it's only a big adult male chasing down a teenager and shooting him.

Nothing to see here because the kid is Black. Move along everyone. We've got it covered up, er, I mean, covered.

I cant believe he thought there wasn't anything to look at.

 

burnodo

(2,017 posts)
2. I dont think he'd pony that explanation if the races were reversed
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:20 PM
Jul 2013

he would have thrown black Zim in the hole and kept him there as long as he could

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