Hannity asks Trayvon Martin family attorney if "there has been a rush to judgment"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Trayvon Martin family attorney: George Zimmerman is a vigilante

Published March 29, 2012 | Hannity | Sean Hannity

Special Guests: Daryl Parks, attorney

HANNITY: I appreciate it. And look, any time we have a 17-year-old young man killed, it's a tragedy. I think we all agree with this. And our thoughts and prayers, I want to communicate to you, go out to the family. Let me ask you this, do you find in some ways, are we at a point where there has been a rush to judgment? In other words, you know, I've noticed some of your comments and you said that you want Mr. Zimmerman arrested. You want him charged. But do you know these full circumstances, do you leave open the possibility as Robert Zimmerman talks about, the story that his son told him about what happened that night, that maybe something, there are factors here that you don't understand, not having been there?

PARKS: Well, that's always a possibility, Mr. Hannity. However, in this situation, we have several things that we know that is true. We have a 911 tape where he says, he's following the young man. He is suspicious for no reason. The operator tells him not to get out of his car. He gets out of his car. He is chasing him. We hear him breathing very hard. He engages Trayvon. Now we know, as late as today that we have a witness who was an eyeball witness who saw Mr. Zimmerman on top and saw him shoot Trayvon while he's on the bottom. And we have Mr. Zimmerman saying, yes, I did shoot him. Now, whether or not he is guilty or not is not the issue when it comes to arresting someone. He should be arrested and a court of law decide whether or not he's guilty or innocent.

HANNITY: I understand that. But we also had a witness that was there and available that very first night and he has a very contradictory statement. His statement was that he saw Trayvon on top of Mr. Zimmerman and pounding his head into the concrete and into the cement. And just to -- just to point out one other thing, is that according to Zimmerman's side, he was walking back to his car when he says he was confronted, in fact, by Trayvon. And so obviously, we have -- we have conflicting stories here.

PARKS: But Mr. Hannity, when you have conflicting statements in any situation, right? We have enough for probable cause. I think no one can refute that. So what, we have conflicting statements. He should be arrested. We go to court, we'll let the court decide.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/03/30/trayvon-martin-family-attorney-george-zimmerman-vigilante

[yardwork]

1. That's what trials are for, Mr. Hannity. You have to have an arrest first.

[Moostache]

6. What the hell is wrong with America these days?

Why is the right wing media machine intent on politicizing EVERYTHING????

They challenge the very fundamentals of civil society - the rule of law - as long as it gives them a chance to gin up their racist "base".
IF President Obama said the sky is blue, there would Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter and the rest of the fools on air to say that it is actually slate gray and that the president is ruining the ability of Americans to discern colors as part of his secret plot to destroy Jesus.

The case of Trayvon Martin is far from a guaranteed conviction, but in questioning whether or not it even deserves a trial, the peddlers of right wing paranoia are going the proverbial Bridge Too Far and then some...to even suggest such nonsense (that the facts are in dispute so we should not question the way the case is being handled) reeks of complicity in propaganda and mind control. Orwell was right, only instead of being sent to room 101, people voluntarily tune in to channel 101 and learn that 2+2=5.

For Sean and the rest of the degenerate right wing, let me use small words and explain to you racist asshats WHY we need an arrest and a trial in this case:

1) an unarmed CHILD was shot dead by an armed vigilante (imagine the cries of horror if this had been a pretty white 17 year old girl walking home with Iced Tea and Skittles for her sister....these right wing asshats would be screaming for the right to have summary executions...oh wait, they ALREADY ARE!!!)

2) this particular armed assailant followed and confronted an unarmed CHILD - AFTER he called 911 and reported the issue to authorities. (Remember that little thing called "rule of law"? If you do not respect the rights of ONE, then you threaten the rights of ALL. Trayvon Martin - or ANY American - has the right to LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS...this is so often conveniently forgotten by wingnut idiots unless they are worrying about a zygote in a woman's uterus who may have had ....clutch the pearls now .... sex.)

3) when a crime is POTENTIALLY committed, we have courts of law to determine IF the crime WAS committed and if so, WHAT we as a civil society will do about it to enforce the law. (Holding a gun rights discussion or a race relations discussion or a panel interview that blames the President for governing while black are all IRRELEVANT in the question of SHOULD GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, THE ADMITTED TRIGGER MAN IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTIN FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND A TRIAL BY A JURY OF HIS PEERS?)

I am sick of the ridiculous nature of our politics now and the way that it used against the people to advance the creature comforts of a select 1% of the top 1% of all Americans at the expense of EVERYTHING else! Justice for Trayvon STARTS with an arrest and a trial of George Zimmerman....and at that trial many things may be brought to light, and maybe Zimmerman would be exonerated for using deadly force against an unarmed teen, but the fact that he is not currently on bail awaiting trial, and that this case is being tampered with in the media is a farce and a true miscarriage of justice.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Oh this comes to two words

WHITE PRIVILIDGE.

This is why a .... POTUS scares them, as well as women in the work place...

If people like Sean had their way, we'd be partying like it was 1650.

[Bjorn Against]

2. I think there was a huge rush to judgment...by George Zimmerman

Apparently in Hannity's world we need to be really patient and not rush to judgment unless we have a gun, if we have a gun then it is OK to play judge, jury and executioner. Why do none of these right-wingers who suddenly seem so concerned about not rushing to judgment seem completely unconcerned by Zimmerman's rush to judgment of Trayvon Martin?

[Fla Dem]

11. It's not just George Zimmerman rushing to judgment..............

Anyone who pulls a gun and shoots another person because they "feel threatened" has the right under "Stand Your Ground" to be judge, jury and executioner. That really is the what the idiotic law amounts to. Due Process, fergit about it.

[Ohio Joe]

3. A "rush"?

Also still pushing the head on the concrete things as well. Good old faux news, pushing out every lie they can.

[Life Long Dem]

4. Ask George Zimmerman first.

[Johonny]

5. tell Hannity 1 more day til April first.

[seattleblah]

7. He left home with a gun

It was premeditated. There was no rush(no pun intended).

[varelse]

8. Well yes, there was a rush to judgement

A child was sentenced to death and executed in cold blood, in the street, on the suspicions of a violent, paranoid maniac with a gun.

[Rex]

10. Sean we ALL saw the video footage...why don't

you talk about the unscathed Zimmerman? No blood or grass on his clothes, no open hole in the back of his head, no broken nose.

Hannity is one of the biggest peices of shit on TVEE, bar none.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Hannity's a brain dead idiot.

Enough said.