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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDarren Wilson And George Zimmerman Described Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin The Same Way
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/26/3597380/in-the-eyes-of-their-killers-trayvon-martin-and-mike-brown-were-the-same-person/BY ALICE OLLSTEIN POSTED ON NOVEMBER 26, 2014 AT 1:19 PM
The description is eerily similar to another lethal confrontation with an unarmed black teen in broad daylight: the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Martin, told police that the teen jumped out from the bushes and punched him in the face, knocking him down. I started screaming for help. I couldnt see. I couldnt breathe, he said. He grabbed my head and started hitting it into the sidewalk. My head felt like it was going to explode.
Zimmerman also claimed Martin put his hand over Zimmermans mouth and nose and told him, Youre going to die tonight.
Both Zimmerman and Darren Wilson told officials that the young men they killed had their hands in their waistbandssuggesting they feared the presence of a weapon when there was none.
Throughout his testimony, Wilson repeatedly referenced Browns size, calling him really big, obviously bigger than I was, and saying he felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan, though the two men were about the same height.
Later, describing the moment right after he first fired the first bullet, he said Brown looked up at me and had the most intense aggressive face. The only way I can describe it, it looks like a demon. In other places, he describes Brown in animalistic terms (he made like a grunting, like aggravated sound) and supernatural ones (it looked like he was almost bulking up to run through the shots).
Zimmerman offered a vaguer physical description, telling a 911 dispatcher that Martin looked like real suspicious guy and saying: This guy looks like hes up to no good, or hes on drugs or something.
Both Zimmerman and Wilson are free men today, in part because of these accounts and descriptions provided to law enforcement and the courts. ....more....
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Darren Wilson And George Zimmerman Described Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin The Same Way (Original Post)
G_j
Nov 2014
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FarPoint
(12,466 posts)1. Same playbook...
Same arrogance, pompous asshole...Mirror imagines .
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)2. After seeing more of Wilson
I think his height is being underestimated. I believe he is taller and stronger, although Brown was heavier.
boston bean
(36,224 posts)3. This is even more damning..... read this OP... see any similarities?
"..Research shows that hidden biases often lead people to see African Americans as aggressive, superhuman and less vulnerable to pain."