George Zimmerman was released from jail overnight.
On Sunday, the Seminole County Florida Jail seen its high profile inmate make the 10% of his $150,000 bail.
George Zimmerman is the young man who was charged with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager who was killed in an apparent confrontation inside a gated housing complex. This shooting sparked a national outrage that spans past political and racial lines.
The United States media and those following this controversy have mixed feelings about the situation.
Somehow this tragedy has sparked the notion of racial profiling in the Black and Hispanic/Latino communities.
On Friday, in a bulletproof vest, the clean shaven George Zimmerman was well dressed in a professional attire awaiting his bond hearing with Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, the parents in the courtroom. As the judge was cross-examining George Zimmerman took the time to apologize to the family of Trayvon Martin.
During the hearing, new attorney Mark O'Mara, family members and even Zimmerman's wife were at best trying to plead to the judge that if bonded out of jail, the young man would be compliant with his home detention and at best stay out of trouble until the next court hearing.
The judge agreed on the merits of Zimmerman's defense. He granted bond at $150,000. Once released the shooter has to get electronic monitoring, forfeit his U.S. passport and provide his own personal security at his expenses.
The Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, felt the bond wasn't appropriate for this type of crime. Crump expressed disappointment and questioned the decision for Zimmerman to apologize for the shooting.
This case has pretty much ruined George Zimmerman and made him just as controversial as one young woman who acquitted of murder in the death of her two year old daughter.
Florida has become the haven for controversial figures who managed to attract media attention for a crime or an event that garners controversy.
The 1970s rock star and gun right advocate is once again embroiled in a controversy.
This time it earns hims a visit from the Secret Service. The rocker Ted Nugent went to the National Rifle Association annual convention in St. Louis and made a veil threat at President Barack Obama.
This isn't the first time, Nugent made comments toward President Barack Obama.
In 2008, then U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were subjected to a profanity laced rant by the rock star in which he told Hillary Clinton to ".... his machine gun!"
The most recent statement from the rocker is a declaration that "[He] will either be 'dead or in jail’ if Obama us re-elected!"
Ted Nugent reluctantly endorsed Mitt Romney after the collapse of Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.
After the controversies with Rush Limbaugh, Hank Williams, Jr., Glenn Beck, and Dr. Laura Schlesinger many conservatives are trying to find rage with those who have liberal/progressive views.
The controversial libertarian comedian Bill Maher who's notorious for his no nonsense stance on issues, became the lightening rod for conservative outrage.
Sean Hannity in particular is obsessed with Bill Maher's measly $1 million donation to President Barack Obama's "Super Pac".
While Hannity's good friend Ted Nugent is popping off his firearms and his big mouth attacking President Barack Obama, the conservatives tend to defend the controversial statements.
Glenn Beck in particular has called his good ole' buddy Ted a "patriot" for his stances.
This marks the latest controversial statements from conservative entertainers.
Earlier this year, Patricia Heaton, best known for her role as Frankie Heck on The Middle and her role as Debra Baronein Everyone Loves Raymond made a controversial tweet about Sandra Fluke, a birth control advocate who was subjected to a partisan attack from Rush Limbaugh.She later deleted the comment and partially ended her Twitter usage. Heaton later apologized for her comments. The controversy lead to Rush Limbaugh losing over 100 radio advertising sponsors.
Hank Williams, Jr. was apparently drunk on the Fox & Friends program and he made an outrageous statement calling President Barack Obama, "Hitler" and saying Vice President Joe Biden and Governor John Kasich of Ohio along with the president are the "Three Stooges". He was later dropped from ESPN as the opening music act and spokesperson.
It was determined that Secret Service found Ted Nugent's comments weren't threatening towards President Barack Obama. But they're aware of his past statements.
Nugent never apologized for his comments, although he walked back his most harshest criticism of the president.
The aftermath has led to Nugent being pulled as act for the U.S. Army event at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Nugent also facing a citation for shooting a black bear he illegally killed in southeastern Alaska during a hunting trip.
Ted Nugent appeared on White nationalist radio program The Political Cesspool with Stormfront host/contributor James Edwards in 2009.
The Political Cesspool Radio show is a conservative program that sponsors White supremacists and extremists. It's a part of Stormfront, a white nationalist online community.
Could this be the injuries of George Zimmerman? Zimmerman faces murder charges in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
The pictures of the injuries on George Zimmerman show that a confrontation did happen and the back of his head was injured.
There's a bond hearing today for the shooter. If found guilty of second degree murder, Zimmerman would face 25 years to life.
The parents of Trayvon Martin will be in attendance of the bond hearing.
ABC News obtained an iPhone photograph from an eyewitness. In an apparent leak to the media, supporters of Zimmerman continue to argue the defense that Martin was the one who engaged in the fight.
Now since this was mentioned by the notorious conservative website, The Drudge Report, I will spare you the vile comments and establish what was said after viewing the pictures.
When the conservative comments come down expect: Racial slurs, Obama, liberal media, guns over human life, you communist, Marxist, white power, Eric Holder, Black Panthers, Fox News, and Viagara.
Rep. Keith Ellison is an African American Democrat from Minnesota who is a Sunni Muslim. Ellison has spoken out against racial profiling within the Black and Hispanic community. He was very vocal against the "radical Muslim" hearings by Islamophobic Rep. Peter King (R-New York).
Two Minnesota representatives are once again embroiled in a controversy. Congressman Keith Ellison is an African American congressman from Minnesota. The Democratic congressman generated a little bit of controversy after he retweeted a comment from a follower about U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is a controversial figure in U.S. politics. After suffering a major setback in the Republican presidential nomination race, Bachmann now focuses on her chances at retaining her congressional seat. After Minnesota legislators approved a controversial voting redistricting, Bachmann is facing an opponent within a heavily Democratic district. So instead of competing in this district, she takes her case to another district and hopes on a long-shot victory in a district that leans Republican. Her latest brush with controversy is the comment her fellow Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado) used during a radio interview.
Conservatives up in arms over Rep. Ellison's retweet of a supporter's view of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Now let me tell you something about this controversy.
For the right to get riled up about this Twitter posting is funny. There's plenty of extremely offensive things online conservatives say about the first Muslim to be elected in U.S. Congress. Nevermind the fact, that most online chatter from those in the conservative movement is far worse. Nevermind the whisper campaign about President Barack Obama being a Muslim, by those in the conservative movement.
You notice the pattern of disrespect shown to the president, in the mind of a conservative is considered patriotic by some! Even those in the media such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck parade themselves as patriotic Americans fighting against the perceived tyranny of a liberal government (aka Black president)!
Unfortunately, they're still stuck in the past. They still got a lot of work to do in order to catch up with the rest of society. The facts are shown that the Republican Party is having real trouble courting minorities, GLBT and those who practice in Islam.
Just about 86% of the Republican Party is solely white. The party is mostly catered to men. It's beginning to look like an "all boys club" with a few "Blacks, Latinos, Asians and handful of women!"
This controversy is ridiculous. This is grasping for straws again.
You got to admit, Mitt Romney does come off as a douchbag! And that's not a product of President Barack Obama or Congressman Keith Ellison. That's coming strictly out of Romney's own Republican Party.
Here's a taste of the conservative outrage! A reminder: To those who share bigoted views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings. My question to you!
For those who criticize President Barack Obama and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), why is it harder for you to complete a full sentence when you're upset over another person's criticism of a public figure? Why can't you figure out that this ongoing Obama Derangement Syndrome will eventually turn off the independents. You understand that this is another example of why those in the progressive movement call conservatives the racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, overreaching, condscending bigots they've made this group out to be!
Check out what The Fox Nation is saying! Be warned this website contains offensive language that's deemed extremely racist and insensitive.
I have heard that Mr.Ellison likes young boys.....well, at least thats what I heard.
See a Lib can say anything as long as the explian it away or are a comedian.
Oh, let the record show that Im a comedian.
Civility for me, but not for thee. Seems to be a Dem thing, does it not? Had a Pub said it, the subsequent tirade would have burst eardrums.
However, Mr. Ellison is b l a c k, he's a lib, and he's a M u s l i m. He can say/do as he pleases.
The Honorable Mr. Ellis will need to make dramatic personal improvements to elevate himself to colostomy-bag status. He is as contemptable as any other DEM!
Isn't it so wonderful... the progresso/socialist/communists say that they're "all inclusive", "tollerant", "caring"... all of those "lovey dovey" terms, when ACTUALLY, they are a bunch of eletist, closed minded, H A T E filled hypocrits! Look at how many times they use the word H A T E! HYPOCRITS TO THE EXTREME.
Americans, do you remember the 60’s when it was power to the people and against the MAN? Isn’t it sad that these same people have become the MAN, and now it’s their power against the people, and what is even sadder is that most of OUR country is blind to this fact. We either stand and f i ght or lose OUR freedoms and dreams forever. YOUR choice, not mine. I already know what I’m doing.
In the 60s, wasn't it the Democrats who were "the Man?" And the anarchist's were fighting against "the Man?" So now the anarchists of the 60s are "the Man" and trying to preserve THEIR power over "the people;" the more things change, the more they stay the same!
We're going to see more and more of this hysterical behavior as we draw closer to the election. The com mun ist pigs know they're going to lose the WH and their strangle hold on the Senate so we can expect them at some point to even become violent.
It wasn't enough that history tells us that their ideology is a failure, they had to force com mun ism on the American people and cause grief, suffering and loss to all of us. There is only one solution for dealing with people this stupid and this cruel, GET RID OF THEM !!
This is the guy who swore his oath to congress on the Koran. Exactly what founding principles of this great nation are contained in the Koran? Exactly where does Islam play a role in the founding and development of this nation? The answers are none and nowhere.
Where is decency in the Democratic Party? Vulgar and irrespective House and Senate representatives, hookers in Colombia, party in Las Vegas. This people do not deserve our tax dollars.
This Minnesota elected "mistake" has shown his true colors many times and must be voted out of office in November. We deserve better.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is a controversial figure who ran for U.S. President in 2012.
Now after failing to capture the Republican nomination, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) utters out the infamous racial slur "Tar Baby" during a interview with a conservative website.
Courtesy of CBS News/The Political Hotsheet
Rep. Michele Bachmann charged the president with caring only about his re-election. She also called him "irresponsible" and "infantile" for failing to address the economy and energy prices.
"This is just about waving a tar baby in the air," Bachmann told a conservative Florida website The Shark Tank in an interview on Thursday. "The president is a complete and utter fraud and a hypocrite on this issue, with all due respect," she said, referring to the president's energy policy.
Bachmann has come under fire for using the term "tar baby," which is a phrase that denotes a sticky situation and refers to a children's story, the Brer Rabbit. However, the term is also considered derogatory toward African Americans.
Bachmann's spokesperson Becky Rogness says in a Thursday email that Bachmann made a point about Obama's understanding of oil prices that has "nothing to do with race." Instead, Rogness says Obama "has gotten himself into a sticky situation."
Throughout the interview, Bachmann's hit the president hard, calling him "infantile."
"I have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way he continually blames everybody else for his failure to first diagnose the problem and second to address the problem," Bachmann said.
She charged him with being focused on one thing. "All you have to know about president Obama is filtered through a grid called his re-election. Everything he does. It has nothing to do with priorities of the country. It has nothing to do with turning around the economy," Bachmann said. (Watch the interview below.)
Another day, another ridiculous rant from a conservative agitator. This time this one works for the Miami-Dade County Fire and Rescue Department.
Okay, we're all upset over the controversy in the state of Florida. The city of Sanford became a media circus after an incident involving a young man who was a neighborhood watch volunteer and a teenager who was gunned down by this young man over an apparent confrontation. When the Sanford Police dropped the ball on the case, the national media and Civil Rights leaders got involved and now here we are. This became a polarizing event that not only crosses race and political standings, but advocates for the talk! You know the one that we had when we were children about the way we are in society.
This gentleman Brian Beckmann, the captain of Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue went onto Facebook and posted his opinion on the Trayvon Martin shooting. And let's say that it's not one of the most nicest I've seen.
Conservatives are really agitated with President Barack Obama because he spoke on the controversy. But that's nothing new coming out of the unhinged.
And for the record, Bill Cosby, you're no longer the powerful figure you've used to be in the 1990s.
Courtesy of the Miami Herald
Miami-Dade firefighter under investigation for Trayvon Martin Facebook rant
Private Facebook posting from a Miami-Dade firefighter blasting “urban youth” and “ignorant, pathetic” parents draws probe.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/15/2750666/miami-dade-firefighter-under-investigation.html#storylink=cpy
A Miami-Dade firefighter’s rant about the Trayvon Martin case — posted on his personal Facebook page — is drawing scrutiny from his bosses.
Capt. Brian Beckmann’s post, published for the public Friday by the website theGrio.com, lambasts the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case and suggests “urban youth” are the products of “failed, sh*tbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents.”
Someone with access to Beckmann’s Facebook page sent a screen shot of his posting to the website which is geared toward African-American issues.
The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of theGrio and a Miami Herald contributing columnist, it was investigating the captain’s online posting.
Beckmann, told the website in a Facebook message: “I am a private citizen and have the same right to freely express an opinion on any subject that anyone else does. I choose not to embellish or alter the facts as your employer chose to do.”
Reached by a reporter Sunday, Beckmann said: “It’s under investigation. I can’t talk to you.”
The investigation and racially-charged entry on the private Facebook page is an example of how employers both private and public struggle to balance free speech and conduct that may reflect poorly on an employee.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, called this kind of incident “one of the great challenges of the digital age.”
“Organizations often want all the advantages of social media to promote themselves and their missions, but struggle to figure out the boundaries for their employees. The law sometimes is not at all clear about where the border between free speech and organizational rule-making can be drawn.”
He added: “At the individual level, people are in a brand new world where they have to think about – and manage – a variety of ‘publics.’ In social media it is pretty easy for people to believe that some social media postings are more or less private, when it fact it just takes a few clicks for them to become very public acts with a big audience. It’s unprecedented. It’s unnerving. And it requires a new set of social skills to manage properly.”
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 killing of Trayvon, an unarmed Miami Gardens teen who was in Sanford visiting his father’s girlfriend.
A neighborhood watch volunteer with a penchant for calling police to relate suspicious happenings, Zimmerman called 911 that night to report Trayvon, who had gone to a convenience store to buy candy. A scuffle ensured and the Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon.
Zimmerman claimed self-defense and Sanford police pointed to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law in not arresting the man. The shooting has sparked dozens of racially charged rallies across the nation and sparked worldwide attention on Florida’s self-defense law.
Beckmann, a Miami-Dade employee since 1997, posted the rant on Wednesday, the night special prosecutor Angela Corey announced Zimmerman had been charged.
“Listening to Prosecutor Corey blow herself and her staff for five minutes before pre-passing judgment on George Zimmerman,” the post read.
“The state seeks reelection again, truth aside. I and my coworkers could rewrite the book on whether our urban youths are victims of racist profiling or products of their failed, sh*tbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents, but like Mrs. Corey, we speak only the truth.
“They're just misunderstood little church going angels and the ghetto hoodie look doesn't have anything to do with why people wonder if they're about to get jacked by a thug,” the posting reads.
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