Social unrest will “dwarf the Rodney King and the Martin Luther King riots”
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 28, 2013
Following a number of tweets making threats to kill white people if George Zimmerman is acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, a former Chicago police officer warns that the outcome of the case could spark race riots in cities across America.
As Infowars reported yesterday, following the woeful performance of Rachel Jeantel, the state’s so-called “star witness,” a number of Twitter users took to the social network to express their intention to kill white people in retaliation for Zimmerman going free.
Tweets included remarks such as “If Zimmerman get off ima shoot the first #hispanic/white I see,” and “If they don’t kill Zimmerman Ima kill me a cracka.”
In an article entitled, America Will See Its Worst Race Riot Yet This Summer, Crime File News’ Paul Huebl remarks that the case against Zimmerman should never have been filed in the first place and that when the trial inevitably collapses with Zimmerman’s acquittal, “I fully expect organized race rioting to begin in every major city to dwarf the Rodney King and the Martin Luther King riots of past decades.”
Huebl is a licensed private detective and a former Chicago police officer.
“If you live in a large city be prepared to evacuate or put up a fight to win. You will need firearms, fire suppression equipment along with lots of food and water. Police resources will be slow and outgunned everywhere,” writes Huebl, adding, “America may see some combat related population control like we’ve not seen since the Civil War. Martial Law can’t be far behind complete with major efforts at gun grabbing.”
Huebl is not the only prominent voice to express fears that the outcome of the trial could lead to widespread social disorder.
Columnist and former senior presidential advisor Pat Buchanan warned last month that, “The public mind has been so poisoned that an acquittal of George Zimmerman could ignite a reaction similar to that, 20 years ago, when the Simi Valley jury acquitted the LAPD cops in the Rodney King beating case.”
Political Strategist Charles D. Ellison also warns that, “There is the risk of a flashpoint as intense as the aftermath of that fateful Los Angeles police brutality verdict in 1992,” if Zimmerman walks free.
“At that time, many underestimated the potential for social unrest. And a bit over 20 years to the date, many could be making the same miscalculation at this very moment. The ingredients are there in Sanford and they loom large nationally, from an economy barely managing its own recovery to an unemployment rate that’s much higher than it should be, particularly for African-Americans,” adds Ellison.
Some are even asking whether the law should be ignored and Zimmerman convicted simply to avoid race riots.
“Regardless of whether or not Zimmerman acted in self defense, a large segment of the population, particularly the black population, are demanding Zimmerman be punished. And if they don’t have their demands satisfied, it is possible they might riot,” writes a poster at the Aesops Retreat forum. “So would it be appropriate to consider potential riots when deciding on whether or not to prosecute Zimmerman? Or should justice be blind and follow the rule of law?”
Critics of the attempt to convict Zimmerman have cited numerous points of evidence which clearly suggest Zimmerman acted in self-defense and that the case against him was built largely on the back of contrived racial politics.
- Photos taken after the incident show Zimmerman with a bloody nose and lacerations to the head, suggesting he had been physically attacked by Martin;
- NBC News edited a 911 tape of Zimmerman’s call to the police to falsely depict him as a racist;
- Prominent black figures like Spike Lee and Jesse Jackson immediately portrayed the incident as an assault on the black community, stirring racial tension;
- President Barack Obama got involved in the case on the side of Trayvon Martin by stating, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
- A police report suggested Zimmerman had been flat on his back during the altercation and an eyewitness said that Martin was sat on top of Zimmerman beating and pushing him down;
- A responder at the scene said Martin’s knuckles were bloodied, suggesting he had injured Zimmerman with a punch;
- The lead investigator on the scene, Officer Christopher Serino, wrote that Zimmerman could be heard “yelling for help as he was being battered by Trayvon Martin.”
If some form of social disorder, be it limited or widespread, does ensue should Zimmerman walk free, authorities will be well prepared. The Department of Homeland Security recently put out another order for hundreds of items of riot gear in order to prepare for “riot control situations.” The federal agency has also committed to buying around 2 billion rounds of ammunition over the course of the last year.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
I've thought the same thing since this case started (that there might be riots). I lived in Hollywood when the Rodney King riots went down, it was pretty messed up.
Following a number of tweets making threats to kill white people if George Zimmerman is acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, a former Chicago police officer warns that the outcome of the case could spark race riots in cities across America.
What do they want? Do they want Zimmerman put in jail if he's not guilty? or do they just want his head on a platter regardless of guilt or innocent.
People can really be idiots.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Reaction to Zimmerman's eventual acquittal - I believe he'll be acquitted - won't have much to do with the facts. What it will be from is the grievance mentality that has been amped up by a bunch of race hustlers. Then there's the media, some of whom still insist on showing Trayvon Martin's photo as a little boy, and that has focused on the emotion of the story rather than the fact that it was most likely self defense on Zimmerman's part. Does that mean Zimmerman was blameless in what happened? No; it means he's not guilty of Murder.
I work in a black neighborhood, some of it public housing, and I'm a little nervous about what happens when the verdict is announced. I'm hoping they hold the announcement of a verdict until around 3AM on a Saturday morning, to give things a chance to settle down a bit before we all have to go back to work on Monday. I don't own a handgun, but I am thinking hard about changing that.
Wasn't it NBC that rigged remote controlled explosives in a car to falsely support an "expose" they were running about certain vehicles' gas tanks exploding upon rear impact?
I am having real trouble expressing how I feel about this.
I hate this "we better get what we want or we'll break things" crap. It is an immature response.
If I were the President, then I would call up the National Guard, and give them orders to protect people and property against criminals. I would also say that becoming a criminal is not the way to protest what you see as a criminal act.
Actually, Obama is in a fairly unique position to head off such an occurrence, if he has the guts to do it. He could probably do it with nothing more than a speech.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
I hadn't thought of that ytown, nice brain. I was quite into infowars ( ha autocorrect wanted I coward) until like 5 predictions that terrified me never happened. I don't know anyone effected by the Rodney king riots. I have friends a few blocks from the Boston stuff recently and it still barely effected their lives. My dad was on a flight to NYC on 911 and nothing happened. I am slowly learning that anything outside the narrow scope of my own life has no genuine impact on me unless I allow the media to tell me it does. I would prefer people not riot but it genuinely doesn't matter to me if someone I don't know is in harms way or is upset about some media concocted race issue.
Quote: Wasn't it NBC that rigged remote controlled explosives in a car to falsely support an "expose" they were running about certain vehicles' gas tanks exploding upon rear impact?
Yeah,, when Dateline NBC started a bunch of years ago with Stone Phillips they did a piece on a truck that had an issue with it's gas tanks.. for effect they rigged it to blow up in a fashion to dramatize the issue.. Wrong thing to do from my perspective.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
As a Black President, though, Obama is in a unique position to speak directly to the Black community about this, and to let them know that the justice system works, and that they really have no right to destroy and kill, even if they disagree with the jury's verdict. His words would carry much, much more weight than a White President's would.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Quote: Wasn't it NBC that rigged remote controlled explosives in a car to falsely support an "expose" they were running about certain vehicles' gas tanks exploding upon rear impact?
Yeah,, when Dateline NBC started a bunch of years ago with Stone Phillips they did a piece on a truck that had an issue with it's gas tanks.. for effect they rigged it to blow up in a fashion to dramatize the issue.. Wrong thing to do from my perspective.
GMC and Chevy trucks. They had the gas tank "outside" of the frame rail.
NBC t-boned a couple of trucks and couldn't get a fire to start, so they took yet another truck, removed the gas cap, put a model rocket engine by the now uncapped gas filler tube, and drove another car into it. If you watched the footage closely, you could see the model rocket engine ignite prior to the car even hitting the truck.
I agree that nothing will happen, but the fact that we are even having this conversation speaks to race relations in America.
I often wonder what the "best time to grow up" is, the world is changing quickly, much man made. Taking into account race relations, makes me feel "ok" being born in 1981, but I'm pretty sure everyone is content with their place in the space time continuum.
Nineteen-year-old Rachel Jeantel holds some of the most critical information about the Trayvon Martin murder case. Yet her delivery on the stand in Seminole County this week drew widespread criticism.
She was hard to understand, mumbled, acted impertinent, annoyed, rude, and came across, as one cable TV news host said, as a “train wreck.”
But the torrent of negative reaction across bar stools and Twitter became more telling than Ms. Jeantel’s simple testimony relating what she heard on the phone as she talked to Mr. Martin before the sound of a “thud” on wet grass and a disconnected line. Moments later, Martin, an unarmed black youth, was dead from a single bullet from a 9mm Kel-Tec pistol registered to George Zimmerman.
While some have rushed to defend Jeantel’s multi-lingual background, others leaned hard into her personally, letting fly on social media a swirl of epithets that roughly amounted to dismissal of her as “ghetto trash,” as one commenter said. That reaction has steered the trial into a new phase, reflecting, some commentators argue, more on America’s privileged classes, including blacks, than Jeantel’s trustworthiness as a star witness.
Reaction to Rachel Jeantel on the stand “has been in terms of aesthetics, of disregarding a witness on the basis of how she talks, how good she is at reading and writing,” says George Ciccariello-Maher, a history and politics professor at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. “These are subtle things that echo literacy testing at the polls, echo the question of whether black Americans can testify against white people, of being always suspect in their testimony. It’s the same old dynamics emerging in a very different guise.”
To be sure, in the scathing commentary about what some called her puzzling demeanor and alleged lack of education was lost her singular background and her youth: A black and Creole girl growing up in a segregated Miami community, she represented part of the problem of the case – an America so divided, that many can’t “code-switch,” or move between the gauzy racial, cultural, and socioeconomic divides that have become hardened with the nation’s first black president, and which have helped fuel political polarization.
“What so much of this really revealed was the gulf between middle-age, middle-class, mainstream codes of behavior and life among youth from poorer, nonwhite neighborhoods … they couldn’t have been further apart if Jeantel were born on the moon,” writes Eric Deggans in the Tampa Bay Times.
But that divide epitomizes the trial itself, Mr. Deggans argues: “As each side on this murder trial tries to prove the other person had tendencies toward prejudice and violence that may have sparked the fight, how will jurors [five white women and one Hispanic woman] judge the difference between edgy culture and outright dysfunction?”
Jeantel spent nearly seven hours on the stand over two days, relating some of the most riveting bits of information about the night Martin died, crucial to the case. While others have said they saw Martin beat Zimmerman, that came only after Jeantel said she heard a heavy-breathing man, allegedly Zimmerman, say to Martin, “What are you doing around here?” and after Martin told her that a “creepy-ass cracker” was following him.
The state alleges that Zimmerman profiled Trayvon, who was returning to his father’s home with a bag of Skittles candy, a can of iced tea, and $40 in his pocket.
The state says Zimmerman chased and confronted Martin, and then fired at Martin only after he realized he was losing the ensuing fight. Zimmerman says he fired in self-defense after Martin doubled back and attacked him, breaking his nose and bashing his head on the sidewalk.
The killing became a national story after Sanford police refused to charge Zimmerman with any crime, saying they had no evidence to counter his self-defense claim. Forty-four days later a Seminole County grand jury indicted Zimmerman on second degree murder charges. If convicted, Zimmerman, an aspiring police officer who served as a neighborhood watch captain, could spend the rest of his life in Florida state prison.
The big question hanging over the trial is whether it was an unarmed Martin who claimed his self-defense rights against an armed adult stranger following him in the dark, and whether Zimmerman waived his self-defense rights when he made the decision to pursue Trayvon after noting to a 911 dispatcher that “these [guys] always get away.”
Yet the potential for Jeantel’s testimony to illuminate that central question appeared to sink beneath a wave of commentary about aesthetics, as Christina Coleman summarizes in a Global Grind article called “Why Black People Understand Rachel Jeantel.”
“I … understand why white people wouldn’t like Rachel … But maybe the reason white people don’t understand Rachel Jeantel has something more to do with white privilege than what they could call Jeantel’s capricious nature,” she wrote.
But Ms. Coleman’s contention that jurors should accept that blacks and whites often live in different worlds rather than as equal members of a polyglot American society is a problematic explanation, writes J. Christian Adams on the Pajamas Media website.
“Coleman sounds like John C. Calhoun, the South’s leading defender of slavery and segregation,” he writes. “Calhoun believed that blacks and whites could never live together, and that after any emancipation they’d forever be ‘worlds apart.’”
Zimmerman had no business pursuing someone while carrying a firearm. Blockwatch programs teach their members to report suspicious activity and defer to law enforcement personnel. Zimmerman reported the activity and was told not to follow, meaning is job was done. Anything that happened after that, he alone was responsible for what might occur. He acted irresponsibly as a firearm bearing citizen.
The million dollar question is if the law considers precipitating factors when determining if lethal force was justified in self defense. Neither the prosecution nor the defense have answered this question as of yet, as they seem to be preoccupied with proving whether or not is was actually self defense.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
Following a number of tweets making threats to kill white people if George Zimmerman is acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, a former Chicago police officer warns that the outcome of the case could spark race riots in cities across America.
What do they want? Do they want Zimmerman put in jail if he's not guilty? or do they just want his head on a platter regardless of guilt or innocent.
People can really be idiots.
He shot an unarmed kid. If he's found not guilty it's another fault of the legal system against minorities rather than he's actually not guilty.
Following a number of tweets making threats to kill white people if George Zimmerman is acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, a former Chicago police officer warns that the outcome of the case could spark race riots in cities across America.
What do they want? Do they want Zimmerman put in jail if he's not guilty? or do they just want his head on a platter regardless of guilt or innocent.
People can really be idiots.
He shot an unarmed kid.
THAT is a fact. No doubt about it.
Quote: If he's found not guilty it's another fault of the legal system[/quote} THAT is opinion.
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against minorities rather than he's actually not guilty.
And THAT is also an opinion.
Take race out of it.
If Z was white and the kid was white - no way it's racist, right? At that point, the trial would hinge on "was it self defense", or "justifiable", correct?
If - IF Z was having his head beaten on a concrete sidewalk, my guess is he feared for his life. To my knowledge, fearing for your life is justifiable cause for self defense.
Now, IF Z was on top.....or NOT getting his head smashed into concrete, then yes, he's guilty.
And yes, I know Z followed TM for a bit............what I don't know is, was he (Z) following him (TM) at the time of the attack, or was Z being surprised by TM at the time of the attack.
There's a lot we don't know (or, that I don't know, put it that way.)
Sadly, the media has made this about race for the most part. And sadly, that's what too many people think it's about.
And, more importantly, I hope the jury can throw race out the window when looking at the FACTS of the case - riots be damned, life sentence be damned. What did the FACTS tell the jury.....
Quote: I don't think the facts really support Zimmerman's story, though I don't think there's enough evidence to convict him based on Florida law.
Perhaps you've followed it more closely than I, but I (me) don't know all the facts. I know an unarmed kid was shot.
I know NBC doctored the 911 call from Zimmerman and broadcast it as fact when it was, in REAL fact, false.
I know what most "experts" have said was the key witness for the prosecution.....she lied in court, and she gave her "beliefs" as fact.
I know Z had cuts on the back of his head, and a bloody, possibly broken nose.
I know police have testified that the back of Z was much wetter than the front of him.
I know Z saw TM, and followed him while calling 911, and I know the 911 operator told him to stop following.
I do NOT know if Z did quit following him and got jumped on his way back to his car, or if he DID keep following and caused a confrontation. I do not know. (nor should I, as the case just started)
I DO know much of what the media has aired prior has been "iffy" on the facts at best. I DO know the jury will get the facts. Hearsay from a "phone witness" is hardly provable.
I DO know one neighbor thought Z was on top in the fight.
I DO know another neighbor said the red jacket wearing guy was on bottom and the dark sweatshirt wearing guy was on top. (ground and pound).
I DO FEEL Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton jumped on the race bus.
I do FEEL that if Jenteal (Genteal?) was supposed to be the "key" witness, the prosecutor has a weak case.
And yes, IF Z is found not guilty, he'll need to move far away. Far, far away. In fact, in order to have any semblance of a "life" again, he'll need to change his name, looks, or just move to a different country.
Zimmerman's story is incredibly inconsistent. A lot of holes in a narrative that doesn't make much sense to begin with.
But like I said, I don't think there's enough evidence to convict him. In fact, at this juncture, the prosecution should be embarrassed. They have next to no case.
I think his actions were dubious, but I think he'll get acquitted (and he should). I felt the same way about Casey Anthony.
If I were on the Zimmerman jury, right now I'd be voting 'not guilty'.
Quote: I don't think the facts really support Zimmerman's story, though I don't think there's enough evidence to convict him based on Florida law.
Perhaps you've followed it more closely than I, but I (me) don't know all the facts. I know an unarmed kid was shot.
I know NBC doctored the 911 call from Zimmerman and broadcast it as fact when it was, in REAL fact, false. Irrelevant
I know what most "experts" have said was the key witness for the prosecution.....she lied in court, and she gave her "beliefs" as fact. She said that "Cracker" when Travyon was saying it wasn't rooted in malcontent, but descriptive. She did not say anything that wasn't subjective.
I know Z had cuts on the back of his head, and a bloody, possibly broken nose.
I know police have testified that the back of Z was much wetter than the front of him.
I know Z saw TM, and followed him while calling 911, and I know the 911 operator told him to stop following.
I do NOT know if Z did quit following him and got jumped on his way back to his car, or if he DID keep following and caused a confrontation. I do not know. (nor should I, as the case just started)
I DO know much of what the media has aired prior has been "iffy" on the facts at best. I DO know the jury will get the facts. Hearsay from a "phone witness" is hardly provable.
I DO know one neighbor thought Z was on top in the fight. Three I DO know another neighbor said the red jacket wearing guy was on bottom and the dark sweatshirt wearing guy was on top. (ground and pound). He later changed his story to Trayvon was holding his arms down. I DO FEEL Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton jumped on the race bus. Irrelevant. I do FEEL that if Jenteal (Genteal?) was supposed to be the "key" witness, the prosecutor has a weak case. That's because you think she's dumb, not because of what she has said in court. And yes, IF Z is found not guilty, he'll need to move far away. Far, far away. In fact, in order to have any semblance of a "life" again, he'll need to change his name, looks, or just move to a different country. As it should be.
Quote: I got a question for ya Pit, seeing as how your from my hometown and all
If your sitting in your car and a guy starts yelling at you and then starts running at you and you shoot him are you gonna get arrested?
Yes I am. But the state laws are different and the scenario is different from my understanding.
At some point, a guy following you around late at night for no reason would cause one to get anxious and probably very uneasy.
There's a reason why the dispatcher told him to quit following the kid. I don't really know enough facts in this case to say one way or the other here. I just feel the continued following after he was advised not to, was what lead up to all of this.
And I do feel there is a point where you feel stalked, not followed. I don't know exactly where that point is or if that is the case, just kind of wondering out loud and trying to get some feedback.
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I've tried to stay away from this.. too much media bias for me. can't trust what they tell me and I'm not sitting in the court hearing the facts for myself so who knows fact from fiction.
I sure don't.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
