Allen West On Trayvon Martin Case: 'This Is An Outrage'

[arely staircase]

Florida Rep. Allen West, a high-profile conservative and one of two African-American Republicans currently serving in Congress, lambasted the local authorities in the handling of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

"I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford, Florida involving the shooting of 17-year-old Treyvon Martin. First of all, if all that has been reported is accurate, the Sanford Police Chief should be relieved of his duties due to what appears to be a mishandling of this shooting in its early stages. The US Navy SEALS identified Osama Bin Laden within hours, while this young man laid on a morgue slab for three days. The shooter, Mr Zimmerman, should have been held in custody and certainly should not be walking free, still having a concealed weapons carry permit. From my reading, it seems this young man was pursued and there was no probable cause to engage him, certainly not pursue and shoot him….against the direction of the 911 responder. Let’s all be appalled at this instance not because of race, but because a young American man has lost his life, seemingly, for no reason. I have signed a letter supporting a DOJ investigation. I am not heading to Sanford to shout and scream, because we need the responsible entities and agencies to handle this situation from this point without media bias or undue political influences. This is an outrage."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/allen-west-on-trayvon-martin-case-this-is?ref=fpblg

[Happyhippychick]

1. Well there goes your career Mr. West. Your base will now turn on you.

Hope you had fun trashing the dems who are the only friends you will now have.

[malaise]

25. Well his comments are even later than those who were covering up this killing

ReTHUGS can sense the outrage across America - they have no choice but to condemn it - fugg West.

[BanTheGOP]

2. I call BS, you ingrate West

YOU waited until a few days to make sure you didn't piss off your constituents, like a lackey, when we ALL know that this was a racist, republican-inspired, Fox-news driven white on black hate crime. To HELL with what YOU think, IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU West who make me EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY!!!

I will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to DESTROY YOUR POLITICAL career, you scumsucking piece of human waste! You and ALL your teabaggers can just go suck an egg while the adults take over. I look forward to seeing you in jail!

[warrior1]

3. sure took long enough

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Looking outside

Are pigs flying? Better check that umbrella.

[The Magistrate]

5. So You say, Ma'am, It Is Raining Bacon Down Your way?

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Most be

I am mostly worried about pigs flying and doing what birds do in flight.

It could get messy

[arely staircase]

10. sort of puts how messed up this is in perspective

first gov. skeletor weighs in now this.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. I'm actually shocked by this

Allen West said this?

[baldguy]

8. He just realized he's black.

Don't worry, it'll pass I'm sure.

[Happyhippychick]

15. That made me lol

[CakeGrrl]

24. LOL, but on a partly serious note,

he may have, as did one of young witnesses, realized that that really could have been him.

[bluestate10]

26. And someone might smoke him while he's gassing up his gas guzzling Hummer. nt

[RZM]

7. I'm not surprised at all

The notion that the right is united behind Zimmerman is probably way off base. They aren't as angry as the left about it, but I see no major push to come to his defense, at least not from political figures. I mentioned on another thread today that Glenn Beck referred to him as a 'racist' and a 'bad guy.'

He's got few friends that count.

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. It's hard to defend the indefensible, even, apparently, for Beck.

[arely staircase]

13. i actually saw a headline on yoahoo that said

shooting divides florida town

then i read the story and not one single person was defending the police or zimmerman. must have just been their cut and paste white guy shoots black gu headline.

[11 Bravo]

9. Allen West has now turned into just another "N' word for most of his supporters.

Welcome to the real world, Lt. Colonel West. The teabaggers were willing to tolerate you as long as you toed their line, but you are now officially "uppity".

[SamG]

12. Even a stopped clock is...

right once or twice a day!

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Allen, you know this hurts you politically, don't you?

Your teabagger chums won't like to hear this kind of talk.

[TheMadMonk]

17. One could hope that he does know and did it anyway, because...

it was the right thing to do.

Sadly, I suspect he was waiting to make sure that none of the "usual subjects" opened up. And that more and more Republicans come out in at least mild condemnation of Zimmerman and the cops in a mass bout of weathervane politics.

Even the dumbest of teabaggers know what happened, whether or not they would admit it, so this isn't as dangerous as it seems at first glance.

[arely staircase]

23. that's probably right on the money nt

[RandySF]

18. Notice how he avoids race.

He won't say a word about racial profiling because he supports using it against Muslim Americans.

[arely staircase]

21. he not only avoids it but even says it isn't about race

he's a sh*t for sure. but clearly this is evidence of how screwn zimmerman and the local yocal cops are as per public opinion.

[cali]

19. Oh fuck you Allen. How dare you fucking criticize those who are standing up

and demanding justice? Just fuck off.

[fascisthunter]

20. sickening isn't it?

[Turbineguy]

22. Well, when Allen West

sounds reasonable, things are REALLY fucked up.

[arely staircase]

28. no kidding nt

[Volaris]

29. That's because every idiot Conservative in the country KNOWS how bad this will look for them

if this guy is ballsy enough to state in any capacity that he is a fan/regular listener to any of the Hate that passes for talk radio in America. They are already mumbling about how this will be used as a political weapon by the Dem's to try and get wins on gun control laws. It didn't work with the Gifford's shooting, because "CLEARLY that guy was nuts" they say but they know damn-well that THIS guy was just a bigoted, racist asshole. And they have NO defense against that.

[got root]

27. Sean Insanity even came out against the perp today, too

[jorno67]

30. wait and see where everyone is going then jump out in front and declare yourself

a leader...