The media is twisting the story so now Trayvon Martin had burglar tools..

[HipChick]

which has nothing to do with what took place when he was murdered by Zimmerman, except to vilify him and elicit sympathy for Zimmerman


http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/26/v-fullstory/2714778/thousands-expected-at-trayvon.html#storylink=cpy

Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was suspended from school in October in an incident in which he was found in possession of women’s jewelry and a screwdriver that a schools security staffer described as a “burglary tool,” The Miami Herald has learned.

Trayvon, who claimed that an unnamed friend had given him the jewelry, was not disciplined because of the discovery, but was instead suspended for graffiti, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by The Miami Herald.

A lawyer for the dead teen’s family acknowledged Trayvon had been suspended for graffiti, but said the family knew nothing about the jewelry and the screwdriver, calling the information in the report an attempt to “demonize” the youth.

According to the report, on Oct. 21 staffers monitoring a security camera at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School spotted Trayvon and two other students writing “W.T.F.,” an acronym for “What the f---,” on a hallway locker, according to schools police. The security employee, who knew Trayvon, confronted the teen and looked through

Trayvon’s backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described the screwdriver as a burglary tool.

Trayvon was asked if the jewelry, which was mostly women’s rings and earrings, belonged to his family or a girlfriend.

“Martin replied it’s not mine. A friend gave it to me,” according to the report. Trayvon declined to name the friend.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Burglar tools?

What, was he supposed to throw the bag of Skittles through a window, or use the iced tea to melt a lock?

[abelenkpe]

10. burgler tools, empty pot bag and graffiti

that's a whole lot of new stories just today.

[slackmaster]

2. I suggest ignoring ALL media reports having anything to do with the story until the grand jury...

...does something.

[Snake Alchemist]

6. Good advice. nt

[spanone]

3. our media is broken. seriously broken.

[sadbear]

4. I use murdering tools almost everyday

But I use them to cut my food. I guess I'm doing it wrong.

[Johnny Rico]

8. Some people here are saying that all of my guns are nothing but murder tools.

I must be using them wrong as well...

[sadbear]

14. My murder tools are actually quite good at cutting food

What else are your guns quite good at?

[Johnny Rico]

21. Accumulating value. They're a very good investment.

Hunting (not the same thing as murder, after all). Target shooting.

They're also quite good as a tool for killing people; I wouldn't deny it for a moment.

I also have a tool that's designed to kill people that's quite good at cutting food!



(M9 bayonet)

Actually, I have a couple dozen different bayonets for various rifles, so I'm ready to cut me some food!

[Life Long Dem]

5. Even if he had a TV set in his hands you wouldn't kill someone over property.

Do cops shoot people in the back as they are running with a TV? No, cops won't kill you over a TV. Unless you drop the TV, and turn around with a gun in your hand. They'd kill you dead. Zimmerman was pissed from his beating and then shot the kid.

[JDPriestly]

7. Trayvon's explanation is as believable as it is unbelievable.

And whether Trayvon had a screwdriver and women's jewelry in his bag is irrelevant.

We know that Trayvon on the night of the murder was where he was supposed to be. If you listen to Zimmerman's 911 call and look at a map of the murder and the house to which Trayvon was headed, you know that Trayvon was there legitimately and that he was half-way between Zimmerman's location at the time of the call (as Zimmerman described it) and the house toward which he was, according to Zimmerman, running.

As for the fact that Zimmerman described Trayvon as looking around at the houses, Trayvon may have been trying to find his direction, his bearings. If you every go into a development like the one you see on the map -- with townhouses adjacent teach other, you will know that they all look alike. You have to look at the house numbers to know where you are.

[CakeGrrl]

9. What obscene bullshit. This is the attempted meme:

"Zimmerman did the neighborhood a favor!"

[Blue_Tires]

17. I said before the attorneys would keep smearing until he became Tony Montana

[uppityperson]

11. Did the screwdriver have the warning label "To be used only for burgaries"?

Good grief.

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Of course, you can't use a standard flathead for burglaries...

Duh!

[uppityperson]

23. And the only reason to have a large flat head, like the ones I have, is for burgaries.

Oh dear, I've outed myself.

[jwirr]

12. That makes two stories! The other says he was suspended due to pot residue in his back pack.

[ecstatic]

13. At the end of the day, NOBODY deserves to be gunned down while walking home

It's that simple. No matter how much they try to spin this and blame the victim. A boy was walking home and in the process, he was killed for no reason.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. He was also carrying a pen described as "Marxist Uprising Paraphernalia"

and may have at one time been in possession of a lunch box containing a food substance described as a "kill all white people energy source"!

[nanabugg]

16. First he was suspended for being tardy, then for drugs, now for stealing jewelry...WTF?

What does any of that have to do with him being shot and killed in cold blood by a stalking wannabe cop? Nothing. It's the same game they cops and media play when a woman is raped. Do eveything you can to blame it on the victim. You can film a defenseless black man being beaten to within an inch of his life while laying on the ground...either being beaten by police of just plain skinheads and it is always the black victim's fault for being ' threatening.' Sure their are some blacks that are thugs...and there are some thugs who are white, Hispanic, Korean, Chinese, Russian...etc. But only the blacks seem to be reported in the media as thugs and if beaten up or killed, somehow it is usually their fault. Women can drown their own children, men can murder their own wives and just simply say a black mad did it and that will justify stopping any black man in the vicinity and even justify shooting him. No wonder the Afghanis don't want Bales tried here and say that our justice system is unfair and unjust. I believe our media is just above our Congress in public trust.

[Rex]

19. So first he is suspended from school over tardies

THEN it is an 'empty pot bag' (ALERT - THAT is ALWAYS used by cops when they need a way out of a desperate situation) which could also just be a sandwich bag, NOW it is that he had stolen some jewelry!?!

GET YOUR LIES CORRECT ASSHOLES...THE FBI WON'T SUFFER FOOLS FOR LONG.

[FLAprogressive]

20. I feel like the media has started to take the side of George Zimmerman and is trying to smear....

...Trayvon.

It seems like all of these "new" details seem to paint him as this bad person and Zimmerman as a sympathetic figure. And Martin has no chance to defend himself.

[slackmaster]

24. They've succeeded in keeping your attention

Please take a step back and look at the big picture, FLA. The media are going to have to go through a lot of gyrations to keep their audiences interested in this case over the next (minimum) two weeks before any real information comes out of the grand jury.

The grand jury won't even convene until April 10. That means that pretty much anything that gets published is done so for the purpose of getting attention.

[treestar]

22. The reasons for this suspension change every five minutes

No longer credible. They should have stopped at the marijuana baggy.

[lacrew]

25. I need a flow chart

1. Hit the bus driver
2. Empty MJ baggie
3. Jewelry
4. Grafitti
5. Screwdriver

At some point, it may be best for the family to make a statement as to what the suspension was about....they could probably authorize the school to release its paperwork.

If they don't, well, the story just keeps growing.