As you have probably seen that mess is back in the news again.
This time the defense wants to show things that show what TM's character was and how he wasn't this sweet little innocent angel the media and his family have portrayed him to be.
The family lawyer is up in arms that the defense has introduced this new evidence which the prosecution had all along. He claims it will just reinforce stereotypes of blacks and that attacking the character of TM should not be allowed because once again according to the family he was a complete angel etc.
The problem is this. During the same tirade the lawyer is making about character assassination of TM he's also talking about how they are going to do the same thing to George Zimmerman. Further he asserts that its okay to go after GZ's past and everything in it to show how horrible a man GZ is.
Now to me its either its okay to attack the character of someone or it isn't. You can't have it both ways or at least shouldn't. So why is Crump saying its okay to attack the character and past of GZ while its not okay to do the same thing to TM?
Its called bullshit. The stereotypes he's talking about are from truth which the black community doesn't like to have paraded about. Showing TM as the gangbanger, dope smoking, fighting and whatnot that he is, to me is even more damaging and true than trying to make GZ's past into something more than I've heard.
The thing is Mr. Crump if it's okay to attack GZ in that manner then you can't sit there and whine and complain that the defense is going to do the same thing to TM.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander as the old saying goes.
As the defense said several times and I don't know if they will keep their word but they have said it repeatedly now. They will use that information to attack TM's character only IF the prosecution tries to attack GZ's character.
I think Crump et. al. is very worried because from what I've seen on CNN etc. they have a great deal to worry about. He has gang tattoos from the look of it, those "Grills" that gang bangers wear, a gun, a history of drug use and fighting and pics of drug plants on his cell and that doesn't even get into the texts.
Maybe its a stereotype as Crump exists but as usual there is often more than a grain of truth in them and here its actually spot on.
TM thought he was big and bad until he met his match on a dark and drizzly night in Florida when he snuck up on a retreating Zimmerman. Sadly he found out not everyone was going to take what he was dishing out. As he sat on top of Zimmerman bashing his head into the concrete, Zimmerman began to lose consciousness and fearing for his life in those last few seconds of consciousness pulled his weapon and fired.
Sadly another misguided black teen lost the battle in the end.
Should Mr. Crump not want the evidence introduced then maybe he should be telling the prosecution not to start that war by attacking Zimmerman's past or character and then maybe the defense won't respond in kind.
Because frankly if the war gets started I'm pretty sure who will win and it's not going to be Crump et.al.
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