Allegations: Sanford Police MIA Over Attacks on Blacks in Sanford, Florida

Tree Tops Near Lake Mary, Sanford, Florida

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There are allegations that Sanford Police have been slackers in investigating attacks on minorities in Sanford Florida, a town with only one black community representative.

This is not the only time that investigations of killings and other misuse of black men don't seem to have been well done.

Incidents from beatings to murder appear to have been poorly investigated, or reviewed with the eye to save embarrassment or heavy punishment to family members or one of their own.

In an earlier article I read that the Zimmerman clan wrote a letter to the sister of Sherman Ware in the first linked article claiming that George had earlier stood up for her brother and had passed out leaflets trying to get blacks to demand justice in his case.  The Zimmermans and their attorneys provided some examples of such leaflets, but nothing was determined about the truthfulness of the claims, and no one seems to have noticed.

See a recounting of the problems of the current investigation and earlier problematic ones:

Trayvon Martin Case Spotlights Florida Town's History Of 'Sloppy' Police Work 

Also see where George Zimmerman defenders cite fears of Shaken Baby Syndrome for his shooting of Trayvon Martin in

Trayvon Martin Case: George Zimmerman Lawyer Cites 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' As Defense 

I have a problem with that, because the danger of shaking a baby are actually pretty specific to childhood and upon searching I found an Australian government site that explains:

A baby’s brain is very fragile.
It is softer and moves around
inside the skull more than an
older child or adult’s brain.

See Never Shake a Baby.

I'm sure with more searching I could find similar advice on many other websites.   It was a common theme when I was raising my children.  Baby's brains are much more fragile than those of adults.  It's rather sad that a full grown man should try to co-opt the tenderness of the baby's head structure to justify killing a teen.

I still say it would help a lot if they change the name of the city to Trayvon, Florida.  It would even be carried on the Police cars there, and always be a reminder that their are limits to the Stand Your Ground laws.

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 (See video above for the whole interview. Lawrence doesn't lay down and roll over for this guy)


This interview establishes two things I think are very important and can remember right now this morning. Lawrence and his fellow journalists do not believe Joe Oliver is a "close friend" or even a close acquaintance of George Zimmerman though he claims that he is. And Mr. Oliver claims he's not getting paid.

Lawrence leaves that hanging after finding that Mr. Oliver is not seeking employment at this time in his own profession (news reporting/anchoring according to some who appear to say he even once hosted his own show at CNN, you know like Dana Loesch does now).

 So a guy who had such a good position on CNN, doesn't want work right now so he can defend a man who is likely not even a close acquaintance for free.

Yeah, that sounds just about right to me /not.  Maybe he's promised money or a job in the future?   That would jibe with not getting paid for this, but...)

I think whether Mr. Oliver has a job is important. If he is expecting payment for this at any time, that would change everything. I guess he could be banking on the 1% helping his career in the future, that would be a back payment of a kind, and many journalists avoid controversies to please their 1% masters, or come down on the side of billionaires entirely so it's not unknown to happen.

If he is getting paid that raises the question of how a mortgage underwriter could afford it.  Yeah, his dad is a retired judge (once made money) but still.  Hiring your own CNN reporter?  Still looking at legal fees?  Yeah/no.

Who's paying?  NRA, GOP,  ALEC, Koch Brothers, all of the above??

There is more on the video, but I don't remember everything that they learned. People lie to news reporters who often cannot directly challenge them because of liable laws, and frankly the 1% own the news media and the future of everyone who is in it.

BTW, I was going to post this last night when the memory was fresh, but the machine was tired and began a kind of stalling maneuver it does. In some circumstances I can turn off and on, but that didn't work that time. (It is possible some one fell asleep with Netflix on and that creates such a drag on the internet that all the spyware, Google and others use, affects just trying to write a post.)