Travon Free, a writer for the liberal Comedy Central program The Daily Show, decided to up the racist anger regarding the George Zimmerman acquittal via social media. Free sent out a tweet featuring what he said was the jury who
New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz apologized in a series of tweets on Sunday after having tweeted on Saturday that he was “thoroughly confused” by the George Zimmerman verdict. He tweeted, “Zimmerman doesn’t last a year before the hood
Tavis Smiley on ABC’s “This Week” reacts to the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in his latest attempt to demagogue the gun-control issue, used the occasion of George Zimmerman’s acquittal to release a statement on Sunday that asserted his desire to eradicating “Stand Your Ground” laws. Critics of
Disgraced ex-governor of New York Eliot Spitzer, who is now running for comptroller of New York City, sounded off on the acquittal of George Zimmerman on Sunday’s This Week (ABC), claiming that the justice system failed. Spitzer was never prosecuted
While the nation waited to see if there would be violence resulting from the acquittal of George Zimmerman, four more people were murdered in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, one of them an eight year-old-girl. In the Austin area of
Twitchy has a great round up of reactions on Twitter from Obama’s post-racial America. Van Jones, Former “Green Czar” for Barack Obama, posted a picture of martin Luther King Jr. in a hoodie. April 4th, 1968 … #RipTrayvonMartin … Please
(CNN) – Leaders at the nation’s oldest civil rights organization have spoken with senior members of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s team at the Justice Department about pursuing federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, NAACP president Ben Jealous said
By CHRIS TALBOTTAP Music WriterNASHVILLE, Tenn.Beyonce called for a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin during a concert just hours after George Zimmerman was found not guilty by a Florida jury. The pop star took a moment to honor the
SF GATE: (07-14) 00:25 PDT OAKLAND — Protesters marched through the streets of San Francisco and Oakland on Saturday evening, upset at the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida. In San Francisco, demonstrators marched
Not since the fading days of the Occupy Wall Street movement have we seen the media take such pains to portray a protest movement as “mostly peaceful.” The first few paragraphs of this Fox News report on the aftermath of
The punditocracy is bursting with outrage from those who allege that George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin means that future killers have license to “profile” young black men and kill them. That absurd claim not only distorts
CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley assessed George Zimmerman’s acquittal on Sunday morning–and featured guests who were overwhelmingly critical of the verdict and skeptical of Zimmerman’s case. NAACP President Ben Jealous, who confirmed that his organization was appealing to
After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of all charges on Saturday, Arizona Cardinals rookie and former LSU great Tyrann “honey badger” Mathieu tweeted this: “Damn make you wanna scream free Aaron Hernandez..” The tweet was immediately deleted but was
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), determined to punish George Zimmerman after his acquittal from murder charges in the Trayvon Martin case, is demanding that the Justice Department initiate civil rights charges against Zimmerman. The NAACP’s
Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) to investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, and who charged George Zimmerman (now acquitted) with second-degree murder, fired a whistleblower Friday who revealed that prosecutors had not turned
Al Sharpton, speaking on MSNBC after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, called the decision an “atrocity,” and a “slap in the face to those who believe in justice.” Sharpton, who had led rallies calling for the indictment of Zimmerman, said:
A few acts of violence broke out at protests in Oakland over the George Zimmerman acquittal in the Trayvon Martin trial, with ralliers smashing windows and marching down the street carrying a poster reading: “F— THE POLICE” and “VENGEANCE.” They
Early on Sunday morning, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. released a statement on Facebook regarding the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. He quickly blamed the absence of black members of the jury for the acquittal. “We
In their website cover story on the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has run a photo of a weeping black woman and her two young children, looking somberly ahead. The woman
After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of all charges on Saturday, Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade quickly tweeted that he was “stunned” by verdict and “saddened as a father.” He said he could not make sense of the verdict
On early Sunday morning, Breitbart News spoke with Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman, who said that his brother was just now arriving home because he had to leave through the “perp door” rather than through the front entrance of
On early Sunday morning, Breitbart News spoke with Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman. In response to media coverage from media outlets like MSNBC and Huffington Post decrying the verdict, Robert Zimmerman stated, “The hallmark of our judicial system is
George Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara, blistered the mainstream press after a jury found his client not guilty of all charges on Saturday evening. O’Mara accused the mainstream media of turning Zimmerman into a monster and then running over him. O’Mara
