On Monday, in response to my piece on 17-year-old Darryl Green of Chicago, who was found shot to death after refusing to join a gang at school, Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast claimed that “black-on-black crime” is a myth.
On Sunday, commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote an absurd piece labeling the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict a step toward a “return to the era of lynching.” In making his case, he pasted together lies, half-truths and sheer nonsense. First, he
On Monday, Edward Wyckoff Williams of Salon.com put his finger on the real problem with America’s simmering racial conflict in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict: “white rage.” Wyckoff Williams claimed, “in the American South it seems white folks
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced that President Obama would not be involving himself in the Justice Department decision on whether to prosecute George Zimmerman under federal civil rights laws. According to Carney, “it would be inappropriate”
Former nude model and anti-vaccination advocate Jenny McCarthy will be joining The View as a co-host, ABC reported today. McCarthy has appeared some eight times as a guest co-host. The show’s on-air cast has been largely turned over, with the
On Sunday evening, protesters against the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting shut down the 10 Freeway in Crenshaw, a largely-minority area of Los Angeles. Some local reports say that police shot beanbags at the
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
On Thursday, July 11, police discovered the rotting body of 17-year-old Darryl Green, a black child from the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Green’s body was found behind a boarded-up house in the 6500-block of South Damen, face down on basement
On Sunday morning, Piers Morgan of CNN sounded off on the George Zimmerman verdict in the Trayvon Martin killing trial, blaming gun control and apparently, the law of self-defense for allowing Zimmerman’s acquittal: Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News
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
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
In the aftermath of the jury acquittal of George Zimmerman on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin, defense attorney Mark O’Mara blasted the media and racial advocacy groups for stumping for Zimmerman’s arrest and conviction.
Despite Congress apparent ire over the possible perjury of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, it seems that Clapper has now emerged without so much as a scratch over his National Security Agency surveillance testimony earlier this year. In March
George Zimmerman defense attorney Mark O’Mara used physical exhibits in his closing argument to demonstrate to the jury the size disparity between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. Martin was 5’11 and 158 lbs. at the time, while George Zimmerman clocked
At a local event held at the new Harvest Missionary Baptist Church, the Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP brought speakers in to discuss the fallout from the Trayvon Martin case. One of those speakers, University of Miami law professor Donald
On Wednesday, CNN once again referred to Hispanic defendant George Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic who is on trial for last year’s shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Sanford city.” The term “white Hispanic” was coined by
“This defendant decided that the victim was up to no good,” said prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda. The prosecutor said, “In the defendant’s mind, this was a criminal, and he was tired of criminals out there. That’s not a bad
On Wednesday, Sanford Chief of Police Cecil Smith told Breitbart News exclusively that there is “nothing out there” suggesting civil unrest will take place in the city following the George Zimmerman verdict. He did state, however, that the Police Department had
On Wednesday, Judge Debra Nelson, who is presiding over the trial of George Zimmerman, repeatedly asked Zimmerman whether he would be testifying, over the objections of his attorneys. Nelson told Zimmerman that he had the “absolute right to remain silent”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly released on Wednesday, The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield suggested that he’d like to play Peter Parker as a young man exploring his bisexuality. According to Garfield, he told producer Matt Tolmach that he’d
Amid speculation about the possibility of civil unrest in Sanford, Florida in the wake of a verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, Capt. James McAuliffee, Region II Commander of the Sanford Police Department told Breitbart News exclusively, “There have been
On Wednesday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Breitbart News with regard to the George Zimmerman trial, “The prosecution seems to have a weak case against Zimmerman. These new documents make one wonder if there would have been a prosecution
Late on Tuesday night, the George Zimmerman defense team and Judge Debra Nelson got into a heated discussion that ended with Nelson walking out of the courtroom as attorneys Mark O’Mara and Don West protested what they felt was the
Appearing Tuesday on The Sean Hannity Show, syndicated across the country, former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Hannity that she had considered running for the Senate from her home state. Hannity asked her whether she would
On Monday evening, the NBC News website led with a dramatically misleading headline: “Father: 911 screams are Trayvon Martin.” While Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, did testify in court that the screams heard on the 911 call containing audio from the
On Monday, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office released a video calling on the public not to riot in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, expected this week or next in Florida. The Sheriff’s Office released a statement explaining that
On Monday, the George Zimmerman defense called Tracy Martin, the father of Trayvon Martin. Tracy Martin testified that he said to police that he couldn’t tell if the screaming voice on the 911 tape was his son. That testimony was
On Monday, the George Zimmerman defense called Adam Pollock, the trainer who worked with Zimmerman. Pollock testified that Zimmerman looked as though he’d been traumatized when he saw him days after the Trayvon Martin shooting. He said Zimmerman was sporting
On Monday, the George Zimmerman defense called Adam Pollock, the trainer who worked with Zimmerman. The prosecution had elicited testimony that Zimmerman trained in mixed martial arts before the incident resulting in the shooting in Trayvon Martin’s death. Pollock owned
On Monday, the George Zimmerman defense called Officer Christopher Serino, the lead detective in the case. He testified that he played Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy, the tape of the neighbor’s 911 call containing screams from the fight between Zimmerman and
Taking advantage of the fact that some 67 people were shot in Chicago from Wednesday through Sunday, CNN host Piers Morgan went on another anti-gun rant via Twitter. This time, recognizing that Chicago is a failed gun control model, he
On Sunday, David Gregory of Meet the Press (NBC) said that he had spoken by phone to Mohammed ElBaradei, leader of the opposition in Egypt, and that ElBaradei had told him that he would be made new interim prime minister
Appearing on This Week (ABC News) with Jonathan Karl, former president George W. Bush told Karl that he “wasn’t going to answer” about his perspective on gay marriage. “I just don’t want to wade back in the debate, I’m out
On Friday, the George Zimmerman defense team opened its case by calling Gladys Zimmerman, George Zimmerman’s mother, to the stand. She quickly identified the screaming voice on the 911 call made during the fight between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin as
On Friday, the George Zimmerman defense team moved for acquittal of his second-degree murder charge in the killing of Trayvon Martin, suggesting that the prosecution had not fulfilled its burden of proof. Mark O’Mara, the lead lawyer for Zimmerman, said
