<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><img src="cid:7E306DBA-0FCF-4744-910B-6826C681BDDE" alt="image.jpeg" id="7E306DBA-0FCF-4744-910B-6826C681BDDE" width="600" height="402" apple-original-width="600" apple-original-height="402"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Mar 31, 2012, at 10:17, Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Good Morning Visionaries,<div><br></div><div>Below is a Washington Post op-ed that raises essential questions about this tragedy. Below that is the latest on Zimmerman's claim that this big man (accused in 2005 of battering a policeman) was brought to the ground by a small black kid.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%">
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questions in aftermath of Trayvon Martin's death</span></b></p>
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Jonathan Capehart The Washington Post The Denver Post</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Nothing makes sense in the
killing of Trayvon Martin. Nothing. Now I have more questions, sparked in part
by the leaked report of George Zimmerman's account to police of what happened
on Feb. 26. For some things there might be simple explanations. We might not
get answers to some questions. And we might not like some of the answers we are
given. But the questions must be asked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">It wasn't until Trayvon's
father, Tracy Martin, called to file a missing-person's report on Feb. 27 that
police went to Martin's fiancee's house with pictures of his son's dead body.
News reports have said that Trayvon's body was tagged as a John Doe. But the
"Partial Report Only" that was completed at 3:07 a.m. Feb. 27 lists
Trayvon's full name, city of birth, address and phone number. How did police
get that information? Was Trayvon carrying identification? Did police try to
contact that home number?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Trayvon's father called his
cellphone several times. Why didn't police answer Trayvon's cellphone?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Zimmerman reportedly had a
bloody nose and lacerations on the back of his head and was given first aid by
a Sanford Fire Department rescue unit. Where is their report of his injuries?
Were photographs taken of Zimmerman's injuries?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:#f2ffe1"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Did the officer who placed
Zimmerman in handcuffs read him his Miranda rights?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">The officer who handcuffed
Zimmerman reported, "While the (Sanford, Fla., Fire Department) was
attending to Zimmerman, I overheard him state 'I was yelling for someone to
help me, but no one would help me.' At no point did I question Zimmerman about
the incident that had taken place." Why not?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Zimmerman was then taken to
the Sanford Police Department and interviewed by an investigator. Was that
interview recorded?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Was there blood spatter
from Trayvon on Zimmerman's clothing? Were any tests — DNA, gunshot residue —
done on Zimmerman's clothing?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Were photographs taken of
Zimmerman's clothing? Was the clothing taken into evidence?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">Were there any signs of a
struggle on Trayvon? Scratches, bruises? Were there traces of Zimmerman's hair
or skin on Trayvon's clothing or under his fingernails?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">A drug and alcohol test was
performed on Trayvon's body. Were drugs and/or alcohol found in his system? Was
a similar test done on Zimmerman? If not, why not?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Georgia,serif">You don't have to be a
devotee of "CSI" to come up with these questions. They're pretty
basic. That they have to be asked one month after the killing of Trayvon Martin
is alarming.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Newly released video of George Zimmerman at the Sanford Police
Department the night he shot Trayvon Martin to death show the neighborhood
watch volunteer without blood on his clothing or bruises on his face or head.
His clean-shaven picture seems to contrast with the violent beating he told
police he endured at the hands of Martin, 17, who Zimmerman said attacked him
from behind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">The video, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/trayvon-martin-case-exclusive-surveillance-video-george-zimmerman/story?id=16022897" target="_hplink"><span style="color:#ed4a4b;text-decoration:none">obtained by ABC News</span></a>, appears <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-26/news/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-account-20120326_1_miami-schools-punch-unarmed-black-teenager" target="_hplink"><span style="color:#ed4a4b;text-decoration:none">inconsistent with Zimmerman’s recently leaked statement to police</span></a> that
he was in a death struggle with Martin before Zimmerman shot him in the chest
in self-defense. Zimmerman told investigators that Martin jumped him from
behind, punched him in the nose and pounded his head into a sidewalk, according
to a police report first described by the <i>Orlando Sentinal</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">In the video, apparently taken by surveillance cameras outside
and inside the police station, Zimmerman’s face and head are clearly visible
and show no injuries consistent with the kind of fight Zimmerman's statement
described.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Zimmerman, 28, the neighborhood watch captain at the Retreat at
Twin Lakes gated community, is seen arriving in a police cruiser. He gets out
of the car with his hands cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is clean-shaven and
appears several pounds lighter than in ubiquitous mug shot of him taken in 2005
when he was arrested on a charge of assaulting a police officer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">The video’s release comes amid shifting public perception of
Martin, whose baby-faced image has become the face of the so-called “Trayvon
Martin movement for Justice” that has captivated much of the U.S. Earlier this
week, school officials in Miami released Martin’s disciplinary record, showing
that he had been on a 10-day suspension when he was killed. According to
reports, school officials found an empty baggy that contained marijuana
residue. Meanwhile, some websites have replaced widely circulated family photos
of Martin with pictures of him sporting removable gold tooth caps. Other
websites have picked seemingly random photos of other youth in questionable or
offensive poses and claimed that they are of Martin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/trayvon-martin-family_n_1381564.html" target="_hplink"><span style="color:#ed4a4b;text-decoration:none">Martin’s family has called the counter-offensive an assault on Martin’s
character and a “smear campaign.”</span></a> Tracy Martin, the teen's
father, told HuffPost earlier this week, “I refuse to let them assassinate my
son’s character." He added: "The question should not be why was he
suspended from school, it should be why did this man kill him in cold
blood."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Zimmerman shot Martin to death the night of Feb. 26. Martin had
been walking toward his father's girlfriend's house shortly after 7 p.m. and
Zimmerman spotted him and called 911 to report a "suspicious" person.
Zimmerman followed Martin, disregarding a police dispatcher who told him
"we don't need you to do that." Police said early in the
investigation that Martin noticed he was being followed, asked Zimmerman what
he wanted, and a physical encounter ensued.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">In the recently released police reports, Zimmerman told police
he got out of his vehicle to follow Martin, but lost sight of him. As he walked
back to his vehicle, Martin attacked him from behind, punched him in the nose,
knocked him down and began smashing the back of his head into the sidewalk,
police reports say Zimmerman told officers. During the tussle, Zimmerman pulled
the 9 mm handgun he carried and shot Martin in the chest, he told police.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Lawyers for the Martin family said Zimmerman was the aggressor.
The lawyers said Martin's girlfriend in Miami was on the phone with him just
moments before he was killed. The girlfriend has told ABC News and family
lawyers that Martin told her someone was following him. She said she heard
someone ask Martin something, then what sounded like someone pushing him. The
phone sounded like it was then knocked to the ground and went dead, the girl
said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">The funeral director who handled Martin's funeral said there
were no cuts or bruises on the teen's hands that would suggest a violent
struggle or fight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">“I didn’t see any
evidence he had been fighting anybody,” Richard Kurtz of Roy Mizell and Kurtz
Funeral Home in Fort Lauderdale, t<a href="http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/03/28/funeral-director-saw-no-signs-fight-trayvons-hands" target="_hplink"><span style="color:#ed4a4b;text-decoration:none">old television talk show host Nancy Grace</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.3pt;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Police took Zimmerman into custody after they arrived. He was
questioned and released later that night. He remains free as the Seminole
County State Attorney's Office reviews the police investigation and decides
whether to file charges. The U.S. Justice Department also is investigating.</span></p>
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