I'm OK, but protestors had our photog on the ground. I tried to get them off him. An #SFgate photog came to the rescue-1 camera is destroyed
— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) July 15, 2013
They also attacked a TV camera man. We're staying back behind #Oakland police lines now. #Trayvon @insidebayarea
— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) July 15, 2013
◼ MORE VIOLENCE 4 TRAYVON - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o
This is getting out of hand, and it’s long past time for President Obama to find his voice and speak out against it. There were more riots in Los Angeles on Monday, featuring “multiple acts of vandalism and several assaults,” which LAPD chief Charlie Beck delicately chose not to discuss at length when announcing 13 arrests....
California Democrats were, predictably, worse than useless after the violence in Los Angeles:
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer sent a letter Monday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder supporting the Justice Department decision to review the case to determine whether Martin’s civil rights were violated.This is exactly the kind of garbage that’s egging these demonstrators on. There isn’t going to be a civil-rights trial; the feds would lose, badly, and they know it. Barack Obama isn’t going to throw away the middle-class vote by making his Justice Department look like a gang of politicized inquisitors, and aggravate the angry demonstrators by simultaneously appearing incompetent.
“I respect the fact that the jury has spoken … but I don’t think this should be the last word,” Boxer wrote in the letter.
“Trayvon Martin’s death was a tragedy and has raised many sensitive and important issues,” she wrote. “We should explore every avenue in an effort to ensure that something like this never happens again.”
Perhaps they thought the mob’s energy would diffuse if they thought they had another trial to look forward to, but instead they’re effectively putting an official stamp on the “George Zimmerman is a racist who got away with murder” narrative. Senator Boxer, and the rest of the government, should be speaking in one voice to denounce violent and disruptive demonstrations, and promise dire consequences for those who perpetrate them, not feeding their paranoia....
◼ Zimmerman verdict: LAPD declares unlawful assembly - LA Times
'MODERN DAY LYNCHING'...
SHARPTON PLANS PROTESTS IN 100 CITIES...
Rally Shuts Down Major Intersection In Newark...
Baltimore Witness: Group of Blacks Beat Hispanic Man, Yelling 'This Is For Trayvon'...
White jogger beaten...
Protesters storm WALMART...
Soul singer attacked after dedicating song to Trayvon...
'You m—–f——, you started this!'
VIDEO: CBS Reporter, Photographer Attacked...
LAPD vows crackdown...
Zimmerman's Parents in Hiding from 'Enormous Amount of Death Threats'...
Lawyer: Prosecutors 'Disgrace to My Profession'...
Verdict unleashed pent up rage...
NUGENT: Vindicates citizen patrols, self-defense...
STEVIE WONDER BOYCOTTS FLORIDA...
JEANTEL: 'THE JURY, THEY OLD. THAT'S OLD SCHOOL PEOPLE. WE IN NEW SCHOOL. MY GENERATION'...
ZIMMERMAN MAY HAVE BEEN 'A RAPIST'...
'I kept telling him run, run, run'...
Video...
Explains Difference Between 'N*gga' And 'N*gger' To Piers Morgan...
Meanwhile: Four Children Gunned Down in Chicago During 20-day Zimmerman Trial...
◼ Photo of Zimmerman's great-grandfather raises questions about racial profiling - CNN
An Orlando lawyer said he does not believe George Zimmerman's shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was racially motivated.
CNN analyst Mark NeJame pointed to a black-and-white picture of a family of three, including a dark-skinned man he claims was Zimmerman's great-grandfather.
He also identified a woman pictured standing above the man as Zimmerman's grandmother, and a small child in the man's arms as Zimmerman's mother.
Speaking to News 13 Friday, NeJame said the photo was just one piece among many that led him to change his mind about whether Zimmerman was racially profiling Trayvon Martin.
"If President Obama says his son would have looked like Trayvon Martin, then if you look at these pictures, his grandparents and great-grandparents would have looked like George Zimmerman's grandparents and great-grandparents," NeJame said during an appearance Thursday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
