Trayvon Martin&#39;s parents lead protests over Zimmerman verdict

Trayvon's parents to join together to protest a jury's verdict? Really? Finally, they get back together, after it's too late?

Tracy Martin and Sabrina Fulton: "that wasn't the Trayvon we raised".

Bullshit. You became careless, and missed your opportunity to get Trayvon back on a solid path. You failed as parents.

Missed the school suspension, did you? Missed the 'fudged' police reports, did you?

Sanford Police Department (SPD) investigator Chris Serino, for instance, said publicly of Martin, “This child has no criminal record whatsoever.” He called Martin “a good kid, a mild-mannered kid.” The media almost universally sustained this tragically false narrative.

Martin had the seeming good fortune of attending school in the Miami-Dade School District, the fourth-largest district in the country and one of the few with its own police department.

For a variety of reasons, none of them good, elements within the SPD and the Miami-Dade School District Police Department, or M-DSPD, conspired to keep Martin’s criminal history buried.
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The exposure of M-DSPD practices began inadvertently on March 26, 2012, when the Miami Herald, the one mainstream outlet to do real reporting on the case, ran a story on Martin’s background.

The Herald’s headline, “Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin,” should have caused the other media to seek the truth about the very nearly sanctified Martin.

It did not. What it did do was to cause M-DSPD Police Chief Charles Hurley to launch a major Internal Affairs (IA) investigation into the possible leak of this information to the Herald.

At the end of the day, Hurley rather wished he had not. The detectives questioned told the truth about Martin and about the policies that kept him out of the justice system. Hurley would be demoted and forced out of the department within a year.
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Hurley’s detectives, all of them veterans with excellent records, told a different story under oath when questioned by Internal Affairs. They knew the shell game was about to be exposed upon first learning that Martin was one of their students and outside agencies would be requesting his records.

“Oh, God, oh, my God, oh, God,” one major reportedly said when first looking at Martin’s data. He realized that Martin had been suspended twice already that school year for offenses that should have gotten him arrested – once for getting caught with a burglary tool and a dozen items of female jewelry, the second time for getting caught with marijuana and a marijuana pipe.

In each case, the case file on Martin was fudged to make the crime less serious than it was. As one detective told IA, the arrest statistics coming out of Martin’s school, Michael Krop Senior, had been “quite high,” and the detectives “needed to find some way to lower the stats.” This directive allegedly came from Hurley.

“Chief Hurley, for the past year, has been telling his command staff to lower the arrest rates,” confirmed another high-ranking detective.

Trayvon Martin's problems began at school in Miama, where he immersed himself in 'culture'. His part-time, divorced, could-care-less parents ignored or missed the signs. Bottom line, they failed to provide the solid family structure that's so necessary for any teenager to avoid the pitfalls of our horrid American culture. Those were pitfalls Trayvon couldn't escape alone. And didn't escape.

So, today, Tracy Martin and Sabrina (who? Fulton?) get back together again, to protest a jury's verdict.

Who is going to protest Tracy and Sabrina's parenting failure?

I'll be your huckleberry...