Allen West On Trayvon Martin Case: 'This Is An Outrage'

[thundley4]

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Allen West On Trayvon Martin Case: 'This Is An Outrage'

Florida Rep. Allen West, a high-profile conservative and one of two African-American Republicans currently serving in Congress, lambasted the local authorities in the handling of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

"I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford, Florida involving the shooting of 17-year-old Treyvon Martin. First of all, if all that has been reported is accurate, the Sanford Police Chief should be relieved of his duties due to what appears to be a mishandling of this shooting in its early stages. The US Navy SEALS identified Osama Bin Laden within hours, while this young man laid on a morgue slab for three days. The shooter, Mr Zimmerman, should have been held in custody and certainly should not be walking free, still having a concealed weapons carry permit. From my reading, it seems this young man was pursued and there was no probable cause to engage him, certainly not pursue and shoot him….against the direction of the 911 responder. Let’s all be appalled at this instance not because of race, but because a young American man has lost his life, seemingly, for no reason. I have signed a letter supporting a DOJ investigation. I am not heading to Sanford to shout and scream, because we need the responsible entities and agencies to handle this situation from this point without media bias or undue political influences. This is an outrage."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/allen-west-on-trayvon-martin-case-this-is?ref=fpblg

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002457561

Happyhippychick
1. Well there goes your career Mr. West. Your base will now turn on you.
Hope you had fun trashing the dems who are the only friends you will now have.

BanTheGOP
2. I call BS, you ingrate West

YOU waited until a few days to make sure you didn't piss off your constituents, like a lackey, when we ALL know that this was a racist, republican-inspired, Fox-news driven white on black hate crime. To HELL with what YOU think, IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU West who make me EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY!!!

I will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to DESTROY YOUR POLITICAL career, you scumsucking piece of human waste! You and ALL your teabaggers can just go suck an egg while the adults take over. I look forward to seeing you in jail!

How dare someone wait until they get the facts before weighing in with their opinion.  The whole police department acted stupidly. 

baldguy
8. He just realized he's black.

Don't worry, it'll pass I'm sure.

RZM
7. I'm not surprised at all

The notion that the right is united behind Zimmerman is probably way off base. They aren't as angry as the left about it, but I see no major push to come to his defense, at least not from political figures. I mentioned on another thread today that Glenn Beck referred to him as a 'racist' and a 'bad guy.'

He's got few friends that count.

A glimmer of sense.

11 Bravo
9. Allen West has now turned into just another "N' word for most of his supporters.

Welcome to the real world, Lt. Colonel West. The teabaggers were willing to tolerate you as long as you toed their line, but you are now officially "uppity".

No, unfortunately he and other conservative blacks have always been that and worse to the left.

The DUmmies are quick to project their racist prejudices on us.

[Freeper]

baldguy
8. He just realized he's black.

Don't worry, it'll pass I'm sure.

Racist asshole.

[Skul]

Did my level best to figure out why the DUmbass monkeys were all stirred up.
Everything the man said was true.
I read, and reread the statement.
Finally, I saw why they have their panties in a knot......

Let’s all be appalled at this instance not because of race

That's it. Nothing more to the story.
They totally ignored everything he said, and keyed in on that one statement.
Shameful, to say the least.

[Duke Nukum]

11 Bravo
9. Allen West has now turned into just another "N' word for most of his supporters.

Bravo, you idiot, we respect the facts.

I haven't been following this case too closely, except to see you idiots try to turn it into a race riot, but if what Congressman West says is born out by the facts, I don't have a problem with it.

And if he is in error on the facts, well, I don't live there and I have enough of you idiots to swat at where I live so I don't have time to to correct Congressman West and I have to leave that to the people who voted for him.

[JohnnyReb]

Rep. West waited a few days for more facts to come out DUmmie instead of flying off the handle right away and running and screaming into the night like you idiots.

BTW DUmmie I'm sure you didn't mean to copy and paste this part.

I am not heading to Sanford to shout and scream, because we need the responsible entities and agencies to handle this situation from this point without media bias or undue political influences. This is an outrage."

..........and Al Sharpton just did the shiite stirring on a national level for you racist DUmmies a few minutes ago.

ETA: To correct some Nadinisms.....shhhh...I think it may be a virus.

[thundley4]

Rep. West waited a few days for more facts to come out DUmmie instead of the handle right off the bat running and screaming into the night like you idiots.

BTW DUmmie I'm sure you didn't mean to copy and paste this part.

I am not heading to Sanford to shout and scream, because we need the responsible entities and agencies to handle this situation from this point without media bias or undue political influences. This is an outrage."

..........and Al Sharpton just did the shiite stirring on a national level for you racist DUmmies a few minutes ago.

Al and Jesse should spend more time in Chicago and other liberal havens and try and keep their brothers from killing each other.   In LAor some other city they would have written this off as just another gang banger shooting, but they don't call 911.

[sybilll]

The fact that you idiots think his political views should be a factor in his views on murder is astounding.  So, now he IS black again, since he comdemned the murder of a black man?  You pathetic cretins.

[ChuckJ]

I think that the DUmp is more dangerous to race relations than any of the other racist groups. The other racist groups are open about their racism. The DUmp is just (if not more so) as racist as the other racist groups but tries to pretend otherwise.

[AllosaursRus]

I won't be surprised at all to find out this "poor" guy was a gang banger and tried to intimidate his pursuer.

The left wants and is portrayin' this guy to be an innocent just walkin' down the street, and perhaps he is, but more often than not these guys are nothin' more than street thugs lookin' to make a name for themselves by standin' up to "whitey".

Trust me, been there, done that! These guys are always big bad gang bangers until someone calls their bluff, then all of a sudden they're victims!

I repeat, I could be wrong, but 17 and walk toward an armed man?

[Ballygrl]

Happyhippychick
1. Well there goes your career Mr. West. Your base will now turn on you.
Hope you had fun trashing the dems who are the only friends you will now have.

I have to say that I've pretty much seen Conservatives upset at this shooting, but the 1 thing I've seen from Conservatives but not others is this, why only outrage when a white or in this case an hispanic kills a black? where's that outrage towards black on black violence? where's the consistency? Just look at the South Side of Chicago's crime stats.

[RightCoast]

As the election gets closer the race war needs to be heated up, the shooter is still being described as white by the media. He is clearly not white, but that doesn't help dear leader.

[DixieBelle]

I can set my watch by how predictable the DUmp is.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

West 2016

[Freeper]

I have to say that I've pretty much seen Conservatives upset at this shooting, but the 1 thing I've seen from Conservatives but not others is this, why only outrage when a white or in this case an hispanic kills a black? where's that outrage towards black on black violence? where's the consistency? Just look at the South Side of Chicago's crime stats.

If the kid was white and the shooter black I know damn well Holder wouldn't be involved.

[BEG]

**** you DU.  Everyone I have heard (left or right) think this is outrageous but it is only the left who want to scream racism and blame their political foes. You people use real victims (by the way, the victim is Trayvon not YOU DU) to revel in your own victimization. Allen West did what everyone should do, wait until he got the facts.  Something the left rarely, if ever, does.

You can't stand that we have Allen West when you have the race baiters Jessie Jackson, Al Sharton, Shelia Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, John Conyers... I could go on and on and on.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

**** you DU.  Everyone I have heard (left or right) think this is outrageous but it is only the left who want to scream racism and blame their political foes.

The 2 worst things that could happen to DU are:

No loss of innocent life

You not being a racist.

[Ogre]

**** you DU.  Everyone I have heard (left or right) think this is outrageous but it is only the left who want to scream racism and blame their political foes. You people use real victims (by the way, the victim is Trayvon not YOU DU) to revel in your own victimization. Allen West did what everyone should do, wait until he got the facts.  Something the left rarely, if ever, does.

You can't stand that we have Allen West when you have the race baiters Jessie Jackson, Al Sharton, Shelia Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, John Conyers... I could go on and on and on.

True words, but conservatives are damned if they do and damned if they don't.  Facts to a DUmmy are like sunlight to a vampire. 

[JakeStyle]

Here is an interesting article about the shooting, it certainly doesn't square with what I've read at the dump.

- The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.

- The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.

- Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.

- Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin's father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.

[RightCoast]

And WTF is Col West talking about OBL for? How is that relevant in any way at all to the already heated discussion? Piss poor judgement West.

[GOBUCKS]

11 Bravo
9. Allen West has now turned into just another "N' word for most of his supporters.

Welcome to the real world, Lt. Colonel West. The teabaggers were willing to tolerate you as long as you toed their line, but you are now officially "uppity".

Regardless of whether Zimmerman was right or wrong, it's kind of irritating to see a make-believe phony soldier like DUmmy numbersBoo trying to smear an honest-to-god military hero like Col. West.

It's sort of like TomInTib attacking Sgt. York

[delilahmused]

I've yet to find a conservative who isn't outraged. The difference between West and you people, he would have been outraged regardless of the color of the kid who was killed. Even if we didn't agree with him, we aren't like you, we actually respect people who share our values even when we don't share the same opinions about every single issue.

Cindie

[Taylor]

Exactly.  Looks like the kid attacked Zimmerman and so Zimmerman managed to get his gun out and USE it.  I sincerely doubt that the kid knew Zimmerman even had a gun...else he wouldn't have started the confrontation.

Also read elsewhere that the "kid", who is 6'3", was on a 5-day suspension from his school.  Can't wait to find out what he was actually suspended for.

Also....oh hell, here's the thread.  It's easier to link to it than repeat all of the details....since it's a three-page thread:

http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/showthread.php?48103-Trayvon-Martin-Debunking-thread

Here is an interesting article about the shooting, it certainly doesn't square with what I've read at the dump.

[Rebel]

Hmm, hey HappyHippyChick, you dumb slut, I expressed the same opinion yesterday. Is my admin position here about to be gone?

[GOBUCKS]

I've yet to find a conservative who isn't outraged.

Well, you have found one now. I'm not outraged, because I don't yet know what happened, nor do any of the vigilantes who want Zimmerman's scalp.

I'm also not impressed by a years-old photo that's being used to whip up racial hate, to energize the Kenyan's reelection.

Make no mistake, the Justice Department is coming onto the scene as a branch of the muslim's campaign committee.

[Rebel]

Exactly.  Looks like the kid attacked Zimmerman and so Zimmerman managed to get his gun out and USE it.  I sincerely doubt that the kid knew Zimmerman even had a gun...else he wouldn't have started the confrontation.

All due respect, but that's a bunch of bullshit.