Trayvon Martin's Parents: If He Were White, 'This Never Would've Happened'**Bull Shit***

Talk about being raciest... Trayvon Martin's parents and brother made their first public appearances on "Today" Thursday morning, telling Matt Lauer they'd felt certain all along that George Zimmerman was going to prison -- and asserting that race fueled the tragic confrontation. "Still shocked, still in disbelief," said Martin's father, Tracy. "We felt in our hearts that we were gonna get a conviction. 

We thought that the killer of our unarmed child was gonna be convicted of the crime that he committed." Lauer asked Tracy how he felt about Juror B37's comments that racial profiling did not play a part in the case. Tracy disagreed with her: "I think that if Trayvon had been white this wouldn't have never happened," he said. "Obviously race is playing some type of role." Also read: Trayvon Martin's Parents' First Post-Verdict Interviews Set for Morning Show Circuit "Today" was the first show to get a live interview with Martin's family ("CBS This Morning" aired its interview with Martin's parents first, but that was pre-taped). Zimmerman was acquitted Saturday. 

Asked if he had anything to say to the six jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, Tracy said: "I just didn't understand, how can you let the killer of an unarmed child go free? What would your verdict have been had it been your child? There's no winners in this case at all.

 **Being Black had nothing to do with what the jury's decision.** 

What about all the black's who kill white people. That never make's the  national news.

Four Georgia men arrested for 'beating to death' former Marine who survived TWO tours of duty in Iraq

 

Police have arrested four suspects in connection with the beating death of a former U.S. Marine who was found unconscious outside of a party at a Cobb County, Georgia, apartment complex in March.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arthur Batchelor, 37, Tarell Secrest, 36, and Jason Hill, 35, were taken into custody on Tuesday for allegedly killing 34-year-old Zachary 'Zach' Gamble. Another suspect, 38-year-old Sean Hall, of Atlanta, was arrested on Monday.

Hall is also accused of violating his probation stemming from a DUI conviction in 2009, according to the Marietta Daily Journal.

Nabbed: Arthur Batchelor, top left, Tarell Secrest, top right, Jason Hill, bottom left, and Sean Hall, bottom right, are accused of killing ex-Marine Zachary Gamble

All four suspects have been charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. They are being held without bail in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, police say.

 

On Tuesday, the victim's mother, Tina Robbins, told the Marietta Daily Journal that she was 'elated' that arrests have been made in her son's killing.

Hero: Zachary Gamble, a former U.S. Marine, served two tours of duty in Iraq between 2001 and 2005

Gamble, of Acworth, Georgia, was attending a friend's birthday party in the Concord Chase Apartments near Smyrna on March 25 when he got into an altercation with a group of men in the parking lot, according to investigators.

Police would not explain what happened next, only saying that they received a call from a taxi driver at 6am who reported having struck Gamble.

Crime scene: Zachary Gamble was at a birthday party in the Concord Chase Apartments near Smyrna when he got into a fight

When officers arrived on the scene, the 34-year-old man was discovered unconscious on the ground. Police, however, believe Gamble's fatal injuries did not stem from being hit by a vehicle.

Gamble was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, where he was removed off life support on April 8 without ever regaining consciousness.

While Gamble's autopsy results have not been made public, the victim's relatives have said that Gamble died from severe head trauma

Dad: Iraq War veteran Zachary Gamble is survived by his 7-year-old son, Luke 

Mike Gerhard, of the Cobb County Medical Examiner's Officer, told the Marietta Daily Journal that officials are still waiting for Gamble's toxicology screen results, which could take 60 to 90 days.

Gamble, who served two tours of duty in Iraq between 2001 and 2005, is survived by his 7-year-old son, Luke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAACP leaders respond to Marley Lion/Trayvon Martin comparison 

 

In the days since a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty of murder in the February 2012 shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an image meme has been making the rounds on social media that compares Martin's death to the June 2012 shooting of local 17-year-old Marley Lion, who was also unarmed at the time of his death. The image makes a few other comparisons as well:

Around 4 a.m. on June 16, 2012, Marley Lion, then a recent graduate of Academic Magnet High School, was found lying on the ground outside his Nissan Pathfinder in the parking lot at 1662 Savannah Highway. Lion had been shot, and he died after telling police that two black males had approached the vehicle and one of them had shot him five times.

Lion's death prompted an aggressive police investigation, eventually leading to four arrests in late July 2012, including Ryan Deleston, a 30-year-old black man who was charged with murder, use of a weapon in a violent crime, attempted armed robbery, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number.

At least one distinction can be drawn between the two deaths: In the aftermath of Trayvon Martin's shooting, commentators and protesters across the country accused Zimmerman of racial profiling for shooting an unarmed black teenager in a hoodie. No such accusations were made against Deleston, who investigators say was planning to rob a nearby sports bar when Lion pulled up in his vehicle and Deleston attempted to rob him instead.

The Charleston branch of the NAACP held a press conference today to address the George Zimmerman verdict. Afterward, local First Vice President Rev. Joseph Darby addressed the comparison between the deaths of Lion and Martin:

On the one hand, they were two young men who were minding their own business when it occurred. On the other hand, I think the problem in the Trayvon case is that the aftermath was different. In the case of Marley Lion, there was an immediate search for the killer, fairly rapid apprehension, rapid action. With Trayvon Martin ... the police were aware of the killing, but there was no charge until there was national pressure. I think the reason the Trayvon Martin case made national news was the level of inaction in Florida.