Having written a book on the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin — If I Had a Son-- I have been following Gilbert’s progress with interest. In fact, I introduced Gilbert to George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin. Those who have followed the case know that not since the Scottsboro boys has any ordinary citizen endured the kind of malicious and conspicuously false reporting Zimmerman has. My hope was that Gilbert would set the record straight.
Gilbert has done that and more. In the course of his relentless research into the shooting and subsequent trial, I can say without risk of overstatement that he has unearthed a legal fraud the likes of which I know no parallel. Not only has Gilbert discovered it, but he has also proved it six ways from Sunday, including DNA and handwriting analysis.
If I were Trayvon Martin’s parents or his family’s attorneys, I would be very nervous right now. If I were Florida state attorneys who prosecuted the case, I would be more nervous still. And if I were the media who covered this case — are you listening Matt Gutman and Lisa Bloom? — I would prepare to be mortified. The coverage of this case was a disgrace from day one.
To uncover this staggering fraud, Gilbert did what reporters used to do. He immersed himself in the milieu that produced Trayvon Martin. He mastered the patois of urban black Miami. He reviewed the thousands of text messages, tweets, Facebook and Instagram postings sent and received by Martin and his friends. He interviewed George Zimmerman and heard, from the only person who knew, Martin’s final words, words that revealed the cause of Martin’s tragic downward spiral.
Gilbert did some serious shoe leather reporting as well. He visited all the relevant Miami-area high schools, the neighborhoods where Martin and his friends hung out, the streets of Miami’s Little Haiti, and the town community where Martin died.
At the end of his research, Gilbert knew Trayvon Martin better than his parents did, literally. As their deposition revealed, they had no idea how Martin’s life had descended into a violent mix of street fighting, guns, drugs, burglary, and sex. Although both parents made good incomes, their separate lives created an abyss where...
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Admission is free, and Gilbert is encouraging all interested parties to come see for themselves what could be a game-changer in the way the media report racially-charged news. What a silly sentence! I'm not sure I've read anything that out of touch with reality.
Does he honestly think the media cares about truth and getting "racially charged news" right? They want to advance their agenda's story of evil white men killing young black choirboys. So much that they coined the phrase "white Hispanic" for Zimmerman to make him fit the narrative. If 10% of the media listened to his presentation, I'd be shocked.
There is another source that nailed the Trayvon Martin case years ago. Mike McDeniels from the
statelymcdanielmanor Blog is a former or retired LEO. He covered this case in microscopic detail
in dozens of installments. He included Google Maps images of the route Martin and Zimmerman took
that night. His coverage of the story is book length. If I had not read his reports, even this
diehard conservative might have bought the media narrative.
The conservative treehouse went so deep into this they found the lost, confiscated burgarlry evidence from Travon's many contacts with the law (can you say Promise program) and arranged for it's retun to the original owner.
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