The Hoodie Monster!

You would literally have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the, now, nation wide known murder of 17 year old, Travon Martin. However, if you happened to find a rock big enough to hide under then I will recap the events thus far.

On February 26, 2012 in Stanford,  FL a young man by the name of Travon Martin was taking a walk to the convient store. It was raining that night so Martin had a sweater on with his hood over his head. On his way back, skittles and iced tea in tow while on the phone with his girl friend, "SELF APPOINTED" neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman begins to follow him. Zimmerman senses that he looks suspicious because he's walking in the rain with a hood on his head. So he calls the police to report the suspicious behavior...(no harm, no foul)... while on the phone with the police Zimmerman tells the dispactcher that he notices a young black man who looks really suspcious with a hood on his head. He makes a comment saying he's looks like he's on drugs or something and something was wasn't right. The dispatcher asked if he was following the young man and Zim. replied yes. "Sir, we don't need you to do that. Please stand down", was the dispatchers response. However, Zimmerman continued to persue. In the mean time, Martin is on his cell phone talking with his girl friend about a guy following him. His girl friend tells Travon to run, but he tells her that he would just walk fast.

SN: I really don't know what I would've done in this situation. I mean, running might suggest that I was guilty of something I had no idea I was being accused of. Sometimes minorities of a certain race tend to find themselves in predicaments that just have a fat chance of turning out well. It is crazy to others but predictable to us how easily facts can be confuse and accused when it comes to, once again, a certain group of people. (LOL, but very serious). So do you run or walk quickly? Is this person behind me following me? Does he have a gun? Does he think I'm someone I'm not? Should I run? Decisions Decisions...

From there on the events are a tad unclear. Geogre carried a .9 millimeter gun, while unarmed Travon carried his Arizona Tea and bag of skittles. A neighbor hears someone shouting "Heeelllppp! Heeeelllppp!", when she dialed 911. The dispatcher recorded the conversation. When it was played on the news, you can hear the person in the background screaming for help several times and then you hear two gun shots and then...silence. George Zimmerman shoots and kills Travon Martin with two body shots. Zimmerman claims the act was in self defense. However, Travon was unarmed with only, once again, a bag of skittles and an Arizona Tea. What was he defending himself against? If you've seen the pictures of Travon campared to those of George, anyone can clearly see that he out weighs Travon tremendously.

Now, new information was leaked on Monday the 26th with information about Travon's past and what Zimmerman told the police that night. Travon was apparently suspended from school for having traces of marijuana in his book bag and apparently, how Zimmerman was attacked is now sufacing all over the internet "conincidentally". Supposedly, Zimmerman was walking behind the boy with a hood on his head and lost him at one point. Then as soon as Zim. was heading to his car, Travon approached him from behind and they exchanged a few words. Then, Travon punched Zim. in the nose, knocking to him the ground and banged his head on the concrete several times.

SN: While I sat on the Metro reading these updates on the "Hoodie Monster" case I couldn't help but chuckle. They must seriously think we are the most gullible group of people on the planet we live called Earth. You mean to tell me that a 17 year old teenage boy who could not have weighed any more then 130lbs. had the power to contiuously punch you in your face, knock you down to your knees, and bang you head into the concrete??? Travon must've had some late night training sessions with Mr. Miyagi in hopes ofto becoming the Next Karate Kid. I mean really, it sounds pretty rediculous to me!

It is beyond me why Zim. is not being held in police custody right now. He is the prime suspect...shoot, he is the ONLY suspect in the case. I'm not even sure if you can call him a suspect if he is already guilty of the act. The police know it was him who shot "unarmed" 17 year old Travon. If that isn't enough to convict Zim. then it should atleast be enough to hold him in the custody of authorities. Why should someone who openly killed someone in the street of his father's neighborhood be allowed to walk the streets freely. If the races were flipped please tell me you don't believe Travon would be walking around like no crime had been comitted. Because he wouldn't. The case would have been tried and Travon would have been convicted and sentences to some extreme amount of years in jail with out a chance of parol.

Now, statements from public faces all over the world are being made that if Travon didn't have a hoodie on his head then he would not have been seen as suspicious...

You've got to be kidding me! I didn't know wearing a hoodie could get me gunned down in the streets, let alone my own neighborhood. Good to know that's the World we live in today.

Sarcatic PSA: From Now On, America, Your Clothes Will Define the Status of Your LIFE...

(make the appropriate adujustments in your wardrobe or else...)

Rest In Peace...Travon Martin