Walking Through Smoke

thesoapboxschtick:

Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend has spoken out. She was on the phone with Trayvon just moments before his murder.

Her account of the events:

“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man. I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run. Eventually he would run, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering him.

Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”

Martin’s Attorney:

“George Zimmerman’s claim that Martin was suspicious and up to no good is completely contradicted by this phone log, showing all day he was just talking to his friends— like so many teenagers do. Martin was talking to her when he went to the 7/11 and when he came back. Her testimony connects the dots, completely connects the dots of this whole thing. 

The friend’s phone call completely blows Zimmerman’s absurd self-defense claim out of the water.

A kid who is up to no good isn’t on the phone constantly calling his friends back. Somebody who’s looking to break in somewhere isn’t on the phone talking to his friend, when she’s in Miami.

Zimmerman wants you to believe he was on drugs and acting suspicious so he can justify killing him in cold blood.

The girl’s family wishes that she remain anonymous because of the traumatic nature of the event:

“This was her really, really close personal friend. They were dating… She couldn’t even go to his wake. She was so sick, her mother had to take her to the hospital, she spent the night in the hospital.” - Martin’s Attorney”

(via ladyatheist)