One of the ways the George Zimmerman’s defense team is going to try to exonerate their client of second-degree murder charges in the admitted shooting death of Trayvon Martin is to paint the portrait of a menacing teenager who was stalking the gated community and who was the aggressor in the fatal fight.
One of the ways in which Zimmerman’s defense team — which include the public pronouncements of his father and brother, Robert Zimmerman Sr. and Jr., respectively — probably plan to do this is through Trayvon Martin’s alleged postings on his social media accounts.
Right-wing bloggers and pro-Zimmerman websites chose to publish only the photos that could be used to paint the deceased teenager in a negative light in the months following his death. Other photos, such as when Martin was hugging his father or holding a baby, were purposely not published by sites like The Daily Caller.
Don’t think for a moment that the Zimmerman defense team didn’t take notice of how the negative reactions began to swell about Trayvon Martin among pro-gun advocates and others after “select” photos of Martin by ultra-conservative sites were published.
As the the jury is being selected in Florida, take a look the things that Trayvon Martin did on social media that will be used against him:
