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Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri Mar 30, 2012, 03:38 PM Mar 2012

Jonathan Capehart, WaPo: George Zimmerman’s ‘Justified’ defense?

George Zimmerman’s ‘Justified’ defense?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/george-zimmermans-justified-defense/2012/03/30/gIQApeqVlS_blog.html

In making his case in the killing of Trayvon Martin, did George Zimmerman borrow some lines from the gun-slinging FX show “Justified”? Specifically, did he borrow lines from the March 21 episode?

The killer’s father, Robert Zimmerman, told a Fox Tampa Bay reporter that his son told him, “Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of ‘you’re going to die now,’ or ‘you’re going to die tonight.’ Or something to that effect.” Fast forward to 2:10 to hear him say this.

What Zimmerman said piqued the interest of my Facebook friend Money Train with Funk Gumbo Radio.

Now when I heard what George Zimmerman allegedly told his father Trayvon said to him it made think about where have I heard something similar....And then it hit me that last week’s episode of FX Network’s show “Justified” called “Guy Walks Into a Bar” had almost the same type of language between bad guy Robert Quarles (Neal McDonough) and marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant). Quarles says, “I’m going to kill you Raylan. Maybe not tonight. Maybe not tomorrow. But someday you’ll be walking down the street and I am gonna put a bullet right in the back of your skull and you’re gonna drop.”

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Jonathan Capehart, WaPo: George Zimmerman’s ‘Justified’ defense? (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 OP
When someone starts embroidering details like daddy's doing The Blue Flower Mar 2012 #1
He might be senile.... movonne Mar 2012 #2
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