A blogpost from an ex-Socialist Workers Party (UK) member about the neglect of the topic of rapes that occured during World War II. TRIGGER WARNING: This content deals with accounts of sexual assault and may be distressing for some people
was initially in denial about his brother s death. what did you make of that? i thought it was something that was logical because having throughout my civil rights work met a lot of families that go through trauma and different variations, people can understand that, and i think he explained it well. what i thought was interesting is that with attorney o mara saying to the mother, well, you wanted to make it look like trayvon. well, it was the opposite with the brother. so are you saying the brother wouldn t have loved his brother as much much as the mother loved the son? so you almost had two opposing theories between the mother and the brother, which i think was if i was on the jury, i would say, well, one kind of cancels out the other. doesn t it? if it was the family wanting to make it va von, then why didn t his brother have the same view of his mother? you can only conclude that the defense attorney was doing what they do, or that maybe the family had different reactions
thanks to edie windsor. she is a treasure and hero for all of us. yes, i completely agree. we ll go back now. i understand that rachel jeantel is back on the witness stand in sanford, florida. because it sound like his voice? because it sound like his voice? yes, ma am. sound like his voice or kind of sounded like his voice? it sounded like his voice. so help me understand this better. as far as what you said on the recording, when mr. de la rionda said could you tell who was saying that, are you sayi iningt what the jury just heard was you saying i could hear it was va von. yes, sir. you didn t say i couldn t hear it was trayvon or i couldn t know it was trayvon. i said i could hear it s
we still have to figure out, zimmerman says they are face to face when this encounter starts. who throws that punch? we only now know that zimmerman says that trayvon throws it. trayvon cannot speak from the grave and we may never know, unless there is a witness who can say that i saw trayvon hit george zimmerman in the face, that that is the case. mr. blow, we do have a witness that we presented. we presented phone records to the media that shows that va von was talking on the testimony phone to a girlfriend at the time when he first encounters mr. zimmerman. this woman this girl. i understand that point. excuse me. i understand that point and i have listened to her statement. she does describe an encounter. it is still impossible to know from what she says if trayvon hit zimmerman or zimmerman hits trayvon because she s not a