So Zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder.

[Vertnut]

When this is all done and he's cleared (yes, he will be), he should hire a sonuvabitch attorney to sue every swinging dick that railroaded his ass and move out of the country. Then write a book about the entire ordeal and hit the talk-show circuit and make another $50 million.

[Forever_frost]

Oops.

Navy Cross recipient Jeremiah Workman questions cop’s ribbons in Trayvon Martin case
JULY 1ST, 2013 | MARINES | POSTED BY GINA HARKINS



A Marine who earned the nation’s second-highest military valor award for heroics in Iraq is questioning why a police officer who took the stand during George Zimmerman’s trial was wearing ribbons she did not earn, including one reserved for World War II veterans.

Like many Americans, Jeremiah Workman was watching Zimmerman’s trial play out on TV Monday.

It’s a trial that has been long-awaited since Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was charged with second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black 17-year-old. The case brought the debate on racism in the U.S. to the forefront in the past year.

But it wasn’t the testimony that caught Workman’s attention on Monday. It was the ribbons that Doris Singleton, a police officer in Sanford, Fla., was wearing on her uniform when she took the stand.

Workman, a Navy Cross recipient who left the Marine Corps in 2010, posted a photo of Singleton to his Facebook page after he saw her take the stand. He said he heard her say that she served three years in the Army, but the ribbon rack on her chest didn’t match that of someone who served so few years — or even of this generation.

“Am I going blind or is this police officer in the Zimmerman -Martin trial wearing ribbons that she doesn’t rate?” he wrote alongside the photo he posted to Facebook.

Sanford police officer Doris Singleton testified Monday during George Zimmerman’s trial. A Marine and Navy Cross recipient watching the trial on TV called to ask her police department why she was wearing ribbons on her uniform she could not have earned, including one from World War II. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)

Two in particular stood out, he said: the World War II Army of Occupation Medal and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.
Workman, who received his valor award in 2006 for heroics in Fallujah as a corporal during a 2004 operation, said he’s been around the top Marines in the Corps, and even they didn’t have some of those ribbons.

“I worked at the Pentagon with Sergeant Major [Carlton] Kent and General [James] Conway for two years and I was around every general in the Marine Corps,” Workman told Marine Corps Times. “I know these high ribbons, I know just about all the ribbons anyways.”

The Sanford Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment. But Workman got a hold of them and said they told him they didn’t have their own awards system, so they went to the Army-Navy store around the corner and picked out Defense Department military ribbons to fit their own format. The WWII was selected, the police department official told Workman, because they knew there weren’t many veterans from that period alive so they didn’t think people would notice.

“At the end of his explanation I thought to myself, ‘So that makes it all better now because these guys are dead?’ ” Workman said. ”The fact that that was their response is still pretty shameful, I think.”

Workman said police departments allowing military veterans to wear ribbons they earned while serving on their police uniform is fine with him. If they earned it, they should be able to wear it, he said.

“But what kind of professional police department would send Bob the patrolman around the corner to go pick out some ribbons for our officers to wear when they do something heroic or have good service over the years?” he asked.

Workman said the police department official told him that they’re going to change to their own ribbon system, which he was glad to hear. Now he hopes other police departments doing the same will think about their own regulations and change them too, he added.

http://blogs.militarytimes.com/battle-rattle/2013/07/01/navy-cross-recipient-jeremiah-workman-questions-cops-ribbons-in-trayvon-martin-case/

[03trubluGT]

Departments can use a ribbon that stands for a department award, it doesn't necessarily have to coincide with an existing service ribbon.

(Remember the "paramilitary" label I used that some got all drove up over?)

[Forever_frost]

Departments can use a ribbon that stands for a department award, it doesn't necessarily have to coincide with an existing service ribbon.

(Remember the "paramilitary" label I used that some got all drove up over?)

Remember how I told you cops aren't military? She's wearing a military ribbon that she didn't earn. From what I'm reading, departments often have their own medals because of this.

[03trubluGT]

Remember how I told you cops aren't military? She's wearing a military ribbon that she didn't earn. From what I'm reading, departments often have their own medals because of this.

Oh snap! Don't get all twisted up until you find out if there is a valid reason.


Does this mean I'm gonna have to take the hash marks off my PD uniform???

[naynay]

Ft-idk

[Forever_frost]

Oh snap! Don't get all twisted up until you find out if there is a valid reason.


Does this mean I'm gonna have to take the hash marks off my PD uniform???

I'd advise a good steam cleaning but in the end? Stop using hash.

[War Machine]

Fear of a black planet

anyone who doesnt have fear of a black planet should walk around south dallas after dark.

[SS Junk]

Everything Zimmerman said makes sense except for the part how he continued past where he saw Trayvon to look for the street name. It was the middle of the street, i don't see how he would have thought he could see a sign from there, but it's possible. That's about the only thing I found even slightly questionable.

I'm thinking because he had no idea where he was at the time he was looking for something to tell the 911 dispatcher.

[dcs13]

Remember how I told you cops aren't military? She's wearing a military ribbon that she didn't earn. From what I'm reading, departments often have their own medals because of this.

Posted from a Military Blog....
Workman got a hold of them (Sanford PD) and said they told him they didn’t have their own awards system, so they went to the Army-Navy store around the corner and picked out Defense Department military ribbons to fit their own format. The WWII was selected, the police department official told Workman, because they knew there weren’t many veterans from that period alive so they didn’t think people would notice.

Link if you want to read the blog: http://guardianofvalor.com/marine-wa...for-wwii-vets/

[naynay]

I've never had no idea where I was in my own neighborhood. That's mind boggling.

[Darren M]

I've never had no idea where I was in my own neighborhood. That's mind boggling.

As a white guy I'm genuinely and non-maliciously curios. Would the black, colored, non-white, what ever world be as concerned about this issue if the kid were white? Would the white kid be supported as well? If not, isn't that a bit racist?

That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes

I feel like some people are making this issue a race issue when in reality it is a sad tragedy, one way or the other. Only 2 people know what really happened that night, everyone else is only speculating.

Just my 2¢

[03trubluGT]

Remember how I told you cops aren't military? She's wearing a military ribbon that she didn't earn. From what I'm reading, departments often have their own medals because of this.

From that blog:

Several fans brought this to our attention, seems the Sanford Police Department decided to use DOD medals and ribbons because they did not have any of their own.

Well Frosty, there you go........

[grove rat]

still should not be wearing them. just because they are fucking lazy doesnt meant they can just copy someone else.

[KBScobravert]

I feel like some people are making this issue a race issue when in reality it is a sad tragedy, one way or the other. Only 2 people know what really happened that night, everyone else is only speculating.

Just my 2¢

Actually only one person knows the truth. The other is a sack of flesh in a box buried under dirt. It knows nothing.

But yes, a real tragedy that I chalk up to poor life choices.