Film Alleging Witness Fraud in Trayvon Martin Case Sparks $100 Million Suit
By Petr Svab
December 4, 2019 Updated: December 5, 2019

The story of the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, which to this day is used to fuel the narrative of a racially divided America, was in major part based on an account of a false witness, who was allowed by prosecutors to give her false testimony in court due to intentional fraud or striking negligence.

That’s according to voluminous evidence presented in the documentary “The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.”

Martin’s case was used by the media, activists, and politicians as the epitome of injustice. As their narrative went, he was a 17-year-old African American in Florida who was returning home at night on Feb. 26, 2012, with a bag of Skittles candy and a soft drink when a white man, George Zimmerman, stalked him and shot him dead in cold blood as Martin was screaming for help, all because Martin was black and wearing a hoodie.

This narrative was supported partly by the court testimony of Rachel Jeantel, who said she was on the phone with Martin until moments before his death.

Yet, based on the discoveries of Los Angeles-based filmmaker Joel Gilbert, the woman who took the witness stand wasn’t the one who was on the phone with Martin.
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert in New York on Nov. 18, 2019. (Brendon Fallon/The Epoch Times)

Gilbert combined the extensive case file documents, including Martin’s phone records, with social media posts, handwriting analysis, and DNA matching to identify and track down the real witness.

He believes she refused to testify to avoid lying to prosecutors.

The filmmaker’s revelations led Zimmerman to file a lawsuit on Dec. 4 against Martin’s parents, their lawyer, the prosecutors, the alleged real and false witnesses, and others for crimes that include defamation, malicious prosecution, and conspiracy. Zimmerman is demanding $100 million in damages.

Zimmerman was eventually acquitted of all charges. Other witness and forensic evidence showed he was attacked by Martin and shot Martin in self-defense. The second-degree murder and manslaughter accusations against him severely affected his life.

Meanwhile, the false story of Trayvon Martin has been perpetuated by the media, activists, and politicians in what Gilbert believes is a manipulation of black voters through fear.

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Ground Zero

For Gilbert, Martin’s case was ground zero of the inflammation of racial relations in America. It happened at a critical time of Obama’s reelection year, in the most critical battleground state.

The case was used to jump-start the Black Lives Matter group and movement that, on its face, demanded police accountability, but in its wake, left communities torn by riots and powerful anti-police sentiment. Police departments, accused of “systemic racism,” scaled back proactive enforcement. Murder rates spiked 20 percent between 2014 and 2016—the fastest increase in decades.

“It is not at all a stretch to think that if one of those who knew the truth had stood up before the verdict and said, ‘This is all a hoax,’ thousands of black lives might have been spared. But as history records, none of them did,” Gilbert wrote.
Dark Times

Zimmerman acknowledged that after his trial, he was in a dark place.

He lost his job and was kicked out of college. It would be hard to quantify the number of threats he received or the amount of hatred directed toward him. One man in 2016 was convicted of attempting to murder Zimmerman.

“I kind of internalized all this negative attention on me,” he told Gilbert. “If people are going to label me as such a bad person, such a jerk, I was going to show them that I could be.”

He was accused of assaults and domestic violence by his estranged wife, girlfriend, and ex-girlfriend. However, all charges against him were dropped.

“I took me a few years to work through it and to go back to being the person that I was,” he said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/film-alleg...70485-238431765

Zimmermann in his own words:

December 5, 2019
We Are All George Zimmerman Now
By George Zimmerman

Most people know my name, George Zimmerman, largely due to negative stereotypes propagated by the media as a result of the 2012 incident in Sanford, Florida, in which Trayvon Martin died.

Unfortunately, most people don’t recall the fact that I was exonerated of any wrongdoing after a thorough investigation by the Sanford Police Department in March 2012. They had interviewed dozens of witnesses, analyzed 911 calls, and examined the physical evidence of my broken nose, the lacerations on the back of my head, as well as the bruised knuckles of my assailant.

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I am bringing this action not only to get justice for myself, but for all those Americans who are falsely accused of racial animus as well as those victimized by fake witnesses and unscrupulous prosecutors.

This lawsuit is also for the Bell family, whose sons were falsely accused of involvement in a tragic gym accident that caused the death of Kendrick Johnson. This lawsuit is for Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson, whom even Eric Holder had to admit was falsely accused of shooting a man who allegedly put his hands up. This lawsuit is for the police officers in Baltimore, both black and white, who were falsely accused of harming Freddy Gray in order to justify mob violence. This lawsuit is for Brett Kavanaugh and any future Supreme Court nominees falsely accused of crimes they did not commit to prevent their nominations.

More than anything else, this lawsuit is for the America I grew up in and still believe in, an America of equal justice for all, where race hoaxes and fake witnesses have no place, an America where the content of one's character, not race, is the basis for one's judgement of another.

With my lawsuit, I hope to make a strong statement that false witnesses will not be tolerated, not in Seminole County Court or any court, and not in the United States Senate chambers. False witnesses must face consequences, or they will continue to ruin lives of innocent people. There is nothing more un-American and irreligious under the Ten Commandments than to bear false witness.

I look forward to succeeding in my court actions and hope to have enough funds to found a center for falsely accused persons of all races, those railroaded by charlatans, prosecutors, and an all too willing establishment media.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles...merman_now.html