You sure can “change the narrative” by presenting things in a certain way–by leaving certain key pieces of information out, and by manipulating images.

I thought that his defenders–talking about how poor little Trayvon (I note that the MSM deliberately used a picture of Martin as a much younger, smaller, thin child, even though Martin had actually grown quite a bit in size and strength by the time of this incident, when he was 5’11” and 159 pounds) was just coming back from the store, where–as innocent young children do–he bought some candy and pop–was a nice touch.

A nice touch, if you didn’t have the information that mixing some candy and soda with a cough syrup like Robitussin made one of Martin’s favorite buzz-inducing narcotic drinks, that he talked about drinking and liking on social media, a concoction nicknamed “Lean,” “Sizzurp,” or “Purple Drank.”*

* See https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/06/what_the_media_choose_not_to_know_about_trayvon.html

Hardly mattered. A map of the complex and photographs of the scene demonstrate that Martin quite deliberately trudged 75 yards down an alley (which formed a common backyard for two rows of townhouses) in order to attack Zimmerman. The precise place he did so is known, because that’s where Zimmerman dropped his keys (something recorded by crime scene photographers).

He was a 17 year old youth with extant behavioral problems being shuttled between four different residences in and around Miami and Orlando. One of his interests was mixed martial arts. His conduct that night would be unsurprising, street drugs or no street drugs.

No, he didn’t. The Justice Department’s odious Community Relations apparat was on the scene making the world worse, but that was a side issue.

Benjamin Crump and Ryan Julison manufactured a public hue and cry with the assistance of the lying media. Gov. Scott was persuaded to appoint a special prosecutor and stupidly took the advice of the state attorney-general and appointed Angela Corey. See Glenn Reynolds on Corey: one of her particular hobby horses is a hostility to people who defend themselves with firearms. She assigns her minion Bernardo de la Rionda to prosecute the case. See Jerilyn Merritt on de la Rionda: she said in nearly 40 years of practicing criminal defense law, she had hardly ever seen such unprofessional behavior by a prosecutor. It was just a perfect storm of the usual cultural pathologies you see among black politicians, the media, and the bar.

As soon as Obama forced a prosecution where the local authorities saw no reason for one, some mix of fraud and malicious prosecution was all but certain.

I hope he wins a ton. Him & the Sandmann kid. Break a few media banks and let’s see what happens then.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/we_are_all_george_zimmerman_now.html

No reason to believe the two incidents were connected. The judge was bounced for his conduct in the courtroom in preliminary proceedings.

No clue who you’ve confused all of them with. She was perfectly reasonable and there were IIRC few partisans of the prosecution in the comment boxes.