In the Orlando Sentinal article it says:
"Ironically, Tonetta Foster, the sister of Sherman Ware, the man punched by Collison, took part in a Trayvon rally March 19 at the Seminole Criminal courthouse at which protesters called for Zimmerman's arrest.
"I stand for justice for Trayvon, for Sherman Ware," she said.
A lawyer for Trayvon's family, Natalie Jackson, represented Ware. She said she did not believe Zimmerman handed out any fliers. She called the family's account "race baiting"."
If one actually reads the article, it can be understood that Natalie Jackson was referring to the incident portrayed in the first sentence in the article:
"
George
Zimmerman handed out fliers at black Sanford churches a year ago, outraged that a white police lieutenant's son, captured on video sucker-punching a homeless black man, was not arrested on the spot, family members said.
The fliers urged people to attend a Sanford City Commission meeting and demand that the police chief be held accountable."
In fact, if one researches further, they will find that no black leaders in the City of Sanford recall seeing or previously hearing about any 'flyers' in support of Sherman Ware.
The copy of the 'flyer' that was included with a letter sent by the A Concerned Zimmerman Family Member was not what I would call a flyer in the traditional sense since it was multiple pages.
The 'flyer' "lays out a lengthy case, not about the attack upon Mr Ware, but about the conduct of then chief of Police Brian Tooley, accusing him of an illegal cover up in the Collison case. The undated, multi-page document, which includes the transcript of a local news report about the case,
never mentions Mr. Ware, except in a nameless reference to an innocent, homeless and peacekeeping bystander."
The 'flyer' asks the reader to attend a workshop and open forum to be convened by then
commission chairman-elect Mark McCarty on January 8, 2011, with what the letter calls the three continuing members of the commission, including the mayor-elect, Jeff Triplet.
January 8, 2011 was a Saturday. There is no record that such a workshop or open forum was ever held. No one, including Mark McCarty recalls such a meeting, ever! The City of Sanford which posts minutes of all its official meetings has no record of such a meeting.
I concur with Natalie Jackson in her assessment of
the letter, which is what this really is about, imo.
Joy-Ann Reid of The Grio, wrote all about it and discussed it with Martin Bashir of MSNBC.
A
PDF copy of the letter that was sent to Sherman Ware's sister can be found
here