Zimmerman Apologizes For Shooting Trayvon, Gets $150k Bail

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Zimmerman Apologizes For Shooting Trayvon, Gets $150k Bail

April 20th, 2012 3:18 pm Associated Press

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Telling Trayvon Martin’s parents and a national TV audience “I am sorry for the loss of your son,” neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman took the witness stand in an extraordinary move Friday during his bail hearing, making his first public comments since fatally shooting the unarmed teenager.

A judge set Zimmerman’s bail at $150,000 and his attorney said he could be free in several days. Authorities and attorneys need to work out arrangements to allow Zimmerman to live outside Florida as he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge because of threats made against him and his family.

Zimmerman claims Martin attacked him after he started following the teenager Feb. 26 because he thought the 17-year-old Martin looked suspicious walking around the gated neighborhood. Zimmerman has said he was punched in the nose and his head was slammed against the sidewalk.

Wearing a charcoal suit, white shirt and gray tie — but also shackled and appearing to have on a bulletproof vest — Zimmerman took the witness stand to deliver a short statement to Martin’s parents, who were in court.

“I wanted to say I am sorry for the loss of your son. I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. I did not know if he was armed or not,” Zimmerman said.

By going on the witness stand, Zimmerman opened himself up to a series of questions from a prosecutor who grilled him on whether he made an apology to police on the night of the shooting, and why he waited so long to express remorse to Martin’s parents. Zimmerman said he told police after the shooting that he felt sorry for Martin’s parents. He also said he didn’t say anything to the parents sooner because his attorneys told him not to.

Attorneys for Martin’s parents said the apology was disappointing.

“This was the most disingenuous and unfair thing I’ve seen,” said Natalie Jackson, one of the attorneys for Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton. “This was the most unmeaningful apology.”

Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester set several conditions for Zimmerman’s release, which he said would not occur Friday. He did not say exactly when Zimmerman could go free.

Zimmerman cannot have any guns, drink alcohol or use illegal drugs and must observe a curfew between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. Zimmerman surrendered his passport at the start of the hearing.

The lack of an arrest for 44 days spurred protests nationwide in which participants chanted and held signs that said, “Arrest Zimmerman Now!” Anger over a delay in Zimmerman’s arrest led to the Sanford police chief stepping down temporarily and the recusal of the prosecutor who normally handles cases out of Sanford, which is in central Florida.

Civil rights leaders claimed if the black teenager had been white, Zimmerman would have been arrested and charged the night of the shooting. Zimmerman’s father is white, and his mother is Hispanic of Peruvian descent.

Earlier, Zimmerman’s parents and wife testified by phone at the hearing because of worries about their safety. They said he was not a flight risk or a threat to the community.

“He is absolutely not a violent person,” his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, testified.

Zimmerman’s father, Robert Zimmerman Sr., said that even when confronted his son was likely to “turn the other cheek.” The father also described his son’s injuries the morning after Martin was shot.

“His face was swollen quite a bit. He had a protective cover over his nose. His lip was swollen and cut. And there were two vertical gashes on the back of his head,” Robert Zimmerman testified.

Zimmerman’s mother, Gladys, said her son was “very protective” of vulnerable people such as the homeless and children. She described how he got involved in a mentoring program for children in Orlando, noting that both of the children he mentored were African-American like Martin.

Gladys Zimmerman said she was concerned about her son’s safety in that program because he traveled twice a month to a dangerous neighborhood.

“He said, ‘Mom, if I don’t go, they don’t have nobody,’” Gladys Zimmerman said.

Prosecutor Bernardo de la Rionda asked the family members about two incidents. In 2005, George Zimmerman had to take anger management courses after an undercover law enforcement officer accused him of attacking him as he tried to arrest Zimmerman’s friend. In another incident, a girlfriend accused Zimmerman of attacking her. No charges were filed.

The hearing provided a few glimpses into the evidence amassed by investigators, and in some cases evidence they do not have.

Dale Gilbreath, an investigator for the state attorney’s office, testified that he does not know whether Martin or Zimmerman threw the first punch and that there is no evidence to disprove Zimmerman’s contention that he was walking back to his vehicle when confronted by Martin.

Gilbreath also said evidence does not back up parts of Zimmerman’s story, such as his claim that Martin was slamming his head against a sidewalk just before he pulled out his handgun and shot the teenager.

“That is not consistent with the evidence we found,” said Gilbreath, who did not provide details.

Zimmerman asked to meet with Trayvon Martin’s parents before the hearing, but the family’s lawyers said this was not the time.

“We believe (the) Zimmerman request is very self-serving, considering the timing of it 50 days later, right before his bond hearing,” said Justin R. Campbell — an assistant to attorney Benjamin Crump — in an email Thursday.

Legal experts had earlier predicted Zimmerman would likely be granted bail. Key factors include his ties to the local community and that he doesn’t appear to be a flight risk since he turned himself in voluntarily after he was charged last week. He also has never been convicted of a serious crime, which would indicate he doesn’t pose a threat to society.

“Although it’s not routine for people charged with murder to get bond, they do get bond, and I think there is an excellent argument to be made in his specific case for him to be released on bond,” said defense attorney Randy McClean, who practices in Seminole County, about 15 miles northeast of Orlando.

Kim Cannaday, a spokeswoman for the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, said she couldn’t comment on what security procedures would be in place for Zimmerman if he is released. The sheriff’s office does have the ability to monitor defendants outside the county if a judge requests a GPS monitor be used as a condition of release.

http://profile.yahoo.com/BFCWAC32CUV56HYZ6EXPD5E544 Barbara N

Give me a break! This guy wants to be a cop so badly that he thinks he IS a cop–listen to the tape. He targeted this kid and he DID get more than he bargained for, because the kid fought back. But. . . his history and personality are not the issues here. His (quite belated, to say the (least) “apology” is not the issue. His assumption of the mantle of “neighborhood watch” is not the issue.

He killed Trayvan Martin and used racist terms to describe him before killing him–
THAT’S the issue. He thinks he will walk free with no consequences because he thinks he’s
“entitled” to police the neighborhood–even when the police told him to stand down. THAT’S
the issue.

Zimmerman killed Martin in cold blood, on purpose, with malice aforethought and he should stand trial for that action.

Do the right thing!!

http://www.facebook.com/sidney.r.smith1 Sidney R Smith

It was not a real apology. He said he was sorry for the loss of your son, not I’m sorry I killed your son. He has 2 pieces of a violent history. The 911 tape captured his racist comments, especially, “f***ing coon.

http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

I never heard that in the tapes, I don’t that is there…post a link to the transcript.
I think you’re lying.

http://profile.yahoo.com/DFX3FYDAX76U3A4L6XO2BML7RA Edwin Parker

The media reported what the tape said first of all and secondly it is rude to call someone a lie because you have already formed an opinion. You never commented on the “sorry I killed your son”. There are lies and inconsistencies throughout the entire episode, but feel free to pick and chose them. Also, please do us a favor and proofread your reply.

Kathleen O’Neill

Of course Zimmerman is sorry, he doesn’t want to go to jail for what he did. How convenient to say sorry now, he’ll do whatever it takes to get off. Unfortunately, his family knows how to ‘play the game’, so he will not spend a day in jail, afterall, he did shoot a black kid and black has no value in the racist south. He reflects the superiority that is shown to all black people in this country, including the president himself, who continues to be treated as an imposter and possible terrorist by his racists opposition.

http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

I’ve lived in sevral areas of the United States…big cities and small towns.

The most racist I have ever witnessed people is in Boston, MA, New York, NY and Chicago, IL.

The biggest racist in the US have always been the Democratic PArty of america and thsi still remains true today.

Florida, has no natives…they are all transplants from the north.

http://profile.yahoo.com/DFX3FYDAX76U3A4L6XO2BML7RA Edwin Parker

I’m a native…..but here to again you have formed your opinion. Florida is notorious for racism. I have traveled throughout Florida visiting family in Georgia and there are towns I did not want to be in during the DAY!!! Get real and stop making an excuse for everything!!

Jardona

I agree and then he said he thought that he was older. Seriously??? Like his age should have made a difference. Of course he was going to get a low bail I heard his daddy is a judge. He shouldn’t even have gotten bail. We all know if the situation was reversed Trayvon would not have gotten bail or it would have been so high he would haven’t been able to afford it. How unfair is that???? He’s not sorry because he could have avoided murdering Trayvon if he would have followed the orders of the dispatcher. He cold-blooded killed Trayvon and he did it with a purpose. He meant to do it. If he had no intention of killing Trayvon he would have never followed, stalked and confronted him. He did what he did out of pure hatred for Blacks and the way Trayvon was dressed. What a piss poor excuse to kill an unarmed teenager. I am sure his daddy had something to do with his bail being so low and even getting bail. So now he’s walking around free again. Free to gun down another innocent Black person who he thinks looks suspicious because of the way they’re dressed. Well all I can say is karma doesn’t play.

http://www.facebook.com/sidney.r.smith1 Sidney R Smith

Well said.
morgandog2012

Well think about it? Wasa it realky a rascist thing? yes it was now all of us die in this stuff we call friendship.

morgandog2012

How sad was this? A country that thinks its OK to kill now I have to ask who are you. Get youre guns I am sure they arecomming for me I guess

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000217344226 Bern Hall

I agree. I’m so sick to my stomache. Not to mention the 911 tape revealed he said he thought the person was a teenager. My heart really aches. God bless his parents. They are better people than I could ever be.

Brian Laing

All of you who are playing the race card are absolutely right. It’s about time somebody called out all of these Peruvian-Americans who are going around killing hood-wearing, dope-smoking, school-suspension-serving African-Americans! I can’t believe that there hasn’t been a huge national outcry long before now. It seems like a day doesn’t go by that you don’t hear about these Peruvian-American thugs committing heinous, violent acts, usually against docile, peaceful, young African-American kids, who would never dream of starting a physical confrontation.

And yes, Barbara N, you are correct. George Zimmerman obviously had malice aforethought in his deliberate, cold-blooded murder of young Trayvon Martin. How else could you possibly explain his feeble ruse of mentoring young, poor, inner-city kids? What a clever and diabolical man Zimmerman is to have gone to such lengths to make it seem like he wanted to help young African-Americans, when all the while, he was plotting this “cold blooded killing.” There’s no fooling you, Barbara. Good for you! I’m sure the folks at Mensa will be sending you a welcome package very soon.

Also, a tip of the hat goes to the shrewd mouthpiece for the Martin family, Natalie Jackson. She is a mind reader who can tell that Martin’s apology is “disingenuous, unfair and unmeaningful. Never let it be said that this shark cares about letting healing begin. No, she’s too busy trying to make a name for herself to care that the Martin family has suffered enough, without her and her fellow overdressed, overpaid hate-mongers fanning the flames. I’m sure with their caring touch, the local community will feel very safe, secure and peaceful, very soon.

God help the families and communities on both sides.
Brian Laing

All of you who are playing the race card are absolutely right. It’s about time somebody called out all of these Peruvian-Americans who are going around killing hood-wearing, dope-smoking, school-suspension-serving African-Americans! I can’t believe that there hasn’t been a huge national outcry long before now. It seems like a day doesn’t go by that you don’t hear about these Peruvian-American thugs committing heinous, violent acts, usually against docile, peaceful, young African-American kids, who would never dream of starting a physical confrontation.

And yes, Barbara N, you are correct. George Zimmerman obviously had malice aforethought in his deliberate, cold-blooded murder of young Trayvon Martin. How else could you possibly explain his feeble ruse of mentoring young, poor, inner-city kids? What a clever and diabolical man Zimmerman is to have gone to such lengths to make it seem like he wanted to help young African-Americans, when all the while, he was plotting this “cold blooded killing.” There’s no fooling you, Barbara. Good for you! I’m sure the folks at Mensa will be sending you a welcome package very soon.

Also, a tip of the hat goes to the shrewd mouthpiece for the Martin family, Natalie Jackson. She is a mind reader who can tell that Martin’s apology is “disingenuous, unfair and unmeaningful. Never let it be said that this shark cares about letting healing begin. No, she’s too busy trying to make a name for herself to care that the Martin family has suffered enough, without her and her fellow overdressed, overpaid hate-mongers fanning the flames. I’m sure with their caring touch, the local community will feel very safe, secure and peaceful, very soon.

God help the families and communities on both sides.

bposcar

This is a very sad situation. A young boy’s life was taken. However, let us all let the authorities try and find out “exactly” what occurred and let the proper authorities find out the truth. We are all passing judgment, all races involved. None of us, I mean not one single person, knows the exact truth of what occurred. Let’s all take it one day at a time and let us get to the bottom of what actually occurred that terrible day. Yes, we lost a human life – I understand that, and I would say that exact same statement if he were a young “white” man also. Each and every person needs to settle down and not pass judgment on either party. Let it all play out in court. Justice will prove the truth of what actually occurred. If this man is guilty, he will be found guilty. If he is not guilty, he will be found not guilty. None of us, again, none of us, know what exactly occurred. People need to be very careful on how they says things and how they same them. May this young man rest in peace.

nirvonna

Justice will be served in court, you’re so sure? Remember OJ? He got
off with murder. It was after the criminal trial that he was found guilty
in civil court. It was not until then that the bloody footprint of his rare
Italian shoe was found at the scene. And what punishment did he get
in civil court? Civil court can’t send anyone to prison. For murder he
got a fine.

http://www.facebook.com/sheila.thompkins2 Sheila Thompkins

YOU MEAN LIKE CASE ANTHONY!!! WHO GOT OFF WITH MURDERING HER CHILD!!!

http://www.facebook.com/sidney.r.smith1 Sidney R Smith

God help racists like Brian Laing. I’d wear a hood too if it was raining. And it was.

Brian Laing

Sidney, I would wear a hood if it was raining, too. However, you and small-minded people like Sheila Thompkins automatically think because a black person was tragically killed by a mixed race person that it was because the victim was black. That makes you two racists, not those of us who want to wait and see what the justice system decides!

http://www.facebook.com/sheila.thompkins2 Sheila Thompkins

YOU’RE A RIDICULOUS IDIOT AND RACIST!!! YOUR COMMENTS MAKE ME SICK!!!

http://profile.yahoo.com/N2FGRWKXXVLWSP2MUML6STOGQY KNOWSPICKEN

So you went back to your car…KNOWING there was a suspicious person in our neighbor hood…It was raining and he ran under the porch of a home… The Police dispatcher told you to not follow???? AND YOU DID NOT!! Thank you… He broke into my home..Killed my daughter and RAPED my wife… If you had followed him and confronted him…This NEVER would have happened….

http://www.facebook.com/sidney.r.smith1 Sidney R Smith

You write your own stories huh?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Charlie-Watkins/100001075495857 Charlie Watkins

UNFOUNDED SPECULATION, The Block watches involvement ENDS when their observations are REPORTED TO THE POLICE.

1AmericanHoney27

Maybe next time someone needs help or protection ( like you or yours ) nobody will bother to help & your ignorant ass can sit and wait for the PoPo to show up. Hopefully you’ll be around to give a report…. Just hope they believe you more so than you believed Zimmerman… Can you walk on water & Do you have wings & a halo like Trayvon?

AVOVO

This is not a black and white think, a young man got killed, did Zimmerman give himself the cuts on the back of his head…..Was the kid in a gated community, what was he doing there….He don’t live there……The only thing that would have happen if the young man stopped and ansewred to why he was there would have been nothing…..I am not say Zimmerman was not wrong at all, but so was the young man…..Lets put plame, were plame belongs, that with both of them…..They both are at fault for what happen…..Zimmerman needs to be responsible for what he did, but lets not act like Trayvon Martin was completely innocent….His parents need to get real…..I am a mother and would like to think my children are perfect, but lets face they are not……

http://www.facebook.com/sidney.r.smith1 Sidney R Smith

You haven’t followed this at all or you have a convenient memory loss. His relatives lived there duh! I’d fight too if you held a gun on me and he shot him in the back.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Charlie-Watkins/100001075495857 Charlie Watkins

” The only thing that would have happen if the young man stopped and ansewred ”
WHY?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UNRSOQB7TEU2XBPPAZ7GZPVNXM EdC

Chances we won’t see Zimmerman again, he’s going to Mexico, but a couple of months down the line someone will get and then we will have a race war.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4JK5UTBYBW34I6QZZXYEBMSTT4 TEN-OF-WANDS

A half-hearted, understated, or belated apology can be the ULTIMATE INSULT, as well as SALT UPON A GRIEVOUS WOUND.
morgandog2012

You people discust me when you have a law with guns when anyone can use guns to kill others, this is what you should expect.Now my God someone has killed a black man? What did you expect? What did you expect? Someone to help you? I guess not? It never changes.

AIMPOINT

Bill Cosby’s son’s murderer was successfully prosecuted.

morgandog2012

How sade Now we just lost everything.
http://www.facebook.com/sheila.thompkins2 Sheila Thompkins

The judge is a white supremists, the attorney is a white supremists and George Zimmerman is a white supremists racists and they are telling us that a Black life don’t mean a damn thing to them. Just another dead Negus!!!But I say what goes around always come back around!!! What you do to us is already done to you!!! Do the right thing NOW!!!! OR WE ALL WILL PAY!!!

1AmericanHoney27

Sheila….. Martin Luther King would be so proud of you and your accusations… Not to mention the fact you think you’re a mind reader thinking you know how the judge and attorneys think or feel. Everytime a black ends up on the wrong end it’s cause “I’m black… She’s black… He’s black…. They’re black…. “. Pictures of Zimmerman’s head speak volumes… The fact that gun powder burns on Trayvon’s jacket tells us he wasn’t running away cause g powder burns only happen in close proximety. His girl friend was not an eye witness & can’t testify to more than what she heard. The eye witness ( whom is black ) said Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman. Had Trayvon killed Zimmerman then black folk would have hollared Zimmerman got what he deserved. Never the thought of the real reason Zimmerman was there in the filest place. Everytime blacks don’t get their way it’s racial. Take ya’LLS chump change and place it where the sun don’t shine…. Consider for a moment the other side of racial…… Ms Black America …… BET TV….. Black People Meet .com….. & the fact that 2 black men have filed law suits on the Bachelor program cause they didn’t get priority roles…. Ever thought not everyone wants to cross that racial line…. Surely with all the Chump Change you speak of BET could have A Black Bachelor or Bachelor…. Surely you heard of the black woman here in Texas that gun down the White mother to steal her child….. Where is the hate in that….. Not…. They say it wasn’t hate.. she’s sick…. Didn’t see no street marches over that…. Racism will never die because people like yourself won’t let.

AIMPOINT

You think she has race issues?

AIMPOINT

What about the non-cop witnesses that we don’t know about?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jasmine-Mayo/1169006462 Jasmine Mayo

Zimmerman was a racist and had been out to get any black guy he thought he could handle. But he messed with the wrong child that February night. Trayvon gave him a beatdown, and when he saw he could not handle him, he pulled out his gun and murdered this handsome young man…Trayvon lay in the morgue for 3 days. He was visiting his dad and Zimmerman had been warned not to follow Trayvon…b/c of Zimmerman action and his evil intention to provoked Trayvon leaves his parents in mouring for the rest of their lives. Trayvon death will not be in vain….We all will make sure of that….R.I.P.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jasmine-Mayo/1169006462 Jasmine Mayo

R.I.P. Trayvon Martin…We all love you…REST! I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. Psalm 4:8
http://www.facebook.com/people/Phyllis-Rogers/100001357173302 Phyllis Rogers

Was the man doing something positive for his community, yes, has he been doing it, from what I have read yes, is neighbor hood watch needed, yes, did he have prior knowledge that this young man would be walking around the neighbor hood and set out to murder some one because he was black, , I do not think so, I wonder if all of the, murders, robberies, home invasions, drive by shootings, drug gangs, assaults on the elderly, purse snatching s whole communities we teach our love ones to stay away from had any thing to do with it. City after city across this country that the police will not show up with out serious back up when a call comes in for assistance, why do the wealthy have gated locked gates with security, we no why, why do we have gated communities all over this country, we no why, why do we have neighbor hood watch, we no why, why is it dangerous to go to the grocery store at night, we no why, and no I am not saying it is all black crime, why do some city’s sound like Beirut at night with the gun fire, we know why, so what do we expect, we are 1 Nation, we have got to change the perspective of every one, and yes I believe the Black community should take charge, and involve there leader ship Nation wide all the time and we all need to support our local police, laws are for the citizens of this country, to implement, as well as the police,not for the police to baby sit.
http://www.facebook.com/cancioal Adalberto Cancio

Something that has not been said or asket? who outhorise simmerment to poses a gun?
crime wach neibor hoo catain, that are not a police or was the police hoo authorise him to posses a gun? there are many custion that has not arize, make belive that the law is still in his favor, and never the less this is aracial cover up
http://www.facebook.com/cancioal Adalberto Cancio

The other thing is this bond are indication that this case is going to be trie out of the state?
Other wize he won’t got a bail He “quated I a’m sorrie that you sond got kill. the state atthorney does not want to trail him. and the cover pu is at large.
http://www.facebook.com/cancioal Adalberto Cancio

United we can make a diferent. less contaste the Bail
we the people that voted you in the courts dissagree with this cagaroo court and the desition of this Bond hearing. Wy no one contested the Bail?
ChristoD

Everyone needs to cool it, let all the evidence be presented and then make judgemnets based on the facts as best can be created. I suspect that when all is said and done, it will come down to a horrible horrible accident that was totally unnecessary and should never had occured were it not for the absolute offensive gun law that was used in defense of Zimmerman carrying a gun to ‘protect his neighborhood’. Using a gun to KILL a person while protecting PROPERTY is beyond outrageous, especially when the killing occure with NO evidence of the young man having violated anything other than walking on private property. What needs to be fixed NOW, is that damn use of deadly force law in Florida and the rest of the country. It is long past due that we all stand up to the NRA and their obsession with flooding the country with weapons who are intende to kill or maim PEOPLE not animals (hunting for food or sport). As a gun owner (two shotguns and two rifles) I am outraged that the SOB’s are able to get obscene gun laws passed in the name of self defense. It is a crock of shit, plain and simple. They have given a bad name and rap to all of us who are using weapons for food or sport.
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Brown/100002121805818 James Brown

The Nation is confronting Bullying at an all time high, to people fighting is matual combat ,one pull a gun or knife and uses it this murder.A 250 pound man vs a 140 man and he had to shoot him is a crime of murder in the frist drgree.the gun made him brave and a whimp.If justice is served in the American way and not the law of the deep south, a life term in order.
Jwrtr68

Can he have a fatal aneurysm, pretty f*****g please?!! My reasoning is that the world won’t miss him because justice isn’t going to be done…Second instead of first degree murder, a bond of a mere $150K as opposed to a well deserved million and then the audacity to house him outside of the state of Florida!!! And you’re dense enough to wonder why I feel that a future that will be horrendous is what we can and should expect?!!!
Dcgp

What’s on trial here is the racial injustice, prejudice and profiling that we as Black American’s deal and live with everyday. Zimmerman will be on trial and rightfully so, but the laws and practices against Blacks in this country need to be changed. We need to call them out for what they are and force our elected officials to change them. Wake up America and lets put in practice what we try correct (genocide) in other countries with military actions.. Let’s do it at home first!!

God bless the United States of America. Written by a retired Soldier living in Georgia.
http://www.facebook.com/JimmyT09 JIm Thykeson

Why should he apologize to a ‘thug’ that tried to kill him! Zimmerman was armed because the surviellance of his complex had become dangerous. There had been many break-ins to the complex, so someone like Martin are considered suspect because they’re usually the ones who commit the crimes. These are sad facts, and sadder yet, is the ones calling for Zimmerman’s head know this! If this 3-time drop-out from school, had stayed in Miami, or better yet, not teed off on Zimmerman, he most likely would be alive. There IS another side to this sad affair. ..give it a listen.
EKG2012

Soooooo, I wonder if I read that right that in 2005 Zimmerman ATTACKED an Officer in Uniform who was in the process of doing his Job, but Zimmeran has never committed any serious crimes?

Battery on a LEO is not a SERIOUS crime, really? Well there you have it folks, next time a cop hassle or tries to arrest you feel free to resist and kicked him in the groins. Its not a serious crime, you dont have to worry about cathching another charge in adition to the original one.

Still No problem though, I guess I can understand where maybe that was his first violent offense of record and they decided to give him a break. . . . . However, from what we’ve heard on the 911 tapes, the anger management classes didnt work for him so much.
http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

This case has nothing to do with race. The only thing racist about this case is the people exploiting it.
http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

We should not be surprised that life means so little to people. We have taught them this in school for so many years, it has become a way of life.

It is okay to kill for these reasons, according to our public schools:

If the person is inconvenient
If the person is going to interfere with your career
If the person is going to grow up poor
If the person is going to be disabled
If the person is going to cost too much to be taken care of easily
If the person in unwanted
If the person is born with the wrong genes
If the person is going to remind the parent of a crime

Pretty much any reason we want, we can deny a person their life…so life is not important is the message.
morgandog2012

You know what you do when you elect poiticians paid for by the NRA. This is what you get.
A country wishing to kill. Well you had better get over it. Oh gast now everybody is so discusted. You know you are a bunch of rascist gun toting people. Now when you allow someone to kill like Zimmerman then when the heat gets to hot you want to crucify him
You as a country discusts me. The sate of Florida allowed this man to kill now when it gets to hot to bear then they come in for the kill. This man did everythijng the State of Florida allkowed him to do. Now when it gets so difficult You hang him from the rafters. Now where is the NRA who pushed this stuff through congress? Just another of a bunch of jesus freakes who will not support him. WHERE ARE YOU THE NRA? WHERE ARE YOU?

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