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Zimmermann at it again

  • 09-09-2013 08:46PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭


    ORLANDO, Fla. – George Zimmerman's wife has called police to her father's house, saying the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder threatened her with a gun.
    Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell says Shellie Zimmerman called police shortly after 2 p.m. Monday.
    Bracknell says Zimmerman hasn't been arrested and officers are at the house trying to determine what happened.
    Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce last week.
    In the divorce petition, Shellie Zimmerman says she and her husband separated a month after Zimmerman was acquitted of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin last July.
    Zimmerman's acquittal led to protests nationwide.

    And yes, I know it's Fox News. Shows what an upstanding member of the Floridian community he is. First publicly visiting gun factories and now threatening his own wife.

    Is this simply more 'Murica or does it point yet again to a shambles of a situation?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Not the first time he's been arrested for domestic violence either. He's a nasty scumbag even regardless of the Trayvon Martin thing

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-relevant-past/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    She just wants his money at this point (wants a divorce+life insurance paid by him), and lying isn't foreign to her (already been convicted of perjury). I doubt this happened as she said it did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I think this thread will split into pro-gun and anti-gun. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    He also pulled a family from a car wreck. There's good and bad in everyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    biko wrote: »
    He also pulled a family from a car wreck. There's good and bad in everyone.

    not everyone who's assisted in a road accident (lots of us here I should think) has shot someone dead though. I think the bad far, far outweighs the good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    She just wants his money at this point (wants a divorce+life insurance paid by him), and lying isn't foreign to her (already been convicted of perjury). I doubt this happened as she said it did.

    She lied for him in court and he is the sort of guy who visits the gun factory that made the gun he used to kill a teenager and takes a picture just to let the world know.

    He's a scumbag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    "Meanwhile, over the course of eight years, Zimmerman made at least 46 calls to the Sanford (Fla.) Police Department reporting suspicious activity involving black males."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Not the first time he's been arrested for domestic violence either. He's a nasty scumbag even regardless of the Trayvon Martin thing

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-relevant-past/

    Nice you made up your mind about him despite the fact this is happening days after a divorce petition has been filed.

    Where is the arrest for domestic violence? A restraining order that both parties applied for isn't domestic violence. Nice bending of the truth there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    diomed wrote: »
    "Meanwhile, over the course of eight years, Zimmerman made at least 46 calls to the Sanford (Fla.) Police Department reporting suspicious activity involving black males."

    Not this again :rolleyes:

    That statement is simply not true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    MadsL wrote: »
    Nice you made up your mind about him despite the fact this is happening days after a divorce petition has been filed.

    I made up my mind about him long before today.
    Where is the arrest for domestic violence? A restraining order that both parties applied for isn't domestic violence. Nice bending of the truth there.

    Okay, that was a mistake on my part. It still shows that he has a history of domestic violence though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    The witch hunt failed boys, move on. I'm sure some other little angel will get offed by evil whitey soon enough, just keep the pitch forks in reserve till then


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Zimmerman was aquited, like it or not. The kid that he shot was a lowlife, and I don't actually have any sympathy for him. If he'd been white there wouldn't have been the 3 ring media circus that surrounded the case. His wife will probably cash in on the talk show circuit and tabloid newspapers.

    People talk a good game about equality, but the reality is that if a lowlife white kid is killed then that's one thing, if a lowlife black kid is killed that's a hate crime. In a global society that's supposed to be colour blind there seems to be an awful lot of emphasis on colour in this case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    I made up my mind about him long before today.



    Okay, that was a mistake on my part. It still shows that he has a history of domestic violence though.

    Made up your mind without the facts huh?

    So you are still projecting domestic violence on to him? Based on what? Couples breaking up often end up getting retraining orders, tit for tat silliness. If anything all this proves is he has bad taste in relationships.

    Show me where he has committed an act of violence other than the shooting. And don't come with the resisting arrest crap, that was a technical resist when he was underage and his mate was stopped for drinking. He basically argued with a cop.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    MadsL wrote: »
    Not this again :rolleyes:
    That statement is simply not true.
    Why not e-mail the writer and correct him?

    The Washington Post
    George Zimmerman’s relevant past
    By Jonathan Capehart, Published: May 28 at 3:10 pm E-mail the writer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    MadsL wrote: »
    Show me where he has committed an act of violence other than the shooting. And don't come with the resisting arrest crap, that was a technical resist when he was underage and his mate was stopped for drinking. He basically argued with a cop.

    "Show me evidence but don't produce any actual evidence because it doesn't prove anything"

    http://myclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=5782626

    He was charged for battery on an officer as well as resisting arrest

    'Basically arguing with a cop' my hole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    diomed wrote: »
    Why not e-mail the writer and correct him?

    The Washington Post
    George Zimmerman’s relevant past
    By Jonathan Capehart, Published: May 28 at 3:10 pm E-mail the writer

    Well if you paid any attention to the case you will know that particular piece of mythology was roundly shown to be false. Yet, here you are trotting it out again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    "Show me evidence but don't produce any actual evidence because it doesn't prove anything"

    Arguing with a cop isn't domestic violence.

    I see you have no evidence of this "domestic violence", it's a falsehood in other words.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    MadsL wrote: »
    Well if you paid any attention to the case you will know that particular piece of mythology was roundly shown to be false. Yet, here you are trotting it out again.
    So how many times?
    I have never phoned the police to report black males. I don't follow people with a gun loaded with hollow point bullets.

    Are you in law-enforcement Madsl? Do you own a gun? How many guns do you own?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    diomed wrote: »
    So how many times?
    I have never phoned the police to report black males. I don't follow people with a gun loaded with hollow point bullets.

    Are you in law-enforcement Madsl? Do you own a gun? How many guns do you own?

    You a gang banger?

    Petty thief?

    How many whites do you hate?


    etc etc


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    donvito99 wrote: »
    And yes, I know it's Fox News. Shows what an upstanding member of the Floridian community he is. First publicly visiting gun factories and now threatening his own wife.

    Is this simply more 'Murica or does it point yet again to a shambles of a situation?


    Zimmermann is like a real life version of "Falling Down"...:pac:






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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    This is all a distraction to keep Americans attention away from Syria.

    *removes tinfoil hat*

    Or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,917 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    is this the bloke who invented facebook?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    diomed wrote: »
    So how many times?

    The City of Stanford put the records up on the web at the time of the trial - the link isn't working now, but feel free to search my posts in the Zimmerman thread; iirc he only referred to the race of the person on those calls 3-4 times.
    I have never phoned the police to report black males.
    I don't take a whole lot of notice of what colour someone is frankly. Would you refrain from calling the police if the person breaking into your neighbours house was black?
    I don't follow people with a gun loaded with hollow point bullets.
    The ammunition in that gun was entirely appropriate, making out that hollow-points are some scary thing is nonsense, it is exactly what you should load in a CCW weapon if carried in public. If you cannot figure out why, you have no business opining on firearms.
    Are you in law-enforcement Madsl? Do you own a gun? How many guns do you own?

    None of your damn business frankly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Crackle


    "Show me evidence but don't produce any actual evidence because it doesn't prove anything"

    http://myclerk.myorangeclerk.com/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=5782626

    He was charged for battery on an officer as well as resisting arrest

    'Basically arguing with a cop' my hole
    That link is dead so I dunno what it should show but the charge was reduced to "resisting officer without violence" and waived when he entered an alcohol education program. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/27/10894561-zimmerman-accused-of-domestic-violence-fighting-with-a-police-officer?lite

    A lot of the false info surrounding the Zimmerman case was already discussed in depth in this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056991686


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    Not the first time he's been arrested for domestic violence either. He's a nasty scumbag even regardless of the Trayvon Martin thing

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-relevant-past/

    Whether he's a scumbag who knows, but shooting that kid was not an act of scumbagery.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNiPoCGz8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Bogota


    Where is 'the kid was a scumbag' coming from?

    He had been in trouble at school for marijuana and getting in a few fights, if that defines a scumbag then I'd argue that 50% of Irish males would be classed as scumbags! Who hasn't smoked weed and gotten in a fight in their teenage days?

    Zimmerman was accused of being a racist by his own cousin. He rang the police on 47 separate occassions to report suspicious activities involving black males. He was clearly a racist.

    Zimmerman has been involved in domestic battery, accused of child molestation and became violent with a police officer before. How anyone can defend him while attacking that poor kid's character I'll never know...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    Bogota wrote: »
    Where is 'the kid was a scumbag' coming from?

    He had been in trouble at school for marijuana and getting in a few fights, if that defines a scumbag then I'd argue that 50% of Irish males would be classed as scumbags! Who hasn't smoked weed and gotten in a fight in their teenage days?

    Zimmerman was accused of being a racist by his own cousin. He rang the police on 47 separate occassions to report suspicious activities involving black males. He was clearly a racist.

    Zimmerman has been involved in domestic battery, accused of child molestation and became violent with a police officer before. How anyone can defend him while attacking that poor kid's character I'll never know...

    Zimmerman and his wife worked with disadvantaged black children and his best friend was black. I'd wager from my post time and yours you did not watch the video I posted. I suggest you watch it. Also Zimmerman was not white but Hispanic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    valknut wrote: »
    Whether he's a scumbag who knows, but shooting that kid was not an act of scumbagery.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNiPoCGz8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    You do realise who the author of that video is, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Bogota wrote: »
    He rang the police on 47 separate occassions to report suspicious activities involving black males. He was clearly a racist.
    You think? What percentage of his call to the police mention black males? 50%? 80%?

    http://www.motherjones.com/documents/327330-george-zimmerrman-911-call-history

    You would think he was a obsessed racist by this report. "a man obsessed with law and order, with the minutiae of suburban life, and with black males."

    In fact - these 47 calls only mention black people 5 times in 47 calls. Just 10% of his calls to police over a period going back to 2004.
    Zimmerman has been involved in domestic battery,
    When?
    accused of child molestation
    Oh, must be guilty then right?
    became violent with a police officer before.
    Argued with a cop when he was a young kid.

    You are really going to some lengths here to make him who you want him to be. Truth is he isn't who you want him to be, and these lies don't make it so.
    How anyone can defend him while attacking that poor kid's character I'll never know...

    Martin was visting his father Tracy Martin in Sanford, Florida after receiving a ten-day suspension from Krop Senior High School. The suspension stemmed from the discovery of drug residue in Martin's book bag.

    That's a fact.

    Here's also the evidence from pictures from his cellphone and texts. Watch the second video.

    http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/24/trayvon-martins-texts-matter-george-zimmerman-defense-attorneys-say

    Draw your own conclusions.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    You do realise who the author of that video is, right?

    I do indeed, have read two of his books. That could have been opera who made that video and my opinion would still be the same. Did you watch the video?


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