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In reply to the discussion: George Zimmerman is a good example of bad problem [View all]MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)51. LOL... ffs
In the 2013 case was dropped because the cops threatened to charge her for filing a false report after reviewing Daddy's security tapes that showed her lying. The "shoving a cop" was a natural reaction to a friend sitting next to him being grabbed by an ABC officer who was not in uniform and did not identify himself. He just saw some guy grabbing his friend. Context is everything.
George Zimmerman, acquitted in July in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested Monday afternoon for allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend and pushing her out of her house as he packed to move out, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said.
Zimmerman barricaded himself in the house Samantha Scheibe rented in Apopka, which he had shared with her since around August, Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma said at a news conference. She gave deputies a key, and they pushed aside furniture he had piled against the door.
Zimmerman was unarmed and offered no resistance when he was arrested about 1 p.m. Lemma said investigators believe two weapons are in the home -- a shotgun and an assault rifle -- and are seeking a search warrant. The arrest report said Zimmerman had apparently locked up the shotgun before deputies arrived.
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At 11:30 p.m. four days earlier, an officer heard breaking glass and saw 28-year-old Brittany Brunelle, Zimmerman's dental hygienist, drive away from their home without turning on her headlights.
When officers pulled her over, she told them that she and Zimmerman had argued about her decision to move out.
She and her 5-year-old son had lived with him for about two months, she said.
Zimmerman had insisted that she return a painting, she told police, and she did, but while she was at the house, Zimmerman started yelling, she said, and took away her phone. He then threw it and the wine bottle at her, she said
She and Zimmerman had strictly been friends and roommates, although they had sex one drunken night, she told police.
She described him as "insane," "suicidal" and "a psychopath. Why that man is not locked up is beyond me," she said.
She told officers that night that she did not want to prosecute Zimmerman, and after police turned the case over to the State Attorney's Office, she stuck with that plan.
Those are separate cases from what happened with his ex-wife.
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OK, as a touchstone, let's replace activities about guns with voting, or using free speech.
Big_Mike
May 2016
#38
I don't think Zimmerman should have as much as the right to freedom of movement.
Giggity
May 2016
#3
I have a right to go where I want without the threat of being jumped, raped or robbed.
Boudica the Lyoness
May 2016
#33
A wife beating man who seems to get into various other conflicts including being
MillennialDem
May 2016
#42
Ok, so 4 separate women (1 in 2005 and 3 in 2013-2014) all accuse Zimmerman of domestic
MillennialDem
May 2016
#53
And recantations during domestic violence are not uncommon either - I know, my mother was a
MillennialDem
May 2016
#56
His ex in 2005 alleged domestic violence. Poor poor Georgie, he must date some really
MillennialDem
May 2016
#58
Yet, you still defend his as a great fella, because he's on team gun (note I'm not talking about
MillennialDem
May 2016
#61
So if I'm in a fist fight, if I scream for help I'm no longer a threat? Pretty hard to not be a
MillennialDem
May 2016
#65
Pretty much if you shove someone, and they hit you, then you blast them into oblivion, you're
MillennialDem
May 2016
#46