... If he gets cleared the Fed is not going to let him walk away, they will trump up a lawsuit based on a "hate crime" and his life will be ruined that way.
Going to be hard to bring a hate crime into play here.
Blessings
I happen to agree with William, you might be interested in reading the latest on Zimmerman being a "racist". Somehow the "racist" label just doesn't seem to fit. Seems like a lot of people, especially guys like Barry, Sharpton, and JJ, jumped the gun. Guess Barry didn't have a teaching moment or in his case a learning moment, after the controversy involving the cop, and the black Professor with a "your messing with me because I'm black" attitude.
Zimmerman’s own black roots – & drive to aid the poor
Topsy-turvy life of a good-hearted kid who took bad turn By CHRIS FRANCESCANI
Reuters
Last Updated: 4:55 AM, April 26, 2012
Posted: 1:41 AM, April 26, 2012
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Print SANFORD, Fla. — A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, in the fall of 2009.
The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, George called the owner to complain.
The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law’s dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called authorities again. An officer came to the house, county records show.
“Don’t use pepper spray,” he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. “It’ll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter-second for the dog to jump you.
RAISED RIGHT: George Zimmerman, here in 1989 (above), grew up in a racially integrated military family and helped the needy.
George Zimmerman “Get a gun.”
That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge and received concealed-weapons gun permits.
They bought a pair of guns in early December, a source close to them said. George chose a lightweight Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun.
By June 2011, Zimmerman’s attention had shifted from the loose pit bull to a wave of robberies that rattled the community, called the Retreat at Twin Lakes.
The homeowners association asked him to launch a neighborhood watch, and Zimmerman began to carry the Kel-Tec on his regular, dog-walking patrol — a violation of neighborhood-watch guidelines but not a crime.
Few of his closest neighbors knew he carried a gun — until two months ago.
On Feb. 26, George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in what Zimmerman says was self-defense, setting off a national furor over gun and self-defense laws and race relations.
While Zimmerman was in hiding, detractors called him a vigilante who decided Martin was suspicious because he was black.
When Zimmerman was finally arrested on a charge of second-degree murder more than six weeks after the shooting, prosecutors portrayed him as a violent and angry man who disregarded authority by pursuing the 17-year-old.
But a more nuanced portrait of Zimmerman in the months before the shooting has emerged, based on extensive interviews with relatives, friends, neighbors, schoolmates, co-workers and reviews of court documents and police reports.
The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic family and was taught to do right by those less fortunate.
He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather — the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.
A criminal-justice student who aspired to become a judge, Zimmerman also concerned himself with the safety of his neighbors after a series of break-ins committed by young African-American men.
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