The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

Many domestic violence cases involve violations, such as Harassment in the Second Degree. Harassment happens when your abuser verbally threatens you with harm, slaps you or pushes you, but doesn't cause an injury. The police must see this happen in order to make an arrest unless you decide to make the complaint yourself, which is called making a civilian arrest. In many areas, the police will help you with this and will actually take your abuser to the police station. In some areas in violation cases, the police will give you information on how to get the court to take some action against him, but will not transport your abuser to the police station or court. If this is not the first time your abuser has threatened you with harm, pushed or shoved you, or if you are afraid of future harm, be sure to tell the police. If your abuser has harassed or threatened you more than once, this may give the police the evidence they need to charge Harassment in the First Degree or Menacing, both misdemeanors. This allows them to make the arrest and take your abuser into custody without you having to make a civilian arrest.

He can be accused of attempting to destroy evidence.

Just like in Florida it's no longer unusual for somebody with a smoking gun to be standing over a dead body and be let off with no arrest, thanks to Stand Your Ground

george ie going to say that once the soon to be ex decided to use the Ithingy as a weapon against him she was nit going to get it back in one peice, and that this was reasonable, that the so called evidence had nothing to do with it.

AKA abuse at the hands of the state

And, if law enforcement wants to pursue trying to retrieve evidence of such actions on Zimmerman's part, it will be because they are not comfortable just dropping the matter.

Florida's actions against George have been and continue to be political actions, to include the sending of eight (EIGHT?!) squad cars some of them SWAT to a domestice disturbance. only because of the political nature of Zimmerman due to the Florida politicians having a vendetta against the man does this happen

In Email, Zimmerman’s Local Police Chief Agrees He’s Another ‘Sandy Hook’ Waiting To Happen
By Judd Legum
September 12, 2013

Police Chief Steve Bracknell, who is responsible for the Florida town where George Zimmerman resides, agreed in a series of emails that Zimmerman is a “ticking time bomb” and another “Sandy Hook” waiting to happen.

Bracknell expressed his views in response to two emails from Santiago Rodriguez, who reached Bracknell through a contact form on the police department’s website. Bracknell confirmed the emails’ authenticity to ThinkProgress and subsequently tried to distance himself from the remarks.

Rodriguez’s first email was an extended, and sometimes angry, critique of how the Lake Mary Police Department handled their response to the recent altercation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father in law. Rodriguez told Bracknell that he had a responsibility to charge Zimmerman because he was another “Sandy Hook… waiting to happen.” Bracknell responded with a detailed defense of the police department’s conduct, but explicitly endorsed Rodriguez’s comments on Sandy Hook.

Asked to elaborate on his email, Bracknell attempted to distance himself from Rodriguez’s comments, saying he did not agree and was “referring to the fact that [Zimmerman] seems to be involved in incidents” involving firearms.

In his second email, Rodriguez called Zimmerman a “ticking time bomb” who will snap “sooner or later.” Again, Bracknell agreed.

The full email exchange between Rodriguez and Bracknell is available here http://www.scribd.com/doc/167674421/Zimmerman-Lake-Mary-Emails.

The police are still deciding whether or not to charge Zimmerman in connection to the incident. They are attempting to recover video of alleged assault that Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie, recorded with her iPad. Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, acknowledged that Zimmerman broke the iPad into pieces before the police arrived. According to witnesses, Zimmerman also punched his father-in-law in the nose.

In her call to 911, Shellie Zimmerman told the police that Zimmerman was threatening her with his gun. “I don’t know what he’s capable of. I’m really, really scared,” Shellie said.

Zimmerman told police at the scene that he did not have a gun, according to Bracknell and a police department spokesman. O’Mara, however, insisted on CNN that he did have a gun on him during the entire incident. Bracknell told ThinkProgress that one of them isn’t “telling the truth.”

What is not in dispute is that Zimmerman, despite his legal troubles and the police chief’s concerns, is still permitted to carry a concealed weapon in the State of Florida. In Florida, unlike other states like New York and New Jersey, authorities have no discretion over whether to grant or revoke concealed carry permits. Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, recently told Salon, “You’ve got all kinds of George Zimmermans and everything in between there who fall through the cracks of our exclusions. But if you ask any reasonable person how comfortable they are with an individual like that running around with a concealed, loaded gun, the vast majority would say they are not.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/12/2611711/george-zimmermans-local-police-chief-fears-sandy-hook-waiting-happen/

Florida keeps on making themselves look worse...

Retired physician’s assistant and Vietnam veteran Mr Donnelly and his wife Leanne Benjamin, who owns a real estate company in Lake Mary, stepped up for Zimmerman in his hour of need.

They each provided powerful testimony at his trial asserting that it was Zimmerman, not teenager Trayvon Martin, who could be heard screaming for help in one particular 911 call on the night of February 26 last year.

Having met by virtue of Leanne’s company sharing a building with the insurance firm for which Zimmerman once worked, the couple became so close to the younger man that they regarded him like a son.

Mr Donnelly took Zimmerman to buy the suits, shirts and ties he wore at court. He taught him to tie a Windsor knot....

Mr Donnelly said: ‘Shellie is a wonderful person. She’s still young. She can get on with her life. We’re here to support her in any way she needs.

‘But I don’t know where George’s head is.

‘It’s not just us. A lot of people who were involved in the trial really just don’t understand where his head is right now.’

On hearing the news of yesterday’s altercation Leanne described Zimmerman as ‘a powder keg ready to blow.’

She and her husband expressed ‘relief’ that nobody had been hurt. Both had been living in fear that, in his post-acquittal ‘recklessness’ Zimmerman would ‘get himself into a situation’ and end up hurt or dead.

Mr Donnelly admitted: ‘I’m fearful for him, for what he might get himself into. I would take that gun of his and throw it to the bottom of the nearest lake.

‘He’s burned every bridge that he’s ever had. And I don’t know how he’s going to come back because his bridges are gone.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416705/George-Zimmerman-betrayed-abandoned-closest-powder-keg-ready-blow.html

Well, wait until George kills himself or someone else...