The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

Local police chief has 'concerns' about Zimmerman
By James Novogrod, NBC News

The police chief in the Florida city where George Zimmerman lives expressed concerns Thursday that Zimmerman remains able to carry a gun, even after repeated run-ins with police following his acquittal this summer in the Trayvon Martin killing.

“I’m a small-town police chief. If I had the authority to revoke his firearm license, I would certainly sit down and consider that,” Steve Bracknell, the chief of police in Lake Mary, said during a telephone interview with NBC News.

“Does anyone else except me see a pattern?” Bracknell continued. “The word firearm keeps popping up.”

Bracknell's officers responded Monday to a domestic dispute between Zimmerman and his estranged wife, Shellie Zimmerman, who told a 911 dispatcher that Zimmerman had threatened her with a gun and punched her father in the nose.

Police reports released Wednesday — with the Zimmermans’ names redacted — provided conflicting accounts of the argument. Police said no gun was found on George Zimmerman -- and his wife and other witnesses later said they had not actually seen a firearm. No charges have been filed.

But in an email exchange reported Thursday by the website Think Progress, Bracknell told a concerned citizen that Zimmerman had a gun in his car.

“We did not have the authority to search his truck. He DID have a firearm in the truck. Having a firearm is not a violation of Florida law,” Bracknell wrote.

The chief also wrote in response to the citizen's suggestion that police in Florida were covering for Zimmerman, "REST ASSURED, the last thing on planet earth I want is ANY relationship with the Zimmermans. PERIOD."

Reached Thursday evening by telephone, Bracknell authenticated the email exchange to NBC News, confirming he authored the responses. The chief downplayed the significance of the exchange, saying he was simply making an effort to respond to a concerned citizen.

But Bracknell told NBC News he has "concerns" about Zimmerman. "I think a lot of people do,” Bracknell said.

In July, a Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting death last year of Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old.

Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, said he acted in self-defense and that Martin attacked him.

When Zimmerman was acquitted, he retained his state-issued concealed-carry gun permit.

Since the trial, Zimmerman has also been pulled over twice for speeding. On the first occasion, in Forney, Texas, Zimmerman told police he had a gun in his glove compartment, according to police dash-cam video...

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During my Freshman year I tried weed, cocaine at a campus party; there was a marijuana cig passed around laced with heroin. My family's upbringing was so instilled in me that that was the last time I touched cocaine and heroin. I have had marijuana at parties on and off....my stimulant is wine/sherry.

Saint George and Mother Shellie are quite frankly as bad as each other. He, in my eyes, is a loose cannon, a compulsive lier and a thief. She, is a thief and a compulsive lier, they should stay together.

In my opinion after reading below as well as the thousands of dollars she transferred back and forth, personal bills she paid that people helped raise for his Court Case, clearly shows that she decided to call 911 deliberately.

...but he has something on her and that is why it's dropped. By them in any event, not necessarily from the law.

As a kid did you take part in having stolen women jewelry or try to beat a man to death for that matter?

In college with courses loads of 21 credit hours a semester my drug happen to be caffeine a hell of a lot of caffeine one pot of coffee after another pot of coffee.

Not a lot of time to go to parties with or without drugs.

I certainly do not blame Shellie for hitting George over the head with her iPad.

From my reading of your highly unconventional posts you were wise not to experiment with something stronger than coffee. Hell, it appear you need all the mental clarity you can get and then some!

The money from George's web account is income for them both

Local police chief has 'concerns' about Zimmerman
By James Novogrod, NBC News

"The police chief in the Florida city where George Zimmerman lives expressed concerns Thursday that Zimmerman remains able to carry a gun, even after repeated run-ins with police following his acquittal this summer in the Trayvon Martin killing."

even after repeated run-ins with police following

So getting traffic tickets for speeding is now having run ins with the police?

conspicuous behavioral pattern

You mean acting as if you know that thousands or even tens or thousands of people are dreaming of killing you?

Don Lemon to George Zimmerman: ‘Have You Any Decency?’
Sep 12, 2013
By Don Lemon

Two words for you: George Zimmerman. A lot of people have a lot of questions for him lately, including his estranged wife, that’s a whole other show though. However there is one question that I haven’t heard anybody say, and I think we should be asking him, and we should be asking ourselves. And I’ll tell you what that question is in just a moment. I’m going to speak directly to George Zimmerman, though, because I hope he hears this segment and if you know him, please send the clip to him. Email it to him.

George, since your acquittal just a few weeks ago you have been caught speeding twice, once in Texas where you got off with a warning, the other time in your home state of Florida, where you did finally get a ticket.

In the latest incident, with your soon to be ex-wife, and her father, it’s not clear yet whether you broke the law, but police did come, they did question you, and it’s being investigated as a possible domestic battery case because you allegedly hit her father and smashed your wife’s iPad because she was recording you with it. Police say they didn’t recover a gun at the scene, but the woman you were with said that you had one in your vehicle.

And then, George, you had the audacity to take a big, cheesy smiley picture while touring the gun factory where the type of gun you used to kill Trayvon Martin is made. You didn’t break the law with that one, but you certainly broke every rule relating to decency, and empathy, and couth.

George Zimmerman, haven’t you any shame? Have you no decency? No self-awareness.

Don’t you realize that while you escaped a life sentence the person you killed no longer has a life, and even though you were acquitted, like it or not, the reality is that there are many people around the world who are convinced that you got away with murder. And perhaps you should spare those people, especially Trayvon Martin’s grieving mother and father, the unwanted burden, of having to see or hear about you in the media, in some cases seemingly gloating for your good fortune and your freedom. Spare them. Spare us. Take the advice of a person who knows all too well about the media spotlight: Donald Trump, who said about you, it’s good for everybody if he disappears. This has been a really hard, traumatic verdict for the country. And then Trump went on to finish his statement by saying that you, George, should “disappear for his own sake, and for the country’s sake.”

Why don’t you take a cue from Donald Trump, from Casey Anthony even and disappear from the spotlight. OJ didn’t take that advice and you see where that got him. Everyone, including many who supported you, George, are now scratching their heads wondering why after a trial where you got off Scott free that you haven’t taken a seat, that you haven’t taken several seats. But what I really think is a better question for you, George, and for your supporters, the one that I want everyone listening today to ask themselves:

Why does a man who insisted that everyone follows the rules in law, especially Trayvon Martin, keep breaking the law himself?

http://blackamericaweb.com/165281/don-lemon-to-george-zimmerman-have-you-any-decency/

BULLSHIT my check and the thousands of others checks was not income in any sense of the word income.

Try gifts as that would be far more correct and not gifts to Zimmerman wife either.

that is a whole lot of moralizing and condemnation over ONE speeding ticket......

I have no compassion for people like these who would libel a 17 year old murdered kid