@oralloy,
Quote:The primary factor in this case is that no one has any evidence that he committed a crime
How do you know that?
Do you know what the crime scene looked like?
Do you know what evidence was found and collected?
A judge did find probable cause for the current charges against Zimmerman--that means there is some evidence for those charges.
Zimmerman did throw his girlfriend out of her own home, and he then barricaded the door with some furniture.
He did have 4 guns in the home.
And, while the police were banging on the door, demanding to talk to him, he called 911 to get out his side of the story.
This man does play the system. You call 911 because you need emergency assistance, not because you want to make a media announcement, and not when the police are already banging on the door. His manipulative tactics are rather transparent.
Not only did the police believe her side of the story, which is why they arrested him, the judge believed the potential danger he posed, which is why, as a condition of his bail, he was ordered to have no contact with her, of any kind, and he must wear an ankle monitor and have no guns in his possession.
Given Zimmerman's behavior, and repeated run-ins with the police, since his acquittal, he has destroyed any possibility of resuming a normal life for himself. And, because he has continued to provoke violent incidents, and threaten people with guns, he has only confirmed the impression that his exoneration in the Martin killing may have been the wrong verdict, and that his version of the events in that matter are not credible. He has continued to blame others, including his estranged wife, and girlfriend, and father-in-law, for attacking him, portraying himself as the perpetual hapless victim who is always forced to act in self-defense. Even the commentators on Fox News are no longer buying it.
His continued use of gun threats to menace and terrorize others in his life is very disturbing, especially so because he already committed one homicide with a gun.
Trying to discredit, or trash, all of those who accuse him of such actions, has really gotten absurd. It no longer works, even to distract attention from the clear pattern of aggressive and menacing behavior that Zimmerman displays, often involving guns.
Why he's doing these things, in terms of his psychological state, really doesn't matter in terms of his responsibility for his actions, what's important is that such menacing behavior, whether by Zimmerman, or anyone else, is intolerable and it has to be controlled and stopped. Let's see if the criminal justice system can do that now.