@oralloy,
Quote:you are weaving a hideous web of unjustified accusations against him...
The fact that he's been involved in incidents of violence, dating back to at least 2005, aren't accusations, those are facts.
He was arrested in 2005 for assaulting a law enforcement officer and he was court-ordered to take anger management classes in order to avoid trial, as part of a pre-trial diversion program. That same year, his then fiancée obtained a restraining order against him following a domestic violence incident.
Since his acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin, he's had repeated run-ins with the police--including three traffic stops for violating traffic laws and two domestic violence incidents.
In the first of those domestic violence incidents, his estranged wife accused him of menacing her, and her father, with threatening gestures indicating he had a gun and might use it, as well as an assault of her father, behaviors she claimed to have recorded on her her iphone. Zimmerman destroyed the potentially incriminating evidence by grabbing the phone from her and destroying it. His lawyer acknowledged that Zimmerman did have guns with him, although they were not on his person when the police arrived. Zimmerman's father-in-law did have signs of injury on his face from a possible assault. There is video of Zimmerman destroying the iphone.
Zimmerman avoided arrest, partly because he had destroyed the iphone evidence that might have enabled an arrest to be made by the police, even if his wife and father-in-law declined to press charges.
Following that incident, the Chief of Police in that jurisdiction characterized Zimmerman as "a ticking time bomb" and voiced his feelings and concerns that Zimmerman posed a potential threat to the community, of the sort displayed in several recent mass shooting incidents.
In the most recent domestic violence incident, which resulted in his arrest, Zimmerman is accused of threatening his girlfriend by pointing a shotgun at her, smashing furniture in the home, and then pushing the girlfriend out of the door of the home, locking the door, and barricading it with furniture. When the police arrived, in response to her 911 call, they found Zimmerman still barricaded inside the home and unwilling to let them in. As they banged on the door and windows, telling him they needed to speak to him, he ignored them and, rather bizarrely, instead placed his own 911 call, not because he needed emergency assistance, but because he wanted to tell his side of the story, knowing the call would be recorded and released to the media. When the police finally entered the home, using the girlfriend's key, they found the door still barricaded with furniture.
When Zimmerman appeared before a judge the next day, the judge found probable cause to support the charges against him which include aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief. He is currently out on $9000 bail, he must wear an electronic monitor, avoid any contact with the girlfriend, and he is forbidden from possessing guns or ammunition and from leaving the state of Florida.
There is adequate justification for the charges against him, as determined by the judge.
Unfortunately, for those supporters, who continue to deny a pattern of aggressive behavior on Zimmerman's part, this latest incident and arrest cannot be blamed on Al Sharpton, the black community, President Obama, the media, gun-haters, or an alleged " hoodlum" and "thug" and it is difficult, if not impossible, to cast him in the role of a community protector of any sort with this one. And, even in his own "my side of the story" 911 call, delivered in an extremely calm, matter-of-fact tone, he never mentioned having significant fears for his own safety, and he admitted to having the shotgun.
And the list of those voicing fear of him, based on his actions, now includes, at least, his estranged wife, his father-in-law, his girlfriend, and a Chief of Police.
This time, it's going to be much more difficult for the gung-ho Zimmerman group, in this thread, to try to justify his actions by casting blame elsewhere, or by trying to view them in any sort of positive light. Nor will continually re-hashing his murder trial, and the evidence in that one, distract from the fact that he's been arrested
again, and we now have new charges that are the focus of legal proceedings against him.
