George Zimmerman Is Suing NBC For Edited 911 Tape That Him “Appear Racist”

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George Zimmerman Suing NBC Over Edited 911 Tape

via Orlando Sentinel

George Zimmerman’s attorney on Thursday confirmed his client is considering a defamation lawsuit against NBC over the misleading editing of a recording that he said made his client “appear he is a racist.”

In a statement Thursday, Zimmerman’s lawyer Mark O’Mara said NBC’s editing version of his client’s call to Sanford Police was “outrageous.”

“Due in large part to NBC’s actions, George has had to live in hiding, in fear for his life,” he wrote.

The audio, which aired March 27 on the “Today” show and in a report by an NBC-owned affiliate days earlier, made it sound as if Zimmerman volunteered to police that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was black in the call he made before the Feb. 26 shooting.

In the NBC-edited audio, Zimmerman says of Trayvon, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”

But those two sentences are not back-to-back in the original audio. In between, a police dispatcher asked Zimmerman about Trayvon’s race.

Sorry George, but we didn’t need those tapes to make us think you were a racist.

NBC since apologized, and three employees were let go, according to reports. The network declined to comment on Thursday.

Jon Kaney, an experienced media lawyer and general counsel to Florida’s First Amendment Foundation, said there are several elements of defamation that need to be addressed in Zimmerman’s claim.

First of which is:

The most basic: Is the edited audio defamatory? That’s subject to interpretation, Kaney said.

“[Zimmerman] begins with an argument that’s based on an implication. NBC did not say he is a racist,”

Secondly:

Zimmerman went into hiding soon after the shooting, weeks before the “Today” report. In the interrim, the case sparked international outrage, focused largely on Zimmerman.

Zimmerman’s high profile raises another key issue: Whether he was a public figure in the eyes of the law at the time of the alleged defamation.

If so, Kaney said, he’d have to show NBC “knew the statement was falsely made, or acted with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity.”

Tompkins says that although networks settle many defamation cases out of court, Zimmerman’s is not likely to be one of them.

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Shellie Zimmerman’s Court Date Set For July 31st

Shellie Zimmerman’s Court Date Scheduled For July 31st

Shellie Zimmerman, who lied about how much money her husband George Zimmerman had access to so that he would make bail, will have her day in court sooner than later.

The judge in the perjury case against Shellie Zimmerman, wife of the former neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin to death in February, has set her first court date for July 31st.

Shellie Zimmerman is accused of lying to the court about the couple’s finances, and of using a “rudimentary code” during dozens of phonecalls to her husband while he was incarcerated in a Sanford, Florida jail on second degree murder charges. The couple used the code to discuss transferring more than $135,000 from a PayPal account George Zimmerman set up to collect donations for his living expenses and legal defense, into his and Shellie Zimmerman’s bank accounts, and to the account of at least one family member.

It is not clear whether Shellie Zimmerman will appear in person at the arraignment or be represented by an attorney at the July 31 hearing.

How sweet. Maybe they can even be cellmates.

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George Zimmerman Says “It Was ‘God’s Plan’ For Me To Kill Trayvon Martin” [Video]

George Zimmerman Said It Was God’s Plan For Him To Shot Trayvon Martin

Really, son??

George Zimmerman, accused of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told a television interviewer Wednesday that he would not have changed the circumstances leading up to the shooting and that he viewed the entire incident as “God’s plan.” At the very end of the interview, however, after commercial breaks and with his lawyer by his side, Zimmerman asked “to readdress on whether I’d do anything differently.”

“I do wish that there was something, anything I could have done that would have put me in the position that I wouldn’t have to take his life,” Zimmerman told Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel. “I’m sorry that this happened. I hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions, that it’s polarized and divided America.”

Earlier in the interview, when Hannity asked Zimmerman if he regretted the specific actions of carrying a gun or getting out of his car to follow Martin that February night, the neighborhood watchman said that he didn’t. “I feel that it was all God’s plan, and for me to second guess it or judge it,” he said, trailing off. Asked, “Is there anything you might do differently?” Zimmerman said, “No, sir.”

“Zimmerman said that he does not regret getting out of his vehicle, he does not regret following Trayvon, in fact he does not regret anything that he did that night,” the family said in a statement released through an attorney, Ben Crump. “He wouldn’t do anything different and he concluded it was God’s plan.” “We must worship a different God,” added Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin’s father, “because there is no way that my God would have wanted George Zimmerman to kill my teenage son.”

Zimmerman has said that he shot Martin after Martin knocked him down, banged his head on the pavement and threatened his life, and he believed Martin was going for his handgun. He repeated his claim to Hannity. He said he was particularly upset by the racial aspects of the case and media coverage. “I’m not a racist and I’m not a murderer,” he said.

Zimmerman said he grew suspicious of Martin after spotting the black teen in a hoodie while on an evening errand for groceries. He said Martin was moving between houses in the rain and didn’t look like a resident or a fitness enthusiast out for a run. He believed Martin spotted him and made movements toward his waistband, as if to suggest that he had a weapon, he told Hannity.

“I was on the phone [with a police dispatcher] but I was certain I could see him saying something to me and his demeanor was confrontational,” Zimmerman said. Zimmerman told Hannity he’d like to have the opportunity to apologize to Martin’s family. “I would tell them that, again, I’m sorry,” he said.

“My wife and I don’t have any children,” he said. “I have nephews that I love more than life. I love them more than myself. And I know when they were born, it was a different unique bond and love that I have with them. And I love my children even though that they aren’t born yet. “I am sorry that they buried their child,” he added. “I can’t imagine what it must feel like. And I pray for them daily.”

SMH. Eff this guy!!

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Geraldo Rivera Thinks Your Attire Will Get You Killed

This azzhole…

Geraldo Rivera Says Chicago Violence Is Due To “Thug Wear”

Geraldo Rivera just doesn’t know when to quit. The TV personality made headlines months ago when he claimed Trayvon Martin was killed because of his hoodie not because of his race. Now, Rivera is standing by his statement, reports The Root.

Rivera appeared on Fox News on Friday to discuss Chicago’s rising murder rate. He claims that some of the city’s homicides occurred because victims wore “thug wear.”

He went on to say, “I was right about the hoodie wasn’t I. I hate to brag but I got criticized by every pundit in America when I said Trayvon Martin would be alive but for the fact that he was wearing thug wear… he was was wearing the hoodie. Turns out now that we look at George Zimmerman’s interviews with the police; he didn’t profile Trayvon Martin because he was Black, he profiled him because he was wearing a hoodie… he was a strange kid wearing the same garb like other perpetrators of house break-ins in this community.”

For all the education this guy has, he says some of the dumbest isht in the fawking world!

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Killer Man George Zimmerman Wants A New Judge

George Zimmerman’s Defense Team Requests A New Trial Judge

Former self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman is now requesting a new judge be appointed to handle his murder trial.

George Zimmerman, accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, filed a motion on Friday to disqualify the judge that will preside over his case, citing his fear that he will not be given a fair trial.

Zimmerman, via his attorney, Mark O’Mara, filed the 17-page document with the Seminole County Circuit Court. The motion is a response to Judge Kenneth Lester’s July 5 order that set $1 million bail for Zimmerman and claimed that Zimmerman had “flaunted the system” and practiced “deception upon the court.”

It was the second time Lester granted Zimmerman bail. Lester revoked a previous $150,000 bail in April after prosecutors presented evidence that Zimmerman and his wife misled the court about how much money they had available by speaking in code on phone calls. Prosecutors added that Zimmerman initially lied about the existence of a second passport.

O’Mara recently tried to appeal to the judge that Zimmerman was confused and fearful back in March when the alleged deception occurred. In a second bond hearing in June, O’Mara reiterated that Zimmerman had voluntarily turned himself in to the court and now was completely open regarding his financial ability.

Lester, however, in that July 5 bail order, remained skeptical of Zimmerman’s motives and expressed irritation at being lied to. He accused Zimmerman of manipulating the court and even suggested that if Zimmerman had the opportunity he would have fled prosecution.

In Friday’s motion, O’Mara wrote that Lester’s order was indicative of a bias against Zimmerman, saying that the judge’s statements were “disingenuous, self-serving manipulations.”

First you want out of jail, now you want a new judge. This dude sure has a lot of “requests” for a murderer who’s out on bail. What’s next? Smh.

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Trayvon Martin 7-11 Surveillance Video Released

This Trayvon Martin story continues to sadden us.

As the wheels of justice continue to turn slowly in the Trayvon Martin case, more evidence continues to be revealed and today the surveillance video of the teen at 7-11 moments before his death has been released to the public.
The surreal images show Martin, whom many of us have never seen alive but have grown to care for deeply, dressed in a gray hoodie, tan pants and white sneakers. He is casually paying for his Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea, before attempting to make it home to his father. Moments later, he would encounter George Zimmerman, 28, who thought he looked “suspicious.” This would lead him to exit his vehicle, stalk Martin around the complex, and ultimately shoot him to death in what he would like people to believe was an act of “self-defense” after the teen “attacked” him.
Florida State Prosecutor Angela Corey saw right through that story based on substantial evidence and charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder.

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