[ April 19, 2024 ]
"I never thought that we would see so much hatred, and the hatred is not brought on by any racial incident," Robert Zimmerman said. "It was brought on by attorneys being totally untruthful, other people being involved, having a certain narrative, having a certain agenda, and making this situation race-based and a political issue."
Zimmerman Parents in Hiding After Death Threats Newsmax, July 16, 2013
Fearing for their lives after receiving "an enormous amount of death
threats," George Zimmerman's parents have remained in hiding since a
Florida jury cleared their son of murder charges in the shooting death
of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they told ABC News.Story continues below advertisementThe Zimmermans told ABC they are too afraid to return to their Orlando
home, and they haven't even spoken to their son, who also is in hiding."Under the circumstances, we have not been able to talk to him," Gladys
Zimmerman told ABC's Barbara Walters. "To tell you the truth, we don't
trust anything, not even the phones.""We have had an enormous amount of death threats. George's legal counsel
has had death threats, the police chief of Sanford, many people have
had death threats," Robert Zimmerman said. "'Everyone with Georgie's DNA
should be killed' — Just every kind of horrible thing you can imagine."
George Zimmerman lives off small stipends from his legal defense fund
and is unemployed and without health insurance, Gladys Zimmerman said.
Asked if he can ever have a normal life again, she said, "Only time will
tell."
"Even for us, we have not been living a normal life for the past months.
It is hard," she said. "We have lost everything, everything — the whole
family, not only George. The whole family. We have lost everything."
After deliberating for 16 hours, a jury of six women late Saturday found
Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder, sparking a wave of
protests across the nation. Gladys Zimmerman called the demonstrations
"hurtful."
"This is America, and we went through all of this with the judicial
system," Gladys Zimmerman said. "They wanted an arrest for my son. They
got an arrest. Now let's, you know, find a verdict … now they have a
verdict. … He went through the whole process they were pushing for,
and now they are not happy with the verdict, and I pray. I pray for
them, for God to touch their heart."
Zimmerman's parents continued to defend him against charges that he is a
racist or that he initially approached Martin while on a community
patrol because the teenager was black.
"He's never been taught to be a racist," Robert Zimmerman said. "Color is the last thing to come to his mind."
"When George first saw Trayvon Martin he had no idea what color he was,"
he added. "He knew he was inside a gated community. He didn't recognize
him as living there. It was raining. He was just casually walking very
slowly. But George did not initially know what race a person was."
He said the decision to bring charges against his son was based on politics rather than the facts.
"I never thought that we would see so much hatred, and the hatred is not
brought on by any racial incident," Robert Zimmerman said. "It was
brought on by attorneys being totally untruthful, other people being
involved, having a certain narrative, having a certain agenda, and
making this situation race-based and a political issue."
Asked what they would say to Martin's family, Gladys Zimmerman said, "We are deeply sorry for this tragedy.
"We pray for Trayvon Martin to be in a better place," she said. "He is always in our prayers."
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19 Comments
10 years ago
Too bad they don’t have an American judicial system, Department of Justice, Attorney General or President of the United States to put their faith and personal safety in the hands of — they’re all leading the march to summarily execute the Zimmermans and their son.
10 years ago
And the jury member who dared give a factual account of the trial and said she wanted to write a book has now withdrawn that offer and is probably in hiding too since her voice was not disguised.
10 years ago
Demagogue Eric Holder speech on the record defending and reserving the rights of blacks and muslims to threaten, attack, beat, rape and murder white Americans without fear that they will get what they deserve — what Trayvon deserved.
When we hear Holder give a speech like he gave today we must bear in mind that mayhem is a natural and normal state of relations between individuals who are black and muslim and it’s virtually the only trump card the animals hold.
No, Holder, we don’t consent to your taking away our right to defend ourselves against you and yours.
10 years ago
Does anyone know how to donate to these guys without getting ripped off?
10 years ago
This is a war against ALL Freedom Lovin Americans!
10 years ago
What is transpiring is a betrayal of every American. The Democratic Party has become a fascist, criminal syndicate which will demagogue any issue, and destroy lives literally or figuratively (ie, the Zimmermans) to promote its raw power; while simultaneously usurping proper military, police and justice institutions to enforce that power. Mao said something like “power grows out of the barrel of a gun”, and one conspicuous aspect of this is illustrated in the government buyout of ammunition. There has to become a point at which people stop taking orders from the Obama Democrats because their corruption is endangering our Constitution and Republic.
10 years ago
Where are Eric Holder and Hussein 0bama on this?
Why are they not protecting these citizens? Skin too light?
Just a few paragraphs from the fake president to his people is all it would take to end this racist endangerment. If he were a man, and an American, he would do it; he would save this family. Shit, George Zimmerman voted for your communist jihadi ass, Barry! Man up, and stop this hatred, end the threats on these innocent citizen’s lives.
0bama, your agenda won’t let you do such a thing, will it? Nor the traitor, Holder.
America Burns. We have no president, no justice department, and soon, no freedom.
10 years ago
This case has really exposed the vile character of certain parts of the population, very much including Holder(who no doubt is speaking for Obama too). And it doesn’t occur to the savages that their behavior proves that we are fully justified in looking askance at them.
I feel pained and outraged on behalf of the Zimmerman family. Everything I’ve read says that George is a good man who liked being helpful and making things better, whereas Trayvon liked causing trouble and inflicting pain. There’s no doubt in my mind whatsoever that TM initiated the “confrontation.” People have said that GZ had a “hero complex” – as though that were at least as bad as having a gangsta complex. It’s insane!
I don’t see how GZ can even fairly be accused of showing “poor judgment.” It only looks that way in hindsight because TM attacked him. Some of his critics essentially admit as much when they’re reduced to saying “Well, he shouldn’t have gotten out of his car.” So that’s the really, really wrong thing he did!
10 years ago
This is what happens when the Left runs our country like this. They just keep pushing the limit as hard as they can.
10 years ago
George Zimmerman has no one to blame but himself. He targeted a man/boy who was doing nothing wrong and because he was black many people decided that he was a thug, sounds racial to me? Stalk, threaten and kill a teenager who was doing nothing wrong and the jury could care less about the killing — they loved the white guy.
10 years ago
wanna bit that the thug Trayvon Martin was doing nothing wrong? Since when is casing houses doing nothing wrong?
10 years ago
Your name fits you well. It’s all rocks up in there, isn’t it. Do some reading, assuming you are able to read and comprehend facts. You know facts: those nasty, irrefutable things that keep coming back to haunt liars.
10 years ago
Wasn’t Trayvon beating Zimmerman’s head into the ground? Would you mind if I beat your head into the ground?
10 years ago
Have another beer.
10 years ago
Rocky, search his Facebook page and Lean. See how he felt about BLACK women, Black Homeless people, stacks of hundreds and so forth.
10 years ago
The only reason this administration is interested in the trayvon Zimmerman case is to stir up racial division and hatred. A country divided can not stand. The Justice department and Obama are gung ho on destroying our country through inciting black violence and black on white crime. And black Africans are playing into their hand.
10 years ago
Sounds like George was the one targeted, and did the world a favor by exterminating a cockroach to me.
10 years ago
Yeah, like we should all quiver in fear and hope the scumbags don’t notice us.
I think not.
10 years ago
We always have freedom to fight. At least the enemy are making themselves visible, from the top down.
