Zimmerman's 47-page 911 Call History is at Mother Jones..

[K Gardner]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/trayvon-shooters-911-calls-potholes-piles-trash-black-men

I'm just now starting to wade through it.

Lots of nuisance calls about "potholes, piles of trash and black men"....

This guy was a wackjob. Florida gave him a gun and a license to kill. And he's still out there.

But when there weren't kids or garbage to report, he'd spend his evenings looking for would-be burglars. At 2:38 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2006, he called about a late-model Red Toyota pickup "driving real slow looking at all the [vehicles] in the complex and blasting music from his [vehicle]." It's not clear if Zimmerman feared the driver was a car thief, though car thieves tend not to blast music through the neighborhood while practicing their craft.

But even more than cars, he was concerned about black men on foot in the neighborhood. In August 2011, he called to report a black male in a tank top and shorts acting suspicious near the development's back entrance. "[Complainant] believes [subject] is involved in recent S-21s"—break-ins—"in the neighborhood," the call log states. The suspect, Zimmerman told the dispatcher, fit a recent description given out by law enforcement officers.


Three days later, he called to report two black teens in the same area, for the same reason. "[Juveniles] are the subjs who have been [burglarizing] in this area," he told the dispatcher. And last month, on Feb. 2, Zimmerman called to report a suspicious black man in a leather jacket near one of the development's units. The resident of that townhouse, Zimmerman told dispatch, was a white male. Police stopped by to investigate, but no one was there, and the residence was secure.

After that, there's one final call logged in the report. At 7:11 on February 26, Zimmerman called police to report a black male in a dark gray hoodie. A few minutes later, that male—Trayvon Martin—lay dead on the sidewalk.

[WI_DEM]

1. Police call logs show George Zimmerman was a man obsessed with suburban law-and-order minutiae—

and black men, according to link.

[K Gardner]

21. Plus, I saw a video where Frank Taaffe said Zimm was "provoked"

by Trayvon. I'm trying to find it, but having a hard time.

Obviously, Zimmerman has already told/manufactured his "story"; but anyone with a call history like this cannot be believed.

He was provoked by potholes, for god's sakes.

[WI_DEM]

2. Good Grief!

Most of the calls seem to cover mundanities: Zimmerman reported a male driving with no headlights; a yellow speedbike popping wheelies on I-4; an aggressive white-and-brown pitbull; an Orange County municipal pickup cutting people off on the road; loud parties; open garage doors; and the antics of an ex-roommate, Josh, that he'd thrown out of their apartment. On September 9, 2009, he called to report another pothole, this one on Greenwood road, advising the dispatcher that "it is deep and can cause damage to vehicles."

He especially had concerns about kids in the neighborhood. On June 16, 2009, shortly after school had let out for the summer, he called to complain about six to eight youths playing basketball near his development's clubhouse, "jumping over the fence going into pool area and trashing the bathroom," according to the dispatcher's notes. This past January, he called to report five or six children, ages 4 to 11, playing in the neighborhood. The kids, he told a dispatcher, "play in the street and like to run out [in front of] cars."

[K Gardner]

4. Thank you for copying that to the thread.. my computer is wiggy today

and won't let me cut and paste.

[K Gardner]

6. ok.. finally got it working, am adding some text to the OP. n/t

[JDPriestly]

24. At the very least, he should be arrested and fined for making

trivial, non-emergency calls to 911.

[KansDem]

3. Man! This fellow must have had 911 on speed dial!

And "potholes?" He's calling 911 about potholes? Isn't that an abuse of its function?

[slackmaster]

5. I find it hard to understand this. In my area 911 is intended strictly for bona fide emergencies.

Such as someone with a serious injury needing immediate medical attention, or a felony crime in progress.

The rules must be very different in Seminole County. Most of the situations that Zimmerman called into 911 would get you chewed out or even fined here (San Diego, CA.)

[K Gardner]

7. Yeah.. maybe it's because Sanford is a small city? I can't imagine no one

investigated this wackjob for being a wackjob.

[caseymoz]

18. But he was a right-wing wack job. In Florida.

"What're you going to do?"

[RKP5637]

9. If someone called for stuff like this here, the cops would come out to investigate the caller for

abusing the 911 system with frivolous calls. These border on crank calls IMO.

[K Gardner]

10. My thoughts exactly. n/t

[Life Long Dem]

8. There's a March 8th date.

On the 2nd to last page. So he called after Trayvon's death.

[K Gardner]

13. I'm having a hard time deciphering this stuff.. on page 43

there's some weird call about a guy with a shaved head and who gets paid for serving food at an event !!

WTF??

[arcane1]

19. I think he called 911 because the guy was complaining about not getting paid

or something like that.

One thing is certain: Zimmerman was a freakin' nosy busybody with a very distorted sense of self-importance. Seriously, calling 911 for POTHOLES????

[DLevine]

11. Zimmerman himself was obviously the single, biggest threat to his community.

Too bad he didn't report himself before murdering that poor child.

[liberalhistorian]

12. What I simply just do not understand

is why the cops didn't shut this shit DOWN. Any other dept. I can think of would have done so pronto and many would have charged HIM with being a nuisance and a vexatious caller. Why they didn't do that and why they didn't consider his history before letting him go and GIVING HIM BACK THE MURDER WEAPON is simply beyond my understanding.

[K Gardner]

16. +1

[Lugnut]

17. +100! n/t

[LibertyLover]

14. He sounds like the interferring, busybody neighbor from hell

or your classic 28 going on 70 condo commando. Either way the police should have told him to knock it off and shut down his act. A promising young man is dead because they didn't.

[smokey nj]

25. He's Gladys Kravitz with a gun.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. So he'd call 911 just report black people in the area

even though they weren't even committing crimes. If that isn't racial profiling, I don't know what is.

What a racist nut.

[Rex]

20. Wow, could law enforcement mean any less in this case?

The cops are really stupid and I am glad to see the FBI take over the case.

[Alcibiades]

22. Also, why is it that you're more suspicious when walking?

Back when I was young and had no car, I used to get the cops called on me for walking down a residential street after dark. I'd walk briskly down the middle of the street, wasn't hiding in the bushes, etc., but some residential neighborhoods saw anyone on foot as inherently suspect. Thank goodness I'm not black, or they might have shot me.

Funny thing is, if they actually want to burglarize you, they show up in broad daylight in a white panel truck with something like phoney HVAC magnets on it, quietly break in, take your shit, load it up, and drive off, and everyone thinks you've just had some sort of service call.

Anyway, Zimmerman's call history was made available at the Sanford site earlier in the week. He apparently used the "non-emergency" line for most of these calls but still, why did the police put up with this? Probably for the same reason he was let go and had charges dropped when he assaulted a cop, and why cops actually corrected eyewitnesses whose version did not match Zimmerman's own.

[JDPriestly]

23. There's a pothole on the street. Who do you call?

Certainly not 911.

I would call the office of my city councilman. How about you?

That Zimmerman called 911 showed that he had a hysterical temperament.

A hysterical temperament and a desire to control everyone in his environment near and far -- especially those grievous threats to his masculinity -- black men.

[Flaxbee]

26. The guy has mental problems. He's unstable, egged on by our

militaristic, gun-loving, "stand your ground" ridiculous society. Obviously racist and paranoid. He should have been in treatment for his mental problems a long, long, looooong time ago, but we, as a country, have decided that health care is not a priority, and mental health care even less so.

I'm not making excuses for the guy. But he OBVIOUSLY is not all there, mentally, and there was no one around to help him get help, or even if someone close to him was concerned, there were probably no resources available anyway.

[gkhouston]

27. Wonder if 911 ever got any calls about a suspicious man with a gun,

driving around the neighborhood at 2 am.

[indepat]

28. Florida gave George Zimmerman a gun and a license to

kill. EOS.