Officials: George Zimmerman punched in face for allegedly bragging about killing Trayvon Martin

[liberalmuse]

The man who said he shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in self-defense said he was punched in the face while he was talking to people at a restaurant in Sanford over the weekend.

George Zimmerman called 911 after a man accusing him of bragging about the fatal shooting punched him in the face, authorities said.

911 dispatcher: “What started the argument?”

Zimmerman: “He recognized me. He told me he was going to kill me he told me he'd (expletive) shoot me and he punched me in the face.”

Zimmerman claimed he was explaining to people sitting at a table that he shot Trayvon Martin in self- defense when a large man approached and asked, “You're bragging about that?” before punching him Zimmerman in the face.

http://www.wftv.com/news/officials-george-zimmerman-punched-in-face-for-allegedly-bragging-about-killing-trayvon-martin/417278308

I want to know who this hero is! Also, read the rest at the link. I guess a man who'd shoot an unarmed teen truly is a coward.

[Drum]

1. Best news I've heard all day

[BigDemVoter]

5. You took the words out of my mouth--

I actually laughed out loud!

[Hoyt]

2. +1. On your last sentence. Zman, must not have been packing at the time.

[pkdu]

3. Don't know who he is , but if he starts a gofundme page I'd donate. Nt

[liberalmuse]

8. Me too!

I've never wanted to be someone else so badly for just those few minutes.

[Fritz Walter]

41. Or if I still lived in SemenHole County Florida...

...I'd jump at the chance to be on the jury for this trial!

Every day, I'm thankful that I moved out of central Florida in 2001.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Violence is not the answer

But keep me abreast of any fund raising efforts.

[ecstatic]

15. +1000. nt

[jtuck004]

17. No, but sometimes it's a bullet point in the presentation.

Wasn't he the one who said something about people threatening him, something to the effect of

"Come on cupcake".

?

[JustAnotherGen]

53. Yeah - there's that

[Starry Messenger]

38. +1

[retrowire]

7. people should just walk up to him on the regular

And punch him in the face.

[Aristus]

9. He got away with murder.

It's a small price to pay.

[Happyhippychick]

10. I only wish

He'd punched him twice

[Grassy Knoll]

11. .

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. I hope he sterilized his hand afterward.

No telling where that fat face may have been.

[ismnotwasm]

13. That was one punch representing a lot of people I think

Bravo.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. The brobilble take on it

http://brobible.com/life/article/george-zimmerman-punched-bragging-shooting-trayvon-martin/

[liberalmuse]

37. LOL!

I like this one better.

[ailsagirl]

16. BRAGGING?!?!

That is despicable-- serves him right, the bastard

[groundloop]

18. Kind of surprising Z didn't fear for his life and stand his ground again

One gets the impression Z is kind of looking for any excuse to shoot someone, it's kind of amazing this dude didn't get shot.

[thesquanderer]

26. I suspect this was a dude of a different color. (n/t)

[groundloop]

49. Silly me.... obviously a black man punching me in the face is far more dangerous than a white guy

Maybe Z should learn to keep his mouth shut.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

65. FOX "News" treated him like a hero and it went to his head....

Now he assumes all white people like what he did.

[keithbvadu2]

48. Coward Zimm is only man enough to stand his ground against a teenager armed with Skittles.

[TexasBushwhacker]

69. Don't forget the Arizona tea!

That can could be used as a weapon!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

58. Didn't he have his guns taken away?

[TexasBushwhacker]

70. No

In fact he got THE gun he shot Trayvon with. He even sold it recently on an online auction.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

71. I mean after his domestic violence case....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/george-zimmerman-banned-from-using-guns-in-court-hearing.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0110/Gun-hero-George-Zimmerman-ordered-to-surrender-arms-after-assault-video

[TexasBushwhacker]

72. Charges were dropped in both cases

So he got his weapons back.

[forgotmylogin]

66. There were witnesses.

Nt

[localroger]

19. That was one small punch for a man, one righteous punch for mankind. /nt

[mcar]

50. Well said!

[blue neen]

67. !

Wise words.

[bluestateguy]

20. Where I can I donate to that guy's GoFundme?

t

[OldRedneck]

21. I just read another report of this incident . . .

The restaurant owner told Zimmerman to leave and do not ever come back to the restaurant.

[63splitwindow]

22. You think the bragging was beyond reprehensible...

George Zimmerman says that he will use $250G from his gun auction to fund conservative causes
^^^ link to New York Daily News Article

[PatSeg]

23. Not so brave when he doesn't have a gun

"You need to send like three or four cops."

[Motley13]

24. Every time he gets into trouble, they take his gun

then give it back to him, but the coward isn't going to do anything with people watching.
He threatened his wife with a gun. Attacked a girlfriend with a wine bottle.
He was innvolved in a road rage incident & the other man shot at Zim's truck.
I will be very surprised if he doesn't kill or injure someone else.

[dhill926]

25. why...I think I'd like to buy that man a drink...

[Baitball Blogger]

27. Too late to say I told you so?

[skylucy]

28. Trouble just seems to follow that POS everywhere he goes.

All he got was a punch in his face? He should be in prison.

[Initech]

29. He should be punched in the face repeatedly.

[Codeine]

39. Hey, not cool. nt

[In_The_Wind]

40. Seriously

[SheriffBob]

31. i am suprised

he has lived this long.

Too bad.

[backscatter712]

32. Not so tough without his phallic symbol, is he?

[Doodley]

33. No, you cannot take the law into your own hands, unless you are George Zimmerman.

[Feeling the Bern]

34. Awww. . .maybe he should have stood his ground. Who needs the wimpy cops when you stand your ground

[jmg257]

35. Nice. Buy that man a drink! nt

[wallyworld2]

36. I would

not believe a single word that murderer had to say.

[uponit7771]

45. A 150lbs, 6', unarmed, 10th grader got shot by a 200lb fit man who was MMA training for ~ a year...

... and who got out of their car and ran TOWARDS the self identified 10th grader threat who happened to be black.

All those are not in dispute...

[63splitwindow]

46. Do you know what happened that night?

[keithbvadu2]

83. Trayvon Martin should be a NRA hero.

Trayvon Martin should be a NRA hero.

An unarmed teenager was attacked by an armed assailant who had no credible reason to stalk him.

The claim is that the killer had received some lumps.

If so, the victim attempted to protect himself but could not overcome the gun wielding aggressor.

The NRA should be proclaiming to the heavens the right of victim Trayvon Martin to carry a weapon to defend himself.

[secondwind]

43. Get a life, Georgie!

[Rex]

44. Zim will be a happy clam the rest of his life, he got away with murdering a kid walking home

from the store. Normal humans this probably would be something that would break them for the rest of their lives, not Zim. He in facts LOVES he got away with murder and won't stop talking about it. To him that is the coolest thing a person can do, which explains his rather unstable life.

He probably dreams of the day TLC gives him his own reality show.

[canetoad]

47. K & R

I wish every rec for this thread was a big punch in George's fat face.

[Hulk]

51. This story brightened my otherwise shitty day up significantly.

Beed in the dumps for the last day or two. Little stuff.

This really brightened up my day a bit.

[LisaM]

52. I thought he'd been out of the news a little too long.

Guess that was too good to be true. It would really be funny if the person who punched him was Donald Trump, though.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

54. My daughter was there

It was at Gators on the St Johns River.
He went up to the guy and complimented him on his confederate flag patch ( tattoo idk).
Then he came back and bragged about who he was and just assumed the guy would treat him like a rock star. Guy wasn't interested in getting to know him I guess ha ha. He then left in a nice boat with an older man and a small woman. Daughter sent me a photo I told her to get the hell away from dangerous George who has brought shame to our town.

[Quayblue]

59. The guy with the stars and bars punched him?!

Am I interpreting you correctly?

[voteearlyvoteoften]

62. Yes

Zimmy just assumed he would want to be pals. Puncher not interested in the low life murderer.
I want to punch him too. Remember the guy who took a shot at him…this is not the first time someone has taken a run at him.
He's too low even for Trump supporters and thats saying something.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

81. No. The story is poorly written, but it seemd it was a second "another guy"

who punched GZ.

According to a Seminole County sheriff's report on the Sunday evening incident, Zimmerman told the officers he had a short conversation with another man (meaning a man besides himself) over the man's tattoos and was trying to prove who he was when another man identified only as Eddie (meaning a men besides the man he was bragging to)asked if he was bragging about the 2012 shooting for which Zimmerman was acquitted.

[JustAnotherGen]

79. CNN has more details

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/us/george-zimmerman-claims-punch-in-face/
Know one knows this guy? This Eddie guy?

[muntrv]

55. He is the hero of the day.

[muntrv]

56. Now that's what I call stand your ground!

[TonyPDX]

57. Finally! n/t

[rocktivity]

60. Welcome to your life sentence in the court of public opinion, Zimmy

And if your attacker felt that you had put him under a deadly threat...


rocktivity

[cwydro]

61. It blows my mind that this scum is actually bragging about this crime.

Seems he'd want to put it far behind him.

And move far away.

This won't end well for Georgie.

[wellst0nev0ter]

63. You all probably want to think twice before calling the puncher a hero

According to Zimmerman, it was just another racist jackass suffering from a case of mistaken identity

Zimmerman told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday that his drunken assailant, identified in the police report as “Eddie,” thought he was Matthew Apperson, the man accused of shooting at Zimmerman during a road-rage confrontation last year.

“You better get the f--- out of here you n----r lover, you ain’t welcome here,” the man told Zimmerman before punching him and breaking his glasses.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/zimmerman-punched-bragging-killing-trayvon-martin-article-1.2739089

[RonniePudding]

64. Why would anyone believe anything that man says?

If he told me it was daylight I'd look out the window just to make sure.

[True Dough]

68. Registers zero!

[awoke_in_2003]

73. Backpfeifengesicht

He has it.

[smirkymonkey]

84. Hear, hear!

[catbyte]

75. Your concern is duly noted. However, that shithead was BRAGGING about killing Trayvon

Martin, so I have absolutely no sympathy for that asshole whatsoever.

[panader0]

77. This doesn't have jackshit to do with politics.

The guy got away with murder and been in trouble ever since. He is a
class A asshole, and is trying to live off the fact that he killed a teenager kid
who was just walking home. Normally I'd say welcome to DU for a poster
with only a single post. But somehow I don't think you will last long here.

[JustAnotherGen]

78. This happened Sunday night

Still no arrest:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/us/george-zimmerman-claims-punch-in-face/

What a miscarriage of justice! What will become of America?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

80. Well.....

Okay.




(So you signed up to DU just to comment on George Zimmerman? That's pretty sad.)

[wildeyed]

82. OMFG, really?

A punch in the face is the best thing George Zimmerman deserves.

[lark]

76. Someday Zimmerman will get his just deserts.

Karma will come through and he will be shot in cold blood and it will be well deserved, regardless of what's happening then.

[nomorenomore08]

85. "Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon..."