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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (484550)4/25/2012 10:30:51 PM
From: Farmboy7 Recommendations  Respond to of 793897
 
If I had a son, he'd look like George Zimmerman ...



To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (484550)4/25/2012 10:33:35 PM
From: FJB2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793897
 
himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian

Oh my, Zimmerman is part black. We need to spread this news...



To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (484550)4/26/2012 4:08:42 AM
From: KLP5 Recommendations  Respond to of 793897
 
Reading the entire story of the events BEFORE the shooting.....it certainly makes sense now why the neighbors and Zimmerman were so upset about the situation in their neighborhood.....I certainly would be too.



To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (484550)4/26/2012 2:31:42 PM
From: Brumar899 Recommendations  Respond to of 793897
 
A whole lot of liberal narrative busting in that Reuters story on Zimmerman:

The Zimmerman's bought guns on the advice of an animal control officer after several incidents with a pitbull running loose in their neighborhood.
"Don't use pepper spray. Get a gun."

The neighborhood ass'n ASKED him to head up the neighborhood watch.

Then there's the Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather - the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.

A black business partner:

In 2004, Zimmerman partnered with an African-American friend and opened up an Allstate insurance satellite office, Donnelly said.

[ Zimmerman a racist? Maybe he made the partner sit in the rear of the office or something. ]
......

This from a lady in the neighborhood:
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"Let's talk about the elephant in the room. I'm black, OK?" the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. "There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood," she said. "That's why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin."
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Twin Lakes residents said dozens of reports of attempted break-ins and would-be burglars casing homes had created an atmosphere of growing fear in the neighborhood.

In several of the incidents, witnesses identified the suspects to police as young black men
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On August 3, Bertalan was at home with her infant son while her husband, Michael, was at work. She watched from a downstairs window, she said, as two black men repeatedly rang her doorbell and then entered through a sliding door at the back of the house. She ran upstairs, locked herself inside the boy's bedroom, and called a police dispatcher, whispering frantically.

"I said, 'What am I supposed to do? I hear them coming up the stairs!'" she told Reuters. Bertalan tried to coo her crying child into silence and armed herself with a pair of rusty scissors.

[ How terrible. Someone could be killed by those scissors. Why isn't she under arrest for preparing to murder a poor helpless teenager? That's what comes from Stand Your Ground laws ... women arming themselves with scissors to stab hapless teens who might have wandered into the apartment by accident. ]

Police arrived just as the burglars - who had been trying to disconnect the couple's television - fled out a back door. Shellie Zimmerman saw a black male teen running through her backyard and reported it to police.

[ Ah ha, the wife is a racist too. She probably said, "The assholes always get away." ]

After police left Bertalan, George Zimmerman arrived at the front door in a shirt and tie, she said. He gave her his contact numbers on an index card and invited her to visit his wife if she ever felt unsafe. He returned later and gave her a stronger lock to bolster the sliding door that had been forced open.

"He was so mellow and calm, very helpful and very, very sweet," she said last week. "We didn't really know George at first, but after the break-in we talked to him on a daily basis. People were freaked out. It wasn't just George calling police ... we were calling police at least once a week."

[ Holy cow, a neighborhood filled with racial profilers. ]

In September, a group of neighbors including Zimmerman approached the homeowners association with their concerns, she said. Zimmerman was asked to head up a new neighborhood watch. He agreed.
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