To: RMF who wrote (734701 ) 8/25/2013 2:27:00 PM From: Brumar89 3 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to George Zimmerman seems to have been a public spirited person who reached out to help people around him. I think he knew this was dangerous and armed himself in advance. When he did stumble into trouble, he used what he had to. If not for his public spiritedness, he wouldn't have been in a neighborhood watch at all, wouldn't have gotten out of his vehicle to see where a suspicious new person in the neighborhood went. As for being a wannabe cop, real cops don't buy people replacement locks and tell them to call them personally or come to their home if they feel they're in danger.A neighbor of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin , has come forward saying Zimmerman helped her after her home was broken into. The LA Times reports Oliva Bertalan said Zimmerman came to help her after a group of young men broke into her townhouse as she and her infant hid in a locked bedroom. She said Zimmerman gave her a list of phone numbers where she could reach him, along with a new lock for door that the suspects had forced open. He also told her she could stay with his wife if she felt scared. ... clickorlando.com . Frank continued to defend his friend's honor, saying that three weeks prior to the shooting, Zimmerman helped stop an attempted burglary at Frank's home. "George identified the person who was attempting to break into my house. He stayed in a position of surveillance and called the Stanford Police. Taaffee insists Zimmerman was a modelneighbor, but admitted he wasn't aware that George patrolled the area with a gu n. andersoncooper.com George Zimmerman Helped Blacks Before the Trayvon Martin shooting even took place, George Zimmerman was one of the few non-black people that helped protest the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a Sanford police officer that was left unpunished. The twist to this story is that George Zimmerman asked the NAACP in Sanford for help, but he was shot down, claiming they didn’t have the resources to help the homeless black man. So without the help of the NAACP George Zimmerman printed his own fliers and distributed them at black churches in the area. Only after the guilty party turned himself in did the NAACP become involved in negotiating an “undisclosed financial reward” for the black man George Zimmerman had helped. .... inquisitr.com
