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Confirmed: Zimmerman Shooting apparent Assassination Attempt
Gun Watch ^ | 17 May, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 05/16/2015 3:58:38 PM PDT by marktwain


Matthew Apperson is the suspect in the assassination attempt on George Zimmerman

The treatment by the old media of the assassination attempt on George Zimmerman has been astounding in its willful spin.  It is clear that George Zimmerman was attacked without provocation by a mentally unstable man who was obsessed with him.  He narrowly missed being killed after attempting to escape the situation, and there are numerous witnesses that corroborate his version of events.   Apperson has been arrested on three extremely serious charges.  They are:

Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon

Aggravated battery with a deadly weapon

Firing a deadly missile into an occupied conveyance

Under Florida law, these charges have a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence.

An unbiased headline would read: Suspect arrested in Zimmerman assassination attempt.      Here are some of the headlines from the old media:

From abcnews.com:


Matthew Apperson Accused of 'Intentionally' Shooting at George Zimmerman's Car

From cnn.com:

Man charged with shooting into George Zimmerman's truck, Florida police say

 From nbcnews.com:

George Zimmerman Shooting: Matthew Apperson Charged


From cbsnews.com:

Man who shot at George Zimmerman arrested


From the orlandosentinel.com:

Matthew Apperson arrested after shooting involving George Zimmerman


 From the Palmbeachpost.com:

Man accused of firing at George Zimmerman arrested
From baynews9.com:

Matthew Apperson arrested in George Zimmerman shooting



You have to go to a paper based in England to find the following:
 
 From the dailymail.co.uk:
Man who shot at George Zimmerman told cops: 'I hope I got him this time' ...as he is charged with aggravated assault


But even the the Daily Mail mischaracterizes the assassination attempt as a "confrontation".
A man who shot at George Zimmerman during a confrontation earlier this week along a busy central Florida road has been arrested. 
I do not think that most people would characterize a mentally unbalanced man who stalks a famous person, who attempts to kill the famous person, and who says  "I shot George Zimmerman" immediately afterward and " "I hope I got him this time" to police later, as a "confrontation".   A confrontation implies fault on both sides.   George Zimmerman appears, from the witness accounts, merely to have attempted to flee from Apperson.   

Kenneth Cornell says that Apperson  approached him immediately after the shooting:
Kenneth Cornell told WESH 2’s Gail Paschall-Brown that he called 911 after the alleged shooter approached him and said, “I shot George Zimmerman.” Cornell said the alleged shooter then got on the phone with dispatch and explained what happened.
The media are trying to spin this event to blame George Zimmerman for an assassination attempt on his life, but facts, as they say, are stubborn things.

The police investigation found exactly what a commentor at the Washington Post reported:  According to a commenter at the washingtonpost.com:
WillB2

5/13/2015 11:01 AM MST

It is a very busy road and dozens saw the events. They were interviewed last night on local (Channel 10) TV. According to them, Apperson was chasing Zimmerman, waving a gun and yelling out of the window of his car. Zimmerman was trying to flee. Zimmerman then made a U turn in an attempt to escape, but Apperson made a U Turn as well, drew up beside Zimmerman and fired into his car. Apperson is now facing the mandatory 20 years in prison and Zimmerman won't be seeing him again until 2035.

George Zimmerman has to be one of the most reviled and maligned men in America.  His sin is that he defended his life at a time when the Obama administration was looking for an incident to inflame black voters.

Most of the articles report Apperson's account of previous encounters as fact.

Some of the most biased reporting  is from ABC;  they write:
This wasn't the first run-in between Zimmerman and Apperson. In September 2014, the Associated Press reported that Apperson was stopped at a light in Lake Mary when a passenger in the car next to him started yelling, unprovoked.
The truck's driver, who Apperson believed to be Zimmerman, then reportedly said to Apperson, "Do you know who I am?"
Apperson pulled over, he said, and the truck followed him, blocking him in. Apperson claimed both men threatened to shoot and kill him, the AP reported. Apperson said he called police, but the truck was gone when officers arrived.
Two days later, Apperson said he saw Zimmerman outside his office and was worried Zimmerman was waiting for him, the AP reported.
What they ignore, is that all of the above was completely unsubstantiated, other than by Matthew Apperson, who we know now has mental problems

It was not a "run-in between Zimmerman and Apperson" but a stalking of Zimmerman by Apperson.   Only one reporter asked Zimmerman for his side of the event; that reporter did not publish Zimmerman's version.

An assassination is " to kill (someone, such as a famous or important person) usually for political reasonsThe definition seems to fit the attack on George Zimmerman rather well.

For an effective and readable, fact based analysis of the Zimmerman trial, Massad Ayoob has done the best job.


©2015 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; apperson; assassination; banglist; mattapperson; matthewapperson; secondamendment; zimmerman
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To: Norm Lenhart

That would be bad.


41 posted on 05/16/2015 6:23:14 PM PDT by lordpumblechook
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To: bobby.223

Indeed.


42 posted on 05/16/2015 6:23:35 PM PDT by lordpumblechook
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To: Covenantor

Osmosis...


43 posted on 05/16/2015 6:23:58 PM PDT by lordpumblechook
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To: Karl Spooner

Using unleaded in the wrong engine...


44 posted on 05/16/2015 6:24:48 PM PDT by lordpumblechook
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To: lordpumblechook

They are well into it now.


45 posted on 05/16/2015 6:31:42 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Undoubtedly.


46 posted on 05/16/2015 6:32:59 PM PDT by lordpumblechook
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To: Fred Hayek

According to another story, he has moved to another state but was in FL for a Mother’s Day visit to his family, and for a doctor’s appt.


47 posted on 05/16/2015 7:03:00 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: marktwain

I knew from he facts if the incident that it was an attempt to murder George and the charge[s]should be attempted murder. Instead of the ones leveled. and it is my prediction that within 3 months the State Attorney will announce “because of such and such reasons, we are dropping charges against Mr. Apperson.


48 posted on 05/16/2015 7:11:27 PM PDT by sport
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To: Karl Spooner

According to some Freepers, everything is Zim’s fault.


49 posted on 05/16/2015 7:12:33 PM PDT by sport
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To: Wiser now

We don’t need to know where he is now. OPSEC.


50 posted on 05/16/2015 7:13:03 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he has the police record that some say he has, somewhere down the line he is politically connected.


51 posted on 05/16/2015 7:14:10 PM PDT by sport
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

He filed one lawsuit and the judge threw it out.


52 posted on 05/16/2015 7:20:13 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

It is under appeal. The judge threw it out for clearly spurious reasons.


53 posted on 05/16/2015 7:27:32 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: sport
Yes, but on a technicality. He should re-file.

Zimmerman should be owning the AP and its membership after all they’ve done to him.

54 posted on 05/16/2015 7:28:32 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: marktwain

I’m guessing for “attempted murder” there is a higher burden of proof, since you would probably need to prove there was an intent to kill. Since Zimmerman wasn’t hit, the guy could claim “I wasn’t really aiming for him” as a defense and how do you disprove that?

Assault will be an easy charge to make stick.


55 posted on 05/16/2015 7:59:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: marktwain
Matthew Apperson is the suspect in the assassination attempt on George Zimmerman

Which, if liberals weren't the hypocrites that they are, should make him a major liberal hero.

56 posted on 05/16/2015 8:53:11 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: marktwain

The way Zimmerman got villified by libs for defending himself, they have no standing to prosecute, or even criticize, Apperson.


57 posted on 05/16/2015 8:54:48 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: IluvmyKalashnikov

Did they find a check from the DOJ payroll in this perp’s glovebox? Or maybe the DHS hired him? He looks like a former gubmint zombie.


58 posted on 05/16/2015 11:27:33 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: marktwain

59 posted on 05/17/2015 4:36:49 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: TBP

“The way Zimmerman got villified by libs for defending himself, they have no standing to prosecute, or even criticize, Apperson.”

Apperson learned an important lesson last year. If you make up a story to make George Zimmerman look bad, the media will believe you, no one will check it out, and you will get lots of attention.

Only one reporter bothered to learn Zimmerman’s side of the interaction last year, and that reporter did not publish it.

Because of the nation media coverage from last year, Apperson had every reason to believe that he could get away with murdering George Zimmerman.

Heck, he had good reason to believe that he would be hailed as a hero; in fact, many are hailing him as a hero as I type.

There are consequences that come from creating a false narrative about a man. Matt Appersons actions are only one of them.


60 posted on 05/17/2015 5:58:40 AM PDT by marktwain
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