Posted on 03/25/2012 1:04:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
Black Friend Defends Shooter of Florida Teen
March 25, 2012
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman cried for days in remorse after shooting dead a black Florida teenager, a family friend of Zimmerman said on Sunday, offering a sympathetic portrayal of the man at the focal point of a national uproar.
Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic, shot Trayvon Martin, 17, in what he said was self defense during an altercation in the gated community Zimmerman was watching on February 26 in Sanford, Florida. After barely going noticed for weeks, the case has since galvanized the country and renewed a national discussion about race.
"He couldn't stop crying. He's a caring human being," Joe Oliver, 53, a former television news reporter and anchor in Orlando who has known Zimmerman for several years, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"I mean, he took a man's life and he has no idea what to do about it. He's extremely remorseful about it," Oliver said, relating stories told to him by Zimmerman's mother-in-law, a close friend of Oliver's wife.
Oliver's account counters the withering criticism Zimmerman has sustained from demonstrators across the country who have demanded his arrest and accused him of racial bias in targeting Martin. Celebrities have taken up the cause of justice for Trayvon, and President Barack Obama said "all of us have to do some soul-searching" as a result of the tragedy.
"I'm a black male and all that I know is that George has never given me any reason whatsoever to believe he has anything against people of color," Oliver said.
Sanford police did not arrest Zimmerman, saying the evidence could not disprove his account of self-defense, though the case is under review by a state special prosecutor and the U.S. Justice Department.
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Joe Oliver can expect some nasty feedback
You might want to send this to your boy santorum.
Props to him for speaking up. Serious guts in the face of death threats.
This is so blown out of proportion its hilarious. Tell you what. White folks can wear hoods too— right? Its not illegal for whites but ok for blacks is it.
WHITE hispanic = "perp" vs black "kid"
Hispanic, or person of color = victim of "White" crime.
This is a key point to realize in this "uproar". Alinsky strategy in play here.
How long before my niece and nephew (my brother’s children) will be able to check “white Hispanic” on their census forms? Just wondering.
Is the NYT gonna start calling Obama a white African-American ???
Can someone please explain to me when Hispanics started coming in colors?
What is a “white Hispanic”? This is the first time I have heard that term. Or is this only an attempt to make Zimmerman fit the template that it was an evil man preying upon an innocent Black child?
Joe ain’t keepin’ it real.
You nailed it.
We won’t see this endlessly repeated by the media. It screws up the narrative they’ve been pushing.
Here is where our ANGER and OUTRAGE should be focused!Mohamed commands his slaves to murder by any means. Mohamed commits mohamicide.
Murdered by isalm
Toulouse 2012 March
They have standing orders to murder us where ever and how ever they can! Islam is the ENEMY!
You nailed it.
We won’t see this endlessly repeated by the media. It screws up the narrative they’ve been pushing.
If you read the article carefully, all it says is that the shooter was not racist. The friend was NOT an eye-witness to the shooting. Gingrich and Obama both need to stop making racial capital off this tragic case. We don’t kill completely unarmed people without first firing warning shots or at least shots that would cause non-lethal injuries. Even Jeb Bush noted that under FL law the stand your own ground defense would not be available here. Maybe you know a lot more than the eyewitness accounts we’ve heard so far.
Better hide Joe the black thugs will be after you like they were Herman Cain..Black Panther thugs will put a reward on your head too.They and the white house thugs alone with the thug president are just waiting to start a race war before this election..
The bottom left picture is not of the ‘victim’.
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