He never told me he was an officer and assaulted me first.
The ATF agent said that he did identify himself. The charges were dropped because Zimmerman agreed to enroll in an anti-alcohol program.
Below is from this source.
In July of 2005, FANNIN, LENT, GILMORE, FLEISCHMAN, and their Captain, GERMAN G0RZ0NE, who has since been terminated, performed an undercover operation at a bar near the University of Central Florida known as Knight's Library. During the operation, an underage undercover operator went into the bar, attempted to purchase, and was sold alcoholic beverages. As a result, multiple bar employees were removed from the establishment and placed under arrest.
While the state law enforcement agents were processing the prisoners, GEORGE ZIMMERMAN approached one of the prisoners and asked the prisoner what was going on. FLEISCHMAN informed ZIMMERMAN that he was a state law enforcement agent, showed ZIMMERMAN his badge, and told him to wait off to the side and FLEISCHMAN would explain to him what was going on after the agents were finished with the prisoners. ZIMMERMAN had an angry demeanor and told FLEISCHMAN that he did not care who he was. FLEISCHMAN attempted to escort ZIMMERMAN away from the scene. ZIMMERMAN then shoved FLEISCHMAN, at which point all of the agents on the scene pushed ZIMMERMAN onto the hood of FANNIN's car and placed him under arrest for battery on a law enforcement officer
Are we to believe that all of these officers and multiple girlfriends (plus his wife) all have been making up stories about Zimmerman, since long before the Trayvon Martin case?
If he were really smart he would have moved far far far away by now
And cops never lie.
The deciding factor to me is that the charges were reduced very quickly to a misdemeanor, then dropped completely.
If Zimmerman did knowingly assault an ATF officer, they would have thrown him under the jail. People simply don't get away with challenging an officer.
Even with 5 officers to to take the stand against Zimmerman on what should have been a slam-dunk conviction, the State Prosecutor chose to drop the charges. It's not difficult to read between the lines and realize there was evidence or witnesses contradicting the "official" report.
Zimmerman doesn't appear to be any angel. But, given how this case was quickly dropped, bringing it up is little more than an attempt at character assassination.
Well, the source FBI report portion of the link you provided said this:
“...After being advised of the identity of the contacting agents, FANNIN, LENT, GILMORE and FLEISCHMAN provided the following information?...”
I know that the FBI has been degrading in quality of its agents, but this report is, at best, piss poor. A standard investigative report purporting to be a transcription of an interview (or series of interviews?) separates who specifically said what. So the report may include some things that “they” said but not include some things that another person who is a part of the “they” said. So you can feel free to place your complete trust in agents who now work under Eric Holder’s DOJ, but I’ll hold out my judgement.