Posted on 03/24/2012 4:27:07 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
ORLANDO - An attorney representing George Zimmerman is speaking out, saying his client is not a racist, and that he acted in self-defense the night Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.
Craig Sonner spoke with FOX 35 in Orlando. He said he did not know George Zimmerman's location. He said due to death threats, he has been advising Zimmerman to avoid going out in public.
He referred to a flier saying Zimmerman was "Wanted dead or alive."
"I have advised him to stay out the public eye as much as he can," Sonner said.
Sonner also gave more details about injuries Zimmerman sustained that night.
"He did suffer a broken nose, and he has an injury to the back of his head which should have required stitches. I think he was delayed in getting to the doctor and having stitches put in. But he did sustain injuries to his head," Sonner said.
Sonner said portrayals of his client as a racist are not accurate. As an example, he cited Zimmerman's participation in fundraisers for an African-American church in the Orlando area.
Sonner said Zimmerman was under "a lot of stress."
"He's very concerned about the grave situation he's in. There's a young man who is now deceased in this situation, he's very concerned about that," Sonner said.
He is clearly Hispanic and his father says he has many black family members and friends.
it sounds like zimmerman was sucker punched after talking to martin. zimmerman was on the ground with two head wounds yelling for help and then a shot was fired. may have been a tussle for the gun. The commies desperately overplayed their hand when hearing the name george zimmerman. Now the truth is coming out and they have turned into an idiot mob. the commies were looking for something to get their race riots going for the usurper’s re-selection.
You forget Baracky in your list of folks who have already tried and convicted Zimmerman. Trayvon was in a gated community, i.e, tresspassing for starters. I know, not a shooting offense.
Obviously the race card will be played at every opportunity during the election cycle. Media was shocked to learn that Zimmerman is a Latino.
Waiting for La Raza to join in the fun.
Perhaps they are and and it's not being reported.
Or maybe they are hiding him and don't want publicity.
I saw how that worked with the Rodney King beating; cops acquitted, try something else.
What a hoax.
But to those who fanning the flames, Zimmerman is not the issue, Zimmerman has become a tool to further their main agenda. Theis agenda is? Three things: 1. Repeal of Florida's "Stand Your Ground Law". 2.Repeal of Florida's Concealed Carry Law. 3. Gin up support for obama by infering that Whitey is out to get me [obama]too. We must stick together. That Zimmerman is not White got lost in the same fog that obama is Black is.
This where things stand with Zimmerman. His guilt of innocence at this point is now moot. The media and instigators have declared him guilty in the court of public opinion. Zimmerman should get his affairs in order because at some point down the road, on some charge, he is going to prison.
“My guess is to raise sufficient public outcry that enough people will demand that guns be outlawed.”
That would be the expectation here in the northeast; for people down south the image of the much larger kid pummeling the smaller guy will make them buy more guns (as it should).
I think the media wants to run with the “white perp” story, and it was up-ended when the photo circulated. I haven’t see the shooter on the news, so maybe they’re still working on the people who don’t use PCs.
Obama been laudin’ that martial law, whitey killing a black is exactly the crisis he needs; he won’t let it go to waste.
Spoken like a true liberal. A person has the right to defend themselves even if they managed to piss someone off to the point the other person attacks them physically. If your life is in danger you have the right to use deadly force to protect it. You are saying that "no, a person doesn't have that right if they pissed the other person off". As for having a CCW escalating the situation that is pure BS, concealed means just that, concealed. Apparently the law knows the guy isn't guilty of murder or he would have had his CCW pulled by now.
Stand your ground laws are good laws and have reduced the crime rate in Florida, and other states, by a huge amount since being enacted and have saved many lives. People with your attitude don't belong on a conservative forum.
Some thug/gang sign pictures of TM are showing up on the net. His family scrubbed Facebook after he died.
Photos of which should be in Zimmerman's case file but the MSM has failed to ask for them........
I guess it's more convenient to publish nice pics of a smiling 11 year old boy.
Look at the photos at the bottom.
What do the codes mean?
Anyone here speak Jive?
But according to what is in the police report (sorry,don’t have marktwain’s police report pdf thread handy) he did de-escalate by heading back to his truck.
Here’s TM’s favorite music ... big Dogg Fee which was mentioned on his Facebook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5ZG4ryH1I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I disagree with #3; this is not good for Obama. Many blacks were going to vote for him anyway, and few whites or Hispanics (in private) sympathize with the shooting “victim”.
I also think Zimmerman is going to jail, though I hope he doesn’t if it was justified.
I don’t know enough about it to have an opinion at this point.
That's what we've been told but now I'm not so sure. We've also been told that it was an "upscale gated community" but from the film reports I've seen of that place, it is far from upscale......middle income at best.
LLS
It’s Comrade Omuslim’s “Communist Spring”....
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