My understand was that a majority of local law enforcement supported Zimmerman?
Probably not exactly, he tried to (somewhat successfully) derail the careers of some of them over the Sherman Ware case in 2010, when he rallied the community against SPD officers and higher-ups on behalf of a homeless black man that had been badly beaten outside a Sanford bar by the son of an SPD supervisor, who was never arrested nor charged. Cruel irony, eh. Video of the beating is on YouTube. Zimmerman is NOT who the media has portrayed him to be. That’s why you never learned of the Sherman Ware case.
I do sense that the karma will come all the way back around and Z will be freed. This sham trial is blowing up in the rabid racists’ faces.