George Zimmerman in custody, police investigate 'possible domestic battery'---UPDATED

[dixiegrrrrl]

Last edited Mon Sep 9, 2013, 04:39 PM - Edit history (1)

George Zimmerman, the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer acquitted of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been detained as authorities investigate a domestic incident in Lake Mary, police confirmed.

Police are investigating a "possible domestic battery" involving Zimmerman on Sprucewood Road, Lake Mary police Officer Zach Hudson said this afternoon. The police spokesman said it was his understanding that a gun was involved.

Hudson said the investigation is in its early stages, and it was unclear whether Zimmerman or anyone would be arrested. No significant injuries were suffered in the incident, Hudson said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-in-custody-gun-20130909,0,4880482.story

Link to wife's 911 call....very revealing.
http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/09/09/16/19/8QAA3.So.56.mp3

This guy is going to be showing up as bad news for a long time..I am thnking of how OJ could not avoid the consequences of his true nature years after acquittal.

[Happyhippychick]

1. He battered the woman who committed perjury for him and raised money for his defense?

What else did she expect?

[JimDandy]

30. Why would she EXPECT to be battered by a husband she supported?

Sounds like projecting on your part. That she escaped a deserved felony conviction by pleading to a lesser charge doesn't mean she deserves to be beaten by her spouse.

Noone deserves that no matter what. Victim blaming is just wrong.

[Happyhippychick]

31. Uh, because he has been charged with domestic abuse before? Why marry scum like that and expect

Different treatment? And she's no "victim", she lied to get her husband off, the only victim is Trayvon Martin. She's as big of a piece of shit as her husband.

[JimDandy]

36. Yes, she IS a victim in this instance!

Good grief, I can't believe you're doubling down on 'the victim deserves it', after hearing the other side say exactly the same hateful thing about Trayvon Martin this past year.

Victims, whether they are Shellie or Trayvon, do NOT DESERVE being beaten no matter what prior bad acts they committed.

[Happyhippychick]

40. Repeat: she was NOT beaten. She was threatened with a gun by the man who she helped put back on the

Street by lying for him.

Repeat she is NOT a victim, she's an ACCOMPLICE.

[JimDandy]

45. 'Battered' was YOUR word.

Saying she is not a victim when she clearly is (Your words: "She was threatened with a gun...&quot belies the facts, no matter how you want to spin and conflate two separate incidents.

That's why our justice system doesn't allow prior bad acts into trials, because the charges should stand on their own without prejudicing the proceedings.

If Zimmerman is ever charged with this domestic battery, do you really think it would be fair for the judge to say: "Shellie, you lied at a bail hearing in court for your husband last year; you were an accomplice in raising money for his defense; and you should never have married your husband because he has been accused of domestic violence before and you should have known better than to marry him (by the way, she may have learned of that when the rest of the public did...Zimmerman hid info from a lot of peole) so I have to find George Zimmerman innocent of threatening you with a gun because you deserved it"

[Happyhippychick]

46. I meant "threatened", not battered.

[tblue]

47. There's nothing okay about being threatened.

She may have been victimized by him all along. When I hear her voice, I can tell how frightened she is. Whether he physically harms her not, this is abuse and he needs to be extracted from the situation before he does hurt her or worse. He's already punched her dad and we know he is capable of murder.

[NYC_SKP]

2. George Zimmerman's wife says he threatened her, father with gun.

George Zimmerman's wife says he threatened her, father with gun

Published September 09, 2013
Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. – George Zimmerman's wife has called police to her father's house, saying the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder threatened her with a gun.

Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell says Shellie Zimmerman called police shortly after 2 p.m. Monday.

Bracknell says Zimmerman hasn't been arrested and officers are at the house trying to determine what happened.

snip

In the divorce petition, Shellie Zimmerman says she and her husband separated a month after Zimmerman was acquitted of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin last July.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/09/george-zimmerman-wife-says-threatened-her-father-with-gun/?test=latestnews#ixzz2eQP6p8Rn

[PearliePoo2]

8. Oh..a knife AND a gun George!

Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, recently announced plans to divorce.

Her attorney told ABC News that George pulled a knife on her today after she discovered a firearm in the house they shared. He then pulled a gun on her and her father after a verbal altercation went bad, according to attorney Kelly Sims.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-custody-domestic-incident-involving-gun/story?id=20203329

[arcane1]

11. "after a verbal altercation went bad"

Sounds like he is one of those chicken-shits who draws a gun in order to "win" an argument.

The depth of his cowardice seems endless.

[PearliePoo2]

3. "a gun was involved" Imagine that!

What a P.O.S. you are George.

[dgibby]

4. One of these days, he's going to run into someone

who's also armed and decides to "stand their ground". Karma can't catch up with him fast enough.

[secondvariety]

38. Or

he's going to run into someone who'll throat punch him and drop him like the sack of shit he is. I'm fine with either one.

[NightWatcher]

5. Just glad he didn't "self defense" her to death

Too bad he won't do any/real time for battery w/ firearm.

[Aerows]

7. I know

Standing his ground, etc. Just an awful, awful person.

[Aerows]

6. The man

is a public menace.

[MoonRiver]

9. I'm surprised it took him so long to wave a gun in somebody else's face.

Guy should have been locked up for a long time.

[Marrah_G]

10. He was standing ground for his dinner being ontime

Regardless of what she did in regards to his trial, no one deserves spousal abuse and spousal abuse with a gun while she is filing for divorce is a scary thing. It's how many women lose their lives.

[dmr]

18. Thank you for saying that.

no one deserves spousal abuse

Hasn't he been accused of something similar before with another woman?

[Marrah_G]

22. I believe it was with the same woman

not sure though

[JimDandy]

28. Yes, with a ex-girlfriend. n/t

[pipi_k]

12. Jesus...

I'm gonna have to google his street to see how far it is from my youngest sister and her two daughters, who live in Lake Mary.

The guy is seriously losing his marbles and will probably end up killing someone else before he's stopped.





PS...OMG

My sister and two nieces live less than a mile (in a straight line) from that asshole.

[lpbk2713]

15. Tell the girls to avoid buying Skittles at all cost.

That could be disastrous.

[TBF]

42. And no hoodies -

he freaks out and shoots folks who wear those.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Yes, it must have been Trayvon Martin who was the "thug" with the hair-trigger temper

And not Mr. Zimmerman at all.





All Mr. Zimmerman's defenders are racist shitheads.

He murdered that child.

[noiretextatique]

23. yep...i am waiting for them

though most of them were purged. they are racists...every single one.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. Oh, that poor man. When is the system going to stop abusing this hero so shamelessly?

[Xipe Totec]

16. I'd hate to be one of the jurors who acquitted him nt

[appleannie1]

17. He is a time bomb ticking down. He will kill again unless something occurs to stop him.

[alsame]

19. Juror B37 must be so proud of Georgie today. nt

[Happyhippychick]

20. Maybe they'll find a way to blame this on Trayvon

Stress from the trial and all....

[johnp3907]

24. This is exactly what the defence attorneys will say.

[backscatter712]

21. Wow! That didn't take long.

Zim is truly unstable, and needs to be locked up, with his guns taken away.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. and when he IS either killed or kills another person

I expect his defenders to say..."no one could have foreseen".

His wife needs to get a restraining order and a personal bodyguard....seriously.

[treestar]

26. No surprise there nt

[riverwalker]

27. their $240,000 house

which they "pay" $1000 per month (sure they do). Not bad digs for a student nurse and unemployed bum. I'm sure their generous benefactor is reimbursed by the NRA.

George and Shellie Zimmerman's house: A $240,000 showplace with a pool, spa and fireplace

It is the house where police took Zimmerman into custody Monday after an alleged domestic altercation.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-fancy-house-20130909,0,1471535.story

[MoonRiver]

29. It's Shellie's parents' house.

She and Zim were living with them. I do think they have a lot of money squirreled away from their idiot donors.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Parents seem to be living there still according to the 911 call

which I added to the OP.
Georgie hit her father in the face, "punched my dog in the nose" and was sitting in his car, caressing his gun, when she called 911.
Gotta give 911 credit, the operator of course had to have know who he was, and response time was pretty prompt.

If she filed for divorce, why was he even IN the home, I wonder?

[gvstn]

33. Shellie is not pressing charges. :(

However, Lake Mary police Chief Steve Bracknell confirmed about 4:30 p.m. that Shellie Zimmerman and her father, David Dean, had signed paperwork declining to press charges.

"They both have declined to press charges against George," Bracknell said. "We have no victim no crime."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-in-custody-gun-20130909,0,4880482.story?Sdsdae

[avebury]

34. If she and her father refuse to press charges

against him then I have no sympathy for them.

I wonder if pressure was put on her and her family to not press charges. After all, he is buds with some of the local police officers.

[gvstn]

35. The article says their lawyer was there by 3:30

And it was after consulting with him/her that they declined to sign a sworn statement or press charges.

Without much physical evidence, I can see why Shellie might hesitate to have to go back to court. She just plead guilty to lying to the Court over their finances. A defense lawyer could really make it hard for her. If he did hit the father then the father could press charges on his own but he might not have been as fearful of the gun.

[avebury]

39. She and her family should still file for a

restraining order. nt

[secondvariety]

41. The state

can press charges on their own. Not holding my breath, though.

[Ocelot]

37. Could people stop reposting this thread/consolidate it? Thanks (n/t)

[blkmusclmachine]

43. .

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[AtomicKitten]

44. who ya gonna call?

[Blue Owl]

48. WHERE CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN DEFENSE FUND?

[CakeGrrl]

49. Smug murderer goes free...with consequences.

This should not shock any of his enablers, but I'm sure it will.

Karma's a bitch.