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Showing Original Post only (View all)George Zimmerman released from Fla. jail [View all]
Source: AP
Apr 23, 12:18 AM EDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
The neighborhood watch volunteer was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag. He met a man in a white vehicle and drove away. His ultimate destination is being kept secret for his safety and it could be outside Florida.
Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEIGHBORHOOD_WATCH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-23-00-18-28
Photos of him leaving the jail here: http://www.daylife.com/search?q=george+zimmerman
His hair seems to be growing pretty fast.
VIDEO here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/23/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?on.cnn=1
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I think this troll is every bit as incorrect in stating definitively what happened that
Common Sense Party
Apr 2012
#33
IT ISN'T ILLEGAL TO WALK HOME FROM THE STORE AFTER PURCHASING SWEETS AND A SOFT DRINK!
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#32
STILL HOLDING ONTO THAT CONCRETE SHIT HUH? How many witnesses said that they saw him ON TOP
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#34
Apparently, Trayvon Martin's body was found pretty far from Zimmerman's truck on a pathway
JDPriestly
Apr 2012
#56
How could the liberal media hide anything when the much larger conservative media would reveal it?
Towlie
Apr 2012
#11
It's amazing how the Trayvon Martin story has brought the racists out of their caves
Cali_Democrat
Apr 2012
#19
The 'evidence' of GZ leaving the state came from a direct quote from his former lawyer.
Boabab
Apr 2012
#67
Not to mention - I do not want him in my back yard. They need to keep their bail people in their own
jwirr
Apr 2012
#75
So you figure you can legally stalk someone, and if they confront you then you can shoot them?
Towlie
Apr 2012
#18
Funny, the author of SYG, the legislature that voted on it, and jebbie bush ALL say that
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#37
Just for the record, that did NOT enhance my opinion of this forum. It wasn't the right thing to do.
Towlie
Apr 2012
#78
I don't know ONE BLACK PERSON THAT TAKES THE NBPP SERIOUSLY! They are pretty much limited to
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#36
yamihere, I have been trying to understand how people who believe Zimmerman's statement
JDPriestly
Apr 2012
#57
I hope you're son does not walk around at night with a cell phone device attached to his ear...
nenagh
Apr 2012
#61
Are you suggesting that Zimmerman shot Trayvon for hand gesticulations?
Common Sense Party
Apr 2012
#73
So it will come out in trial that Trayvon was shot while he was walking?
Common Sense Party
Apr 2012
#74
Indeed it does. But I have yet to see evidence that Zimmerman just up and plugged him
Common Sense Party
Apr 2012
#85
If zimmerman weren't the darling of the WRONG side of this, he'd STILL be in jail
solarman350
Apr 2012
#50
the trajectory of the bullet is more telling, he could have stumbled, twisted, or rolled over
Bacchus4.0
Apr 2012
#82