George Zimmerman not expected to face civil rights charges in Trayvon Martin death

[amandabeech]

43. The FBI usually goes further than that.

They do some investigation around the community, and talk to people Zimmerman might have come in contact with, like at school, at work, at church (if the person is religious). They of course look at police records, and probably search media databases. I've known a couple of people who have worked at DOJ. They were not gods, but they were thorough, dedicated attorneys.

The WP story talks about Zimmerman taking a black young woman to his senior prom, how he had a good friend who was black, and how he helped an black homeless man who had been beaten by the white son of a white police officer. That information about some of Zimmerman's earlier activities wasn't brought out in the coverage of the trial very much. I remember hearing some of it, but it got lost with everything else going on.

Of course, that was said by his attorney, but the attorney did monitor the DOJ case. Here's the link to the Post piece:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/george-zimmerman-not-expected-to-face-civil-rights-charges-in-trayvon-martin-death/2014/10/01/4cd2ebd2-498e-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.htm

My view of Zimmerman was that he had a lot of problems, including a real fixation on being a cop, and at one point may have been salvageable under the right circumstances. However, at some point, he deteriorated into sort of a paranoia. And just horribly, Trayvon Martin died. Just beyond sad to lose someone just starting to turn into a young man.