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Derrell
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He just got arrested for pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend. Bail was set at $9,000.
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Allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend.
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also allegedly barricading himself in her house. with an alleged barricade that the police allegedly had to force through to an alleged zimmerman who was refusing to let the alleged police officers into the house after multiple alleged knocks
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Where did you read all of that? I read that he was sitting on a chair when the police arrived and cooperated calmly with the police.

Also, "allegedly barricading himself in her house. with an alleged barricade that the police allegedly had to force through"...Redundant much?

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Clarifying that someone was arrested for an alleged criminal act is redundant to begin with.
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GaalDornick
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No. He was arrested for a domesti dispute. Pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend is alleged.
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Derrell
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Can we at least agree that he's out of his alleged mind?
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quote:
Originally posted by Derrell:
Can we at least agree that he's out of his alleged mind?

At least allegedly out of his significant others' house.
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he did barricade himself in the home. the police reported that they had to spend time forcing the door in and clearing the barricade out so that they could get to him. He called the police to give his side of events while inside the house and the dispatcher was asking him why he wasn't letting the police in. Then they finally got inside the apartment and he offered no resistance.

i feel comfortable adding no allegedlys to this

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quote:
Originally posted by GaalDornick:
No. He was arrested for a domesti dispute. Pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend is alleged.

It's redundant because it's common knowledge that this is how American law works. You might as well say 'the election was decided by voting'.
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quote:
Originally posted by Rakeesh:
quote:
Originally posted by GaalDornick:
No. He was arrested for a domesti dispute. Pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend is alleged.

It's redundant because it's common knowledge that this is how American law works. You might as well say 'the election was decided by voting'.
That's not redundant. Elections function by votes, they're decided by big money donors and corporations.
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*sigh* Yes, many things may cease to be redundant if you pick them apart enough.
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Police allegedly reported that Samprimary redundantly allegedly tried to rerail.

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in the four months since his acquittal, Zimmerman has had several more brushes with the law—three for traffic offenses and one over an allegedly violent showdown with his estranged wife Shellie, who announced in September that she was divorcing him.

Ironically, it was Samantha Schiebe who was at Zimmerman’s side when his estranged wife called police to her parents’ home in Lake Mary on September 9. (The couple has been living together since August.) But on Monday, it was Scheibe’s turn to call 911.

“When we arrived, the victim indicated that she and George Zimmerman were having a verbal dispute and at that time she alleged that he had broken a table and pointed a long-barrel shotgun at her,” said Lemma.

She worked her way to the front door of the residence and dialed emergency services on her cell phone, whereupon Zimmerman “pushed her out the front of the residence and then barricaded the front door with some furniture.”

When sheriff’s deputies arrived three minutes or so later, Scheibe gave them a key to let themselves in. They pushed their way past the barricade and found Zimmerman, who appeared by that point to have shed his aggression. “The easiest way to describe it is ‘rather passive,’” said Lemma, describing the accused’s demeanor. “He offered no resistance and cooperated the entire time.”

Lemma added: “We don’t know exactly what the argument was about. We believe it was about some type of separation from the relationship.”

Recordings of 911 calls released Monday night reveal that, according to Zimmerman, the argument stemmed from the news that Scheibe is pregnant with his child. Police had earlier denied reports that she is pregnant. Scheibe herself did not mention it during her 911 call.

"I need police right now," she is heard pleading. "He's in my house breaking all my things because I asked him to leave. He has his frickin' gun breaking all my stuff right now," adding in an aside to Zimmerman: "You just broke my glass table, you broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my frickin' face and told me to get the **** out—but this isn't your house."

"He has everything of mine inside," she tells the despatcher after allegedly being pushed out of the front door by Zimmerman. "He knows how to do this. He knows how to play this game."

Once he saw police arrive on the doorstep, and knock on the front door, Zimmerman decided that he would get his version out too. "My girlfriend has, for lack of a better word, gone crazy on me," he claimed, volunteering a claim that he never produced or displayed a firearm but that in the course of her "throwing my stuff" one may have come into view. So where is it now, the despatcher asked him. "It's in a bag. Locked," he responded.He added: "She's pregnant with our child and she told me I'm better co-parenting if she raises the child on her own and that's fine. I said 'Is that what you want to do?' and she said 'Yes.' So as soon as I started packing up my stuff to leave she completely changed...She just started smashing stuff, taking stuff that belonged to me...she broke the glass table because she just threw something at it. She got mad, I guess, that I told her that I'd be willing to leave. I guess she thought I was going to argue with her but she's pregnant, I'm not going to put her through that kind of stress."

Asked by the despatcher why he did not just open the door to the police, who can be heard in the background knocking on the door, he answers: "I just want everyone to know the truth." So talk to them, the despatcher urges him, to which Zimmerman responds: "They're pretty upset, I think. They're banging on the door and the window. I don't have anything to say."

Zimmerman was ordered to take anger management classes in 2005 after a run-in with a police officer who was arresting a friend for drunkenness and later the same year was the subject of a restraining order by a girlfriend who accused him of domestic violence. Zimmerman filed a counter restraining order, accusing her of the same.

The controversial not-guilty murder verdict in July relating to Martin’s death left Zimmerman feeling “invincible,” his estranged wife, Shellie, claimed in a September 26 interview on NBC’s Today show, after announcing that she was divorcing him.

She was once so devoted to her husband that she had lied to a judge under oath while testifying about their joint finances in the lead-up to the murder trial in Sanford—a perjury that earned her a year’s probation and 100 hours community service. Now she was “starting to see things differently” and doubting his innocence, she ceded, adding: “I don’t know the person that I’ve been married to.”

He had become selfish—“George is all about George,” she said—and had been making “reckless decisions” such as posing for smiley-faced photos at a gun factory in Cocoa, Florida, while shopping for a new weapon.

But Steve Bracknell, chief of Lake Mary Police Department, went further in his assessment of Zimmerman in a September 10 email to Santiago Rodriguez, a concerned resident who had contacted him to complain over the department’s failure to arrest Zimmerman for his bust-up with his estranged wife the previous day.

The chief agreed with Rodriguez’s assessment that Zimmerman was a “ticking time bomb” and a “Sandy Hook, Aurora, waiting to happen.”

“REST ASSURED…the last thing on planet earth I want is ANY relationship with the Zimmermans. PERIOD,” Bracknell wrote, confirming that Zimmerman had punched his father-in-law on the nose and smashed his estranged wife’s iPad over his knee on September 9, but that both alleged victims had declined to press charges.

“In hindsight, I should’ve and I really regret that,” Shellie Zimmerman later stated. “But I’m on probation and the officers made it very clear that day if I pressed charges we were all going to go to jail and I would’ve been the only one to stay there.”

Zimmerman is now inmate number 201300012785 at the John Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, Florida—the same jail in which he was held during some of the lead-up to his July trial. He is being checked on hourly in his single-occupancy, 64-square-foot cell.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/how-george-zimmerman-ended-up-behinds-bars-again.html
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It really doesn't surprise me. Just for the moment let's assume that he actually is a nice guy that found himself in a bad situation and truly did shoot Martin solely in self defense and thus was completely innocent. Can you even imagine the stress he would be under now? He has to live with having killed another human being, legal pressure, media pressure, the condemnation of millions of people, fear of retribution, etc. It's enough to drive anyone crazy, even the most sane of us. His whole life has spiraled out of control.

Now if you add in all the possible character flaws he is alleged to have leading up to the shooting (anger issues, prejudice, etc.) it's surprising he hasn't killed anyone else or himself yet.

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Yeah, and to emphasize, with that hypothetical, you can't just assume he's a "nice guy" (cue deus ex trilby). You have to assume he was a nice guy AND what happened was that he "found himself" in a bad situation. Legitimately. Which means that within a reasonable standard he did not recklessly escalate a situation through aggressive provocation that turned into an altercation and deadly force use came into the equation out of panic.
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quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
Yeah, and to emphasize, with that hypothetical, you can't just assume he's a "nice guy" (cue deus ex trilby). You have to assume he was a nice guy AND what happened was that he "found himself" in a bad situation. Legitimately. Which means that within a reasonable standard he did not recklessly escalate a situation through aggressive provocation that turned into an altercation and deadly force use came into the equation out of panic.

I'm not sure I follow. Can you dumb it down for us laymen?

Just to clarify, I'm not trying to say he actually is a nice guy, just that even if he is the situation he finds himself in is enough to lead to desperate behavior. As for my actual opinion, I think he is probably predisposed to this kind of behavior. Current circumstances have just exacerbated it.

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yeah i am extending 'he is a nice guy' to mean that he not only just didn't murder, but he 'found himself' in a bad situation, he didn't put himself in a bad escalation with adrenaline-fueled vigilantism, and on some reasonable standard (that I suppose only he knows for himself now) commit manslaughter.

that said, i think it would be hard to argue, if he actually pointed a gun at his girlfriend, that he was a nice guy then or now.

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