SANFORD, Fla. — WFTV has learned charges against George Zimmerman could be getting more serious.
State prosecutors said Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, profiled and stalked 17-year-old Trayvon Martin before killing him, so the FBI is now looking into charging him with a hate crime.
Zimmerman admitted to killing Martin in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was in self-defense. He’s facing a second-degree murder charge, which carries a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. But if Zimmerman is charged and found guilty of a federal hate crime involving murder, he could face the death penalty.
FBI investigators are actively questioning witnesses in the retreat at the Twin Lakes neighborhood, seeking evidence for a possible federal hate crime charge.
Martin was unarmed when he was shot to death, police said, and some accuse Zimmerman of targeting the teenager solely because of the color of his skin.
WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said federal prosecutors would have to prove the hate crime to charge Zimmerman, though.
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There went the last shred of integrity that agency had!
Have you heard of any investigations by Eric Holder’s FBI into, for instance the elderly white couple in Oklahoma who were attacked by at least one black man, she was raped to death, the husband was beaten and has since also died. How about the two white reporters in Norfolk who were severely beaten by a large gang of feral black savages “for Trayvon”. How about the white homeowner in Mobile Alabama who chased a group of young black children who were playing ball in street in evening in front of his home. Again, a large gang of black men and women arrived and beat him to within an inch of his life, he is probably still in the ICU. Not a word heard from the feds, very little if any mention in the Obama state media. This is all orchestrated and encouraged by the federal government folks. Wake up.
This should not even be happening. No president should come out and make a stupid comment about a on going murder trail!! holder sat right in his office and said. As long as I hold this position.There will be no arrest on any african Americans for hate crimes. So what is a hate crime? I guess throwing gas on white folks and lighting them on fire and calling them ethnic slurs are not hate crimes??? I guess pulling white people out of their cars and beating them and yelling,, This is for Trayvon!!!!!! I guess that is not a hate crime either..The Feds need to stay out of the States affairs.
Obviously, the authorities look through special color filters when checking suspects,
Does the phrase “pre-trial publicity” sound familiar? Anything to appease the negroes and a thug. What about all the whites that have been targeted and assaulted, raped, and murdered “for trayvon”? Where’s the FBI on these incidents? Or doesn’t that count? Or is it because the dictator in chief obama and his clown holder told them not to pursue the attacks on whites? martin would stil be alive if he had not shown his violent side.
STUPID BS anything to appease the race baiters.
LET THE STATE OF FLORIDA HANDLE THEIR OWN LAWS AND PROBLEMS, KEEP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE HELL OUT OF THIS !! THEY (the feds) ARE CARRYING BUCKETS OF STUPID……
This is starting to get out of hand!
Screw the F B I!!!If they want a real criminal to charge then charge Trayvon’s mother and father for raising another Young Black Criminal and for being Black Racists. And when they get through Charge Eric Holder for selling guns to drug Lords who killed border guards because of Holder! The arrest Obama for ordering Holder to sell the guns. Guess this is what we can expect for a while, every time a Black Criminal attacks a white person and the white person kills the Black Criminal the F B I will charge the white guy with a hate crime!