George Zimmerman surprised a Florida court today by taking the stand and apologizing to the parents of Trayvon Martin, who were sitting in the courtroom during Zimmerman’s bond hearing.
“I am sorry for the loss of your son. I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit older than I was,” Zimmerman said addressing Martin’s family directly.
Zimmerman took the stand wearing a dark suit with his hands shackled to a belt around his waist.
His surprising testimony came the same day that ABC News exclusively obtained a photograph showing the bloodied back of Zimmerman’s head, which was apparently taken three minutes after he shot and killed Martin. The photo could give credence to Zimmerman’s claim that Martin had bashed his head against the concrete as Zimmerman fought for his life.
The bond hearing concluded this morning with Judge Kenneth Lester agreeing to allow Zimmerman, who is charged with second degree murder, to post a $150,000 bond to get out of jail. The prosecution had argued that Zimmerman should be denied bail or that it should be set at $1 million.
Read More at ABC News. By Matt Gutman and Seni Tienabeso.
Photo credit: ABC News
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I remember the previous “Racial Atrocities” that Jackson and Sharpton squawked so loudly about and were later proven false. The really bad part is that the “president” along with Maxine “Stupid” Waters along with many others in high places in the government, were so quick to condemn this kid without knowing the facts. A clue might have been when the police didn’t arrest Zimmerman at the scene. Didn’t they have just an inkling that there was more to that case than the media was telling?
aLWAYS HAS BEEN ALWAYS WILL BE, WHETHER SNUBBED,PASSED OVER, SLIGHTED,
EXPOSED FOR
THE RACE CARD IS ALWAYS RESORTED TO FOR ANY REASON OR NO REASON.
oHHHHH POOOOR ME!!!!! bs
Even though the news medias along with obama, sharpton, jackson, black panthers, farrakhan, martins parents, holder, and others have tried and convicted Zimmerman, he will not be found guilty in a fair trial. My big question is where is the outcry from the same ones listed above on the elderly white man who was severely beaten and his wife was raped and killed in Oklahoma by blacks? And what about the mother who was gunned down by a black female in broad daylight and the baby was taken? And what about the black panthers and their voter intimidation actions in Philadelphia? And there are many more cases like these. As long as obama, holder, and others in that admionistration are in power, things will not get better, only worse as we have seen over the past 3 years plus.
Florida: White Man Trying To Stop Black Robbery Suspect Stomped On By Group Shouting “Trayvon! http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/13/florida-white-man-trying-to-stop-black-robbery-suspect-stomped-on-by-group-shouting-trayvon/
78-year-old white man beaten by teens, told ‘This is for Trayvon’ http://shar.es/rWYYr
Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/144525.pdf
”…Most victims of race crime – about 90 per cent – are white, according to the survey “Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims”, published in 1993. Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey. Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: BLACKS ARE COMMITTING MORE THAN 50 TIMES THE NUMBER OF VIOLENT RACIAL CRIMES OF WHITES.”
FBI’s crime figures for 2007 http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/trayvons-tweets-and-black-hate-crimes/ “Blacks committed 433,934 violent crimes against whites, eight times as many as the 55,685 that whites committed against blacks (Despite blacks being less than 1/6th the size of population of whites). Interracial rape is almost exclusively black-on-white, with 14,000 assaults on white women by African-American males in 2007. Not one case of white-on-black rape reported.
NBC, ABC & CBS ignore, block out or just cut out officer’s inspection of Zimmerman’s head wounds while at police station (At 1:22 Lower lefthand corner of screen) http://cbsn.ws/Hksvk4
Check the other videoclips to see what they did to perpetrate this hoax on us.
Close-Up Photo of Zimmerman’s head: http://shutking.blogspot.com/2012/04/close-up-photo-of-george-zimmermans.html
Still photo of Zimmerman’s head injury http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/267/capture1aj.jpg/
‘Contrary to previous reports, Zimmerman did not utter a racial slur during 911 call’ http://fxn.ws/HUIa9Z
If Zimmerman gets convicted, lets (honkeys) go out and burn up a town after steeling stuff out of the stores. Lets see how far the gov cracks down on us. We already know what the gov would do to blacks if they did the same thing. absolutely nothing
We know that the Obama regime is a racist organization from Holders lack of action on blacks vs whites.
With Obama, Eric Holder, Maxine Walters, that Lee Representative female with the large colorful hat, Sharpton, Jackson, The Media, and Bill Cosby (who has modified his original statement to now be against guns) it will be very difficult for Zimmerman to get a fair trial. The Prosecutor today (at the hearing for bail for Zimmerman) kept harping that it was 2nd Degree Murder because he has a witness (who came forward after 35 days) and gave evidence that proves his case. Remember, the media doctored the video tape to coverup the injuries to Zimmerman’s nose and head because they wanted it to be a racial thing. However, the original video tape clearly showed Zimmerman had a swollen nose and injuries to the back of his head. This agrees with what Zimmerman has said happened. To most people, the evidence that is presently known shows that Zimmerman did call 911 and tell them he was following someone wearing a hoodie who looked suspicious. The police dispatcher asked Zimmerman if he was following this suspicious person and when he said yes, the dispatcher said, “you do not need to do this. But Zimmerman continued to follow him until he obtained the name of the street. Then he started walking back to his vehicle. Trayvon Martin tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he had a problem with him. Zimmerman answered no. Martin then stated “you do now” and he knocked Zimmerman to the ground and started beating his head into the sidewalk. Zimmerman had no other choice but to shoot Martin because he feared for his life. Remember, Trayvon Martin was a Defensive Back for his High School football team and was 6’2″ or 6’3″ while Zimmerman is 5’9″. Will the jury see the evidence in this same light? One can only hope it will not be another O.J. Simpson trial. When the beating was happening, the dispatcher heard someone yelling (over Zimmerman’s cell phone) “Help”, “Help”, “Help Me.” Trayvon Martin’s mother says it is her son’s voice and Zimmerman says it is his voice. The Prosecutor’s witness (a Seminole County detective) testified that the voice is Martin’s. When Zimmerman’s lawyer asked how does he know this, the detective said the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper told him they had a voice expert check it out. I personally would not believe anything the Orlando Sentinel said because they are a Democrat front for Obama. We will have to see what Zimmerman’s lawyer does about this discrepancy because I heard that they also have a voice expert who agrees it is Zimmerman’s voice calling for help.