ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman sued NBC on Thursday, claiming he was defamed when the network edited his 911 call to police after the shooting of Trayvon Martin to make it sound like he was racist.
The former neighborhood watch volunteer filed the lawsuit seeking an undisclosed amount of money in Seminole County, outside Orlando. Also named in the complaint were three reporters covering the story for NBC or an NBC-owned television station.
The complaint said the airing of the edited call has inflicted emotional distress on Zimmerman, making him fear for his life and causing him to suffer nausea, insomnia and anxiety.
The lawsuit claims NBC edited his phone call to a dispatcher in February. In the call, Zimmerman describes following Martin in the gated community where he lived, just moments before he fatally shot the 17-year-old teen during a confrontation.
“NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create a myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain,” the lawsuit claims.
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Good for him and he should sue obama for his smart arse remarks and he knows that he was wrong. NBC and the other libbers papers which is most of them are utterly disgusting on what they do and don’t report. This sad when obama and his thugs let the Martins and their ranting agains the whites/latinos appear in DC to promote their own racist claims. To be white in America isn’t a good thing any more, the young ppl and the women libbers and reid/pelosi pooper scoopers are among the destroyers of our country. Forgetting that obama aka soetoro aka durham is half and half pretending he admitted he was a muslim and born in this country and pretending he has any experience in any thing but frauding the state of IL and ACORN and our ppl, being un American is the libbers claim to farme thinking that the Indonesia raised, public records hider is going to care what they are but wanting just the same to be black and no common sense at all. Good luck George Zimmerman you have a long road ahead of you with the libbers in power and FL with its lack of any judical justice whatsoever.
Go get them George, they sure as heck tried to get you!
Way to go, George. Somebody needs to do something about the lying lamestream media. You shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense. You did not commit murder. I don’t think you’re getting a fair trial because of the lies from NBC and other media liars. I hope and pray you win for the sake of truth and justice.
Break ‘em, they deserve no less! Race mongering, leftwing liberal bastages.
I have noticed there are a lot of news stations who still show the pictures of a young Trayvon Martin instead of the recent pics that show he was a punk. You can be sure if one of the units was broken into George would probably been fired for not doing his job. What the hell was a kid Trayvons age doing roaming around in the complex in the rain at that time in the morning? Interesting as to what would have been said if Trayvon had been a Latino. According to the Media if you defend yourself against anyone other than your race you are a racist.
Yes, if Obama had a son he would be just as Lawless as Trayvon Martin or even worse more Lawless that Barack Obama II.
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