George Zimmerman Hides Out in Secret Safe House After Receiving Thousands of Death Threats
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, July 9, 2012, 5:29 AM
George Zimmerman is hiding out in a safe house after being released from jail on $1 million bail. The former neighborhood watch volunteer has received thousands of death threats after the shooting of Trayvon Martin in February.
George Zimmerman is in hiding in a safe house today.
Autopsy results after the shooting revealed that Trayvon Martin had only two injuries on his body – a fatal gunshot wound and bloody knuckles. On the other hand, George Zimmerman had several injuries, including a fractured nose, two black eyes and cuts on the back of his head. George Zimmerman passed a lie detector test the day after the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The Daily Mail reported:
George Zimmerman is hiding in a secret safe house in Seminole County, Florida, protected 24 hours a day by a private security team.
The former neighborhood watch volunteer has stepped up his security after being released from jail on $1 million bail because he is forced to stay in the same community where he killed Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman’s supporters say he has received thousands of death threats since the shooting in February in Sanford, Florida, which he claims was self-defense.
Zimmerman’s lawyers were able to post the bond with help from an influx of $20,000 in donations to their client’s defense fund after a desperate plea on its website, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The $20,000 added to the balance of $211,000 in the defense fund, which was more than enough to cover the 10 per cent non-refundable portion charged by bonding companies.
‘He is very happy to be out. It’s been a very sobering experience spending the last month in jail,’ Zimmerman’s attorney Don West told reporters on Friday afternoon.
Another attorney for Zimmerman, Mark O’Mara, said that the team had secured a temporary safe house for his client.
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AndyN commented:
I thought bail was supposed to be a non-punitive measure to ensure that the accused appears for trial. It was a dead certainty that Zimmerman wouldn’t be able to come up with $1 million, but would be able to come up with 10%. At that point, because it’s non-refundable, the bond becomes a de facto fine, and provides no real incentive for the accused to stick around.
chuck in st paul commented:
I’m sure it’s all those angry white folks threatening to kill him.
Once again the President leads by throwing gasoline on the fire. Between him and all the race mongers and poverty pimps a majority of the blacks think the gansta wannabe was tracked down and executed instead of what really happened. Then, of course, the LSM has bloody hands in this affair (as usual).
Larkin commented:
Just to give you an idea how the media spin has distorted people’s understanding of this case…(and how they dangerously affect opinions on even more important issues)…
I had dinner last evening with an old friend from a western state. He is a conservative, a family man, and is very successful in business.
He was shocked when I told him about Zimmerman’s injuries, and the real story behind Martin’s Skittles and Arizona Ice Tea.
Then of course, he immediately drew his own conclusion that shapton, jackson and the media is trying to inflame the black community for obama’s benefit.
But by withholding critical information, and outright distortion of facts, the liberal media continues to be extraordinarily dangerous.
Stonedome commented:
If we have learned any thing from the racist oj show trial, it is that a guilty man can be determined innocent, and now that an innocent man can be judged guilty, all based on fabrication and racial prejudice. Pray that Zimmerman is acquitted. Do not put your faith in our highly politicized injustice system…
john commented:
I can’t believe Zimmerman got out of jail alive. Good luck buddy, you’re going to need it.
So sick of seeing that stupid picture of TM, God, what an idiot.
Rachelle commented:
Of course he is in hiding.
Who wouldn’t be after a paramilitary, racist band put out a bounty?
Who wouldn’t be after racist Congressblacks attacked you in public and demanded your lynching?
Who wouldn’t be after most of the media began to fabricate ‘evidence’ against you and stir up national hatred?
Who wouldn’t be after the Department of Justice(?) sent a team into your neighborhood to ‘guide’ protest groups rallying for your blood?
Who wouldn’t be after the President weighed in against you?
Apparently that is how ‘justice’ looks in what is left of America now that we are in the ‘post-racial’ period.
Ragspierre commented:
“He was shocked when I told him about Zimmerman’s injuries, and the real story behind Martin’s Skittles and Arizona Ice Tea.”
I guess you were punked by that boob sundancecracker, too, huh? Seriously, people, you need to read more critically…even when you think the author is a conservative.
As to death threats, has Mr. Zimmerman gotten as many as Michelle Malkin?
It is good he has people protecting him, because there are crazies out there. Remember Reagan. Remember John Lenin. Remember the Unibomber’s victims.
Ragspierre commented:
“At that point, because it’s non-refundable, the bond becomes a de facto fine, and provides no real incentive for the accused to stick around.”
1. Zimmerman did that to himself.
2. It isn’t a fine at all. Exercising it is totally optional.
3. He now has a VERY interested bondsman watching him.
4. His bond is collateralized (usually) by everybody he knows (family, friends, etc.)
So, wrong on all counts.
Mannie commented:
And the lynching of George Zimmerman continues.
I am George Zimmerman. I am Matthew Owens.
Mine is dry.
RNS1 commented:
“The official report, prepared by the medical examiner in Volusia County, Fla., also found that the 17-year-old Martin had one other fresh injury – a small abrasion, no more than a quarter-inch in size – on his left ring finger below the knuckle”-http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/16/11736208-trayvon-martin-killed-by-single-gunshot-fired-from-intermediate-range-autopsy-shows?lite
AndyN commented:
1. Zimmerman did that to himself.
2. It isn’t a fine at all. Exercising it is totally optional.
By this logic, all fines are optional. Either pay a fine or go to jail, your choice. Why, you sound just like those democrats who were saying that you couldn’t be sent to jail for refusing to abide by the Obamacare individual mandate, only for refusing to pay the tax/fee/fine/whatever it is this week.
3. He now has a VERY interested bondsman watching him.
Of course, and before he didn’t have a single person interested in making sure he didn’t flee prosecution. /sarc
4. His bond is collateralized (usually) by everybody he knows (family, friends, etc.)
Unless you can produce evidence to the contrary, in this case his bond was collateralized by donations to his legal defense fund.
So, wrong on all counts.
No, you only blew 3 out of 4, so I guess you fail at both math and logic.
Blue Hen commented:
2. It isn’t a fine at all. Exercising it is totally optional.
Do you say this about every accused person? Or just this guy? How about to those who can’t make bail? In what way is this “totally optional”? Please don’t try the canard that bail is always reasonable, because in some cases it isn’t. And sometimes high bail is required due to the nature of the charges presented. In other cases, like domestic cases, the residence can’t be claimed as collateral. And that’s if there even is a property. “Totally optional” has nothing to do with it.
Ragspierre commented:
#12
Andy, really, logic is outside your wheelhouse.
So, apparently, is informing yourself.
“Today, Judge Lester set George Zimmerman’s bond at $1,000.000. In order to get out of jail, Mr. Zimmerman will have to pay a bail bond company $100,000 (10% of the bond amount) and have collateral worth $1,000,000.
George Zimmerman and his family do not have anywhere near $1,000,000 for collateral so even if we pay the $100,000 fee, the bail bond company will have to agree to work with us on how the collateral would be posted.”
You can look up Mr. Zimmerman’s defense website for yourself.
Ragspierre commented:
“Do you say this about every accused person? Or just this guy?”
It is true in every bail situation.
And, if you can’t make bail, the court has still provided you an option. You just may not be able to exercise it.
You can also go back and ask the court to reconsider. When was the last time you gave a thought to the whole bail ambit?
AndyN commented:
#14
Congratulations, you’re now batting .500, but my central contention still stands: Zimmerman has proven himself to not be a flight risk, the non-refundable bond to buy his freedom was obviously punitive.
That’s it, I’m done feeding the trolls.
Patty commented:
Zimmerman’s supporters say he has received thousands of death threats since the shooting in February in Sanford, Florida, which he claims was self-defense.
Why because of Racists, Racist leaders! And Holder did nothing to the Black Panthers and the city AG in Stanford has been working with the DOJ in Washington that is my theory and I am sticking to it.
Militant conservative commented:
This is a powder keg for the
Uninformed idiot left (blacks)
They have a herd mentality.
Thankfully I have a herd
arsenal. Be armed, November
Will be an awakening to many
Blacks. Their boy is getting
Evicted like many of his ilk.
No surprise here.
Noovuss commented:
If he must stay in hiding, does that mean that he will not be voting for Obungle this time?
Ragspierre commented:
Patty: Why because of Racists, Racist leaders!
and, right on cue…
#18.
I am ashamed of some who call themselves “conservatives”. They are not.
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