I just finished reading that article after finding it linked on Drudge. I have to say, this is the FIRST dispassionate description of George Zimmerman I've seen in ANY of the major media outlets. Reuters, which is often liberally biased, deserves kudos for this article. They don't demonize Zimmerman, and they don't make him out to be a saint either. What I took away from it is that George Zimmerman is a guy who cares deeply about his community and his neighbors, and he walked the walk in that regard, not just talking the talk. In reporting on the episode with an old fiancé in which he had a restraining order filed against him for some kind of abuse, most news sources conveniently leave out that he also filed for a restraining order against her for the exact same reasons, and the court found reason to grant that order. Instead of Zimmerman coming off like a wife abuser, he comes off as a guy who was in a poisonous relationship and wanted out of it as much as she did. That's a very different picture than that described for the lamestream media.philip964 wrote:original article in Reuters
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Zimmerman has "black" roots not that race matters.
I actually came away from reading it being a little more impressed with the guy—not as a hero, but just as a fundamentally decent guy—and I am impressed with the amount of punishment he has manfully absorbed in the media and in the halls of power without complaining about a single bit of it. He seems to understand and accept that this is how it is, rightly or wrongly. A lot of guys in his shoes would be shooting their mouth off in self-defense, trying to make themselves look good. Zimmerman hasn't done that, which takes a fair amount of A) courage, and B) faith in the system—a system which is being sorely tried at this time.
. Apparently wounds are not enough anymore to spare you from prosecution do perhaps an impartial dash cam might be of assistance.