Posted on 04/25/2012 1:23:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.
The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law's dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again. An officer came to the house, county records show.
"Don't use pepper spray," he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. "It'll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you," he said.
"Get a gun."
That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge and received concealed-weapons gun permits. In early December, another source close to them told Reuters, the couple bought a pair of guns. George picked a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, a popular, lightweight weapon.
By June 2011, Zimmerman's attention had shifted from a loose pit bull to a wave of robberies that rattled the community, called the Retreat at Twin Lakes. The homeowners association asked him to launch a neighborhood watch, and Zimmerman would begin to carry the Kel-Tec on his regular, dog-walking patrol - a violation of neighborhood watch guidelines but not a crime.
Few of his closest neighbors knew he carried a gun - until two months ago.
On February 26, George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in what Zimmerman says was self-defense. The furor that ensued has consumed the country and prompted a re-examination of guns, race and self-defense laws enacted in nearly half the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
George Zimmerman REFUSES to stay frozen!!!
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Ping.
Check out article, and comments, ... esp # 4.
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From previous FR article, now closed:
George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting (Reuters finds that GZ has black ancestors)
The New York Post / Reuters ^ | April 25, 2012
A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.
The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law’s dog.
Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again.
An officer came to the house, county records show.
“Don’t use pepper spray,” he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. “It’ll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you,” he said.
“Get a gun.”
That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge...
—snip—
The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather - the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2876486/posts
A rare case of Reuters flubbing the mainstream media agenda.
As in you win the thread...
BUMP
I agree
Thanks for the info.
And true of all neighborhoods across the nation - except no one in the media ever heard of such a thing apparently.
Strangers don’t wander neighborhoods without many eyes watching them. It’s normal.
Zimmerman cannot be Hispanic or Black, he must be WHITE to fit the dominant narrative.
Trayvon was planting daisies, singing hymns, and dancing ballet when Grand Wizard Zimmerman and THE ENTIRE KKK attacked.
I actually LOLed at your comment! Very insightful! :-)
Compare this to Trayvon - kicked out school, attacked a bus driver, caught with burglary tools and women's jewelry... dressed like a 'gangster'... thin-skinned 'criminal wannabe' type...
IMO, THE money quote from this whole article. Other than Reuters (better late than never, I suppose) I don’t know of any other media outlet reporting this.
Much of the black community is held hostage by the thugs...
BTTT!
I remember when journalists told the truth too ... you were born before the 60’s right?
There are no MSM conservatives anywhere. All conservatives have is talk radio and the internet. It is amazing that America survives in the face of this sustained onslaught. It is a testament to the resilience of the American culture, but it is being eroded away as surely as the Grand Canyon started as a crack in the prairie.
Zimmerman was a standup guy, solid citizen, and good neighbor.
Trayvon was a dirt-bag drug dealer in the making. His early demise is no great loss to society.
Zimmerman was a standup guy, solid citizen, and good neighbor.
Trayvon was a dirt-bag drug dealer in the making. His early demise is no great loss to society.
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