Saturday, March 31, 2012

George Zimmerman’s History of 911 Calls: A Complete Log

Along with the audio recordings of six calls to Sanford police that George Zimmerman made in the weeks before the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Sanford Police Department has posted reports of 46 911 and nonemergency calls it says Zimmerman made between August 2004 and Martin’s shooting.
The Daily Beast has compiled a list of the calls from the reports. Verbatim excerpts of the reports appear in quotes. An explanation of Sanford County police codes can be found here.

General Terms:
TEL = non-911 police number (answered by 911 dispatcher)
BM = black male
LSW = last seen wearing
46.    Feb. 26, 2012 – 7:20 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Repeats prior report


45.    Feb. 26, 2012 (night of Martin shooting) – 7:11 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Black male “late teens lsw dark gray hoodie jeans or sweatpants walking around area” … “subj now running towards back entrance of complex”


44.    Feb. 2, 2012 – 8:29 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: “BM lsw: black leather jacket, black hat, printed PJ pants, he keeps going going to this” location


43.    Jan. 29, 2012 – 5:38 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Disturbance
Report: Children “running and playing in the street”


Neighborhood Watch Death
Orange County Jail / Miami Herald / AP Photos

42.    Dec. 10, 2011 – 5:29 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Disturbance
Report: “At the club house” … “Male subject [arrived on scene] that thought he was employed by” Zimmerman … “Subj is expected to get paid for serving food.” … Zimmerman “said that he didn’t wish him to serve at the [event]” … Zimmerman “hired someone else, subj sounded upset and wants to get paid”

41.    Oct. 1, 2011 – 12:53 a.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Two black male suspects “20–30 YOA in [white] Chevy poss Impala at the gate of the community.” Zimmerman “does not recognize subjs or veh and is concerned due to recent” burglaries in the area

40.    Sept. 23, 2011 – 11:08 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Neighbor/Suspicious activity
Report: Zimmerman reports “open garage door” … Describes “neighborhood watch mtg last night with Sgt Herx who [advised] to report anything [suspicious]” … Zimmerman “is part of neighborhood watch” and is concerned because of recent burglaries in the area

39.    Aug. 6, 2011 – 10:20 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Two black males, one wearing a black tank top and black shorts, the second wearing a black t-shirt and jeans … “Subjs are in their teens”

38.    Aug. 3, 2011 – 6:45 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Black male last seen wearing a white tank top and black shorts … Zimmerman “believes subject is involved in recent” burglaries in the neighborhood

37.    May 27, 2011 – 9:18 a.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Alarm
Report: Zimmerman “has a self responding alarm that just notified him of” an alarm at this location

36.    April 22, 2011 – 7:09 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: Juvenile black male “apprx 7–9” years old, four feet tall “skinny build short blk hair” last seen wearing a blue t-shirt and blue shorts

35.    March 18, 2011 – 9:26 p.m.
Type: 911
Subject: Animals
Report: Zimmerman requested an officer meet him regarding a pit bull in his garage

34.    Nov. 26, 2010 – 2:54 a.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Alarm
Report: Zimmerman was out of town and a motion alarm he monitors himself went off

33.    Nov. 8, 2010 – 6:54 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Maintenance
Report: Zimmerman reports “trash in roadwy”

32.    Oct. 2, 2010 – 1:55 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Disturbance
Report: Zimmerman reports “blu jeep grand Cherokee female driver yelling at elderly passengers … windows are tinted” … “the veh was rocking back and forth and he could hear the female yelling”

31.    June 26, 2010 – 11:00 p.m.
Type: 911
Subject: Disturbance
Report: “Loud party … approx 50 subjs & blocking the street”

30.    June 12, 2010 – 11:13 p.m.
Type: 911
Subject: Disturbance
Report: Subject “at the clubhouse & pool areas having a party”

29.    April 28, 2010 – 9:02 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Disturbance
Report: “White older model four-door Buick or Oldsmobile” obstructing road

28.    Feb. 27, 2010 – 4:46 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Suspicious activity
Report: “Residence w/a lot of [suspicious] activity” … “multiple vehs are constantly coming to the” location … “unk subs run out to the vehs and run back inside” … “the subjs are always outside w/the garage open” … “the subjs hang out towards the st all night//ongoing problem”

27.    Jan. 12, 2010 – 10:25 p.m.
Type: TEL
Subject: Neighbor
Report: Open garage door … Zimmerman says “this is very unlike his neighbor” … “there is a lot of electronics in the resd and posb in the garage”

26.    Jan. 1, 2010 – 4:34 a.m.
Type: 911
Subject: Disturbance
Report: Zimmerman reports reckless driver in “purplish Ford Ranger single cab”

Bill Maher on George Zimmerman: "This Guy is a Big Fat F***ing Liar"

So Bill Maher showed his guests the recently released footage of George Zimmerman at the police station after he murdered Trayvon Martin, which seems to dispute that Zimmerman's nose was broken, or that he was harmed in any way by Martin. And, as usual, Maher called it like he saw it: "Aren't we all convinced from that tape that this guy is a big fat fucking liar? Watch over at Mediaite. Van Jones, of Moveon.org, was one of his guests.Meanwhile, last night Toure appeared on Piers Morgan to spar about Morgan's interview of Zimmerman's brother, which Toure called irresponsible on Twitter and escalated into a fight. Toure was right about his point—interviewing a man as an expert who admittedly hasn't spoken to his brother in quite some time is pretty disingenuous and, frankly, cynical viewer-bait. But then the whole thing devolved into a hot mess, and the truth was clear to anyone watching: this was about two egomaniacs trying to best one another, and they managed to make an issue about the murder of an unarmed 17-year-old by an adult... about them.

Earlier today, MSNBC contributor Touré and  CNN’s Piers Morgan duked it out on Twitter over the Piers Morgan Tonight host’s interview with Robert Zimmerman, Jr., brother of Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman (who claims self-defense in the shooting). The result of all that smack-talk was an impromptu booking that culminated in a crackling Touré appearance on Friday night’s PMT.
The weird thing here is that Morgan’s show tapes in the afternoon, and airs at 9pm, so after the taping, the two continued to talk trash on Twitter, each declaring victory:
Touré: Resorts to name calling cuz I killed him on his show. RT@lolaogunnaike: Why is @piersmorgan calling @toure a fatuous loudmouth? It’s beef?
Piers Morgan:Poor old @Toure just got exposed for what he is – an unprofessional, fatuous, loudmouth. Tune in at 9pmET to see for yourself #CNN
Touré: Will be interesting to see if tough guy @piersmorgan edits our interview to save his ass or shows it like it really happened.
Touré began by reiterating his criticism of Morgan’s interview, then crowing that “in the hallways (at NBC) we were laughing at you. We wouldn’t take him. Standards and Practices at NBC wouldn’t let (Robert Zimmerman) get through door.”
Morgan pointed out that “MSNBC, as has NBC, has all been running clips of my interview, without challenging it. Nor are they quibbling with the news value of the brother of George Zimmerman going on the record and giving his version of events.”
He also argued that he “challenged him repeatedly about many of the things that he was saying.”
That’s when Touré played the England card. “What you understand as challenging, perhaps maybe that goes in England. That’s not what we do in terms of challenging in America. I saw a person who was saying things that didn’t ring true to me.”
It was a theme that the two would revisit in the next segment, in the most emotional part of the interview, when Morgan challenged Touré about a joke that he had tweeted. All of the meta-wrangling about who’s a more professional journalist melted away, and the raw power of this story became evident.
“You tweeted this on the 19th of March,” Piers said. “‘New slang. You’re Zimmermaning me equals you’re killing me.’ That’s a pretty serious responsible piece of journalism, isn’t it, Touré?”
“In the first days, in the first weeks of the situation,” Touré responded, ”what I was trying to do is to pile on and to say ‘Hey, look, this guy is not doing the right thing. This guy has harmed somebody in our community.’ Some people misconstrued that. But this is an incredibly serious situation.”
“So serious that you felt the need to throw out jokes,” Morgan shot back.
“You’re showing you don’t understand America,” Touré said.
“I understand America very well,” Piers said.
Touré compared his joke to “the blues,” adding ”You might call it black humor. Not African-American humor, but black humor. Dark humor. These are things that are common in America, that laugh to keep from crying. Once again another black person who is unarmed and innocent and not doing anything wrong has been killed. And this is incredibly painful and goes back before before you were born, and before your father was born, and before my grandfather was born. So these are things that hurt as an American very deeply. And you are too new to this situation to fully understand what’s really going on here, and what’s really at stake for America.”
Morgan paused. “What a load of fatuous nonsense. You think you have the only right to speak about what’s serious in America. You think I don’t have the right, as somebody from Britain who spent the last six or seven years here, to address the story?”
He then asked Touré if he believes George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, to which he replied “Yes.”
Morgan pounced. “So you’ve already tried him? You’ve convicted him?”
“You asked me what I think,” Touré responded.
“You called me an irresponsible journalist. That is professional?”
Point: Morgan, but then Touré launched into a powerful summation of the Trayvon Martin case that could easily serve as any eventual prosecutor’s summation.
Morgan finished with a further defense of his own journalism. “What I haven’t done is convict George Zimmerman because I haven’t seen the facts yet. You berate me for lack of journalism. You said you believe he murdered him. You have a biased one-sided opinion based on the limited amount of facts that we have at our disposal. That’s your prerogative. You also think it’s okay to do stupid dumb jokes, mocking, what do you call it, Zimmermaning me? I like to think that I’m a professional journalist. I think you are something else.”
When you strip away all of the pique and ego, what you have is a few minutes of very powerful TV, and a great illustration of the conflict between utter neutrality and the power of a point of view.

Zimmerman Was Fired from Security Job After He "Snapped"

An unnamed former co-worker told the New York Daily News that George Zimmerman was paid under-the-table for providing security for illegal house parties between 2001 and 2005, but was let go because his anger issues “became a liability.” “Usually he was just a cool guy,” the former co-worker explained. “He liked to drink and hang with the women like the rest of us. … But it was like Jekyll and Hyde. When the dude snapped, he snapped.”

Somehow I find this somewhat more relevant than traces of Marijuana Dust.  Maybe that's just me.
It's clear that all the leaks and attacks on the character of Trayvon - none of which are shown via any documented evidence (9-11 Tapes) - is that he was the aggressor, he was the attack and poor George Zimmerman only acted in desperate self-defense.
He wouldn't hurt a fly.  Not a single solitary fly.
Yeah, sure, unless that fly pissed him off.
“He had a temper and he became a liability,” he recalled. “One time this woman was acting a little out of control. She was drunk. George lost his cool and totally overreacted. … It was weird, because he was such a cool guy, but he got all nuts. He picked her up and threw her. It was pure rage. She twisted her ankle. Everyone was flipping out.”
Pure Rage?  Hm, that kind of rage that make you say stuff like "Assholes Always Get Away" or "Fucking Goon/Coons"!  Is that the kind of rage we're talking about?
So he lost his job as Security Guard and Bouncer for being too violent when it wasn't called for.
But that was just an isolated incident right? Right?
In 2005, the same year that Zimmerman lost his security guard job, he was also arrested for “resisting officer with violence” and “battery of law enforcement officer,” both third-degree felonies. Those charges were dropped after he agreed to enter an alcohol education program.
The picture we've most often seen of George, is of his 2005 mugshot after he interfered with an undercover officer trying to make an arrest at a bar.  Allegedly the officer identified himself and George responded "I don't care who your are", then proceeded to fight with him and obstruct him performing his duty.
This is the guy, whose job it was to physically "handle" people who were out of hand, but instead himself became a liability, who threw women around, and fought with a cop, this is the guy that we're supposed to believe was turned into just a scared little rabbit when confronted with big, bad 17-year-old 140lbs Trayvon Martin?
Uh huh.
And yet his special black "Friend" Joe Oliver says he doesn't know anything about that George Zimmerman, the one who also had a history of domestic violence with his ex-fiancee, Joe says he "turned his life around".
Turned it around into what exactly?
It's clear that no-one yet has a clear picture of what went on that night.  What happened behind those houses.  We have the tapes, and we have the claims made by the family of George Zimmerman, we have the sworn statement by Trayvon's girlfriend as to what she heard through Trayvon's phone, we have the strategic leaks by the Sandford Police to protect Zimmerman (and their decision to let him go).
Did Trayvon fight back against George?  I think he probably did, and he every right to do so, however we don't know that for sure.  Only George claims that.
But we do know that Homicide Detective Chris Serino want him arrested for Manslaughter that night because he simply didn't believe Zimmerman's Story but was overruled by State Attorney Wolfinger.  He even went so far as to sign an affidavit to that effect, putting himself in jeopardy ofpurjury if his statements weren't true.  So far we haven't seen Zimmerman be willing to swear to his statements under the law.
Serino told other witnesses and Trayvon's father he thought there was some "stereotyping" going on the part of Zimmerman, and he continued investigate and gather evidence and statements - even after he was told not to arrest Zimmerman.
Serino said "Eventually the truth will be known".
I think many of already have a strong suspicion what that truth may ultimately reveal.  A truth that only becomes clearer not when you nit-pick over Trayvon's academic record - but instead when you take a hard close look at Zimmerman's Pattern of Violent Behavior.
Vyan
P.S. I took a lot of time, and put a lot of thought into my diary from 2 days ago on America's Onging Shooting War  which covers the subject of exactly why shootings of this type going all the way back to Leonard Deadwyler in 1966 continue to occur, and what it's going to take to end it. It can't be req'd anymore (Oops, yeah it can) - but if you care about this subject you should give it a read. I spent about a week planning it and working up to it.
By Vyan | Sourced from DailyKos