GEORGE ZIMMERMAN STILL HAUNTED BY TRAYVON KILLING-2

                   MOHAMED MATOPE

Last August, I wrote a column expressing my disappointment in George Zimmerman’s trial after he was acquitted of the criminal charges that resulted from his 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin.

 I wrote that column with the intent to spark debate specifically to the American audience on at a time already heated nationwide debate about race and self-defense and overall justice system.  But, I didn’t know if the story of a murdered black teen in Florida would strike a chord with a wider audience. I received hundreds of emails and comments from many peoples around the world; many of whom were puzzled, particularly with the American’s gun laws.

 The 17-year-old,Trayvon Martin, who is black, was walking to his father’s home in a gated community in Sanford, Florida., when a neighborhood-watch volunteer, then,28-year-old George Zimmerman, spotted him. Zimmerman mistakenly profiled him as a “suspicious person” and pursued him. In an ensuing physical struggle, Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon at close range with one bullet to the chest, claiming afterwards that he did so in self-defense after Trayvon turned on him and threatened his life.

 

On my column I hinted that George Zimmerman might be acquitted of murder under the justice system; but, an acquittal would not equal a moral exoneration. The proposition which led up to the, responses including the accusation that “I was merely suffering from a terminal case of wishful thinking or I was seriously deluded”

While I still stand by my original   proposition, I may also add that KARMA always finds its way to justice. Most of  time against a person’s conscience will.

Because when you get punished for something you do it can be beneficial to your conscience. It allows you to put it behind you and start fresh. The conscience is set free.

When you are not punished for committing a serious crime such as murder you carry it around with you wherever you go and in whatever you do. Zimmerman feels that way now because he got away with murdering Trayvon Martin.

Consider this: since his acquittal in last July, Zimmerman has been pulled over three times for traffic violation. He was ticketed for doing 60 mph in a 45 mph zone in Lake Mary in September and was given a warning by a state trooper along Interstate 95 for having a tag cover and windows that were too darkly tinted. He was also stopped near Dallas in July and was given a warning for speeding.

His latest run-in with the law happened last week in Florida, he was charged with felony aggravated assault after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at his live-in girlfriend Samantha Scheibe, after she ordered him to move out.

 “I need police right now," she is heard pleading. "He's in my house breaking all my things because I asked him to leave. He has his frickin' gun breaking all my stuff right now," adding in an aside to Zimmerman: "You just broke my glass table, you broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my frickin' face and told me to get the f--k out—but this isn't your house."

According to the police report, when Police officers arrived at the house, Zimmerman barricaded himself inside the house. After he was arrested, the police also found more than 100 rounds of ammunition, 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle and three handguns inside the house.

Last September, it was his estranged wife, Shellie George who was on the phone with 911, days after she filed divorce paper. She told a similar story of Zimmerman in an out-of-control rampage. She reported that, Zimmerman punched her father in the nose and threatened to shoot him.

The footage of altercation was captured on a Shellie’s iPad. Zimmerman took a pocket knife to the iPad and then smashed it into pieces before the police arrived.  Police could not extract the video from the iPad that appears to back up the story. Once again Zimmerman walked free.

George Zimmerman is hardly an innocent figure in all these, the odds of his ex-wife, her father and his new girlfriend lying about his behavior are very slim.

I’m not a Judge and will not even attempt to know what the reasons behind Zimmerman’s constant irrational behaviors are and how he deals with guilt. It just seems like the truth usually finds a way to come to the top. Sometimes even against a person’s conscience will