The more we hear about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, the easier it seems to get angry with the neighborhood watch commander who has admitted to shooting the teenager. But there is being angry, and then there's taking your anger over the edge. The threats against Zimmerman's wife, Shellie Zimmerman? Those are the definition of "too far," folks.
Shellie has kept a pretty low profile since her husband's case went from Florida news to international. But his bail hearing forced her participation today, and with it her admission that the hate toward her husband has spilled over big time into her life.
A nursing student four weeks from graduating, she was on the phone with the judge to make it clear that she doesn't have the type of income that could help cover a high-priced bond to spring George from jail. She helped get the court to declare him indigent and apparently helped get him sprung from the pokey. I have a feeling that will do nothing to stop the tide of hate mail she said she's been getting.
But people, can we talk about priorities here? Shellie Zimmerman has done nothing wrong here. She didn't shoot Trayvon Martin. Heck; she wasn't even there when her husband took off after a teenage boy with a hoodie and a bag of Skittles in his hand. And since we know that George was on the phone with a 911 operator who was telling him to stand down and not chase after Trayvon, we also know that Shellie Zimmerman wasn't egging her husband on.
So what do we know? We know that people who are married to one another don't always share the same ideals. We know that love can make us blind to another's faults. We know that a public face and a private one are often very different. Judging Shellie Zimmerman based on the man she's married to is short-sighted ... at best. At worst, it's perilously close to the prejudgment of a black teenager that got her husband into this mess in the first place.
If anything, people should be sending Shellie Zimmerman their condolences today. Married to George for the past five years, we don't know what their marriage has been like or what their plans for the future were. But I can bet they didn't include a charge of second degree murder and the need to hide out of state from vigilante justice.
Shellie Zimmerman probably envisioned a peaceful existence with the man she loved. Instead she's in the middle of a nightmare.
If that makes you hate her, are you really a better person than one who racially profiles a black teenager?
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I don't care about her one way or another. You'd expect her, or any wife to play the sympathey card on their husband's behalf. And what about him? He has no money...what about his property in Sanford he was willing to kill for. Perhaps, if Zimmerman was more interested in working and earning money then he is in stalking his neighborhood with a gun for unarmed, suspicious looking people he could post bail. Not such a bad ass now!
All this judgment from judge-y people! What the hell is wrong with all of you?! Were you there?! Or are you making judgments based on what you hear on tv? Did you know that the police have witnesses that support Zimmermans claims? Did it ever occur to you to let the police and a jury decide? It seems to me that if the case was so clear that the police would have arrested him right away. Maybe the media is only showing us one side of the story. That happens all the time. So shut up about it! Let the system do what the system does! This man deserves a trial and a chance to defend himself! If you don't think so then move to a country that allows the mob to decide. Im sure you will be very happy there.
If the police dept would not have tried to sweep this under the carpet in the first place and conducted an investigation in the first place, this scandal would not be happening. They were willing to take this guys word for it? Seriously, how can anyone defend their actions? Martin's parents DESERVE answers. Now, and only now will everything be told. And that's excellent in my book. But to have to fight for a CHANCE at justice is insane.
Side note: Innocent until proven guilty. I agree. Still, I do remember vividly that Casey Anthony was NOT given that sentiment on this board by some of the same people that are defending Zim.
I live in a neighborhood where people walk home at all hours of the day and night because they can't afford cars and are usually coming home from work so it's not a sight that rings alarm bells.Maybe in his(gated community) neighborhood it was an unusual sight for people to be out walking late at night and they had been having break-ins and seeing someone out walking at that late hour might have been reason to wonder why they were there.That being said,what the hell was George Zimmerman doing patrolling the neighborhood with a loaded gun and following people!?He sounds like a paranoid wannabe cop.I had always thought those neighborhood watch signs meant "old people" looking out their windows and calling the police.Boy was my childhood opinion ever wrong.This is a gun control issue.It's too easy for people to own guns and unfortunatley innocent people end up getting shot and killed instead of the people that gun owners are trying to protect themselves from.Having some private citizen out in my neighborhood patrolling the streets with a gun is just scary and crazy to me.If George had just stayed in his house,weapon free,and called the police, Trayvon would still be alive and bringing candy to his stepbrother.
this whole ordeal makes me sick to my stomach.
HockeyMomNJ...your correct! The only other person there is DEAD.