{"id":9294,"date":"2015-05-13T03:52:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2015-05-13T03:52:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:52:20","slug":"trouble-finds-zimmerman-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"Trouble finds Zimmerman once more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What is it with George Zimmerman?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s acquitted of murder after he shoots Trayvon Martin to death. He walks away a free man.<\/p>\n<p>Then his wife divorces him. He then gets into a dispute with his girlfriend; the dispute involves a gun. The girlfriend doesn&#8217;t press charges. He&#8217;s free once again.<\/p>\n<p>Now he gets into a road-rage incident with another motorist, who reportedly shoots at him.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/partial-911-call-released-guns-recovered-in-george-zimmerman-shooting-incident\/ar-BBjGZ3R<\/p>\n<p>Does trouble just find this guy? Or does this guy find trouble?<\/p>\n<p>Which is it?<\/p>\n<p>The only reason anyone even cares about Zimmerman is because of his involvement in the Trayvon Martin death. He was a neighborhood cop-for-hire when he encountered the 17-year-old Martin. The two of them got into a scuffle after Zimmerman began stalking Martin in the Sanford, Fla., neighborhood where Martin lived and where Zimmerman was on patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting, trial and the acquittal launched a serious national discussion about how young African-American men are treated by police officers or, in Zimmerman&#8217;s case, a private security officer.<\/p>\n<p>My fondest wish now is that Zimmerman would just disappear. The guy really cannot escape the public eye, given his previous role as a principal in a controversial shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, though, he can work a little harder to lie low and not be seen or heard from &#8212; ever again!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with George Zimmerman? He&#8217;s acquitted of murder after he shoots Trayvon Martin to death. He walks away a free man. Then his wife divorces him. He then gets into a dispute with his girlfriend; the dispute involves a gun. The girlfriend doesn&#8217;t press charges. He&#8217;s free once again. Now he gets into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trouble finds Zimmerman once more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1013,1904,3631,4898,5119],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-unrest","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-police-relations","tag-trayvon-martin","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}