George Zimmerman claims he was punched in the face in a Florida restaurant on Sunday, July 31, after talking about the Trayvon Martin case.
The former neighborhood-watch volunteer, who was cleared in the 2012 shooting of the 17-year-old, called 911, asking police to come to the Gators Riverside Grille in Sanford, Florida, at about 5 p.m. on Sunday, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
“This man just punched me in the face,” he told a dispatcher, according to a police report obtained by the Sentinel. “He said he was going to kill me. You need to send three or four cops.”
The 32-year-old claims that he walked by a table and complimented a man’s Confederate flag tattoos, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. When the man, Joseph Whitmer, recognized him and asked about the Trayvon Martin case, Zimmerman was explaining that he shot and killed the unarmed teen in self-defense, when another man walked up and asked, “You’re bragging about that?”
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Zimmerman reportedly told the man that he wasn’t, but the man told him to leave the restaurant. Instead, he went back to his table to join his friends. According to the report, several minutes later the man walked over to Zimmerman and the pair scuffled, with the man, who has only been identified as Eddie, allegedly punching Zimmerman in the face and breaking his glasses before leaving the restaurant.
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But the New York Daily News reports that several staff and witnesses gave police a different version of the altercation, claiming that the incident was just a shoving match that stemmed from Zimmerman bragging about his infamous history.
“They shoved each other and that was the end,” the restaurant’s owner, Edward Winters, told the News.
Whitmer’s wife told police that Zimmerman approached their table and said, “Hey, I like your racist tattoos,” the Sentinel reports. He then told them about killing Trayvon “to brag,” according to the police report.
In the years since he was acquitted of killing the teenager, Zimmerman has had a number of run-ins with the law, including arrests for domestic incidents, and a road rage incident last year where he was shot by a man named Matthew Apperson.
Zimmerman told the Sentinel that his assailant thought he was Apperson.
Him should get him skull bore out.
Jesus man him a get whey wid too much now
As far as I’m concerned if Eddie had stabbed him in the chest the restaurant workers would have said he fell on his own fork, because people, even the racist couple, are just sick of him. He’s such a low life.
Big up Matthew Apperson! He should have crippled Zimmerman’s ass.
Can’t wait no longer for someone to put a full clip in this motherf**r face..I have a bottle of vx Appleton that I brought from Jamaica like 4years now letting it aged,now I have a good reason for it to aged…the day this motherf***r die I will drink it n calibrate,hopefully b4 me
God know !
SHET U RASS MOUTH, HAVE U NOT CAUSED ENOUGH TROUBLE. TALK TOO MUCH. SEEMS HE WAS LYING AND CALL 3 TO 4 POLICE TO GET THE MAN KILLED, DAM DOG
Max same here, same here :sungkem
Did anybody here about bolt he got poisoned
George’s days are numbered!
Racism is the worst thing on the face of this planet..How can people think their better than a other people..all of us was in our mother’s belly at 1 point so what makes u more important than me..Did u fall from heaven,u wasn’t baby at 1 point..I sit n try figure this out in my head like a million times n still don’t get it..I watch a documentary 1 time about south Africa n from that till today it keep on replaying in my head..
Needleye wen he got away I cried like a bitch my heart was fill with hate i didn’t talk to some people at work of days
I’m going to get drunk for the 3rd time in me life when Jorge swallow some hot lead. For now Cheers to two men who’ve tried him so far :beer: :beer:
I swear!
Him only get a punch in the face…..that’s it????? Something like that fe get tranquilized!!!! This guy has been on borrowed time for quite a while now!
You nuh see seh a Travon a ride him mind mek him a tun eediat.This fool is tormented so he goes around causing trouble. His time is right around the corner and he knows it.
Shoulda jook out u friggin yeye. Bi$ch