Within a collection of evidence officially released by the State Attorney’s Office on Thursday, was an audio recording of a 15-minute interview with George Zimmerman’s former co-worker. During the interview, the man, whose name was not given, says that Zimmerman racially targeted him and bullied him at work,ThinkProgress.com reports.
According to the witness, Zimmerman singled him out because he was Middle Eastern, calling him a “f*****g moron” and mocking him with the voice of “Achmed the terrorist.” He said Zimmerman would also tell stories and make jokes about “bombing” and other “Middle Eastern stuff.”
Zimmerman has been charged with shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on the evening of Feb. 26 in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer called 911 and told a police dispatcher that the teen, who was returning from a trip to a nearby convenience store, “looked suspicious.” After an altercation, Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest, subsequently telling local police that he acted in self-defense.
In addition to the second-degree murder charge he’s facing, Zimmerman could also face federal hate crime charges. If convicted of second-degree murder, Zimmerman could serve a maximum sentence of life in prison. However, if he is found guilty of a federal hate crime charge, he could face the death penalty.
LOL@ Terrence Howard’s wife calling him that name…This is actually what he deserves for thinking he needed a ‘whatever color, other than Black’ wife!!! I guess because he’s of a ‘lighter skin complexion’, he needed someone ‘even lighter’ to make his spouse…Number 3, to be exact. Why would you even put that info in the public, as to what she called you?..Just goes to show, she was only after what she ‘thought’ you had, not who you are. Maybe, Terrence, you’re just too soft to handle a Black woman, huh?, The comment she made, is only what she considered you to be, anyway…..Suck it up, pay her all of your hard earned dollars, so that she’ll never have to work again (if she ever did) I don’t feel sorry for you!!
Phyllis
June 1, 2012 at 3:15 pm
you so right that is what his dum a*s get sister,,stay blk fool,,they dont respect you
daron
December 17, 2012 at 7:57 pm