Zimmerman’s Dad: Trayvon Martin Told My Son He Was ‘Going To Die Now’

March 29, 2012 7:30 AM

New York City Council members hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall to call for justice in the Feb. 26 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., in New York on March 28, 2012. (credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

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LAKE MARY, Fla. (CBS Tampa/AP) — The father of a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager says despite dispatchers telling his son to stop following Trayvon Martin, he kept going so he could get an address for police to check.

Robert Zimmerman spoke to WOFL FOX 35 in Orlando in an interview that aired Wednesday night. He says his son was suspicious because of several break-ins and thought it was strange for someone to be walking between the town homes on a rainy night.

He reiterated what other George Zimmerman supporters have said. He says his son was walking back to his car and Martin confronted him.

He says Martin broke his son’s nose and knocked him to the concrete.

“It’s my understanding that Trayvon Martin got on top of him and just started beating him,” Zimmerman told the station.

Zimmerman also says that Martin threatened his son’s life.

“Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of ‘you’re going to die now’ or ‘you’re going to die tonight,’” Zimmerman told the station.

He says Martin continued the beating and his son “pulled his pistol and did what he did.”

A security video shot after the death of Martin shows George Zimmerman being led in handcuffs from a police car, and an attorney for the teen’s family said it is obvious to him that Zimmerman did not have injuries to his face and head as his supporters have asserted.

Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern on Wednesday confirmed that the video being shown by ABC News is of Zimmerman. The 28-year-old’s head and face are visible throughout and he is dressed in a red and black fleece jacket. Police are shown frisking Zimmerman whose hands were handcuffed behind his back. They then lead him into a building.

Zimmerman said that on Feb. 26 he was pursuing the 17-year-old Martin, who was not armed, because the teen was acting suspiciously. He said he lost sight of the black teenager and Martin attacked him as he headed back to his sport utility vehicle. Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is Hispanic.

The neighborhood watch volunteer told police he fired in self-defense and he was not arrested, touching off widespread public outrage and protests across the country. Zimmerman’s attorney, Craig Sonner, has said in more than one interview that his client’s nose was broken during the fight with Martin.

The Orlando Sentinel, citing anonymous sources, has reported that Martin grabbed Zimmerman’s head and banged it several times against the sidewalk. A statement from Sanford police said the newspaper’s story was “consistent” with evidence turned over to prosecutors.

Sonner said the gash on the back of Zimmerman’s head probably was serious enough for stitches, but he waited too long for treatment so the wound was already healing. Miguel Meza, who identified himself as Zimmerman’s cousin, said Zimmerman was in “the fight of his life.”

“This certainly doesn’t look like a man who police said had his nose broken and his head repeatedly smashed into the sidewalk,” Ben Crump, an attorney for Martin’s family, said in a statement. “George Zimmerman has no apparent injuries in this video, which dramatically contradicts his version of the events of February 26.”

Sonner did not immediately return an after-hours call to his office.

Crump called the video “riveting” and “icing on the cake” that Zimmerman should be held accountable for what happened.

Since the shooting, Zimmerman’s supporters say he’s gone into hiding and that he and his family have gotten death threats.

Martin’s supporters, including a host of outspoken celebrities and civil rights leaders who have appeared on television for the past two weeks, don’t believe Zimmerman’s story. They want him arrested and prosecuted.

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Zimmermans Dad: Trayvon Martin Told My Son He Was Going To Die Now

Jorge

“What race do we consider him? Morons……”

Well, during Obama’s Chicago campaigns, he was labeled as white by his Democrat challengers.

da truth

obama is the country’s first black president,so zimmerman is hispanic.

lancecordill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_community

Treyvon Martin was a punk. He was where he was to be a punk.This is what punks do. What is not to be understood about this? I bet you no more Treyvon Martin’s will be looking for mischief in this “gated community”. The crime rate just went down!
StopShufflingTheComments

The entire story about Trayvon was made up. Unelected officials took over Washington and the media after the coup and cover up. Even most of the comments online are financed with your tax dollars. Big brother is trying to create the perception of public opinion while burying the truth. They think you can’t handle the truth. Fact of the matter is we have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret for the biggest cover up in world history before it disappears forever much like me.
Pistolpete

Hes half black. Get it right. Not all black. I know its the best you have, whatever.
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!

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Rob

For the rest of this story that the media won’t report, visit the Council of Conservative Citizens website at

http://www.cofcc.org
Smokeyda Bear

NBC news is responsible for this whole fake firestorm, by editing the 911 call, and manufacturing the facts and deleting the most important part of the call, in the editing dept. and committing fraud. Anyone who hears NBC’s version, and then the entire version, would be outraged, and anyone hearing the deleted/edited portions would realize, they were being defrauded. F u ck NBC, lying ba st ards, c riminals.
Hobartstinson

Obama is half white, so he is a WHITE president, too. . . .
Ron

I wholly support the right to self defense and use of deadly force if your life is threatened, but I think this Zimmerman guy is a dirty liar and Treyvon Martin was innocent

Benjamin Deauver

Technically, Barack Obama is considered to be a mulatto. This is not a perjorative word, nor is it racist. Distionary.com describes it as:
mu·lat·to
[muh-lat-oh, -lah-toh, myoo-] noun, plural mu·lat·toes, mu·lat·tos.
1.
the offspring of one white parent and one black parent: not in technical use.

2.
a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and caucasian

Ed S

Does that make zimmerman a latoe, a latinatto, a latte? No, it was clear from the photos he was Hispanic, and if we’re going by the “one drop” criterion that Jesse, Al and co are so fond of using and the left is so quick to perpetuate, then Zimmerman is Hispanic. Goodness knows, he would get that credit on any job application, school admissions forms, etc.

Zimmerman ought to be grateful he’s not Jewish, because if he were, these mobs would have already burned down his retail store with customers and employees inside JUST like Sharpton;s gang did in NYC. That took a tremendous amount of effort by the MSM to cover up. HOpefully they’ll be up to the task on this debacle as well.
Mark of the wild West

Whats wrong with being a racist? The blacks are… at least the one we see TV…

SuperMechaPatton

The real shame is that color is still an issue. A shame that it’s so important to so many who embrace its division. Why not character, accomplishment, or wisdom?

Because that’s so much harder to understand than “My skin is X, and his skin is Y, therefore I will support the X guy and jump to conclusions without all the evidence”

N.M.B.

SuperMechaPatton – ‘The real shame is that color is still an issue.’

But that shame falls to the likes of New Black Panther Party, Rev. Al “fake rape” Sharpton, Rev. Jesse “cut his __ off” Jackson”, and Barack “beer summit” Obama. They all require racism for them to succeed with their hate-filled anti-American Socialist plans. NBPP, Al, Jesse, and Barack success depends upon non-Whites believing they are doomed to failure, without the aforementioned Race-card players.
RACourt

Excellent point, SuperMechaPatton. That’s what we, the Booker T. Washington Society (BTWsociety.org) are working to instill in young Americans today: that it’s about character, not color.
Booker T. talke about it over a century ago: that some so-called leaders of the race,”do not want the patient to get well.”

Jimenez G

We live in Florida. My family is hispanic and latino. I can tell you no hispanics in Florida will be voting for the democrats this fall. YOu lost our vote and our relatives as well in other states.

LogicalMinded

Just trying to keep this racism going… keep up the good work.

JR

That would be you.

liberaldoublestandard

The point missed in this story is the CONCEALED CARRY LAW WORKS and you had better get one becuase the obama liberal media wants racial tension to increase to a boiling point for the next election and unarmed people who are named as the oppresssors by the obama liberal progressive VICTIMOLOGY speecheswill be beating victims that recieve very little liberal media attention.”

Patty Mudd

Bingo!
Kevin

You called it. It’s coming before November, count on it.

Shwartzy Beggans

When are the Black Panthers going to be arrested for putting a bounty on a citizen’s head??? Eric Holder = The most incompetent Attorney General of all time……. Maybe even WORSE than incompetent!

Michelle

Zimmerman should be punished when Holder is punished for Fast and Furious. His actions had several people killed, including a police officer. Murder is Murder. Don’t care who you are.

sailordude@yahoo.com

Yahoo is running a story about how Zimmerman’s race is a complex issue, then start the story off that Zimmerman is white. The liberals (95% of the news is written by liberals) do not like white people, mainly because they don’t vote Democrat in large enough numbers, get it now? If you wonder why this is since they are also white, are they white? Or do they consider themselves a non white ethnicity? If they are ginning up race hatred to help Obama thats a big failure as well since this will make white voters less likely to support a black President who has twice now sided with blacks over whites in affairs he had no business being in.

SuperMechaPatton

Spot on analysis. Obama’s got, quite possibly, the worst strategy team of any president, in history. Or at least the worst personal judgement.

At least Hoover, just had a bad economy, this guy has that AND racial division. He even has a media in his pocket, that is actually exacerbating the racial divide, AS IF THAT HELPS HIM!

ahoy polloi

the ravings of total lunatics.
Mr. average dude

@ahoy

> “the ravings of total lunatics.”

the sentence fragment of Alinsky tactics.

Rather than engaging in legitimate debate, Isolating someone and calling them names like “extremist,” “racist,” or “lunatic” is a classic Saul Alinsky tactic. The person then has to stop and defend against the accusation before resuming any legitimate conversation. Do you have something of value to say, or are you just going to call people lunatics?

Once you recognize this tactic, you’ll notice its widespread use throughout politics and media. Call it out when you see it – the more people that recognize it, the less it will be legitimized.
Patty Mudd

Mr. Average Dude:

They’ll call you crazy or stupid, excusing themselves from debate. It’s their principal tactic. Oh, another one–they can call you racist. These are shortcuts to their supposed superiority, but there’s nothing to support their positions, which is why they rely on the shortcuts to begin with!

2conservative

Has anyone EVER heard the term “white-hispanic” before the reporting on this case? I’m sure I haven’t. Does that imply you can’t be a racist unless you’re at least partially white? Are we to call the President “white-african”?

HatKat

White-african or racial huckster….either works.
RTC

By their logic Obama should be a “White-African American”.

huntingmoose

White-African seems more appropriate since there is not a lot of American-love and allegiance in Obama’s heart. Pretty sure he will agree –privately, with no mic open.

Grace

Actually I don’t get the terms ‘ African-American’ or Hispanic-American’ or ‘Asian-American.’
People who aren’t happy with just being an ‘American’ probably shouldn’t be here.
Maybe they would be happier living in the countries whose names they choose to affiliate themselves with.

kendrick1

I’m with you! Blacks simply resist becoming acclimated to the culture to which the rest of us are tuned in! They want the rest of our nation to be like them, we aren’t, and so they hate us!

As for names — and I can’t remember the chronological in which they were put forth by the blacks — they wanted to be called Negro, then colored, then Afro-American, then black, then African-American. They seem to have no pride in whatever they are called.

I have in me, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch blood. I’m proud to be an American, and a citizen of the United States of America!!!
Eddie2

That’s very easy for someone who’s white to say. I am asked everyday where I am from, and everyday I say New York. And almost every time I say this, I am asked where I am REALLY from. As if I was not REALLY born and raised in America because I don’t look like the founders of this great country.
The Bruce

I’m the same way. I don’t subscribe to hyphenated Americanism. Terms like these are invented by liberals to divide the country. We’re all Americans. We are not comprised of “different types” of Americans.

If for some reason race is germane to the conversation then black, white, etc is perfectly fine.
Nonya

Yeah, crazy how people might want to acknowledge their cultural history and where they come from. It’s not like this is a country that thrives and celebrates the diversity of it’s citizens or anything…

/end sarcasm

Mike

Halfrican

Patty Mudd

African enough to hate his white half.

TheBastion

Al Sharpton once stated on TV that only the majority can be racist and that by definition “minorities” cannot be racist. I guess by those standards only the Asians could be racist. By the way, I have seen it at least 30 times in the last week or so from both sides talking about race but never mentioning my Asian race (I’m sorry, I meant “white-asian” since my father was Vietnamese and my mother is white). About the only time you hear any stories about the Asian race(s) is about preferences for college admission!

http://www.freedomreport.org/george-zimmermans-father-speaks-for-first-time/ George Zimmerman’s father speaks for first time… | Freedom Report

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Ivan

Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
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Will you describe Obama like that? Are you implying that Zimmerman is not Hispanic enough, making Obama not black enough?

JLR

I think the point is, its a murder/man slaughter case not a hate crime. People have made several points about the black on black crime that goes unreported. The accused has been labled as white, when that is in doubt.

To me it makes zero difference, the color of the peoples skin, even if it was racially motivated its still murder or manslaugher.

Patty Mudd

What I take away from all this is that Organized Blackness is more upset by the supposition that Mr. Zimmerman is a racist than by the fact that Trayvon Martin is dead.

sailordude@yahoo.com

I think back to the film, Twelve Angry Men. If there were 12 black jurors would there be a black Henry Fonda to save a George Zimmerman? I don’t know, I’d like to think there would be, but in this racial climate it’s very hard to believe. Once whites lose their population base in the next 40 years do you think the country will be able to survive? I’m very pessimistic of that happening. Obama has definitely not brought the races together and all of those whites who voted for him to do so should be very disappointed now. I will not be voting for Obama for many reasons one being that I don’t believe he is for a unified America. Racial division furthers his party’s political agenda.

Eddie2

Perish the thought of whites not being the majority in this country. Everyone will just have to get along a lot more and try to understand each other more. And quite honestly, looking at the facts of this case, how are you so sure Zimmerman is not guilty? So far I know that a 17-year-old black kid who was unarmed is dead. I know that a 911 call was made by the man who shot the kid and was asked to desist. The scuffle between Trayvon and Zimmerman is NOT fact. Zimmerman says it happened, but has not been corroborated. A video of Zimmerman in handcuffs exists exhibiting none of the wounds that he supposedly suffered. Are you sure Zimmerman’s not guilty?

Mike

Eyewitnesses corroborated the story. Maybe his head wasn’t bloody because he was worked on by paramedics. So how long was he shouting for help before he shot him. That seemed like a long time. Maybe he should have stopped smacking Zimmerman.
Kevin

He wasn’t asked to “desist”… Quit trying to sound like a lawyer/cop…

Zimmerman was doing just what he had been doing for a while… Protecting his neighborhood… Trayvon was doing what he had been doing for awhile as well…

nomad

The president is a black caucasian. The media says there is no wound but if you watch the video a couple of times and pay close attention you can see the same wound the officer was observing.

Kevin

Not to mention the officer(s) reported the injuries in the report… But, that doesn’t matter to liberals and clones.

Davis

The only sad thing is that Martins parents didn’t bother to tell their son about how self defense laws in this country work. Zimmerman is not behind bars because self defense is legal, concealed cary is legal, and shooting Martin was not a crime but instead preventing one!
jeeeezzzzzzzzzzzz

I am a 100% Zimmerman Supporter!!!! Good Job….sorry for the DAD and MOM its a tough pill to swallow..

Another4yearshonkies

GO SMOKE SOME CRACK DUMMY!!!!!!!!!!

sirtennyson

Facts can be very inconvenient. The Reverend Al could write a book on the subject.

TheBastion

Tawanna!

Kevin

Duke!

2conservative

No, I will refer to the President and “the President”. My point was that I’ve never heard the term “white-hispanic” before the reporting on this case. I’ve also never heard the term “white-african” either.
sirtennyson

Facts can sometimes be very inconvenient.
thebabydoc

Look carefully at the 0:34 mark on this video. The Date/Time stamp has been carefully blocked out for the ENTIRE video except this single second or two.
Time/Date stamp CLEARLY says DECEMBER. He’s also handcuffed in the video, but he was NOT under arrest when he was brought in after the shooting last month (February) so it is unlikely that he would have been handcuffed. Sure they “confirmed that it was Zimmerman in the video,” only they conveniently did not say WHEN it was from. Interesting note: Zimmerman had been arrested a few years back (when he looked like this) for assaulting an officer. Could this be that video and has ABC DELIBERATELY and DESPERATELY tried to pass this video off as video from last month in order to further hide their absolute jump-to-conclusions-liberal bias?
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Alex

Just like OJ was innocent….to some people.

me3213

EXACTLY!

Benjamin Deauver

Treyvon (is that a REAL name?) Martin got what was coming to him. No more, no less. Scratch one predator.
I support Zimmerman

How the media is letting crazed blacks threaten Zimmerman is appalling. Does anyone doubt if he Zimmerman wondered thru Sanford during the rally that he would be ripped to shreds. What does that say for blacks and the media? If the other races of America do not stop this now, we will see an era of blacks lynching whites, all they have to do is put out the word the way Spike Lee does.
This whole episode makes me think for 1st time Obama is truly evil as the fruits of his presidency is racial violence and hate.

Smebl0

Amen!
http://mayarb.wordpress.com mayarb

Soo it was okay when whites were lynching blacks? you can shut up because if it was a black, asian, latino, indian, anything other than WHITE man who shot a little white boy you all would have just as much to say as blacks do.

Just_Sayin

If Zimmerman is white because his father is white, then what about Obama, whose father is Kenyan?
HatKat

Isn’t that a great term….white-hispanic. They had to dig pretty deep for that one. Our media is garbage, our President is garbage. He’s a racial huckster like Sharpton and Jackson.

Snitch-in-Time

The spin coming from the left is mind numbing. Another poster on one of the other sites said it best: “This goes all the way down the rabbit hold. Hand me the red pill please.”
Dead Serious

AMEN!

Ron Bartlett

Watch the surveillance video and question why the police officer is looking carefully at the back of Zimmerman’s head at the 50 second mark of the video.
I’m not saying there is any thing to see but there wouldn’t have to be blood. How about an abrasion or bruising?

gomidas

How about this?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/29/police-surveillance-video-of-zimmerman-may-show-head-injury/

duh

yes, in that picture you can also tell where the officer was hit on the face with a steel pipe!

jeff

And a broken nose does not have to include the appearance of blood or have any visually noticeable effects.

Another4yearshonkies

I GUESS THAT GOOSE NOSE OF YOURS HAS BEEN BROKEN ALREADY. GO SNORT SOME COKE DUMB ASS

noseitall

Liberals are saying that George Zimmerman is white, because his father is white.

Barack Obama’s father is Kenyan.
HatKat

We treat blacks in this country like children, because they act like children. Its unfortunate that this predator, Trayvon Martin, got shot while assaulting Zimmerman, but it was his own fault. There are stereotypes for a reason.

http://phatsational.wordpress.com phatsational

@HatKAt… Really? So when someone stalks and murder one of your children WE can just say stand your ground…. I will remeber that. Oh and If something one day ever happen to one of yours and that’s to all of you…. I hope you remember your comments. God don’t sleep and while some think they know best. God know BETTER…. Losing a child is such a tragerdy. Point is Zimmer is not law enforcement and he should have called the police. If some one approaches you what would you do? Sometimes we have to think past color and think as pareants and humans…. I have always loved everyone no matter what color. When someone is murdered it makes me very angry no matter what the color is. And for the ones that are making the racist comments, I love you to!!! I really wish no harm to no one but sometimes karma can come back to bite you. Please people watch your comments because I’m sure we all have kids of our own…..