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Zimmerman’s Hispanic mother, Gladys Zimmerman, disagreed with prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda’s suggestion that a 2005 arrest for assaulting a police officer showed a violent streak in the married 28-year-old, who stands accused by the state of second degree murder.
Instead, she said it fit his personality in another way:
His zeal to intervene to protect a friend who was being pushed up against a wall by men who turned out to be two plain-clothes law enforcement officers. (A first time offender, Zimmerman escaped a conviction by agreeing to a judge’s request that he take an anger management course.)
According to his mother, Zimmerman, who was once beaten up in high school, cares about the downtrodden and forgotten, going so far as to rally Sanford residents in defense of a homeless man who was beaten, eventually getting a commendation from the city’s mayor for his work on behalf of social justice.
He also ventured into what was viewed as a dangerous neighborhood to mentor a pair of black kids, telling his mother, “If I don’t go, they don’t have nobody.”
He continued meeting the kids twice a month even after the program was shut down for lack of funds, she said.
“That was George, that was my son, who organized a meeting so that a poor man could have justice,” said Gladys Zimmerman, under oath.
“He’s very protective of people, very protective of homeless people. He likes to defend people. He likes to protect people.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0421/George-Zimmerman-Social-justice-activist-with-a-gun
Instead, she said it fit his personality in another way:
His zeal to intervene to protect a friend who was being pushed up against a wall by men who turned out to be two plain-clothes law enforcement officers. (A first time offender, Zimmerman escaped a conviction by agreeing to a judge’s request that he take an anger management course.)
According to his mother, Zimmerman, who was once beaten up in high school, cares about the downtrodden and forgotten, going so far as to rally Sanford residents in defense of a homeless man who was beaten, eventually getting a commendation from the city’s mayor for his work on behalf of social justice.
He also ventured into what was viewed as a dangerous neighborhood to mentor a pair of black kids, telling his mother, “If I don’t go, they don’t have nobody.”
He continued meeting the kids twice a month even after the program was shut down for lack of funds, she said.
“That was George, that was my son, who organized a meeting so that a poor man could have justice,” said Gladys Zimmerman, under oath.
“He’s very protective of people, very protective of homeless people. He likes to defend people. He likes to protect people.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0421/George-Zimmerman-Social-justice-activist-with-a-gun
