Tuesday’s season premiere of “Dr. Phil” was a trade-off for Mark and Sondra Osterman, friends of George Zimmerman.
The couple got to plug their book, “Defending Our Friend: The Most Hated Man in America,” about Zimmerman.
They also got a lecture from Dr. Phil McGraw who was starting his 11th season of “Dr. Phil.” McGraw weighed in on Zimmerman’s fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford and Zimmerman’s status as a Neighborhood Watch volunteer.
McGraw said that “it’s a Neighborhood Watch program, not a neighborhood hunt program.” He stressed that people don’t take a firearm on Neighborhood Watch.
“Here’s a guy on a watch program packing a gun with no safety, it just smacks to me of Rambo, macho stomping around the neighborhood with a gun. That bothers me,” McGraw said.
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Sondra Osterman countered that Zimmerman wasn’t on Neighborhood Watch the night of the shooting.
Zimmerman has said he was acting in self-defense against the 17-year-old. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder.