Gary W. Green/EPA/LANDOV
So…George Zimmerman is at it again.
As far as I know, he is still
in custody in Florida this evening. Police arrested him after his new
girlfriend called 911 when he started brandishing his guns in her face and
using them to bust up her house, which he then proceeded to push HER out of
and lock the doors before police could arrive.
When I first became aware of
this story, I thought, “This guy is such an idiot. Either he thinks his acquittal in the Martin
case has given him blanket immunity from prosecution, or he is just too
violent and too stupid to know when to quit.
Either way, he’s in jail. Again.
We can only hope he stays there this time.”
I even posted something on Facebook
to the effect that his girlfriend called the cops on him, and I guess she can
consider herself fortunate that he didn’t shoot HER. And we can only hope the law can put him away
before he kills someone else.
But then I caught the
Lawrence O’Donnell show on MSNBC this evening.
O’Donnell played the TWO 911 calls generated by the incident. The first was from the girlfriend, detailing
how Zimmerman had smashed up her house, waved his guns in her face, and was now
pushing her out the door and locking her out.
The second was from Zimmerman
himself. He called 911, not because he
needed help, but because he “needed to get his story out there.” And then he went on, in a deadly calm voice,
to spin HIS side of the yarn for the operator.
About how his girlfriend smashed her own glass table. About how SHE “went crazy on him” after he
decided it would be better if he moved out and he started to pack up his
things. About how SHE was throwing his
stuff around and breaking things. You can listen yourself here:
Isn't this absolutely chilling? Here is this guy, moments after a
highly-charged confrontation which ended with him pushing this girl out the
door and locking her out (and then barricading the door against police), and he sounds like he just woke up on a fine morning
and hasn’t quite finished his first cup of coffee. He’s quiet, he’s calm, and he’s got his story
absolutely down pat. And it sounds for all the world as if,
not only does he believe every word he’s saying, but he fully expects the 911
operator--and the entire world, which he knows is going to hear this tape--to believe him, too.
This guy is NOT just your
run-of-the-mill, gun-loving good ole boy.
He’s a classic abuser with dire anger management problems bordering on psychopathic, who has the
balls and the legal know-how to construct elaborate layers of fiction
surrounding his misdeeds with the intent to confuse, side-track and even derail
prosecution. What I heard on that tape
was frightening. He sounded as deadly dangerous as any caricature serial killer/villain pulled out of the minds of the writers of Criminal Minds. And I had to quit watching Criminal Minds because that show seriously creeped me out.
It must be obvious, now, that the Trayvon Martin killing
was not an isolated, “Oops! He beat me up and I had to shoot him. Sorry!” incident. If the circumstances of this new arrest
are any indication, Zimmerman knew exactly what he was doing, and exactly how to
craft his story in order to get himself off the hook.
And if someone doesn’t keep a
close eye on him, he will kill again. With every intention of getting away with it.
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