commentary by Patrick H. Moore
A funny thing happened on the way to Los Angeles this morning. There I am, fresh from a busy morning of blogging, trying not to think about the rigorous day’s work ahead, bumping along on the old concrete freeway with a zillion other hapless commuters, when suddenly I realize that Big George Zimmerman has not been in the news lately. Ah well, that’s fine with me, like everyone else I overdosed on the Big Guy back in those disturbing days when he was on trial for shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
George skated and at that time, quoth I, to all and sundry, “It’s only a matter of time till Big George takes a fall.”
I get to work, hunker down, and am dealing with lawyers and my faithful criminal clients and generally having a good ol’ time when I get a tweet from the illustrious Amy Beth Arkawy, the New York based crime novelist. art and culture critic and BlogTalk radio host. You guessed it — Amy Beth has sent me a “George Zimmerman Arrested” link. I’m not one who typically cheers the misfortune of others but I must admit — a small evil part of me said YYYEEEAAAHHH!!!
So let’s see what happened. Julia Dahl of Crimesider states that the Big Guy (my term, not hers) “is being held without bail on charges that he threatened his girlfriend with a shotgun.”
Tsk tsk, George. Don’t you know better than that?
Ms. Dahl explains that the Big Guy (who has a very decent beard which rips the smug right off his face) was taken into custody Monday afternoon following a disturbance with his (ex) girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, at a home in Apopka, Fla., about 15 miles from Orlando. This information comes from Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma of the Seminole County Sheriff’s office.
Damn, George, we told you to hoof it out to Cali where life is good for a fresh start but you never listen, you stubborn jack___.
In a 911 call, Ms. Scheibe told police that Zimmerman had smashed a glass table, broken her sunglasses and pointed a shotgun in her face.
You incurably violent mo’fo’.
In the 911 call, Ms. Scheibe says:
“You put your gun in my freaking face. Get out of my house. Do not push me out of my house. Please get out of my house.”
Then she tells the dispatcher, “He pushed me out of my house and locked me out. … He knows how to do this. He knows how to play this game.”
After police arrived on the scene, Big George, master prevaricator and lover of 911 calls, placed his own call.
“I have a girlfriend, who for lack of a better word, has gone crazy on me.”
As always George’s story was the precise opposite of the other party (Of course Trayvon Martin couldn’t tell his side because he was dead.) George said he never pulled a gun on his girlfriend, and that she was the one who smashed a table. Then George announced that Scheibe was pregnant with their child and that she had decided she would raise the child on her own. So George did the manly thing and started to leave but, “she got mad.”
Oddly, while George was talking to the 911 dispatcher, the police officers were outside the house, trying to make their way through the furniture barricade the Big Guy had erected.
According to Chief Deputy Lemma, Ms. Scheibe told police she is not pregnant.
I don’t know if I believe her. She may simply be mortified at the thought of the world knowing she had engaged in an act of — I can hardly say it — coitus with the Mighty Man.
Chief Deputy Lemma stated that Our Hero has been charged with aggravated assault (which may or may not be a felony), battery, domestic violence, and criminal mischief. No injuries were incurred.
“The victim indicated that she and George Zimmerman were having a verbal dispute and at that time she alleged that he had broken a table and pointed a long barrel shotgun at her,” said Lemma.
Lemma said Scheibe told police that Zimmerman pushed her out of the home and barricaded the door with furniture as she called 911.
“She’s shaken up over this incident,” said Lemma.
Well yeah. George has been known to be rather quick when it comes to pointing guns at people.
Since being acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman has had several run-ins with law enforcement. He was stopped for speeding in Texas about two weeks after his acquittal while carrying a loaded gun, and pulled over twice more in Florida (once for speeding and once for overly tinted windows and improperly displayed tags). And in September, police were called to the home of his estranged wife, Shellie, after she told a police dispatcher that he threatened her with a gun. No charges were filed in that incident.
Well, my friends, as you count your blessing this fine morning (as I’m certain you do every morning), thank your lucky stars that you are not Big George Zimmerman. He bears the mark of Cain and that’s a “jacket” no one can escape.
Click here to read our earlier post on George Zimmerman and his history of violence:
George “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Had a History of Violence