A judge in Florida this morning set bail at $1 million for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
As The Orlando Sentinel writes, “defense attorney Mark O’Mara said Friday that Zimmerman’s legal defense fund had a balance of $211,000, more than enough to cover the 10-percent non-refundable portion charged by most bonding companies.”
As we’ve previously written:Zimmerman was originally released after posting 10 percent of a $150,000 bail, but was ordered back to jail on June 1 because neither he nor his wife had told the presiding judge of the large amount of money they had collected — via online donations — in that defense fund.
Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, was shot and killed in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman has claimed he acted in self defense.
But Martin’s family and supporters allege Zimmerman racially profiled the African-American teenager and followed him despite a police dispatcher’s advice not to do that. Zimmerman had called police to report a “suspicious” man in his neighborhood.
The case sparked another national discussion about race relations.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/05/156299517/zimmermans-bail-set-at-1-million?ft=1&f=1002&sc=igg2
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People actually donated money to this bastard? Really? And why hasn’t he been indefinitely imprisoned yet? Why is he even being offered bail?
I don’t understand what the fuck is wrong with this country.
