George Zimmerman’s bloody nose
Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, released a photo today of their client’s bloody nose taken moments after he shot the unarmed teenager. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, this...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman’s defense rests case
After just four days of testimony, the defense for George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin rested without the defendant taking the stand. Not that Zimmerman really needed to. His version of...
View ArticleRace and the George Zimmerman trial
Race was not as prominent a feature in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. Perhaps that was because of Judge Debra Nelson’s ruling before opening statements that the prosecution could...
View ArticleObama makes the ‘unsayable’ accessible
Like many difficult conversations, it started awkwardly, with half-jokes and extraneous references. But when President Obama got into the substance of his soliloquy on race and Trayvon Martin’s death,...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman goes gun shopping
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was found not guilty of second-degree murder last month, just can’t stop doing things that thrust him back into the spotlight. There was the “look,...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman does it again
Wait a minute! I went to lunch for one hour and came back to find George Zimmerman (back) in the news?! The acquitted killer of Trayvon Martin was arrested by Seminole County, Fla., police this...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman’s Icarus complex
“He knows how to do this. He knows how to play this game,” said Samantha Scheibe in her 911 call yesterday. Indeed, he does. And it finally might have gotten the better of him. “He” is George...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman: A man and his guns
We all know George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, loves guns. But a search warrant issued by the Seminole County clerk shows just how much. At the time of his arrest last week during a...
View ArticlePlaying games with George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, is a cat with nine lives. He was found not guilty of second-degree murder in July. His estranged wife didn’t press charges against him in a domestic...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman’s death wish
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, apparently is in such need for attention that he is slated to participate in a pay-per-view boxing match on March 1. The man acquitted in the February...
View ArticleLining up to knock out George Zimmerman
Folks, this is getting ridiculous. Ever since it was announced last Thursday that George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, would participate in a “celebrity” boxing match on March 1, every...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman vs. DMX: Hot mess [Update]
Today would have been Trayvon Martin’s 19th birthday. Instead of reflecting on the tragedy that ended his life, we are left to sit agape at the latest spectacle created by George Zimmerman, the man who...
View ArticleZimmerman KO’d before getting in the ring
The ill-advised boxing match between the killer of Trayvon Martin and a not-yet-named lunatic with a revenge fantasy, money problems or both was cancelled by its promoter on Saturday. Thank goodness....
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman is no ‘scapegoat’
Astounded. That’s the only way to describe CNN’s Chris Cuomo after he entered the delusional world of George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin. The reaction manifested itself throughout the...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman’s bloody autograph
We have long known that George Zimmerman is a craven attention-seeker. From traffic stops to domestic violence calls, the killer of Trayvon Martin has been in the news with irritating regularity since...
View ArticleDon’t be fooled by fake George Zimmerman art
The story was too shocking — even for the person at the center of it. After all, this was the same man who was going to take part in a “celebrity” boxing match. George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon...
View ArticleDon’t jump to conclusion over Bergdahl release video
A word of caution when viewing the video of the Taliban handover of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to U.S. forces on May 31. Obama administration officials, including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, have said that...
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Tamir Rice and Michael Brown didn’t deserve to die
Writing about how “in America, black children don’t get to be children,” Stacey Patton, a senior enterprise reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, broke my heart in one paragraph. Not because...
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The George Zimmerman circus returns
Whenever the following words appear in a story — George Zimmerman, arrested, domestic violence, weapons — I’m overcome with “shock and oh, brother.” It’s a “not again!” shock that the killer of...
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The internal challenges facing the LGBT movement
As I argued in my previous post, the challenges facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in a post-marriage-equality world are legal and cultural. But they are also internal....
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