Zimmerman hasn't learned that he is still a media target

What is it like to have a target on your back? George Zimmerman ought to be an expert on that by now, but I'm not sure he understands this.  After his acquittal of second degree murder charges, people derided news that he had aided the occupants of an over-turned vehicle, but feasted on claims by his ex-wife Shellie that he attacked her, and who suggested that she thought he was guilty of murder. Charges were dropped for lack of evidence, and it didn’t help her case much when she went on CNN and whined that “George is all about George” and making character accusations that one suspects that she is guilty of as well. She wasn’t asked about her prior conviction on perjury charges and sentence to 100 hours of community service, which was certainly an excessive burden for a person of her dimensions, and no doubt she placed all of the blame on Zimmerman. Self-pity is certainly a strong motivation if one is looking for “empathy,” and saying damaging things about someone if it is vengeance you seek. Nor does it hurt when you know that people are certainly liable to believe anything negative said about Zimmerman.

You would think, of course, that Zimmerman would have learned a lesson here and stayed low for a while, maybe a year or two at least. That would include avoiding moving in with a "crazy" woman. I mean, what woman wouldn’t be knowing that others would wonder what she is doing with a man who is (almost) universally despised? Or maybe she does know that and can hold that anvil over his head just in case he isn’t sufficiently grateful. Samantha Scheibe claims that Zimmerman pointed a shotgun at her, broke a glass table, forced her out of the house and barricaded the door to keep her out. Does that make any sense? Zimmerman must have a very low threshold for common sense to act in this manner, knowing that anything he does will be blown out of proportion.

Zimmerman claims that he didn’t point a weapon at her, and the “argument” started when she told him she was pregnant and didn’t want him around anymore; he claims that his response was “fine, I’m leaving.” This apparently wasn’t the reaction she was expecting, and went “crazy” and started throwing things, including an object that broke the table. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle; police found Sheibe ready for malicious intent and Zimmerman quietly sitting in the house. Zimmerman’s story—as before—makes more sense, but naturally the media is baying for blood, and police and prosecutors are obliging. Added to these accusations is that Zimmerman tried to choke Sheibe on another occasion--because he "doesn't have anything more to lose"--but then again Zimmerman told the 911 operator that she had gone crazy "again." This doesn't sound like an atypical dysfunctional relationship.

Frankly, I’m sick of this whole thing—Zimmerman included—but most of all the media. Like in the Simpson case, if the media couldn't convict  him of one crime, just keep trying. Hypocrisy is the order of the day, as in the case of Roderick Scott, who was acquitted last July in the vigilante killing of a 16-year-old boy (as opposed to a 17-year-old "child"), a case that didn’t receive even a miniscule fraction of the attention the Zimmerman case did—likely because as in the Cordell Jude case, the racial dynamic wasn’t “right.”  Meanwhile we await the verdict in the Jude trial, which has gone to the jury.