Zimmerman a hero
 

Just thought I would share this http://main.aol.com/2013/07/14/_n_35...6pLid%3D347296

Good for him. I've stopped and helped people at several accident scenes and I do not consider myself a hero...

Any one who helps people in my eyes is a hero :) or animals

It was pretty gutsy thing to do knowing so very many people are out to kill him. Anyone with a gun could have come along and recognized him. I would have been scared to death to show my face knowing the hate so many have for him - people knowing they will be worshipped/memorialized for life if they take his. Getting out where others could see his face was brave as all get out, let alone helping people out of a vehicle that could have begun leaking gas and burning at any time, for all he knew. Any time one puts one's own life at risk to help others, particularly children, qualifies a hero.

I am really anxious to hear if the people he helped, were black.....Here in Houston today, we had a man, verbally berate a female in a gas station....it was all caught on the security cameras. He was carrying an umbrella, but he never swung at her, but you could surmise from hand gesters, he was hollering at her about something. She went to the trunk of her car, got out a 22 cal. rifle. The man walked toward her and she fired a warning shot into the ground at his feet. He then lunged at her, and slapped the krapp out of her. She then shot him 4-5 times, killing him. She stood over him, documented the death on her cell phone camera, got in her car, and drove off. I am listening to see if there is uproar over "stand your ground" in THIS case.....NOT that it makes one iota of difference, but both of these people were black.

You are right...it shouldn't make any difference.

There is a question of whether this even happened or was set up to help redeem him in the public's eye. The family won't speak publicly now, hmmmmmm

There are 911 tapes AND EYEWITNESS' to it all, its in the police report....

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If it was a set up it would have been black people but either way to much proof that it was real. Sometimes God gives good people a chance to shine so the world can see there true character.

I find it interesting that this hardly got any coverage by the media.

This is absolutely crazy!!! Surely, no one actually believ.....never mind.....I am absolutely certain there are millions of people out there that would believe this is all set up by some family, who would risk their lives to roll their car upside down,(or maybe a towing service was also involved and a tow truck turned the car upside down and positioned the family back inside the car), then the police and 911 all got involved, then Zimmerman emerged from a secret hidden bush, to "help" this family!....someone forgot to bring the tv news crew or even a camera to document "the set up".....Give me a break!!! Lets TRY to keep a modicum of reality around this entire thing! Remember!!! AGENDAS!!!!!! Everything this man does, for the rest of his life, is going to be distorted, miligned, misinterpreted and misrepresented! He is NEVER going to be able to do anything and have it taken at face value!

Good. Maybe this will make other people will think twice before they choose to put themselves in dangerous situations. Maybe they will think twice about trying to police their neighborhoods and stalk teenagers.

We have a neigthborhood watch program.....just like what Zimmerman was "hired" by, to do exactly what he was doing, patroling the neighborhood.....I hope when the person who has been "HIRED" or "APPOINTED" by the HOA, to patrol this subdivision, is trusted to watch our property, sees some 6 foot tall shadow, lurking around my home, dressed all in black, with a hoodie covering his head, I hope it is not at THAT time that he forgets what he has been trusted to do, and choose to look the other way and leave. Even tho it is impossible to see that the 6 foot tall, dressed all in black shadow, is actually just a little boy, of unknown color because it is night time..... I hope he does not take his eyes off this person, until the police can get here... I heard today the family that Zimmerman helped in the overturned car, had planned to publically thank him, but then, probably, wisely, decided to distance from him, as this person who has been tried and found not guilty, is now toxic to a large number of the population. That juror that came out, made the comment she felt distraught over the death, and that she felt so bad for Trayvons mother, for the death of her son...."no mother should have to suffer that pain".......but I guess it would have been fine for Zimmermans mother to suffer that same pain, if HE would have ended up the dead one, on the bottom of the pile, getting the krapp beaten out of him.....that would have been perfectly OK....just WHY, I can not for the life of me fathom some peoples sense of reasoning, but that is what they actually think.....go figure!

I guess I have a different mentality. If he had listened to the 911 operator to not pursue the boy, neither of them would have had the "krapp" beaten out of him. These two men/boys could have gone on with their lives and we wouldn't be discussing this. It is one thing to patrol, but it is another to pursue a person and take the law into your own hands.

:thumbup: Yes, he was HIRED, it was his job. Just like a security person, your job puts you in sometimes dangerous situations. The difference between neighborhood watch/security and police officers, is the cops have a badge, and if the cops had actually shown up on time when they were called, and the cops shot Trayvon, this would have never been blown so out of proportion. Cops shoot "bad guys" all the time and they hardly ever get put on trial for it. There have been numerous cases around here where cops shot a suspect that was unarmed and the cops shot them in the back!

Trayvon also could have said hey man I'm not here for trouble just heading home instead of jumping him also he could have stayed hidden and used his cell phone to call the cops if he was scared someone was stalking him.

We need more good story's like this on the news all that's on there now is bad stuff and it drags you down.

Glad he was there to help.

If this was anyone else, this wouldn't even be news. He pretty much helps saves a family and people are trying to say it was a conspiracy? I don't know what his intentions were, if he truly wanted to help these people, or if he thought trying to help then would put him in a tiny bit of a better light, but the fact is he did help save a family from a wreck. An X of mine would always help people, although I always wondered what his intentions were. Like he would see someone pushing a car on the other side of the street and make an illegal U turn to go back around and help them. To me didn't really seem genuine. He wanted to help so that people could tell him he's so nice. But didn't seem like it came from the heart. Perhaps Z is the same? Don't know. But he did help.

Motives ? We are only guessing. I am glad the family got help. Of course it didn't get much coverage, too many people want George dead.

It's amazing that his killing of a person was determined by social media and the media to be the worst of the worst of crimes and the killer the most hated man in America because he "profiled" but not much is being said anywhere about those "profiling" him or the family he helped, who are too scared for their two children to come forward and even talk about what happened. Mark O'Mara said that when that family called to cancel the press conference they were to do with him, the voice of the caller was shaking in fear! Just a couple out with their two kids, had a wreck, got pulled out of the vehicle and now they are having to hide in fear and the press isn't even covering that as a story. The couple even had one network blur the adults faces and not just the children so they couldn't be recognized and profiled.

Zimmerman isnt going to get fair and unbiased media coverage because they are too busy portraying him as the devil and this story doesnt fit that image. It is terrible how badly we are manipulated by the media

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I really don't like the title of this thread, people may misunderstand your meaning. I had heard he helped a family out of an overturned SUV, it happened after the acquittal. I would hardly call him a hero.

I had to think twice about that "hero" too but as he's the subject of thousands of death threats, probably more than a few of them as real as it gets - and a hunted man with a bodyguard full time to try to stay alive - to even stop, exit his vehicle and show his face in public took some cajones that not many men would have after the outrage and anger expressed by so many 4 days before after the court verdict and which rage was still burning on that very day. Some have even wondered if the wreck was real or staged just to make him look good! Conversely, how did Zimmerman know that wasn't a staged accident, if you will, calculated to get him to stop so he could be shot? I probably would have just kept going I'd be so scared if so many wanted me dead.

But back to reality, as the vehicle was turned on its side, it could have burst into flames any moment, those two children burned to death if they didn't get out in time. Most people that pull others from wrecked cars aren't heros usually unless their own life is at stake somehow, too. And wherever that man Zimmerman goes outside his home, anywhere he can be seen, his life is at stake. Those circumstances make him a hero to me - a hero being someone that thinks he could be putting himself in jeopardy to help others. And when you are the subject of such hate and rage that you must use a bodyguard, essentially live closed away, unable to go into a mall or grocery store or movie due to those out to kill you, always in a bulletproof vest, just going out of the house is fairly brave. But one day those that want him dead will no doubt satisfy their hate. I doubt he's got long to live before someone gets to him.

Well I consider any one who helps some one or something a hero. Our world is so focused on bad things that I have to do that or I might go crazy with how terrible our world is today. Just one kind thing can change the world. The car was on fire it could have exploded at anytime sounds heroic to me.

:thumbup: My cousin who lives in Texas helped a women after she was trapped in her car after an accident and I think hes a hero. I think Linda with all the work she does for yorkie haven and the dogs is a hero, I think Lynzy with all the work she does trying to shut down puppy mills is a hero, I think Priscilla and her fostering yorkies is a hero. My Grandpa who was in the air force but never had to fight on the front lines yet did amazing work on air crafts for 20 years and then retired to work 20 more years fighting for the rights of our military is a hero. I could not list everyone I see has a hero because it would be so many people on this board who help dogs and then those who have helped people. I think Zimmerman is much more deserving of the title hero then some of these basketball and football stars who do drugs, party, fight and everything else.

And the term hero is often used in connection with helping during any kind of rescue or helping someone in need. It needn't be misunderstood as anything more.

:thumbup:Yeah like that dog fighting piece of crap who does not even have a name to me anymore!