{"id":14587,"date":"2012-05-17T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:35:26","slug":"fbi-actively-pursuing-hate-crime-charge-for-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14587","title":{"rendered":"FBI Actively Pursuing Hate Crime Charge For\u00a0Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Zimmerman<\/strong>, 28, who has been charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of 17-year-old<strong> Trayvon Martin<\/strong> on February 26, in Sanford, Florida, may soon be facing a hate crime charge from the FBI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> admitted to killing <strong>Martin<\/strong> in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was in self-defense. He\u2019s facing a second-degree murder charge, which carries a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. But if <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> is charged and found guilty of a federal hate crime involving murder, he could face the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>FBI investigators are actively questioning witnesses in the retreat at the Twin Lakes neighborhood, seeking evidence for a possible federal hate crime charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Zimmerman, 28, who has been charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, in Sanford, Florida, may soon be facing a hate crime charge from the FBI. Zimmerman admitted to killing Martin in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was in self-defense. He\u2019s facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}