{"id":15702,"date":"2012-07-19T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15702"},"modified":"2012-07-19T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:37:10","slug":"relative-told-police-that-george-zimmerman-didnt-like-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15702","title":{"rendered":"Relative Told Police That George Zimmerman Didn&#8217;t \u2018Like Black People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A relative of <strong>George Zimmerman&#8217;s<\/strong> labeled him as harboring racial bias against Black people. A source said that prosecutors interviewed a woman who claimed that the 28-year-old was racist. The woman, labeled as \u201cWitness 9\u201d contacted police two days after<strong> Zimmerman<\/strong> shot<strong> Trayvon Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman called to speak with <strong>Officer Chris Serino<\/strong>, who was in charge of investigating the homicide. When <strong>Serino<\/strong> was unavailable, she spoke with Officer Trekelle Perkins on the matter. \u201cI don&#8217;t know what happened,\u201d she said, reportedly sounding emotional. \u201cI don&#8217;t know at all who this kid was, or anything else. But I know <strong>George<\/strong>. And I know that he does not like Black people, and he would start something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the woman was fearful of her identity being revealed, and explained that she had been estranged from <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong>. \u201cI don&#8217;t talk to him because of the things that he says \u2026 the person he is \u2026 the things that he does. I know his mother, I know everybody and they&#8217;re all the same way, and I hate that. They&#8217;re just mean and [they&#8217;re] open about it.\u201d<strong> Zimmerman<\/strong> was also labeled as \u201ca very confrontational person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative of George Zimmerman&#8217;s labeled him as harboring racial bias against Black people. A source said that prosecutors interviewed a woman who claimed that the 28-year-old was racist. The woman, labeled as \u201cWitness 9\u201d contacted police two days after Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. The woman called to speak with Officer Chris Serino, who was [&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-15702","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\/15702","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=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}