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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:20 PM Mar 2012

Zimmerman's pal Joe Oliver on Good Morning America: "In many ways George has lost his life too"

A friend of Zimmerman, Joe Oliver, told CNN that Zimmerman is "a good man who was trying to do the right thing."

"This was not a racial incident," said Oliver, who worked at CNN in the 1990s. "This was an incident where someone who was just trying to do the right thing ended up in a very, very bad position."

Oliver told CNN on Monday that Zimmerman is in hiding and all his family members are worried for their safety.

In an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," Oliver said Zimmerman would tell Martin's family that "that he's very, very sorry, because in many ways George has lost his life too."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/justice/florida-teen-shooting/?hpt=hp_c2

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Zimmerman's pal Joe Oliver on Good Morning America: "In many ways George has lost his life too" (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 OP
Did He Shoot Himself? otohara Mar 2012 #1
George is very grateful to you Joe, for planting that meme with such subtle grace... WhoIsNumberNone Mar 2012 #2
Choices Blue Owl Mar 2012 #3
Is he no longer breathing, eating, sleeping, walking, talking, feeling, crying, Lint Head Mar 2012 #4
For Chrissakes, he killed another human being and not Cleita Mar 2012 #5
Boo fucking hoo, Zimmerman catbyte Mar 2012 #6
So in many ways George Zimmerman has lost his life too: well, cry me an indepat Mar 2012 #7
I'm sure he is very, very sorry Ruby the Liberal Mar 2012 #8

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
2. George is very grateful to you Joe, for planting that meme with such subtle grace...
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:27 PM
Mar 2012

because in many ways, he lost his life too.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
4. Is he no longer breathing, eating, sleeping, walking, talking, feeling, crying,
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:33 PM
Mar 2012

laughing or thinking? If he is still doing these things he has not lost his life.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
5. For Chrissakes, he killed another human being and not
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 02:42 PM
Mar 2012

because he was in a war and had to obey orders. Even if he never gets the justice he deserves, he will have to live with his conscience and the fact that people will probably shun him not only out of disgust but fear. He does not deserve any sympathy at all.

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
6. Boo fucking hoo, Zimmerman
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 03:11 PM
Mar 2012

Being Dirty Harry isn't nearly as much fun in real life as it looks in the movies, is it?

Lethal dumbass.



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Ruby the Liberal

(26,217 posts)
8. I'm sure he is very, very sorry
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 03:28 PM
Mar 2012

Sorry that this just didn't go away like he thought it would.

Actions have consequences.

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