“The incident”
by digby
I’m not sure who’d watch this:
The man acquitted in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin will step in the ring for a Celebrity Boxing match and is looking for an opponent, and in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com he says it’s a hobby he had “prior to the incident.”
“It was my idea,” Zimmerman, 30, says of the match that will be run by the event’s founder, Damon Feldman.
“Prior to the incident I was actually going to the gym for weight loss and doing boxing-type training for weight loss and a mutual friend put me in contact with Damon and provided me with an opportunity and motivation to get back in shape and continue with my weight loss goals and also be able to help a charity out.”
So he was doing boxing training at the time he was so afraid that he shot and killed an unarmed 17 year old kid (excuse me, at the time of “the incident”.) So apparently he still likes to pretend he’s all macho and train in the gym and then get himself into dangerous situations — at which point he panics. I’d be careful before I accepted any invitation to this match — you never know when he might feel threatened and pull out a gun and shoot you right there in the ring.
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