Zimmerman helps rescue family from overturned vehicle, police say <http://www.reuters.com/> Description: ReutersBy Barbara Liston | Reuters 3 hours ago
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, who was acquitted earlier
this month of murder and manslaughter in the death of unarmed black teenager
Trayvon Martin, helped rescue a family from an overturned vehicle in Florida
last week, authorities said on Monday.
Zimmerman, 29, helped get them out of the overturned sport utility vehicle
last Wednesday, barely four days after the not-guilty verdict, the Seminole
County Sheriff's Office in central Florida said.
"He did not witness the crash. He rolled up on it after the fact and
assisted in getting the family out of the vehicle," sheriff's spokeswoman
Kim Cannaday said.
When a deputy arrived at the scene, two men, one of whom was identified as
Zimmerman, had already helped get the parents and two children out of the
vehicle, Cannaday said. The two men then left.
Cannaday said no one was injured. The family's identity and race were not
immediately known.
Asked if Zimmerman was being called a hero, Cannaday said, "We're not going
that far."
The verdict in the racially charged Martin case sparked protests in cities
across the country, as well as calls to review Florida's "Stand Your Ground"
self-defense law which allows persons in fear of their lives to use deadly
force rather than retreat.
Zimmerman, who is part Hispanic, was the neighborhood watch captain in the
Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the killing in
February 2012.
Martin was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the
homeowners. He was walking back to the residence after buying snacks at a
nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a
confrontation with Zimmerman.
Sanford police on Monday turned over all evidence in the case to the Orlando
office of the FBI, including the gun used in the shooting, Sanford police
said.
The U.S. Justice Department last week put a hold on the evidence pending an
investigation into whether Zimmerman violated civil rights laws, requiring
the evidence to be kept intact rather than returned.
Public opinion is evenly divided over the verdict, according to several
recent polls. The Pew Research Center found that 39 percent of people
surveyed were satisfied with the verdict and 42 percent were dissatisfied,
with 19 percent having no opinion.
In the same poll published on Monday, 52 percent say race is getting more
attention in the case than it merits, while 36 percent say the case raises
important issues about race that need to be discussed.
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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