Police release watch captains previous calls
George Zimmermans calls show interest in the mundane and in suspicious outsiders.
By Frances Robles
frobles@MiamiHerald.com
From open garage doors to kids dashing into the street and suspicious characters, George Zimmerman, neighborhood watch captain at Retreat at Twin Lakes, was on it.
The Seminole County Sheriffs Office on Monday release tapes of six calls to the police non-emergency number in which Zimmerman called in mundane goings-on at his Sanford townhouse complex including four times he saw black men loitering.
On the tapes, Zimmerman sounds as if hes reading from a script, often starting with Weve had a lot of break-ins our neighborhood. In one October call, he said two suspicious characters in a white Impala were just hanging out, loitering. Another black man in pajama pants and a leather jacket showed up on trash day last month, while two other men spotted in early August matched the description of burglars his wife had seen, he said.
Just as he did with Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin, who was black, Zimmerman sometimes said, I dont know what his deal is.
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