George Zimmerman, who will not be facing civil charges for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, has returned to the public eye by appearing in a new interview on his lawyer, Howard Iken’s website. There he addresses how he feels about the Department of Justice’s decision, how he feels the Martin situation played out as "God intended," and how he personally felt victimized by President Barack Obama.
"For him to make incendiary comments as he did and direct the Department of Justice to pursue a baseless prosecution, he by far over-stretched, over-reached, even broke the law in certain aspects,” said Zimmerman. He’s referring to the president’s impassioned speech where he said, "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
Zimmerman directly addressed the speech saying, “To me that was clearly a dereliction of duty pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
Zimmerman went on to point out how horribly wrong Obama was in making that statement and what a low blow it was:
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He was especially bothered by the fact that his last name led to “being portrayed as a racist white man," when Zimmerman isn’t all that white and is actually half-Peruvian.
He added that he felt threatened all throughout the case investigation and didn’t feel the authorities did anything to protect him:
