{"id":7301,"date":"2013-07-17T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:28:24","slug":"zimmerman-family-suspects-obama-is-tapping-their-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7301","title":{"rendered":"Zimmerman family suspects Obama is tapping their phones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Zimmerman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a media appearance Tuesday morning, the brother of the recently acquitted George Zimmerman said that he and his family have concerns that the Obama administration is tapping their communications.<\/p>\n

Appearing on Fox News, Robert Zimmerman said \u201cWe do have concerns and always have of having our phones tapped, having our phones listened to by the administration or whomever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the things that we do are connecting in person\u2014that\u2019s how we\u2019ve managed to stay hidden for so long. It\u2019s kind of old school, but it works\u2026We\u2019re back to what we were doing in March of 2012, because it\u2019s right in everybody\u2019s mind right now.\u201d he added, referring to staying safe in the wake of several threats and acts of violence related to last week\u2019s \u201cNot Guilty\u201d decision.<\/p>\n

Zimmerman\u2019s brother also stated that the family is worried that the Department of Justice is being pressured by certain white special interest groups to open a federal investigation into the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Eric Holder is being pressured by some groups who were calling for, initially, just an arrest. These same groups keep moving around the goal posts: the NAACP, Al Sharpton, the Rainbow Push Coalition with Jesse Jackson.\u201d Zimmerman noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst they wanted just a simple arrest and that\u2019s it, have his fair day in court and whatever the verdict is, we\u2019ll respect it. Then when the verdict was coming they wanted him to be found guilty. But the verdict isn\u2019t what they wanted, so now they\u2019re moving the goal post again, and calling on the Department of Justice to investigate him more.\u201d the brother added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the Justice Department\u2019s responding to pressure,\u201d Zimmerman continued. \u201cBut I think that the American people need a little bit of time to digest those two words \u2018Not Guilty.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t mean nothing happened. I think most of the people who were upset with that outcome didn\u2019t actually pay attention to the trial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a media appearance Tuesday morning, the brother of the recently acquitted George Zimmerman said that he and his family have concerns that the Obama administration is tapping their communications. Appearing on Fox News, Robert Zimmerman said \u201cWe do have concerns and always have of having our phones tapped, having our phones listened to by … Continue reading “Zimmerman family suspects Obama is tapping their phones”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3030,90,3986,2017,3985],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-nsa","tag-obama","tag-phone-tapping","tag-racial-bias","tag-robert-zimmerman"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/robertzimmerman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7303,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}