Despite being in hiding since his acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman has now emerged to help rescue a family of four trapped in an overturned vehicle.
According to published reports, the incident took place last week at the intersection of I-4 and Route 417 in Sanford, Fla., less than a mile from where Zimmerman shot Martin.
According to CBS Tampa, a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office report noted the family was driving in a Ford Explorer SUV when it went off the road and rolled over. A responding deputy reported that when he arrived, Zimmerman and another man helped the two parents and two children out of the vehicle.
Sanford Police Capt. Jim McAuliffe told Fox News that Zimmerman, 29, was identified by a crash victim as the man who pulled him from the mangled vehicle last week.
“George Zimmerman pulled me out,” firefighters were told by the unidentified driver, according to McAuliffe.
McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman “pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over.”
The Seminole County Sheriff’s report states Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash and departed the scene after making contact with the deputy who had responded.
The rescue is the first known public sighting of Zimmerman since a jury found him not guilty of murder in the death of Martin.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh today asked, “How long will it be before [the left claims] the whole accident was scripted? … The Zimmerman haters will say this whole thing is staged, probably rehearsed. ‘This was a set-up so Zimmerman could look good.’”
While some political observers have said President Obama has more in common with Zimmerman than Trayvon Martin, Limbaugh quipped, “I don’t know that Obama has ever rescued a family from an overturned truck.”
Zimmerman, 29, shot and killed Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012. The jury determined that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
The verdict prompted dozens of protests across America this past weekend, and his lawyers have said Zimmerman has received numerous death threats, prompting him to wear a bullet-proof vest when he goes out in public.
Zimmerman’s parents told ABC News that they, too, have received death threats and have been unable to return to their home.
“We have had an enormous amount of death threats. George’s legal counsel has had death threats, the police chief of Sanford, many people have had death threats,” Zimmerman’s father, Robert Zimmerman said. “‘Everyone with Georgie’s DNA should be killed’ – just every kind of horrible thing you can imagine.”
