George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, claims he was punched in the face by a man at a Florida restaurant.
According to 911 calls obtained by WFTV-TV in Florida, Zimmerman said a group of men recognized him at Gators Riverside Grille and confronted him.
“He said he was going to kill me,” Zimmerman said to police. “You need to send like three or four cops.”
The Orlando Sentinel reported that Zimmerman walked by several people seated at a table Sunday evening and complimented one man’s Confederate flag tattoos. The man, Joseph Whitmer, thanked him and asked about the Trayvon Martin case.
A man who identified himself as Zimmerman’s friend told 911 dispatchers: “George Zimmerman and I were sitting at a restaurant here eating and four or five guys came up to us and attacked George,” he said. “I tried to film it and they knocked my phone out of my hand and down onto the dock when I was trying to film it.”
Gators Riverside Grille would not comment on the events of the evening but a spokeswoman said George Zimmerman is “not allowed at the restaurant” and that “he’s a troublemaker.”
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