Trayvon Martin’s Parents React to George Zimmerman’s Bizarre Statement: ‘I Feel that It was All God’s Plan’
Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 11:41AM 
By EEW News Editors
Many strange and heinous things are carried out in the name of God, like terrorist acts, hate crimes, and even murder. In an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who fatally shot 17-year-old unarmed teen Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, says of the tragic event, “I feel that it was all God’s plan.”
The shocking statement sparked a wave of public criticism, leaving many confused and insulted by Zimmerman’s assertion that it was God’s divine plan for him to pursue and gun down an innocent boy. "I simply really don't know what God George Zimmerman's worshipping because there's no way that the God that I serve had in his plans for George Zimmerman to murder my son," Martin's father, Tracy Martin, told CBS’s Norah O'Donnell.
Grieving mother, Sybrina Fulton responded by saying his words “make me feel still sad, because I just don’t believe what he says and um, it hurts a great deal.” When asked if she believed Zimmerman’s apology was sincere she said, “No I do not and I have a hard time accepting it because he also says that he doesn’t regret anything that he did that night. And I don’t think God would have him in his plan to murder an innocent child.”
Though it may have seemed like a good idea to Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder, and his attorney, Mark O’mara, to play the “faith card,” pinning the murder on “God’s plan,” is clearly backfiring.
“I’m sorry that they buried their child. I can’t imagine what it must feel like and I pray for them daily,” Zimmerman told Hannity, who also asked the shooter if he regretted getting out of his car initially. Zimmerman said no, nor did he regret being armed, nor any of his other actions that night. According to the stoic-looking, clean-cut Zimmerman, he would not have done anything differently, adding the now infamous line: ‘I feel that it was all God’s plan. For me to second guess it, judge it, um…’
Before completing the interview, however, Zimmerman attempted to amend his first bizarre statement by saying, “I do wish there was something, anything I would have done to put me in a position where I didn’t have to take his life.”
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Reader Comments (10)
i'll try to not write a book.
this is insanity on SO many levels number being is he's still walking the street. this was a 1 NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHMAN, not a cop, not even a cadet who pursued (oh sorry walking closing behind but not following) a young man he thought was ROBBING his neighborhood would was NOT.
if a BLACK man said 'it was in god's plan for me to rob yo' house and defend myself' they would LOCK him up and throw away the KEY..i am AGAST that this man GETS an OPPORTUNITY to even BE on a NATIONAL television network LIE and plead his case with KKK sympathizers. I mean are your SERIOUS. Not only has he changed his story from him RUNNING to '(cough) SKIPPING' he LIED to the judge, has a criminal background and possible accusation of ABUSE. ARE you KIDDING me? he said he was sorry no he isnt i can't even listen to it anymore. He 's a liar. And REALLY feels justified i ma tell you what REALLY happen HE was JEALOUS of TRAYVON and didnt want to be seen getting his behind whopped by a TEENAGER. He was blaming all black people for the crimes committed in his neighborhoodand TOOK it out on TRAYVON, dont tell me he didnt judge that boy HE did and when he FIRST told the story he ORIGINALLY said TRAYVON REACHED for his GUN where is that story NOW that was WHY he shot him. He's a big OLE LIAR.
He is a LIAR LIAR.
Trayvon saw him REACH for his phone and thought it was a GUN, i think he did beat him up because if i thought someone was gonna KILL me i might do the SAME thing. He's a LIAR, because he does regret killing him but is TOO proud to say so because he would have to ADMIT he JUDGE TRAYVON and he was WRONG.
What makes me MORE sick is the way the PUBLIC defends him making it like TRAYVON is Charles manson and guilty of EVERY crime black peopl committed against white people this is REAL deep and it goes WAY back. #slavery They are giving MONEY to a man who killed a KID they viewed as a KILLER because 'after all you know all black people are Criminals anyway right' if it was reversed NO one would be defending a black man, GOD's plan is that we love our brothers, he is a murderer. Bottom line there is no SELF DEFENSE in the bible #lockhimup
Let GOD be the RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. peace
it was God's permissive will trayvon died it was NOT his WILL that someone SHOOT him in allegded self defense, anymore than it is God's will someone is murdered. Zimmerman is a legend in his own mind. wow.
Ignorance at its finest. I wish these demonic, ignorant people would stop putting God at the forefront of their mess! My God didn't tell him to murder that child, but maybe his 'god' did; satan that is. Either way you look at this case, his excuses are merely a copout. What he did was wrong, and there is no justifying that. However, when satan gets into your brain, making you feel all-powerful, evident wrongdoing is probably unfathomable. The man feels invincible, which is ever so sad.
I am sick to my stomach reading this. How dare he even suggest that God had anything to do with his heartless crime! I pray he is punished to the FULL EXTENT of the law!!!!
He is a LIAR and I hope they throw him UNDER the jail!!!!!!!!
I am sick and tired of people using God's name in their foolishness. Smh! This is disgusting.
He has some nerve...The sad part is, he believes this to be true...and he has other idiots that believe it too.
My jaw just really hit the floor when I first heard him say that. I mean, he is really sitting there like a boy is not dead who had nothing on him but skittles and ice tea. Really Zimmerman? Really????
Looking right in the devil's eyes.
Wow. If, according to the Bible, God is NOT willing that any should perish, then why would it be His plan for one man to kill another? Zimmerman should not have even let those words pass his lips! I pray that he will experience guilt for his wrongdoing and that that same guilt will lead him to true repentance---not only to Jesus Christ, but to the Martin family.