George Zimmerman said he doesn’t need to answer to mere mortals.
“I know that ultimately, [God]’s the only judge that I have to answer to,” neighborhood watch zealot George Zimmerman said Monday, whining that he’s a “scapegoat” and wants his life back.
“He knows what happened. I know what happened. So I’d leave it up to him.”
Seven months after his acquittal on second-degree murder and manslaughter of the unarmed, 17-year-old Martin in a Florida neighborhood in February, 2012, Zimmerman, 30, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” that he still gets death threats and branded a racist.
“I have a lot of people saying that, you know, they guarantee that they’re going to kill me and I’ll never be a free man,” Zimmerman said. “I realized that they don’t know me. They know who I was portrayed to be.”
Zimmerman, who maintains he killed Martin in self defense, says he was a scapegoat “for the government, the President, the attorney general.”
Though he’s had several run-ins with the law since the trial ended, Zimmerman said he wants to go back to school to become a lawyer.
“I think that’s the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else,” he declared. “I don’t think it should ever happen to anyone ever again, not one person.”
And – while even one of his own lawyers has said Zimmerman is a racist – he denied it, telling CNN that some of his Peruvian family members are black.
“Before the trial, during and after, I’ve learned that the majority of people, when they sit down with me one-on-one or with my family, they get a completely different perspective,” he said.
After the trial, Zimmerman’s wife called 911 saying he had threatened her with a gun. There were no charges filed, but she divorced him. Zimmerman made headlines again, arrested after another 911 call that claimed he chased his girlfriend with a shotgun. She later lifted a restraining order against him.
The latest round of Zimmerman controversy surrounds his new hobby – selling his artwork.
His first piece, featuring an American flag, sold on Ebay for more than $100,000. His newest piece is a rendering of Special Prosecutor Angela Corey, who charged him in Martin’s killing.
“To be honest, I was hoping to provide a decent lifestyle for my family,” Zimmerman told CNN of his new money-making venture.
Zimmerman has previously said his is $2.5 million in debt and doesn’t have a job.