{"id":19183,"date":"2013-09-14T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19183"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:36:24","slug":"in-email-zimmermans-local-police-chief-agrees-hes-another-sandy-hook-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/09\/in-email-zimmermans-local-police-chief-agrees-hes-another-sandy-hook-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"En un correo electr\u00f3nico, el jefe de polic\u00eda local de Zimmerman coincide en que es otro caso como el de Sandy Hook en potencia."},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY\u00a0<\/span>JUDD LEGUM<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Police Chief Steve Bracknell, who is responsible for the Florida town where George Zimmerman resides, agreed in a series of emails that Zimmerman is a \u201cticking time bomb\u201d and another \u201cSandy Hook\u201d waiting to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bracknell expressed his views in response to two emails from Santiago Rodriguez, who reached Bracknell through a contact form on the police department\u2019s website. Bracknell confirmed the emails\u2019 authenticity to ThinkProgress and subsequently tried to distance himself from the remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rodriguez\u2019s first email was an extended, and sometimes angry, critique of how the Lake Mary Police Department handled their response to the recent altercation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father in law. Rodriguez told Bracknell that he had a responsibility to charge Zimmerman because he was another \u201cSandy Hook\u2026 waiting to happen.\u201d Bracknell responded with a detailed defense of the police department\u2019s conduct, but explicitly endorsed Rodriguez\u2019s comments on Sandy Hook.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Ellipses are from<\/span>\u00a0the original email<\/span><\/a><\/span>.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to elaborate on his email, Bracknell attempted to distance himself from Rodriguez\u2019s comments, saying he did not agree and was \u201creferring to the fact that [Zimmerman] seems to be involved in incidents\u201d involving firearms.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his second email, Rodriguez called Zimmerman a \u201cticking time bomb\u201d who will snap \u201csooner or later.\u201d Again, Bracknell agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The full email exchange between Rodriguez and Bracknell is available<\/span>\u00a0here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The police are still deciding whether or not to charge Zimmerman in connection to the incident. They are attempting to recover video of alleged assault that Zimmerman\u2019s wife, Shellie, recorded with her iPad. Zimmerman\u2019s attorney, Mark O\u2019Mara, acknowledged that Zimmerman broke the iPad into pieces before the police arrived. According to witnesses, Zimmerman also punched his father-in-law in the nose.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her call to 911, Shellie Zimmerman told the police that Zimmerman was threatening her with his gun. \u201cI don\u2019t know what he\u2019s capable of. I\u2019m really, really scared,\u201d Shellie said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zimmerman told police at the scene that he did not have a gun, according to Bracknell and a police department spokesman. O\u2019Mara, however, insisted on CNN that he did have a gun on him during the entire incident. Bracknell told ThinkProgress that one of them isn\u2019t \u201c<\/span>telling the truth<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What is not in dispute is that Zimmerman, despite his legal troubles and the police chief\u2019s concerns, is still permitted to carry a concealed weapon in the State of Florida. In Florida, unlike other states like New York and New Jersey, authorities have no discretion over whether to grant or revoke concealed carry permits. Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, recently told Salon, \u201c<\/span>You\u2019ve got all kinds of George Zimmermans and everything in between there who fall through the cracks of our exclusions<\/span><\/a><\/span>. But if you ask any reasonable person how comfortable they are with an individual like that running around with a concealed, loaded gun, the vast majority would say they are not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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