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George Zimmerman Sued! A bodyguard company has filed a lawsuit against George Zimmerman, his wife and attorney claiming that they owe more than $27,000 for bodyguard services.

Associated Investigative Services filed the lawsuit in Orange County Circuit Court on Friday against Zimmerman, who is awaiting trial on second-degree murder charges in relation to the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

The civil complaint, which is also against his wife and attorney Mark O’Mara, claims O’Mara hired the bodyguard company in June to provide bodyguard services for the Zimmerman family but promised payments stopped after an independent trustee took over Zimmerman’s defense fund.

The company provided a bodyguard detail for Zimmerman’s second bond hearing on June 29, according to the complaint, and the arrangement stepped up into ‘nearly constant’ watch on Zimmerman’s family.

But AIS alleges payments stopped soon after an independent trustee took over the defense fund, the Orlando Sentinel has reported. The bodyguard company says O’Mara told Zimmerman and the trustee wanted to ‘clamp down’ on the defense fund because it was running low. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, among other claims, and requests a monetary judgment of $27,027.08.

O’Mara told the Orlando Sentinel he was surprised the suit had been filed. He said ‘We’ve paid them over $40,000’ He said the company no longer provided protection to George and Shellie Zimmerman, partly because at one point it was billing them $7,000 per week, whereas they are now paying $700 a week for protection.

5 Shocking Things About the Trayvon Martin Case

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5 Shocking Things About the Trayvon Martin Case

By Mark “Six” James  CPO, EPS

There has been a lot of discussion about multiple topics surrounding the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case. In my humble opinion most of it is off base and people have attempted to connect issues which I feel are unrelated and only choose to cloud the issue.

Whenever you talk 2nd Amendment people start to draw a line in the sand.  If you bring race into the topic one side or the other stops listening. If a white man kills a black teen emotions are high. If a black man kills a white teen emotions are high. Kids dying get all of us supercharged.

Let me try and disconnect some of the connections which have been made so far.  In my mind, HERE ARE 5 THINGS this case is not about:

•              2nd Amendment – this is not about the right to Keep and Bear Arms. I wish people would please stop trying to make it be.

•              Race – as I said above kids dying gets everyone upset, regardless of nationality, gender or socioeconomic status.

•              Self-Defense and Deadly force are related but not the same. You can use force to defend yourself but all self-defense actions don’t grant you the ability to use deadly force.

•              Castle Doctrine – a person has no duty to retreat when their home is attacked.  Neither party was attempting to protect their dwelling.

•              Stand your Ground – a person may use deadly force without the obligation to retreat. I don’t think anyone should have to retreat to protect themselves from severe bodily harm or death. History has shown the sequence of events often move faster than the law abiding citizens could retreat to a safe place.

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