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The Reporter Behind the Shellie Zimmerman Interview

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Thu Aug 29, 2013 at 01:58:02 PM EST
Tags: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin (all tags)
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Christi O'Connor, the reporter who conducted the ABC Shellie Zimmerman interview, does not work for ABC. She is a freelance investigative journalist.

She says she is writing a book about the trial. I don't recall her reporting on the case prior to now, and with the exception of a reference to her in a video clip on CNN the night on July 13, Lexis.com has no record of articles or media transcripts with her about the case.

She says her book will reveal new information that could have resulted in a different verdict. Here's what she is peddling: A story about a white Sanford police officer's alleged misconduct in tasering an African American male which she is self-publishing on her weblog. On her blog, she writes: [More...]

Is there a connection between George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin and a white Sanford police officer’s tazing of a black man? Does this tragedy add credence to allegations that Zimmerman’s motives for shooting Martin were racist? These are the kinds of questions I’ve been investigating since moving to Sanford to witness the trial from inside the courtroom. I’ve discovered unreported information in many areas; some of which may have led to a different verdict- -had prosecutors not missed it.

I’m in Sanford now writing a book on what the public doesn’t know and what the jury never heard.

What does this have to do with Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin? Nothing, as far as I can tell. Here's a photo of McIntosh and Zimmerman detective Doris Singleton doing community outreach. The cop, McIntosh, is under investigation for the tasering incident. He has no prior reported incidents according to this article.

O'Connor speculates:

I close by circling back to George Zimmerman. Sanford’s black community believes Fuller’s tazing is more proof of a racist police department to which the ‘Wannabe Police Officer, Zimmerman’ has close ties. And that this “culture of racism” influenced Zimmerman’s decisi