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George Zimmerman Is Another 'Sandy Hook' Waiting To Happen: Police Chief Steve Bracknell

Police Chief: Zimmerman Another 'Sandy Hook' Waiting To Happen
George Zimmerman, right, is escorted to a home by a Lake Mary police officer, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Lake Mary, Fla., after a domestic incident in the neighborhood where Zimmerman and his wife Shellie had lived during his murder trial. Zimmerman's wife says on a 911 call that her estranged husband punched her father in the nose, grabbed an iPad out of her hand and smashed it and threatened them both with a gun. Zimmerman was recently found not guilty for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
George Zimmerman, right, is escorted to a home by a Lake Mary police officer, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Lake Mary, Fla., after a domestic incident in the neighborhood where Zimmerman and his wife Shellie had lived during his murder trial. Zimmerman's wife says on a 911 call that her estranged husband punched her father in the nose, grabbed an iPad out of her hand and smashed it and threatened them both with a gun. Zimmerman was recently found not guilty for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

George Zimmerman is a ticking time bomb, capable of a massacre on the same scale as the Sandy Hook and Aurora theater shootings.

So says a citizen in an email to Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell, Think Progress reports. Bracknell, who oversees the town where Zimmerman lives, agreed in a response email to Santiago Rodriguez.

"George is a ticking time bomb its [sic] becoming obvious ... Zimmerman is a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen," Rodriguez wrote in the Sept. 10 email.

"Your reference to Sandy Hook................ I agree," Bracknell responded.

Bracknell reportedly confirmed the authenticity of the emails but distanced himself from the comments.

Read the whole story at Think Progress

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