Lawyer: Zimmerman rescue wasn’t staged

Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla.

An attorney for George Zimmerman brushed aside suggestions Wednesday that his client’s actions in helping save a family from a car wreck were somehow staged.

Mark O’Mara told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that multiple government agencies and witnesses have backed up the account in which Zimmerman, who recently was acquitted of charges in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, assisted the family after their SUV flipped over on a Florida highway.

“The same people who refuse to accept the jury’s verdict, just want to be angry, just want to hate George Zimmerman, are still going to,” O’Mara said. “Even if we had a videotape of the accident, they would still say it was made up. So you can’t really respond to people who just don’t want to listen to the truth.”

Earlier, the husband and wife who were involved in the accident canceled a Wednesday news conference at O’Mara’s law office. Mark and Dana Gerstle had planned to talk about Zimmerman’s assistance.