George fits into a special category that we will just term the perpetual wanna-be. 

He loves guns, he loves MMA, he watches cops.  He fancies himself a criminal investigator in the making.  He patrols in his personal vehicle, keeps a police scanner and thinks that he has a direct line into dispatch.  The dispatchers on night shift probably do know him by name only because he shows up on caller ID so much.  On the night in question he probably sees Trayvon and for some tragic reason made his mind up that this sneaky perp wasn't going to get away from him this time.   

His GUN makes him do things that he shouldn't do because he is basically a coward.  He follows, attacks, then is bested in a ground fight by a 17 year old boy that he outweighed by several pounds that he then decides to shoot at point blank range. 

 Even the fight scene that played out in Zimmermans mind was written like an urban contemporary movie with Trayvon's last words saying "you got me". (really?)  

As a police officer you are trained to use the necessary force to subdue the threat but if there is no longer a deadly threat, deadly force is no longer necessary or approved. 

Translation = Had this been a real police officer, his ass would be in deep shit.  

The local police knew he was a cheese ball. 

That's why they never hired him. 

They probably knew him by name.

Normally I have a pretty visceral reaction to anything posted on leftist agit-prop sites like Kos, but this guy pretty much hit the nail on the head w/r/t personality.  Cops I know have referred to Zimmerman as a "blue lighter"

Thank Jason!  Glad to hear it!