Zimmerman iPad too busted to yield video according to police

NBC NEWS - An iPad that George Zimmerman's wife used to record him during a confrontation is too badly damaged to quickly retrieve footage that Florida cops need before they decide whether to charge anyone, a police spokesman said Wednesday...

Adam Howard

Sep 11, 2013

An iPad that George Zimmerman’s wife used to record him during a confrontation is too badly damaged to quickly retrieve footage that Florida cops need before they decide whether to charge anyone, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

“It’s in really bad shape,” Lake Mary, Fla., Police public information officer Zach Hudson said, adding that it could be weeks or even months before images are recovered from the tablet.

“As it stands right now there will not be any charges any time soon without that iPad.”

Zimmerman, who was acquitted in July of second-degree murder in the Trayvon Martin shooting, admitted he destroyed the machine during a dispute that erupted Monday while he and estranged wife Shellie were removing their belongings from a home, Hudson said.

Shellie Zimmerman, who filed for divorce a week ago and then criticized her husband in a televised interview, called 911 during the encounter and said he threatened her with a gun and punched her father.

No gun was found, and she later told officers that she never actually saw one, police said. The father did have a red mark on his nose but no injury that required medical treatment, cops said.

George Zimmerman, meanwhile, portrayed his wife as the aggressor and said she hit him with the iPad, police said.

None of the parties pressed charges but since it was classified as a domestic violence case, the police will make final determination as to whether charges will be filed.

The iPad was busted into several pieces and the chip was damaged. Hudson investigators don’t have the in-house tools to recover the video and were trying to figure out how to get it.

“We’re going the extra mile,” he said.

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