ZIMMERMAN: I believe one is -- the boy is 14 and I had met them, it they are very nice kids. George tried his best to give help love and teach them, you know -- teach them good manners.
They are very lovely kids and they love so much George was George used to go to see them every two weeks, twice a month he would go and see them.
And I had begged George not to go. I'm sorry, I had told my son please don't go, it's too dangerous. And he said, mom, if I don't go, they don't have nobody.
O'MARA: Why were you concerned about George's safety in that program?
ZIMMERMAN: Because it was a very dangerous place where he goes to.
O'MARA: A very bad what?
ZIMMERMAN: Dangerous place.
O'MARA: Bad news place?
ZIMMERMAN: Dangerous place. O'MARA: I'm sorry, my apologies.
ZIMMERMAN: That's OK.
O'MARA: What was the racial background of the two children that he mentored?
ZIMMERMAN: African-American, sir.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/20/cnr.02.html
Surely he told his mom don't worry I am packing heat.
Something about this mentoring and the narcotics officer interviewing him first just seems fishy to me.
IMO