The shooter of Trayvon Martin told an officer in Texas that he was armed after being pulled over for speeding Sunday. The whole thing was captured on camera (video below).

This being Texas, the officer simply asked Zimmerman to put the gun in the glove compartment, CBS News reports.

— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer

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