Major inconsistencies turning up in Zimmerman's testimony.

[Baitball Blogger]

Now he's claiming that Trayvon circled his SUV and that Travyon covered up Zimmerman's mouth (which would discredit his claim that he was screaming for his life.) It doesn't sound like the prosecutor is buying it.


Source: Zimmerman says Trayvon circled his SUV, frightened him

George Zimmerman told investigators that while he was on the phone with a Sanford police dispatcher reporting Trayvon Martin as suspicious, the teenager was circling his vehicle on foot, a source familiar with the investigation told the Orlando Sentinel.

The source said Zimmerman's account of events hasn't changed in his several statements to police — in which he said he was so unnerved by the teen's behavior that he rolled up his window to avoid a confrontation. However, he never mentioned any of that while talking to the dispatcher.


The details revealed by the source provide new insight into what Zimmerman said happened in the earliest moments of his contact with Trayvon. And they may reveal the inconsistencies alluded to by prosecutors in the case.

One of those inconsistencies: Zimmerman told police Trayvon had his hand over Zimmerman's mouth during their fight on the night he shot Trayvon.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-03/news/os-trayvon-martin-circles-george-zimmerman-20120503_1_special-prosecutor-angela-corey-source-police-department

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Another inconsistency

"Zimmerman later told investigators he could not find Trayvon, so he turned and was walking back toward his SUV. A short time later, Trayvon approached him from the rear, and the two exchanged words, he told authorities.

Trayvon threw the first punch, he told police. It knocked Zimmerman to the ground, and the teenager then got on top of Zimmerman and began beating his head against a sidewalk, police have said in recounting Zimmerman's version of events."

For that to all happen, coming from the rear AND beating his head into a sidewalk, Trayvon would have to be on the other side of the sidewalk when it was all over.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I know ...

We are all anxious to see justice served; but I so wish "sources with knowledge" would stop leaking information ... It makes the case so much harder to prosecute.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Judging the way they handled the Casey Anthony case, I don't see why they would use restraint.

The Orlando Sentinel, paper-wise, is just a whisper of what it use to be. (Craig's list has taken the bulk of their commercial ad business, I'm guessing.) I have a feeling that they are going to ride this out for what it's worth.

[magical thyme]

3. all the more reason to question him leaving his car

"in which he said he was so unnerved by the teen's behavior that he rolled up his window to avoid a confrontation."

Every time he opens his mouth, he digs himself a little deeper.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I know, right?

If he was so scared for his life, why did he leave the car? Nothing he says is adding up.

[Quixote1818]

6. Leave his car and end up half way to Trayvon's Dad's girlfriends house

complete bs.

[Solomon]

7. I will never understand for the life of me why so

many white people are so ready and eager to believe that a 17 year old boy who was obviously afraid as evidenced by the conversation with his girl friend, would change his mind about trying to get away from a grown man with a car talking on a cellphone while lookin at him, and decide to attack him. It really boggles my mind and speaks volumes about the totally assinine perspective that some whites have about blacks.

You will never get me to understand that totally absurd way of thinking, except that its ingrained racial prejudice. It's just so unrealistic yet people make that the assumption, and with a straight face at that.

The assumption that Zimmerman must be believed if there was no tape to prove otherwise is racist to the nth degree. Nobody saw, and there was no tape of OJ killing anyone either, but no one ever pretended that we have to take his word unless there's proof to disprove his statements. Nor any other black defendant or even white defendant unless the victim is black.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Your first two paragraphs are powerful.

You are absolutely right.

[magical thyme]

9. it's fight/flight, not black/white. there are times when the best defense really is a good offense.

I am a white, 5'3, 120 pound woman and was followed by strange white man in a car while walking home from a convenience store. He passed me repeatedly, from one direction and then the other, yelling at me each time he drove by.

I could not walk to the police station, on the other side of town. I could not make it to my condo without him at least seeing where I lived, if not nabbing me en route. I was terrified.

There was a point, when he pulled into an empty lot, and sat there staring at me and yelling, when something inside me flipped a switch. I knew that once I went any further, he would be able to at least determine where I live, and I would be in an increasingly invisible location, thus more vulnerable than on a busy street.

So instead of speed walking or running toward my home, I turned, walked very slowly and deliberately over to his van and confronted him verbally. I was more prepared to go down fighting than go down running.

As it happens, he turned beet red, apologized that he thought I was someone else, and gunned it out of there.

That doesn't mean that I assume or believe that Trayvon did confront or attack Zimmerman first. He may well have knocked him down when being followed on foot in order to buy himself time to get away. We weren't there, we can't get inside Trayvon's mind, so we don't know.

There are enough discrepancies with Zimmerman's various stories and variations on a theme to make him totally not credible. And this latest version is the most ludicrous of all. The thought that an unarmed Trayvon circled Zimmerman's car while being followed is just plain stupid beyond belief.

[guitar man]

10. Then why the hell did he get out? Nt

[treestar]

11. Making it up as he goes along

And less and less believable. Drive away then. If he were scared, he would have done so.