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In reply to the discussion: Zimmerman's depraved mind [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)not the previous call before he shot Trayvon. The call he made, as Leatherman explains, before the shooting was not an emergency, did not tell police exactly where in the complex they were, and did not involve any need for emergency medical assistance. Though the police arrived as a result of the call he made before the shooting, they were not in a rush to save someone's life, had to find where they were in the complex, and because that call was before the shooting, there was no emergency medical personnel on the way. Zimmerman had asked someone to call his WIFE to tell her about the shooting, but deliberately did not call 911 about the shooting, asked others not to call about it and lied saying he had already called 911 but he DIDN'T call about the shooting - he let people assume that he had called about the shooting when he did not and had called about a non-emergency situation before the shooting. The police arrived not knowing exactly where they were, having no idea that a shooting had occurred and no idea that emergency medical personnel were needed immediately.
Further, Zimmerman's own words in reporting that he did not know that Trayvon had died until he got to the police station says that he knew that he was alive while he was sitting on his back after shooting him in the chest with his hands around his neck. All that together shows that Zimmerman knew the police were going to arrive any moment and he wanted Trayvon dead before they arrived so he would have no chance to say anything before dying about what had happened and could not be saved by medical intervention in order that he live and be able to tell his story of what happened. Zimmerman wanted him dead so he could not say anything about what happened leaving Zimmerman free to make up whatever story he wanted to get him off the hook, and both his physical actions and actions about telling people not to call 911 about the shooting and lying saying he already had knowing that people would assume that he meant that he called 911 about the shooting profoundly show this to be true.
This makes Zimmerman much more hideous and guilty as sin than I ever imagined, and this goes a LONG way in explaining why the prosecution charged him with second degree murder.
I am devastated to find that Trayvon didn't die right away and suffered horribly for some time until he finally did. I had assumed and was gratified by thinking he died immediately or at least very close to immediately so he didn't have to suffer all that time in agony before finally passing. And all the while knowing Zimmerman was deliberately killing him.