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In reply to the discussion: Trayon Martin yelling for help, that is another clincher [View all]JimDandy
(7,318 posts)would have me screaming for help... and probably most other people on the planet.
What about having a gun pointed at you, while struggling with your assailant to keep him from pulling the trigger, doesn't equate to a physical assault?
The very minor injuries to Zimmerman have many explanations from him running in the dark into one of the many trees that were there with low branches; to both of them, when they were observed upright with arms flailing (probably in a struggle for control over positioning/retention of the gun), then losing their balance so that Trayvon landed on top of Zimmerman (hence the slight nose injury) who landed on his back (accounting for the several minor surface cuts on the back of his head); to the literally dead weight of Trayvon's dead head striking Zimmerman's face and simultaneously causing the injury to Zimmerman's nose and the cuts on the back of his head.
The absence of physical injury to Trayvon, especially on his hands, suggests that Trayvon wasn't punching Zimmerman and that the struggle, from the beginning, was over a gun that Zimmerman pulled on him, probably in an attempt to keep Trayvon in place until the police came. Trayvon, not knowing that was the nut cases intent, feared for his life and tried to get the gun away from Zimmerman.
In addition, everyone I know who has heard the tape says those are the screams of a young person, not of an adult male. The jury doesn't need any voice analysts to come to the same conclusion...only their own ears.
And Rachel Jeantel, an unsophisticated young teen adult and reluctant witness, whose innocent lie to Trayvon's mother, made before there was even a legal case, snowballed when she got dragged into a recording session and then a rushed deposition (where in her naivete she did not know it was important to pull out every detail and to be assertive in the face of authority) was never-the-less able to be Travon's voice for him and came across as authentic and credible.