If Zimmerman was hurt so badly, why didn't he accept help when it was offered?

[TorchTheWitch]

127. They got there in a scant few minutes

from the first 911 call from the neighbors. The whole encounter between Martin and Zimmerman only took about a minute longer. The whole thing was something around 3 or 5 minutes to when the fight started and the arrival of police. You can't count the time starting from Zimmerman's first call because he only called the non-emergency number about a specific person. Police only knew of a 911 call from when the first 911 call of the neighbors went through and dispatch put it out to the police as a "shots fired." The first call to 911 from the neighbors included the gunshot. Martin was already dead even before police got the "shots fired" notification from dispatch. They were anything but slow getting there once they got the notification from dispatch. They couldn't have done anything to stop it because the entire encounter took only a scant few minutes.

There is nothing at all to scorn the police reaction time here. They arrived some time before the EMT's did and did CPR on Martin before the EMT's arrived. If you want to trash anyone about putting down their donuts in the case you need to start with the EMT's, but I'm guessing that won't go over very well.

Amazing what people think the police are capable of. One would think that you expect them to wear capes and have a big yellow "S" on their chests.