Self-defense: Duty to retreat or Stand your ground

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37. Except that the Sanford police have been caught in several lies about this so far.

Just off the top of my head -

The police chief told the press that Zimmerman was "squeaky clean." Turns out that Zimmerman was charged in 2005 with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.

Zimmerman has dialed 911 forty-six times in the past 14 months. None of those calls seem to have resulted in charges. That's a lot of false alarms.

The Sanford police chief was present at a recent homeowner's association meeting in which at least one resident complained that Zimmerman was harassing him because he was black. The resident was escorted from the meeting. Guess the HOA didn't want to hear it.

The police chief told the media that Zimmerman did not pursue the suspect. Yet the 911 call recording is very clear - Zimmerman says he's chasing him. The dispatcher keeps telling Zimmerman not to do that. Zimmerman says he's doing it anyway. So why did the police chief say that "at no time" did Zimmerman pursue? Didn't the police chief listen to this own department's 911 tapes? Not much of an investigation.

Next, several of the eyewitnesses state that the police "corrected" their version of events. The witnesses stated that they heard the victim screaming for his life. The police officers taking their statements corrected them - "You really heard Zimmerman screaming."

The police chief states that Zimmerman's story is the "best version."

I could go on. It's clear what's happening here.