George Zimmerman: God Is The 'Only Judge That I Have To Answer To'

[Tommy_Carcetti]

90. Reposted:

The shooting occurred around the top of the "T" in the sidewalk. Zimmerman's car was parked towards the upper left corner around where the crosswalk is. The house where Trayvon was staying is at the very bottom right hand corner. The only street access to that particular row of houses was on Retreat View Circle, which parallels the right side of the photograph.

This is undisputed: Zimmerman gets out of his car and starts chasing Trayvon. He loses him while on the phone with dispatch. Two minutes later, the shooting occurs.

Jeantel testified that Trayvon had lost Zimmerman. Based on the ultimate location of shooting, it's plausible to argue that Trayvon, in an effort to lose Zimmerman, ran into the alleyway between the two rows of houses (referred to as the Dogwalk).

Now, let's place the situation in the proper context. It's dark and raining. Trayvon has only been staying at this house for a couple of days and it's safe to assume he's not intimately familiar with the neighborhood. It's a townhouse community, with all the homes attached to one another and all of them looking virtually identical to one another. Especially from the back of the houses, which have no numbers on them so if you are looking at them from the Dogwalk as a non-resident, you really have no idea which house is which. Also factor in the fact that Trayvon's heart is probably racing from running from the strange man who has been chasing him for no discernible reason. So it's very logical to think that Trayvon, after perhaps hiding out a minute, figures he has lost Zimmerman for good. He heads back up the dogwalk, with the intent being to get back to Retreat View Circle, where he can properly identify the house (via a street number probably) where he's staying and get inside.

Except when he gets to the top of the T, Zimmerman is still there. And that's where it starts, and ends.

Now here's a much, much better question than your own. Zimmerman claimed that when he hung up with dispatch, he was around the top of the T in the sidewalk. It was about 2 minutes from time he hung up to the time of the shooting. The location he claims where he was at the time of hangup was probably 100-150 feet at most from his car. It does not take 2 minutes to walk 100-150 feet. Zimmerman could have easily been back at his car at that point, but he wasn't. And why did he change his mind and tell dispatch to call him instead of meeting him at his car?

Answer me that.