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In reply to the discussion: Several George Zimmerman witnesses change their accounts [View all]SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)47. blood on the back of his head is meaningless
he wasn't photographed until long after the incident happened--and he could have done that to himself in an attempt to further his little tale about being beaten by Martin.
Zimmerman was treated at the scene by paramedics, then cuffed and driven in a police cruiser to the Sanford police station. He was questioned for hours and later released. In police surveillance video obtained last month by ABC News, Zimmerman's wounds are not apparent, and there were no bandages on his head.
It's curious that the crime scene investigators have not said they recovered any blood or tissue from the scene to corroborate zimmermans' tale that Martin had him on the concrete, which supposedly caused the injuries for which no paramedic on the scene treated and bandaged.
His nose doesnt' look broken, as many have said, a broken nose is obvious if it hadn't been set, which his hasn't. The bruising doesn't go away in two hours--and a cop would have seen black and blue in the center of his face were that the case. No picture of zimmerman ever taken shows him with a bruised center of his face. One would think that his face would have been a carnival of lacerations and swelling, if we went by the story zimmerman has been telling about Martin and his "Way of the Hundred Fists" pummelling he gave zimmerman.
Plenty of aggressors who start fights and murder the person they chose to attack end up with wounds when the victim attempts to protect themselves by fighting back.
I can't for the life of me see how Martin was supposed to lay down his safety and his life and just let zimmerman attack him just because he was a young black kid talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone, wearing a hoodie on a rainy night after walking back from the corner market.
But apologists will reach for anything...
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No. If he decided to kill Martin, it would have been 1st degree murder.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#15
Not being able to counter a point -- a legitmate point -- and name-calling won't hold up in court
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2012
#72
In the real world, you don't get to make up your own definitions for the law.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2012
#27
Carrying a loaded weapon into a planned illegal confrontation + death in said confrontation =
kestrel91316
May 2012
#10
He was never part of any neighborhood watch! Everyone knows that but FOX news by now. jeez. /nt
Dragonfli
May 2012
#34
My thought exactly. There's going to be an incomplete and unsatisfying justice here in the end....
marble falls
May 2012
#66
I hope the jury goes for justice and is instructed in alterante charges if 2nd ....
marble falls
May 2012
#70
There should have NEVER been a confrontation. He stalked a kid merely because of skin color.
lookingfortruth
May 2012
#12
I've seen that picture. Finally found info on when it was supposed to have been taken.
uppityperson
May 2012
#17
And the worst part about that is, we execute folks based on eye witness testimony in their convictio
lonestarnot
May 2012
#35
Some people appear to have forgotten the charge is murder, if only in the second degree.
freshwest
May 2012
#32
Many also appear to believe the FOX news fantasy that he was a member of some neighborhood watch
Dragonfli
May 2012
#36
There's a thread about him harassing his co-workers at another job. I answered to the person who I
freshwest
May 2012
#37
The Prosecutor's default/fallback conviction goal for this case is Manslaughter
solarman350
May 2012
#38
It would have to be voluntary, unless Zimmerman somehow claims his gun accidently went off.
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2012
#58