Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe 'taken away from us'

[davidpdx]

7. If they couldn't come up with probable cause after 40 days

They weren't going to arrest him. It sounds like to me even though the officer on the scene wrote down manslaughter (which if he had been arrested under that would have been a good start), they simply interviewed him and then let him go.

The so called "witnesses" were unreliable and said things that contradicted the facts in the case (I am mainly talking about the one guy who said Martin was on top of Zimmerman in an MMA type hold). The police seemed to start with the assumption that only self-defense was possible and stick with that throughout whatever investigation occurred. It seems to me like the police, Zimmerman, his lawyers, and the witnesses are all covering for him by doing whatever they can to discredit Martin.

While the judge in the case has been fair and kept both sides at bay, I think this case was doomed from the moment they let Zimmerman go.