Heres the rest of the article, a bit extrodinary if you ask me. But hey I hear thats how its goes in the county:thumbsup:
"Zimmerman, 28, appears to be a burly, powerfully built man. He is clad in red and black fleece jacket and his face and head are cleanly shaven. The absence of hair on his head and face would make injuries and blood easier to see if he had any.
The initial police report said Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and nose after the shooting. He was treated by paramedics and it was decided that he was in good enough condition to travel to the police station for questioning.
His lawyer later insisted that Zimmerman’s nose had been broken in his scuffle with 17-year-old Martin. The lawyer, Craig Sonner, said his client felt “one of them was going to die that night,” when he pulled the trigger.
After ABC played the video Wednesday night, participants in the shooting case weighed in.
Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, discussed the video on CNN.
“According to the police report, Zimmerman sustained injuries, but when we looked at this video, it was obvious that there were no visible injuries.” Fulton said. “There was no blood on his shirt.”
Martin observed that Zimmerman’s posture was inconsistent with someone who was injured and had a broken nose. In the video, Zimmerman walks with his head upright, Martin says, which would encourage blood flow, yet none is seen.
The family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump, told CNN that the tape was “a smoking gun.”
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“This clearly shows that the police report was a complete fabrication,” Crump said. “It’s obvious to us that they conspired to cover this up, to cover up the death of Trayvon Martin.”
One reason police did not arrest Zimmerman was that they accepted his account of the shooting, which had Martin attacking him first. In Florida, stand-your-ground laws allow a person to defend themselves against attack.
In its report Wednesday, ABC News said it had learned that the lead homicide investigator filed an affidavit urging Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter. The prosecutor, however, told the officer to not file the charge because there was not enough evidence for conviction.**
**No. As I posted in Post # 636, just yesterday.
the Sanford PD did not arrest Zimmerman because they could not get
an arrest warrant from the prosecutor:
A Sanford Police incident report shows the case was categorized
as “homicide/negligent manslaughter. The state attorney’s office
held off pending further review."
Spelling it out:
the Sanford PD wanted to arrest Zimmerman.
However, the Prosecutore’s office said NO
or at the least, not yet.**
Nothing there about Police 'accepting Martin’s story.'
Zimmerman said he was heading back to his car when Martin attacked him.
Martin’s girlfriend, who was on the phone with him in his final moments, told ABC News that she has not been interviewed by police, despite Martin telling her he was being followed.
The 16-year-old girl, who is only being identified as DeeDee, recounted the final moments of her conversation with Martin before the line went dead.
“When he saw the man behind him again he said this man is going to do something to him. And then he said this man is still behind him and I said run,” she told ABC.
Phone records obtained by ABC News show that the girl called Martin at 7:12 p.m., five minutes before police arrived, and remained on the phone with Martin until moments before he was shot.
DeeDee said Martin turned around and asked Zimmerman why he was following him.
“The man said what are you doing around here?” DeeDee recalled Zimmerman saying.
She said she heard someone pushed into the grass before the call was dropped.
The furor over the Martin shooting has led to many rumors and false information. Movie director Spike Lee re-tweeted the alleged address of Zimmerman to Lee’s Twitter followers.
But the address was wrong. Now, the couple who lives there claim they had to flee the home and they’ve hired a lawyer.
“At this point, they have retained us to protect their interests” and their safety, attorney Matt Morgan said of Elaine and David McClain, an elderly Sanford-area couple"
Not a big deal, it really doesn’t matter.
