[Uncle Chip]

What is curious to me is why the Sanford Police never secured a copy of the 7 Eleven tape even though they knew that Martin had just been down there.

Or maybe they did and tried to cover it up when they saw the “usual suspects” that were in the store with Martin that night — usual suspects that had been burglarizing apartments in the area.

Either way failing to follow up with the usual suspects at the 7 Eleven was suspicious and sloppy.

[Steve_Seattle]

"What is curious to me is why the Sanford Police never secured a copy of the 7 Eleven tape even though they knew that Martin had just been down there. Or maybe they did and tried to cover it up when they saw the “usual suspects” that were in the store with Martin that night — usual suspects that had been burglarizing apartments in the area."

In the 7-11 tape that I saw, Martin was the only customer in view. One thing I noticed was that it seemed to take him a real long time to get his money out of his pocket to pay the clerk, as if he were impaired in some fashion, or perhaps just being deliberately slow to irritate the clerk.