Posted on 07/02/2013 4:56:51 PM PDT by RC one
(Reuters) - Volunteer watchman George Zimmerman suffered "insignificant" injuries in the fight in which he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, a medical examiner testified on Tuesday, as prosecutors attempted to undermine Zimmerman's claim he feared for his life.
Testifying for the prosecution at Zimmerman's trial, Medical Examiner Valerie Rao said she reviewed Zimmerman's medical records and 36 pictures of his injuries taken at the police station after the fight.
"They were not life-threatening. They were very insignificant," Rao told the Seminole County criminal court jury.
Zimmerman, 29, has said Martin, 17, punched him in the face and repeatedly slammed his head into a concrete walkway. Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, could face life in prison if convicted.
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Yeah, it was insignificant because he shot that thug promptly.
If some guy did it to her she would not call it insignificant.
Any injury to the head can be significant. You can’t tell just by looking at pictures.
The fix is in. Z may be a sacrificial lamb to please the ‘hood boyz.
The fix is in. Z may be a sacrificial lamb to please the ‘hood boyz.
“Medical Examiner Valerie Rao said she reviewed Zimmerman’s medical records and 36 pictures of his injuries taken at the police station after the fight.”
Pure medical malpractice !
Implication - Zimmerman is GUILTY because his skull wasn't fractured and gray matter wasn't oozing out. Simple lacerations and abrasions of the kind one gets from having their head slammed against the pavement in an assault obviously aren't enough.
Its clear the assorted perverts in the MSM want Rodney King style riots badly.
“Ms. Rao, if Trayvon Martin had continued to reign blows down upon Mr. Zimmerman’s face and slam his head into the concrete, would he eventually have suffered injuries that you would consider significant?”
“Ms. Rao, can a person who is being beaten accurately determine at what point he will lose consciousness and be rendered incapable of defending himself?”
“Ms. Rao, did your mother have any children that lived?”
“Yeah, it was insignificant because he shot that thug promptly.”
Bingo! You beat me to it!
Just think about this for a minute: she is the Medical Examiner. She looks at a lot of dead bodies. All the time. What makes her think she can adequately judge the significance of injuries on a live person?
Thank God they were insignificant....the only REASON they were insignificant was because he had a gun.
The injuries would have been significant if Martin had pinned Zimmerman on the sidewalk and continued banging his head into the concrete. Once he causes a brain hemorrhage, it would have been light out for Zimmerman. However, Zimmerman, knowing some martial arts skills shifted his body over to the grass. When he did that, his shirt hiked up exposing the gun. When Martin spotted the gun, Zimmerman knew if he didn’t get control of the gun, Martin would be grabbing for it. A fight for the gun was something Zimmerman could not afford to lose. So, he shot Martin because it was his last chance to save his own life.
The medical examiner should have been asked if her experience as an examiner has had people who died from head trauma from having someone bash it into a concrete surface.
She herself testified that Zimmermans nose was broken.
I guess that is to be interpreted as a “love tap”.
Someone should knock her to the ground and punch her in the nose. Then she can tell us how insignificant that kind of attack is.
The only insignificant injuries are someone else’s.
Wow! What a loaded answer, or was it a loaded question? Either way, BIAS! And a crock of poo!
Here ... read this.
More complaints on Medical Examiner Valerie Rao
Just ONE leftard comment there. What it got to say? “I just keep going back to the fact that he was told not to follow him. that is all I keep hearing and remembering. Everything else is mute to me.”
Yup, that’s all they got even at al-Reuters!
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