Posted on 03/25/2012 12:30:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
Witness: Zimmerman 'Never ... Tried To Help' Trayvon Martin
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services
A woman who says she and her roommate witnessed the final moments of Trayvon Martin's life told Dateline NBC that George Zimmerman had "his hands pressed on his back" and "never turned him over or tried to help him."
Zimmerman's lawyer, when shown part of the interview being aired Sunday night on Dateline, emphasized that his client would be claiming self-defense.
"I think there were efforts made to render aid to Trayvon," Craig Sonner told NBC's TODAY show.
Mary Cutcher told Dateline that she and her roommate both saw Zimmerman "straddling the body, basically a foot on both sides of Trayvon's body, and his hands pressed on his back."
Cutcher added that Zimmerman told her and her roommate to call the police. "Zimmerman never turned him over or tried to help him or CPR or anything," Cutcher said.
Sonner also reiterated what he had said in recent days, that Zimmerman suffered a broken nose and a gash to the back of his head.
A friend of Zimmerman's who appeared on TODAY with Sonner added that Zimmerman, 28, was distraught over the teen's death.
"Right after the shooting he couldn't stop crying," said Joe Oliver, who is African American and a former TV reporetr and anchor in Orlando.
Zimmerman has not been charged in the Feb. 26 shooting that has ignited racial tensions and raised questions about the Sanford police's handling of the case. Martin was black, and Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
In a separate interview Sunday, Oliver said that "I'm a black male and all that I know is that George has never given me any reason whatsoever to believe he has anything against people of color.''
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Due Process clause?
Not applicable here, FRiend.
As for the victim helping the perp, why would anyone render aid to someone who they had to shoot in self defense?
Once you have the victim subdued, you cannot use deadly force.
Oh, but it is considered race baiting to take up for an innocent black man, apparently.
Right this is not some Good old hallmark channel movie of the week I think i would have pop a cap in is ass just for extra measure
Mary Cutcher told Dateline that she and her roommate both saw Zimmerman “straddling the body, basically a foot on both sides of Trayvon’s body, and his hands pressed on his back.”
Contradicts your version, does it not?
And you’re sure he’s innocent...because?
Good, I'll say so.
For all those people possessing perfect clairvoyant powers, the use of deadly force to repel a non-deadly attack is wrong.
For the rest of us, not possessing any superhuman powers of perception, if you find yourself on the ground being pummeled by a maniac, with absolutely no way to know what his ultimate intention is - blow the M_F_ away and let lawyers sort it out. Better to be defended by one than carried by six.
I think expecting Zimmerman to give aid to Martin, under the circumstances, is unreasonable. Zimmerman was probably in a state of shock and he’s not a professional.
If I had been Zimmerman, it probably wouldn’t even have crossed my mind.
I’ve heard reports that Trayvon had Zimmerman pinned to the ground. I mean, how else could you explain the grass stains on the back of his shirt and the bloodied face?
I heard the 911 call. Sounded to me like Zimmerman should have done what the dispatcher said.
Whenever race is injected to describe what appears to be an unconstitutional act of deadly force, where the color of the victim shouldn’t matter, it is race-baiting and like bees to honey, the Sharptons, Jacksons, and their backers come in to make political hay and use the occasions for fund raising and line their pockets in the process.
Really? Florida is not an open carry state, and Zimmerman would have been breaking the law to open display his weapon.
I don't believe a single word in the article. As far as I am concerned, if one part of it is rotten, it all stinks.
“Oh, but it is considered race baiting to take up for an innocent black man, apparently.”
Reading your posts in this thread and the other one sure make my blood pressure go up. Has nothing to do with race baiting or anything else except the facts. Lets have “all” the facts then pass judgment. I despise people who play the race card.
Maybe if you’d have been there to tell Zimmerman that he was getting pummeled but it wouldn’t be a deadly pummeling the this could have been prevented.
Conservatives be smart. Liberals want to draw us in and blame us. Respond by saying this is a Latino vs Black affair. They should resolve this with their political and legal forces. All non Latinos and non Blacks keep out of it. In other words, be the monkey on the rock watching two lions fight.
“I heard the 911 call. Sounded to me like Zimmerman should have done what the dispatcher said.”
And the Japanese shouldn’t have bombed Pearl Harbor.
Let's be reasonable about this and let Al Sharpton decide.
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