Posted on 04/20/2012 4:33:22 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. —
WFTV just learned Friday morning about a picture of gunman George Zimmerman, taken just three minutes after the shooting that left 17-year-old Trayvon Martin dead.
The picture reportedly shows cuts on the back of Zimmerman's head, with blood trickling down.
Zimmerman, who shot and killed 17-year-old Martin on February 26 in a gated Sanford community, claimed he killed Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of Martin.
The picture would seem to back up Zimmerman's claim that Martin slammed his head against the sidewalk.
That picture could be part of the evidence shown to the judge in court Friday morning during Zimmerman's bond hearing.
ABC News is breaking more on this story on Good Morning America at 7 a.m. on Channel 9. We'll have more on Central Florida's TV 27 at 7 a.m.
Meanwhile, Trayvon Martin's parents will come face to face for the first time with Zimmerman on Friday.
Zimmerman is due in a Seminole County courtroom for a bond hearing at 9 a.m.
After a week and a half behind bars, Zimmerman may be walking out of jail to await trial on a second-degree murder charge.
The parents of 17-year-old Martin are expected in the courtroom during the bond hearing.
Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara will likely argue to Judge Kenneth Lester that Zimmerman is not a flight risk, pointing to fact that Zimmerman turned himself in immediately when charges were filed.
Judge Lester must decide if Zimmerman will be offered bond.
(Excerpt) Read more at wftv.com ...
Self defense.
Free Zimmerman!
Beck is talking on his radio show about this and said this photo should have come out long ago.
I’ve already seen cries of ‘its fake’ from Trayvon groupies.
The first real indication that the left had declared war and was waging a war was the LA riots of 1992 when they were refereed to as “The Rebellion”, “The Revolution”, or “The uprising”.
Everyone wrote it off as just more rhetoric from the left.
It wasn't, they meant it.
The only difference now, people aren't just writing it off as left wing rhetoric, more people every day are beginning to recognize the left means it.
CNN EVERYBODY.
It´s not surprising - very tempting to jump to conclusions in today´s instant-reporting climate. Problem is, early reports are by their very nature pretty unreliable.
If you add in Liberal Media Bias (TM), it makes keeping one´s mouth shut and waiting for more complete facts a better option.
Also, that path of action has the added benefit of lessening the risk of making a fool of oneself.
Hello, Haiku Guy (oh, how I wish I could compose a Haiku for this post!).
What is a cryon? How and why would it be used?
Live on cnn. Fox blew it off.
Also the case of a black woman gunning down a white mom in Houston and stealing her baby this week, haven’t heard about that on the national news.
Fox probably wanted to talk Romney up for the next two hours.
Race relations have been set back at least 50 yrs. with this ass in the White House.....I know my feelings have changed dramatically about our “brothers”
I agree. While serving in the USCG one of my duties was part of the boarding party. In my first lesson the instructor told us a man with a knife in his teeth was approaching us from the water and going to board our boat. The question was "When can you shoot him?"
My first thought was when he was within a few feet. The answer was either 20 or 22 feet while on the boat or land. A person with a knife can some at you faster than a reasonable person can aim and fire. So your statement is correct.
I agree. Obama has made things drastically worse. And when he loses in November it will be even worse.
I guess I'm just being morbid or something, but I really expected for his head to look worse.
I bled more when I was a kid and Ricky (NOT my friend/NOT anybody’s friend/he was a bully) slammed my head against a slide.
The text you posted was of a different version of the story, and includes the following sentence:
“The picture would seem to back up Zimmerman’s claim that Martin slammed his head against the sidewalk.”
When I go to the links now, the article is different and the sentence is gone (I guess ABC changed it in the past hour and a half). I wish we could get a link to the original story.
WOW! REALLY?? Well guess what? I had it minimized on my task bar before they changed any wording! Here is the whole text:
Updated: 6:22 a.m. Friday, April 20, 2012 | Posted: 5:58 a.m. Friday, April 20, 2012
ABC News: Photo taken after Trayvon Martin shooting shows bloody George Zimmerman
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. —
WFTV just learned Friday morning about a picture of gunman George Zimmerman, taken just three minutes after the shooting that left 17-year-old Trayvon Martin dead.
The picture reportedly shows cuts on the back of Zimmerman’s head, with blood trickling down.
Zimmerman, who shot and killed 17-year-old Martin on February 26 in a gated Sanford community, claimed he killed Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of Martin.
The picture would seem to back up Zimmerman’s claim that Martin slammed his head against the sidewalk.
That picture could be part of the evidence shown to the judge in court Friday morning during Zimmerman’s bond hearing.
ABC News is breaking more on this story on Good Morning America at 7 a.m. on Channel 9. We’ll have more on Central Florida’s TV 27 at 7 a.m.
Meanwhile, Trayvon Martin’s parents will come face to face for the first time with Zimmerman on Friday.
Zimmerman is due in a Seminole County courtroom for a bond hearing at 9 a.m.
After a week and a half behind bars, Zimmerman may be walking out of jail to await trial on a second-degree murder charge.
The parents of 17-year-old Martin are expected in the courtroom during the bond hearing.
Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara will likely argue to Judge Kenneth Lester that Zimmerman is not a flight risk, pointing to fact that Zimmerman turned himself in immediately when charges were filed.
Judge Lester must decide if Zimmerman will be offered bond.
“He’s evidenced his willingness to stay involved in the process. I think that works to his credit,” said O’Mara.
Zimmerman made his first appearance in court eight days ago. O’Mara said Zimmerman was hiding out in another state while the outrage built in the case because he was not arrested for well over a month after the shooting.
“He’s tired. It’s been a long period of time here. He’s gone through some tribulations of his own,” said O’Mara.
WFTV learned that as the process for Zimmerman’s trial ramps up, taxpayers will likely foot the bill for his defense.
“He is indigent for cost. He doesn’t have any money and there’s a process in place that allows the state to assist in paying costs, not attorney’s fees,” said O’Mara.
Meanwhile, WFTV found out Zimmerman has asked to meet with Martin’s parents.
This comes just as Zimmerman may be let out of jail, causing Martin’s parents and their lawyers to question his motive.
“He never once apologized on his website, on any of the voicemails he left his friends, and never expressed any remorse during police interviews,” said Martin’s family attorney Ben Crump.
Crump said Friday is also expected to be an emotional day for Zimmerman’s parents.
It’s the first time they’ll be in the same room as Zimmerman since Martin’s death. Crump also told CNN Thursday night that the timing of Zimmerman’s request is “self-serving.”
The hearing begins at 9 a.m. and WFTV will be in the courtroom and will have live coverage on Channel 9 WFTV and WFTV.com
The city has security plans in place if Zimmerman does bond out of jail, but no one would go into any details.
Former WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer will return to his role to provide in-depth analysis of the Zimmerman bond hearing.
Sheaffer recently left WFTV to run for judge, but he later decided against running for family reasons.
Stay with WFTV for the very latest on Zimmerman’s bond hearing and what will happen if he gets out of jail.
And, remember that these laws include a phrase equivalent to “grievous physical injury”.
Zimm may not have feared for his life but understood the possibility of severe concussion and long term brain damage.
“Also, Rick Santorum owes a bigtime apology to Zimmerman but I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.”
Also, Shep Smith owes him a huge apology. Shepard Smith on the air called Trayvon a “baby boy” and said he was just gunned down.
Within minutes, eh?
Should we assume this is police evidence, taken with a responding LEO’s phone-cam?
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