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Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman's Version of Trayvon Martin Shooting
ABCNews.com ^ | May 17, 2012 | By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) , SENI TIENABESO and COLLEEN CURRY

Posted on 05/17/2012 3:51:44 PM PDT by CA Conservative

Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today.

The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman's version of what happened when they describe a man on his back with another person wearing a hoodie straddling him and throwing punches.

In addition, Trayvon Martin's father told an investigator after listening to 911 tapes that captured a man's voice frantically callling for help that it was not his son calling for help.

The new information is part of a trove of documents released by the Florida State Attorney today in the case against Zimmerman, who is charged with second degree murder for the Feb. 26 killing of Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American male.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: CA Conservative

Boy, who saw this coming..../ sarcasm tag!
Freegards
LEX


21 posted on 05/17/2012 4:09:32 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: CA Conservative

“Mike Nifong, Mike Nifong, please pick up the yellow courtesy phone, Angela Corey on Line 1!”


22 posted on 05/17/2012 4:09:45 PM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: gaijin

He went out for “Skittles and ice tea”.

skittles - Coricidin Cough &Cold tablets

ice - Cocaine; crack cocaine; smokable methamphetamine; methamphetamine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); phencyclidine (PCP)

tea - Marijuana; PCP

http://www.noslang.com/drugs/dictionary/t/


23 posted on 05/17/2012 4:10:30 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Jeff Head

Why? Political pressure.


24 posted on 05/17/2012 4:11:13 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: CA Conservative

George Zimmerman should be released immediately without charges. It is now fact that the “son of POTUS Barack Hussein Obama” was indeed a teenage street gangsta and full blown Black racist. No jury of objective peers would ever convict George Zimmerman of 2nd degree murder. Zimmerman goes free either now, or by jury decision later. Sorry, Obama, sorry hateful Black racists. A thug is a thug regardless of color, and...Trayvon Martion was a bonafide thug/gangsta. The truth hurts, but....the truth is still the truth.


25 posted on 05/17/2012 4:11:13 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Jeff Head

This special prosecutor is a hack that gave in to political pressure.She only “investigated” the case 2 weeks before bringing charges What she really did was not interview witnesses but merely reviewed the evidence already on file that had been gathered by the Sanford authorities. I believe she overcharged second degree murder even though she does not have the evidence because she is banking on using the higher second degree murder charge to induce the defendant to plead to the lesser involuntary homicide charge.


26 posted on 05/17/2012 4:11:13 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: onyx

Hilarious!


27 posted on 05/17/2012 4:12:39 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: gaijin

I, for one, can not wait for ALL the FACTS by the defense and prosecution to be available to those of us the INTERNET.


28 posted on 05/17/2012 4:12:59 PM PDT by BilLies (330,000 northern Union Whites died between 1861-65. How many Negros will remember?)
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To: CA Conservative

So Corey’s case will be that all the evidence is fabricated by a vast White racist Zimmerman conspiracy to profile and kill Blacks?


29 posted on 05/17/2012 4:15:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: Jeff Head

“If the Florida attorney general had all of this info...why on earth did she proceed with a 2nd degree murder charge?”

Politics. Stupid politics, actually. Cf. Mike Nifong.


31 posted on 05/17/2012 4:16:04 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: boop

The truth won’t stop the self-imposed righteous indignation of the perpetually aggrieved.

They had best be careful. Lot more people carrying nowadays, some just because of the NBPP’s promises of no justice, no peace.


32 posted on 05/17/2012 4:16:46 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: CA Conservative

This is not new information. It is information that was available which the klan with the tan and their house crackers failed to report at the news race hate rallies.


33 posted on 05/17/2012 4:17:21 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: CA Conservative

From what I’ve seen so far, the biggest piece of evidence released today isn’t the injuries (and certainly isn’t the THC). Apparently, one of the witnesses reported seeing one person chasing another. This case very well could turn on who was chasing who. If Martin was chasing Zimmerman, then Zimmerman is almost certainly in the clear. If, on the other hand, Zimmerman was chasing Martin, that would just about destroy Zimmerman’s self defense claim. It will be very interesting to see/hear more about that witness statement.


34 posted on 05/17/2012 4:17:55 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: gaijin
The already had the toxicology reports back on l’il angel Trayvon and dat playa wuz a WALKING PHARMACY. Why no talk about DAT...?

Because of course it makes the idea that Trayvon jumped Mr. Zimmerman in a rage, as Mr. Zimmerman stated, that much more plausible.

35 posted on 05/17/2012 4:18:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I agree


36 posted on 05/17/2012 4:18:35 PM PDT by Hokestuk
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Their silence is quite deafening.

We shoulda made a list.

37 posted on 05/17/2012 4:19:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: Jeff Head

“If the Florida attorney general had all of this info...why on earth did she proceed with a 2nd degree murder charge?”

####

Hoping the RaceCard would trump all as it did in the Simpson case?


38 posted on 05/17/2012 4:19:50 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Armed, judgmental, fiscally responsible heterosexual.)
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To: gaijin

I know about the pot in his blood, what others “” His blood showed he was a habitual user of numerous narcotics””?

Do you have a source of them verifying that he punched a bus driver, I know that he was asked that question in a tweet, but I didn’t know they had verified it.


39 posted on 05/17/2012 4:20:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
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To: Navy Patriot
So Corey’s case will be that all the evidence is fabricated by a vast White racist Zimmerman conspiracy to profile and kill Blacks?

Corey's case may well be that Zimmerman started the fight, or at the very least provoked the fight. See my last post - it all depends on who was chasing who. If Zimmerman started/provoked the fight, then even if Martin had the upper hand, it is very difficult (as a matter of law) for Zimmerman to claim self-defense.

40 posted on 05/17/2012 4:21:20 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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