That video interview with O’Mara pretty well makes this a closed case. O’Mara says all this other stuff would come out in a civil suit, and he says that there’s no way a federal charge on racism would fly because the more you check Zimmerman’s record the more it is proven that he’s the opposite of a racist, that he’s a provable non-racist.
The best part for me was O’Mara addressing the oft-repeated statement “Zimmerman was told not to get out of the truck.”
O’Mara appears to actually have a low-key personality. He doesn’t rant, but just very clearly lays out the case that this has become a myth. He says that listening to the tape also shows the opposite, that the dispatcher 2 times asks Zimmerman something like “what’s he doing now.” Then he says the dispatcher listens as Zimmerman gets out of the truck and walks for approximately 9 seconds as Zimmerman looks before he says “are you following him?” Zim says he is. Dispatcher says, “We don’t need you to do that.”
Amazing interview. O’Mara also suggests this is over, that all of this alternate evidence would come out about Martin, and that costs would be borne by the loser.
I've generally avoided getting into any discussions, either in-person or online, with anyone that holds any of the myths as fact. As the saying goes, "you can't fix stupid".
But, yesterday someone was claiming that despite Zimmerman pulling that family out from under a flipped truck, he was still a bad man because he was stalking Trayvon. I sarcastically remarked that stalkers always call the police to notify them when they are in the act of stalking!