After shooting him--Zimmerman didn't think Trayvon was seriously injured and lunged on top of him

[WI_DEM]

Zimmerman told police he didn’t realize that Martin was seriously injured, and that he lunged to get on top of him after the teenager fell to the ground. Moments later, a police officer from Sanford arrived, placed him in handcuffs and took his gun.

The law-enforcement source said Sanford police investigators interviewed Zimmerman three times about the shooting. The last time followed a walk-through of the shooting site. Afterward, three detectives grilled Zimmerman at police headquarters in their most thorough and hostile questioning, according to the source. They told Zimmerman they didn’t believe him, the source said, and tried to poke holes in his story.

A spokesman for the Sanford Police Department declined to comment on the case.

The precise details of that story are crucial to the case against Zimmerman. Perhaps the key issue will be who instigated the confrontation. The brief affidavit filed by the special prosecutor in support of the murder charge contends that Zimmerman provoked the encounter by following and confronting the teenager.

Then there are the dramatic cries for help heard on the 911 call during the struggle. Martin’s mother said it was her son’s voice, and the special prosecutor in the case agrees. But Zimmerman’s supporters argue that the pleas came from him.

The source familiar with the case said that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators had Zimmerman lie on his back in another location in an effort to recreate the position he said he had been in during the shooting. Then, the source said, investigators recorded Zimmerman as he shouted what had been heard on the 911 calls: cries such as, “Help me!”


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/19/new-account-zimmerman-told-cops-trayvon-s-last-words-were-okay-you-got-it.html

[wandy]

1. These rewrites get sillier and sillier.

Tell me this.
You have just shot someone, in the chest, at point blank range, with a hollow point load.
And you can't realize that they were seriously injured?
Tell me another story.

[Solomon]

2. I thought the judge issued a gag order. How did this

get out. Are the police still leaking stuff?

[Yo_Mama]

4. Yes, it's improper

All this stuff should be said in a courtroom, not to reporters. It seems like some reporter talked to an officer who heard it from another officer, so the account may well be inaccurate.

[Turbineguy]

10. The more they can taint the evidence

the better the chance for a "not guilty".

[Ohio Joe]

3. He shot him point blank in the chest and though he would not be seriously injured?

Bullshit. Plain and simple this is bullshit.

[Daalalou]

5. The Zimm camp is trying to accommodate witness' statements

They're changing their story now to account for things witnesses have said (e.g., seeing Zimm sitting on top of Trayvon).

[malaise]

7. Ding ding we have a winner

[Spazito]

12. Exactly!

Credible witnesses have come forward completely contradicting Zimmerman's fabricated story so they are now trying to tailor the story to fit the witnesses' accounts yet keep Zimmerman as the 'victim'. Major fail on their part, imo.

[Uncle Joe]

6. This has got to be the most ridiculous version I've ever heard.

According to The Daily Beast’s source, Zimmerman told police that when he was on the ground, Martin straddled him, striking him, and then tried to smother him.

Zimmerman claimed that he yelled for help, and that various neighbors who peered out to see the fight from their backyards didn’t get involved. Zimmerman, the source said, told officers he was so paralyzed by fear that he initially forgot he had a gun, but he said that after Martin noticed his 9mm pistol, Zimmerman pulled it out of his belt holder and fired one round, a hollow-point—the round that killed Martin. (The autopsy report on Martin has not yet been released.)

A hollow point shot to the chest against someone on top of you and no blood on the shooter?

Thanks for the thread, WI_DEM.

[ecstatic]

8. F*ckin' liar! why can't he just tell the truth!?

His continuous stream of lies strengthens my belief that he shot Trayvon out of rage, not fear.

[fascisthunter]

9. this kid sounds more and more like a whackp psychopath

incredible...

[polly7]

11. Everything he says sounds like a lie.

If he didn't think he was badly injured, why would he risk getting so close again? (Not that I believe he actually thought that).