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Showing Original Post only (View all)That wound to the back of George Zimmerman's head is still bothering me... [View all]
...NOT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK GEORGE ZIMMERMAN DOESN'T FULLY DESERVE TO BE ARRESTED. Let me be perfectly clear about that. Mr. Zimmerman pursued, approached, and soon killed an unarmed kid half his size, yet somehow has not even seen the inside of a jail cell or a courtoom. It's a complete miscarriage of justice no matter how you slice it.
Yet, if the police report is to be believed, there was a noticeable wound on the back of the gunman's head. So if this ever does go to trial, the defense is going to say: how did it get there if Zimmerman was not, at some point, hit from behind? And then they can spin that into a ludicrous but legally admissible self-defense claim. Now, it seems unlikely that Trayvon sucker-punched Zimmerman as he was trying to reenter his van as he claims (mainly because they ended up fighting on the lawn, several yards away from where the driver's side seat of the vehicle would be.) It also apparently wasn't a wound serious enough to receive medical attention. Still the question remains: if it's not a complete and total lie, how did it get there?
Did Zimmerman receive this wound when the two were wrestling on the ground? That would be consistent with some of the witness's accounts, but if so, did it happen via Trayvon's fists or upon impact with the ground? Have you noticed that NO ONE--not the media, not the police, no one--seems to have reported on Trayvon's wounds besides the fatal gunshot that killed him? Even by Zimmerman's account, the two scuffled on the ground before he shot the boy. Yet the only nonlethal injury I can find mentioned anywhere is Zimmerman's bloody nose, head injury, and grass stains. Nothing about Trayvon's other injuries, and I find it hard to believe there weren't any.
From a purely legal standpoint, I crave more details--details that the cops were apparently completely uninterested in providing or perhaps even investigating.