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    Trayvon Martin Case and Zimmerman Police Station Surveillance Video

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 3:20am |

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    Quack! Quack!

    Howdy all ... Hope all's well 'round the Dag compound.

    (Edit 4:15 AM Add: Related to Doctor Cleveland's post over at Dags's "IN THE NEWS")

    I just paddled in to leave this latest information and video related to the Trayvon Martin death for posterity, in addition to seeing what any of you folks 'round here have to say about what, or what is not visible in the video.

     

    Also: Please take into consideration the following info:

    Timothy Smith, a Twin Lakes Sanford officer who responded to "...a suspicious person report..." stated in the police report, the following:
     

    "While I was in close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe his back appeared to be wet and was covered in grass, as if he had been laying on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and back of his head."

     

    sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Twin_Lakes_Shooting_Initial_Report.pdf

    And this...

    From an article at CNN:

    [Craig Sonner] "Zimmerman's attorney, says his client was injured that night and went to the hospital with a broken nose and a serious cut on the back of his head."

     

    Here's the video:

     

     

    At this point in time, no matter how emotional I am about this incident, I remain neutral in making any final judgment one way or another from the abundance of reports being bandied about.

    Although, one way or the other, the existing "stand your ground" law in Florida and other states that have this type of bullshit law, provides for killing anyone  a person damn well pleases if that  person deems someone a "threat"  -- if there's no eyewitnesses and it's your word against the dead person's.

    Sad sad sad ...

    ~OGD~

    ....

    Comments

    Also note that from interview with Joe Oliver, Zimmerman was cleaned up by police at the scene of the shooting, though how a "serious cut to the back of the head" could be handled without bandages, I've no idea. (i.e. station video doesn't show any bandage on the head. broken nose was apparently realized the next day).

    My guess is that "serious cut" was his lawyer's version, not the police's.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:31am

    The cops also dry cleaned his jacket and pressed it, and provided physical therapy for his back injury, along with prescription pain meds. It's SOP in Florida for shooters.


    by NCD on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 10:22am

    SOP?  Seriously?  Hard to 'tell' sarcasm and tone from text.


    by Aunt Sam on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 12:35pm

    According to Todd at MSNBC, 33 states have adopted versions of the Castle Law originally drafted by the NRA.

    The following year, Baxley, a state representative, worked closely with the NRA to push through Florida's unprecedented "stand your ground" law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they "reasonably believe" their safety is threatened in a public setting, like a park or a street.

    People would no longer be restrained by a "duty to retreat" from a threat while out in public, and would be free from prosecution or civil liability if they acted in self-defense.

     

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-center-for-public-integrity/nra-pushed-stand-your-gro_b_1379617.html

    The problem here is how to discern exactly who was entitled to stand their ground once a dead person is found lying upon the ground!

    I guess that we are to assume that if you are still standing following a shooting you are in a better position to use the stand your ground legislation than the one lying on the ground?

    It would seem that if you do choose to be present in a public place; you better be armed and on the ready!

     

     


    by Richard Day on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 10:04am

    Discerning 'exactly who is entitled to stand their ground' is easy, any black is disqualified from this entitlement.


    by NCD on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 10:28am

    Really, all you need to know is that the cop on the job wanted to charge Zimmermann and was over ruled by higher ups...Friends in high places...are friends in need.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 11:38pm

    Why do you think they were "friends". It's already been discussed that his father was a retired magistrate from *Virginia*, not Florida.

    Anything that doesn't fit our desired image of the proper outcome must be ridiculed? Could it be the higher ups simply didn't think there was a winnable court case?


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 3:05am