The Editors comment on video of Trayvon Martin’s shooter from CNN tonight.
As Anderson Cooper points out, this is only surveillance video and the angles are not great. (The video was first shown by ABC News.)
This clip has no volume; click the above link to hear Anderson Cooper provide commentary.
http://youtu.be/U7fPw9AANWM
I did not expect to see any blood on the back of Zimmerman’s head because he was treated by EMTs at the scene.
But… a broken nose would’ve bled down the front of his shirt, right? Hmmmmm.
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Why hasn’t Zimmerman been arrested?
Well, I’m guessing that the Florida police tried to use the “Stand Your Ground” law as a way to outsource Police brutality to the civilian sector.
Who’da thunk that armed racist would’ve gotten’em in so much trouble.
But the injury to the back of his head was described, by his attorney, as being so severe that it would have required stitches if he hadn’t waited until the next day to be treated. If the EMTs had cleaned up such an injury at the scene, wouldn’t he have been taken to the ER before being taken to the police station for questioning? And wouldn’t the injury have continued to bleed if left unbandaged?
It looks as though one officer is examining the back of his head to check on a possible injury but there don’t seem to be any signs of anything as severe as his attorney is making it out to be. And, as stated in this post, there are no signs of a bloody or broken nose unless they allowed him to change clothes which I doubt.
If an EMT had seen an injury, there would’ve been a bandage of some sort. Unless it was a scratch, for which you’d get a very simple flesh-colored band-aid, you would have white gauze and tape. My husband has been treated a number of times by lifeguards and EMTs for surfing/sports injuries and it’s always white gauze and tape…
I just asked my sister, who is an EMT, about what would happen if an EMT had seen a head injury and she said that not only would there be a bandage, but ANY EMT would’ve sent him to the hospital for a full neuro evaluation, that is the very most basic standard operating procedure for any head injury.
This leaves a 1min physical altercation in which Zimmerman was the pursing aggressor as the only proof that he was in mortal danger. At first I thought his actions were remotely defensible, now I know he’s going down.
There is an EMT report. There is a Police description of the injuries. Zimmerman saw a Doc the next day and there is record of that. Maybe we should wait for these because they will out-weigh this kind of speculation 100:1.
Zimmerman refused an offer to be taken to the ER. I understand that his claim is not that he had been severely injured but that he was about to be.
Zimmerman was put in cuffs and was interrogated extensively without an attorney.
So much about the publicized version of this story appears to have come from the personal injury law firm the Martins hired. There is good reason now to doubt that
1. Trayvon had gone for Skittles
2. That he even had a cell phone, mucjh less called 911
3. His girl friend “recorded” their last phone call
All these stories have only one source.