My response to the ABC SPD "no blood" video shown by my local station:
Does the on camera reporter accompanying the SPD video fancy himself Perry Mason, in his questioning of the Zimmerman lawyer?
Gotcha!!???
Did you mention the police report that says he was treated at the scene of the shooting by the SFD “Rescue 38” and cleared for transport before that video was made, once they reached the station , with Zimmerman disarmed, and detained and in handcuffs, --—meaning, his previously observed wounds were cleaned and the bleeding stanched by SFD paramedics?
Why not?
Doesn’t that answer your question, “Where is the blood, if he was beaten and injured?”
How many times did Zimmerman have to let the taller, younger, stronger man, with a longer reach, punch him, before he was allowed to make him stop? Is there a reason that the US military recruits strong 17 year olds to train as killers?
Should Zimmerman have waited until his skull was fractured?
Here (below)is part of the original SPD report—or don’t the facts fit your agenda?
It states clearly "I could observe that his back was wet, and was covered in grass, as if he had been lying on his back on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and the back of his head....(he was)placed in the rear of my police vehicle and given first aid by the SFD. Once Zimmerman was cleared by the SFD, he was transported to the Sanford Police Department."
Also, I haven’t seen you yet report that the one eyewitness to the events before the gunshot said that Zimmerman was on the ground and Martin was on top of him “beating him up”.
That is the essence of the self-defense claim, and the reason why the State’s Attorney had him released without charges.
Why do you leave that part of the story out?
The same reason you continue to show five year old pictures of an innocent-looking and younger babyfaced Martin?
Why not show the 6’+ tall 160# muscled football player, with the tattoos and gold grills on his teeth, who’d been suspended from school three times this school year—a new school that he was attending this year, his having been kicked out of Miramar HS the previous year for drugs? How does a 17 year old high school boy afford colorful tattoos and gold teeth anyway? Selling jewelry like that that was seized from him when he got suspended from school for vandalism caught on surveillance camera?
You know, ABC-TV is not the only source of info about this tragedy—and that being the case, your bias is showing.
We wonder why?
Is your goal to manipulate the socalled “news” to create racial tensions?
Interesting video from the 27th(February) right after this happened.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/sem....
Quote:
The guy on the bottom, who had a red sweater on, was yelling to me, 'Help! Help!'(note—that would be Zimmerman) and I told him to stop, and I was calling 911," said the witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, John.
John said he locked his patio door, ran upstairs and heard at least one gun shot.
"And then, when I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on the top beating up the other guy(note—that would be Martin), was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point."
Quote:
Zimmerman had a damp shirt, grass stains, a bloody nose and was bleeding from a wound in back of his head, according to police reports.
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/15/26....]
