Freitag » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:56 pm wrote:
There is evidence. GZ's story never changed, from the very first moments after the shooting. He willingly talked to the police, despite knowing that he didn't have to.
You understand that the word of the person who did it isn't really evidence you can take to the bank, right?
I'm not saying he's lying. But OF COURSE
he thinks what he did was justified. Try to bear in mind that you're assessing the word of someone who was so freaked out by the sight of an unarmed black teenager walking home from the store that he called 911 about it.
The evidence presented at trial all supported his version of events.
No. There was quite a bit of evidence that didn't support his claims of having been brutally attacked. For example, he was barely injured; Martin didn't have any of his DNA under his nails; and his gun grip didn't have any of Martin's; and Martin had neither any reason to attack him nor any history of that kind of assault.
There was no proof that his claim of self-defense was untrue. But that doesn't = "He was attacked!" It =reasonable doubt.
Zimmerman neighbor John Good, described by the AP as having "perhaps the best view of the struggle," said he heard noise while watching TV on the night Trayvon Martin was killed and stepped outside to investigate. He described seeing a MMA-style scene unfold. In his telling, the two men were "tussling" on the ground, with the person on top in a straddle position and throwing punches "ground and pound" style. He described the person on top as darkly-clad, with the one on the bottom in either red or white, and having lighter skin. Per the evidence, Trayvon was in a dark-colored sweatshirt and Zimmerman was dressed in red that night. When asked if he believed Trayvon was on top, Good replied, "Correct ... that's what it looked like."
That hardly proves he was attacked. They were fighting. Nobody disputes that.
Neighbor Jonathon Manalo, who was the first one to step outside and took cellphone photos that night that were shown to the jury today, described "blood running down [Zimmerman's] nose from both nostrils and over his lips." He said Zimmerman's demeanor was calm, and said Zimmerman asked him to call his wife. "Just tell her I shot someone," Manalo recounts Zimmerman as saying. He said Zimmerman told him at the time that the shooting was in self-defense. When asked if that "seemed completely true," Manalo replied, "yes."
Unless you think that whenever someone says something that seems to be completely true, it must be, that's really not proof either.
A nationally renowned gunshot wound expert testified Tuesday that Trayvon Martin's gunshot wound was consistent with accused murderer George Zimmerman's story that the teen was on top of him and leaning over when he was shot.
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Again: They were fighting. That says nothing about who attacked whom. And anyway, his injuries were not severe enough to support his claim that he was being brutally assaulted. If you don't find that conclusive, fine. But it is evidence.
