New Zimmerman video: How seriously was he reportedly injured?
New Zimmerman video: How seriously was he reportedly injured?
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March 29, 2012, 7:35 a.m.
Newly emerged video reportedly shot by surveillance cameras at the
Sanford, Fla., Police Department on the night of the Trayvon Martin
shooting offers the public the first look at Martin's assailant,
George Zimmerman, on the night of the shooting.
ABC News, which obtained the video and released it Wednesday night,
said it shows "no blood or bruises" on the handcuffed, trim- and
muscular-looking suspect as he steps out of the back of a police
cruiser, is frisked by an officer and walks escorted into the police
building.
The quality of the video is not very high, but it appears to suggest
that if Zimmerman was injured that night, the injuries were not
serious.
The 28-year-old Zimmerman, who claims he acted in self-defense, has
not been charged with any crimes, igniting a firestorm of controversy.
Martin, the shooting victim, was an unarmed African American teenager.
Zimmerman is half-Latino and half-white.
A Sanford police officer who responded to the incident, Timothy Smith,
noted in his police report that when he arrived on the scene,
Zimmerman had a bloody nose and blood on the back of his head. His
back was wet and covered in grass, "as if he had been laying on his
back on the ground," Smith wrote.
Smith said Zimmerman was placed in the back of the squad car, where he
was given medical attention by the Fire Department.
It is not clear what effect the video will have on the competing
claims about what happened in the crucial moments after Zimmerman, a
volunteer neighborhood watch captain, called police and reported
Martin as a suspicious person in his neighborhood, and followed him
around.
An attorney for Martin's family says that Martin's girlfriend was
speaking with him on the phone when she overheard Martin say, "Why are
you following me?" to someone. A man's voice replied, "What are you
doing around here?" according to the attorney's account of the call.
Sanford police concluded that Zimmerman lost sight of Martin and was
walking back to his SUV when he was confronted and punched by the
youth.
Video and more here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-martin-zimmerman-video-20120329,0,809426.story
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Have a great day,
Tommy
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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