Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun

I guess black boys in hoodies holding threatening bags of skittles
candy are "a reasonable belief of a threat" to some racists. How very
sad.

Im memory of Trayvon Martin, I wore my Grey Hoodie, hood up, to do the
grocery marketing, and got a number of stares from white men. One
nearly turned his head around like Linda Blair in The Exorcist as he
passed me. -T

Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun

George Zimmerman Defense

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead
17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written
statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose,
repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a
police source told ABC News.

Zimmerman had claimed he had called police about Martin, whom he found
suspicious, then went back to his car when Martin attacked him,
punching him.

The new information is the most complete version yet of what Zimmerman
claims happened on the night of Feb. 26 when he shot and killed the
teenager.

In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he
saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning
and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that
killed Martin.

The initial police report noted that Zimmerman was bleeding from the
back of the head and nose, and after medical attention it was decided
that he was in good enough condition to travel in a police cruiser to
the Sanford, Fla., police station for questioning. He was not
arrested.

Martin's girlfriend had said in a recording obtained exclusively by
ABC News that she heard Martin ask Zimmerman "why are your following
me, and then the man asked, what are you doing around here." She then
heard a scuffle break out and the line went dead.

Phone records obtained by ABC News show that the girl, who is 16 and
asked to remain anonymous, called Martin at 7:12 p.m., five minutes
before police arrived, and remained on the phone with Martin until
moments before he was shot.

ABC News has also learned that Martin was staying in Sanford at the
time because he'd been suspended from Krop High School in Miami after
being found with an empty bag of marijuana. He was staying at his
father's fiance's house in Sanford.

Family spokesperson Ryan Julison confirmed to ABC News that Martin was
suspended for an "empty baggy that had contained pot."

"It's irrelevant to what happened on Feb. 26, does not change material
facts of the situation, specifically that had George Zimmerman not
left his vehicle and heeded the police dispatcher's guidance, we
wouldn't be here today," Julison said.

During Zimmerman's call to 911, the dispatcher asked him if he was
following the teen. When Zimmerman replied that he was, the dispatcher
said, "We don't need you to do that."

The new information in the emotionally charged case could complicate
pressing charges against Zimmerman, which one veteran prosecutor has
already said could be difficult.

"The stand-your-ground law is one portion of justifiable use of deadly
force," veteran State Attorney Angela Corey told ABC News. "And what
that means is that the state must go forward and be able to prove it's
case beyond a reasonable doubt… So it makes the case in general more
difficult than a normal criminal case."

Zimmerman shot Martin dead the night of Feb. 26 after following him
for several minutes. Zimmerman told police Martin looked suspicious
because he was wearing a hoodie, and when he confronted him the two
fought -- ultimately resulting in a single bullet in Martin's chest.

Zimmerman claimed self defense and this weekend the lawyer counseling
him, Craig Sonner, told ABC News that he was likely to invoke
Florida's controversial stand-your-ground law in his defense.

Video and more here:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayvon-martin-shooter-teenager-gun/story?id=16000239
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Have a great day,
Tommy

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Have a great day,
Tommy

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