Not sure what Raunchy's *beef* with either statement is. The later is more detailed. Remembering exact detail , moment to moment could be nearly impossible in a fast moving, frightening, traumatic experience involving life and death. I think too many people are looking for the Perry Mason aha, gotcha moment The fact is Trayvon attacked Zimmerman, sucker punching him in the nose, a technique he had heard about, that nearly guarantees a victory in a street fight( this was on his phone along with much more damning evidence involving character that prosecutors tried to hide from the defense and didn't want admitted in court). He then continuously pounded him. Doesn't matter what he said or when he said it. Zimmerman obviously felt threatened enough to pull his gun and fire, 45-48 seconds into the pounding and after screaming for help and nobody coming to his aid.
________________________________ From: wgm4u <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 7:36 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: "They both reached for the gun" --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > Zimmerman's first statement to the police: > > 'He puts his hand on my mouth and nose and says, "You're going to die tonight > motherf***er". I don't remember much after that. I couldn't breathe. He still > kept trying to hit my heard against the pavement. > > 'Each time I attempted to sit up the suspect slammed my head. My head felt > like it was going to explode. > > 'As he banged my head I pulled out my firearm and I shot him. I'm on the > ground and he's mounted on top of me, I shot him.' > > Zimmerman's hand-written statement read in court: > > 'Each time I attempted to sit up the suspect slammed my head. My head felt > like it was going to explode. > > 'I tried to slide out from under the suspect and continued to yell "help". As > I slid, the suspect covered my mouth and nose and stopped my breathing. > > 'At this point I felt the suspect reach for my now-exposed firearm and say, > "you are going to die tonight motherf***er".' > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352512/Second-week-George-Zimmerman-trial-focus-shift-scientific-forensic-evidence-try-prove-top.html#ixzz2ZjrBL0VT > http://tinyurl.com/mok2ykn > > In Zimmerman's first statement to the police, Trayvon says, "You're going to > die tonight motherf***er" and Zimmerman says he doesn't remember much after > that. In Zimmerman's written statement read in court Trayvon sees Zimmerman's > gun and then says, "You're going to die tonight motherf***er" In other words > *they both reached for the gun* is Zimmerman's defense in court, not in his > statement to the police. My how a story changes when you have good reason to > lie. > > Zimmerman is Roxie Hart. She got off for murder too: > http://youtu.be/SBM82Ju2kJU Hardly a reason to find him guilty! You probably don't remember what you had for breakfast! All this silliness regarding his 'innocence' or 'guilt', who really knows? Only God and GZ, the evidence wasn't there, deal with it and move on, only God guarantees perfect justice!
