*George Zimmerman told investigators that while he was on the phone with a Sanford police dispatcher reporting Trayvon Martin as suspicious, the teenager was circling his vehicle on foot, a source familiar with the investigation told the Orlando Sentinel.
The source said Zimmerman’s account of what happened that night has not changed in his several statements to police — in which he said he was so rattled by teen’s behavior that he rolled up his window to avoid a confrontation. However, he never mentioned any of that while talking to the dispatcher.
The details revealed by the source provide new insight into what Zimmerman said happened in the earliest moments of his contact with Trayvon. And they may reveal the inconsistencies alluded to by prosecutors in the case. One of those inconsistencies: Zimmerman told police Trayvon had his hand over Zimmerman’s mouth during their fight on the night he shot Trayvon.
The Sentinel’s source confirmed that Zimmerman’s statements include that allegation. But authorities do not believe that happened, the source told the Sentinel, because on one 911 call, someone can be heard screaming for help. If it were Zimmerman, as he claims, his cries were not muffled, the source said.
Zimmerman also told police, the source told the Sentinel, that while the two were on the ground, Trayvon reached for Zimmerman’s gun, and the two struggled over it. Those portions of Zimmerman’s account are not corroborated by other evidence, the source said.
Reached in Birmingham, Ala., Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump said Thursday that Zimmerman’s claim that he was screaming in the 911 call and that his mouth was covered by the teen don’t add up.
“[Trayvon's father] Tracy Martin told me that that’s what [police] told him,” Crump said, of Zimmerman making those statements to police. “It’s either one or the other, it can’t be both. We have to put together this puzzle because, unfortunately, we don’t have Trayvon Martin’s version” of events.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon in a Sanford gated community on Feb. 26. Zimmerman told police he acted in self-defense. Critics say he is guilty of racial profiling and killing an innocent teenager.
In an audio recording of Zimmerman’s call to police that night, Zimmerman says Trayvon is acting suspiciously and describes him as a black teenager when prompted by the dispatcher. He does not say that Trayvon was circling his vehicle, but that’s what he told police later that night and has consistently told authorities in subsequent interviews, according to the Sentinel’s source.
Here, according to that source, is the sequence that Zimmerman provided:
Zimmerman spotted Trayvon, called a nonemergency police number and began describing the teenager. While he was doing that, Trayvon came toward his vehicle and began to circle it. Zimmerman, though, never described that to the dispatcher.
i have not heard this, I thoght Zimmerman was following Trayvon which prompted Trayvon to sya Why?? are you following me?? so how can Trayvon circle Zimmernam if he was being followed/stalked?? I also was under the impression that Zimmernam was following Trayvon on foot. Zimmerna is lying his story changes with the wind IMO!!
How is Zimmerman changing stories? What he said has never been released and won’t be until court.
His story changes every week. I can’t wait for this trial to start because in due time he will crumble. He’s been inconsistent from the beginning.
…How is Zimmerman changing stories? What he said has never been released and won’t be until court.
Sounds fake. Check for fingerprints on the gun. Case closed, go to Prison.
Are you that stupid that you don’t know this case was about self-defense?
The real sad part is, we need to brace ourselves for the injustice that is about to happen with this case. After being granted $150K bail, it’s envitable what the outcome will be…they’re going to let this Bastard walk…
I’m not under any illusion that Zimmerman will be convicted of second degree murder. But whoever leaked this must be trying to convey how difficult a task his defense will face. Zimmerman’s slow ass didn’t even realize that all 911 calls are recorded. Probably why he made so many of them, all the while leaving a footprint of how prejudiced he is against blacks.
It is being revealed more and more that Zimmerman, like Deion Sanders, is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Fortunately for them, the police chose their side.
These are two violent individuals who don’t seem capable of comprehending the consequence of their actions while carrying them out. Probably because throughout their lives, they have had someone to cover for them.
@Red, I like reading most of your posts but I dont think you can compare Deion Sanders to Zimmerman, that is like comparing apples to oranges. Zimmerman killed a person, Deion Sanders and his wife are in a messing divorce trying to jockey for position.
i’m sure you’ve learned from past posts that there is no such thing as “reason” when it comes to some of Reds positions. He, as always, will be right…facts/logic be damned.
If what Pilar’s friend say is true, I think Zimmerman and Deion has a lot in common. What type of a man would take a statue to a woman’s head, breaking her finger has she helplessly tried to defend herself, then smashing the cell phone of the witness to destroy the evidence. Then to call the police, bullying his two terrified sons to rag against their injured and bleeding mother. That woman was lucky to not end up with the same fate as Trayvon Martin.
What a clusterfvck of shittiness!
Seems to me the defense is striving to put all these stories out there to reasonable doubt and confuse the hell of our prospective jurors. They sicken me to my stomach!
George Zimmerman is a LIAR..and have been proven so from his earlier bouts dealing with domestic violence. This incident is NO different, if Trayvon circled the truck ? why did the coward zimmerman get out of the truck? So he LIED, and if Trayvon did grab for the gun it was because the coward Zimmerman pulled the gun when he and Trayvon struggled..and Trayvon was yelling help..because he knew then the coward named zimmerman wanted to shot him..and he was stuggling with zimmerman on the ground trying to keep from being shot..and zimmerman made up the rest of the story about what didn’t happened..because a DEAD man can’t talk ..
Let’s just keep in mind, florida is known for the worst corrupt race based-unjust- justice system in the nation outside of mississippi.
Please prove to all of us on how Zimmerman is lying. In America one is innocent until PROVEN quilty
Not if you’re Black and please take your White azz over to Red State where you belong! Please don’t feed this troll!
It’s amazing how much of an ass white people can make of themselves when one of them is facing the music.
Could a white person really be this clueless about the legal terminology innocent until proven guilty?
So let me ask something. We just marked the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beatdown. Let’s take Damien “Football” Williams who was caught on video beating the shit out of Reginald Denny.
So if he had denied that it was him in the video, would white people have an issue with anyone asking
“please prove to all of us on how he’s lying?” Remember, he was tried, so he also was presumed innocent until proven guilty.
How about Colin Fergusson, the guy who lighted up all them white people on that NY subway?
He defended himself in court denying all the charges, and also presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Was anyone asking white people “please prove to all of us on how he is lying” when they all called him a liar and a murderer?
OJ also said he didn’t do it, but did that stop white people from saying he was a butcher and a murderer even after he was acquitted?
Even a biased bigoted whitey with some intellect can see that Zimmerman is lying after hearing his every conversation with the 911 dispatcher. He claimed that Trayvon was circling his car while he was actually on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, and how he was so rattled that he rolled up his window. So why didn’t say that? Did the cat got his tongue? And we have the call logs to know that he didn’t lose a signal.
And why would Zimmerman get out of his car to confront Martin behind the houses. This is someone he was scared of even while locked in the safety of his own car? Did Trayvon break the rolled up car window and pulled him out of the car?
But let’s not kid ourselves. This is the white supremacist thinking of the white man. That any white man should beat the charges when he is tried for a crime against a black man. No matter how preposterous his defense, exemplified by what Zimmerman just said. They did it against Rodney King.
But whitey, things are a changing. Zimmerman, like you, is an example of a slow white man who makes the most ludicrous statements, apparently not realizing that it makes no sense whatsoever. And that, more than anything else, is what’s going to get him convicted.
But then again, you may not be white. So you may have an excuse for not being another disgraceful example of the “high intellect” that we know the white man is rumored to possesses.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/04/21/update-10-part-2-the-trayvon-martin-shooting-deedee-reveals-the-false-truths/