Trayvon's Hands - This Makes No Sense

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tweeted by, Jonathan Capehart ‏@CapehartJ 7m
Why the ME's testimony about TM not being able to move is important: #TrayvonMartin’s hands...


. . . Zimmerman reenacted what happened the night before for police. He tells an officer, who sounds an awful lot like Christopher Serino, the gravely voiced lead investigator who ultimately had doubts about Zimmerman’s story, what happened after he shot Trayvon.

“I don’t know if I pushed him off me [or] he fell off me, either way I got on top of him and I pushed his arms apart,” Zimmerman said as he demonstrated how he spread Trayvon’s arms away from his body. He told the officer that he didn’t remember how he got on top of his victim and continued with his version of events. “But I got on his back and moved his arms apart because when he was repeatedly hitting me in the face and the head,” Zimmerman said, “I thought he had something in his hands. So, I moved his hands apart.” Trayvon, he said, was face down. Again, he says the neighbor with the flashlight came out, he asked that person to help him restrain Trayvon. The police arrived perhaps less than a minute later and he stood up, holstered his weapon and put his hands up.

Zimmerman’s focus on the position of Trayvon’s hands grabbed my attention because of what Sanford Police Officer Ricardo Ayala wrote in his report.He arrived moments after Officer Timothy Smith, the first officer on the scene, took Zimmerman into custody.

I then noticed that there was, what appeared to be a black male wearing a gray sweater, blue jeans, and white/red sneakers laying face down on the ground. The black male had his hands underneath his body. (Emphasis added)

The position of Trayvon’s hands has mystified me since reading the reports in March. But Zimmerman’s recounting of what happened only deepens the mystery. How did Trayvon’s arms find their way underneath his body when Zimmerman said he held his victim’s hands “away from his body,” “held his hands up,” “pushed his arms apart,” “moved his arms apart” and “moved his hands apart”?

This makes no sense . . .


read:

Zimmerman caught on tape: Trayvon’s hands
by Jonathan Capehart
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/zimmerman-caught-on-tape-trayvons-hands/2012/06/26/gJQAS0GB4V_blog.html

[HipChick]

1. It makes sense...ZM is a big fat liar...

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2. There's no mystery

zimmy made up a cock and bull story.

[The Magistrate]

3. 'You Know He's Lying 'Cause His Lips Are Moving', Sir, Was Coined For Zimmerman

"Every word he says is false, even 'the' and 'and'...."

[Just Saying]

4. We will never know what really happened that night.

The only witness alive is the shooter and he's done nothing but cover his own ass.

[rdharma]

5. Zimmerman was trying to act look like he was concerned that Trayvon had a weapon.

If you think someone may have a concealed weapon, the first thing you want to see is their hands.

Zimmerman was trying to give the cops the impression that he had such a concern.

But when the first cop testified that Trayvon's arms were under his body....... that shot a big hole in that lie! Oooops!

I hope the jury is smart enough to catch that.

[KurtNYC]

6. "You got me" is such a cliche movie line that there is a movie called

"You got me" (2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Got_Me!

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7. Zimmerman probably thought it was a documentary

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