A new photo has emerged in the George Zimmerman trial. Well, the photograph itself isn’t new. It was taken on the night of his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin, moments after Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. The defense team was given this grainy black and white version.
Florida prosecutors provided that version to Zimmerman’s defense team on February 26, 2012. But the defense team now says that it just received the color original, on October 29, 2012. It shows quite a bit more detail.
Same photo, but it delivers an entirely different picture. The color photograph clearly shows extensive bleeding and evidence of a broken nose. Zimmerman claims that Martin assaulted him on the night of February 26, and Zimmerman killed Martin out of self defense. The color photo provides compelling evidence that Zimmerman is telling the truth, at least as regards the assault.
This isn’t the first time we have seen evidence favoring Zimmerman’s version of events hidden or manipulated. On March 28, ABC News released surveillance camera footage of Zimmerman at the Sanford, FL police department that on first look appeared to show an uninjured Zimmerman.
But a few days later, ABC “redigitized” the video, serving up a much clearer picture. On the “redigitized” video, Zimmerman’s wounds are clearly visible.
ABC has never really explained why it offered the first version of the video. Did the Florida prosecutors have any role in serving up the muddy version of the video, the version that appeared to show no wounds on Zimmerman? Based on its behavior regarding the photo above, it’s more than a fair question to ask. It’s a vital one.
I think it clear now this was a national lynch mob, and that George Zimmerman had reasonable reason, once in prison, to believe that he would not be treated fairly. Because he wasn’t.
The prosecution wasn’t interested in the system being upheld. Or even justice, as man imperfectly arrives at it. They were and are interested in a “kill”, come hell or high water.
Again the police did the right thing in letting Zimmerman go. But this is Obama’s America where lying is now truth (Benghazi), laying off people leads to the death of men’s wives seven years later (Romney), claiming a black man is from Chicago is the same as calling him a n****r (Chris Matthews), and increased taxes on miniscule number of Americans leads to growth and balances the budget too. Logic has no place in Obama’s America.
If satisfying your idealogy requires that you try to put an innocent (or, at a minimum, not guilty) man in prison then you need to rethink your idealogy. Either that or just admit that you’re evil.
The most obvious thing that is happening with this case, it is again reinforcing the excuse-making for the likes of a young punk in order that no person committing the same types of offenses can be held accountable. A plethora of crime stats continues to show that one segment of the society is not and will not get the message.