The 40 Ft. Stumble
Have we forgotten? With motion hearings, arguments about discovery, beg feasts, and Mark O’Mara finally admitting there will be no pre-trial immunity hearing, it is easy to lose focus on who is on trial, and why.
Have we forgotten that George Zimmerman stated that Trayvon Martin approached him at the “T” and knocked him down with one punch? After telling his story to law enforcement the evening he killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman was told that he would be required to come to the crime scene the next day and show law enforcement what happened.
At the crime scene, Zimmerman realized that his one-punch at the “T” knocked him down backwards story was not consistent with the head bashing, wiggling to the grass story. Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin about 40 feet south of the “T”. At his re-enactment, Zimmerman had to wing-it, and in doing so, contradicted what he told law enforcement less than 24 hours earlier.
The following video recaps Zimmerman’s first statement to police about being knocked down backwards with one punch from Trayvon Martin. It also provides excerpts from Zimmerman’s first bond hearing, including Detective Gilbreath’s statement that Zimmerman’s story about wiggling from the concrete to the grass is not consistent with the evidence that the State found.
Killer and accused murderer George Zimmerman’s trial is scheduled to begin on June 10, 2013 with jury selection.
Posted on 05/26/2013, in Evidence, George and Shellie Zimmerman, Justice For Trayvon, Trayvon Martin, Videos and tagged Bernie de la Rionda, current-events, Dale Gilbreath, Evidence, George Zimmerman, justice for Trayvon, Mark O'Mara, Retreat at Twin Lakes, self defense, Trayvon Martin, trial. Bookmark the permalink. 70 Comments.
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Great job Xena!!
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Hey Chris!! Welcome to blackbutterfly7 and thank you for the comment and compliment. 🙂
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Great work Xena. Oh, don’t forget, gz didn’t have to talk to anyone, which is why Serino and Singleton had to handle him with “kid gloves”. People keep getting the idea that the police could have put pressure of some kind on gz and force him to talk. That would not work because he had a right to remain silent and have a lawyer present. At any time if he requested it, the interview would have been ended. That’s an important point, and why Prof. has so much praise for Serino and Singleton. Some fault them for not pressing harder on his contradictions, but that might only have caused him to clam up and ask for an attorney.
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@Lonnie Starr. HLN is showing the “Zimmerman tapes” right now. They are showing the re-enactment. I can see SIngleton watching GZ and by the look on her face, she is not buying his BS. Remember, she asked him the next day where he was when told “We don’t need you to do that.” He said that he was on RVC. GZ said during the re-enactment that the dispatcher said that when he was “back there …”
No wonder Serino filed the Capias, because GZ’s re-enactment and his NEN call are inconsistent. As well, Serino was right that GZ’s boo-boo’s do not line up with what he said.
Did you see the photo that was linked on Leatherman’s that looks like a blood smear on the frame of a garage?
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Yeah that’s witness #13 Jon’s garage I guess that’s probably where he stopped and knocked on the door instead of the flash light which was working. Anyway I’ve got the photo up on my evidence pile and I’ve enhanced the area of interest so you can see two 2ft long drips.
HERE
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I’m so glad to see those points made being put side by side like this. We all know he lied and is still lying. Thank you Xena!!
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Hey Mindyme!!! Good to see your fonts again.
GZ says so many lies in one sentence, that it’s an effort to stick to one subject at a time. Anyone with the time and patience could probably turn out 50 videos based on one of his sentences, all focusing on different subjects.
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I love Dale’s answers to both BDLR and to O’Money when he’s on the stand.
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@Mindyme. O’Mara tried being condescending when asking Gilbreath if he had more evidence. Gilbreath gave it to him; “We have Mr. Zimmerman’s statements. We have the shell casing, and we had Mr. Martin’s body.”
I suspect that the shell casing provides evidence of the direction Zimmerman was facing when firing his gun.
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Yes it does…..I believe he was facing away from the sidewalk and off of it by 8 feet.
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“…he came out of nowhere, er, the darkness, I mean the bushes and he punched me. I fell down, I staggered, that is I swatted at imaginary flies…….or were they lightning bugs…..they may have been gnats. I think…….I think I fell backwards…..or maybe….oh well, I’m Cheorge and my dad will make this all go away…..why are you hassling me???”
As always…Great Job……Not many days now PhatBoy…….not many days of freedom.
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I love that “oh yes ma’am, I was on the ground”.
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I was on the ground here……here and…um over here. What works best for you??
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The best re-enactment of Zimmerman;
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When they have the jury at the crime scene I’ll have my friend who lives about 20 miles away be there and yell “..Cue the flies” so he can swat like mad again.
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@racerrodig. Well, looks like your friend can do something else, because the Honorable Judge Nelson denied the defense’s motion to take the jury to the crime scene. How on earth did O’Mara think the jury would get a good idea of what happened by sitting in a van at the “T”???
That is what GZ thought he was going to do in his re-enactment; i.e., sit in the car and tell what happened, rather than showing what he did. Still, he didn’t show — if he was on the ground, he should have gotten on it to show his movements and how he reached behind his ass to unholster his gun with Trayvon straddle him.
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My friend Tom just e-mailed me and man is he disappointed !! The best part is that O’ Mara tried to sneak in that he’d be in the van with blacked out windows.
“…and it’s undisputed that my client was attacked over there…..(points finger) swatted flies, er, tried to escape, but being a lardass, er, not as athletic as the defendant, er, the victim, my client was brutally pummeled and well……those are the facts”
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ha ha!!
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oh no! I can’t see the video (This video does not exist)
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oh was this video the cartoon of him and Serino doing the reenactment? that was hilarious! knees shaking?
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@mindyme. Yep, Knees shaking and feeling his muscle when going for his cell phone, Watch Serino’s character when GZ he thinks he was trying to push him away. LOL!!
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@mindyme. I went to Youtube to check and it appears the video was moved and given a different URL. So, I embedded the new URL. 🙂
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@Racerrodig. Did you notice that GZ’s swats were low, like he was swatting at someone half his height? Kinda makes one wonder who exactly was on the ground after he reached on his right side.
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I noticed that the 1st time I saw it…..belt height…..as if Trayvon was already down.
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I hope this comes up. I sure want to hear his answer.
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LOL, that’s what I’ve been saying all along. Good job Xena. I’ve been reading your posts I just haven’t been participating much in your Forum. Getting down to the wire it’ll be “Interesting” to see how Georgies Cult acts during the Trial.
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@Jim. Good to see your fonts again. I’ve not visited Yahoo articles in over 7 months and can only imagine the verbal vandalism of filth posted by Georgie’s Cult. Do you still post there?
The next hearing date is May 28th. I just hope that GZ’s trial on HLN is not pre-empted with the Jodi Arias jury selection for her sentencing phase. LOL!!
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Another great video, thank you Xena :))
GZ’s physical behaviour always gives him away. He will never learn that he MIGHT be able to hide evidence with his verbal communication (I add he does it extremely badly i.e. no one with any power of discernment believes him), but his physical movements betray him and that’s the power of human behaviour, it’s transparent!
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Hey Animaljunkie. Welcome to Blackbutterfly7 and thanks for your comment. Did you see some of the videos with slow motion of GZ’s actions? They can be found on https://www.youtube.com/user/auntiebjw, and if IIRC, are titled:
How Zimmerman Hurt His Nose
Zimmerman’s Jacket Raising and Taking the Shot In Slow Motion
You can probably see much more in his body language than what’s on the surface. You are so right — his movements betray him.
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Thank you Xena & you’re most welcome 🙂
I’ve seen most if not all of your excellent videos, on You Tube; in fact I’ve gone so far as to subscribe to your channel 😀 I tweet the links regularly on Twitter. May I presume you do not have a Twitter Account?
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@Animaljunkie. Sorry for the late response. You presume correctly. I don’t have twitter nor Facebook. When I first launched this blog and checked on those media sources, “Blackbutterfly7” was already taken. I didn’t want to use an account name different from the blog. Words cannot express my appreciation for you and others who tweet and post links on Facebook. Also, thanks for subscribing to the Youtube channel.
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@Xena
Not at all, that is to say, I’m in no hurry 🙂
That is such a shame, as you would really enjoy the debates we have on Twitter, but I confess, I’ve never wanted to join Facebook and I doubt I ever will.
I understand, but underscores help tremendously e.g. @Blackbutterfly_7 or similar permutations of that ilk.
Oh, you mistake our intent 🙂 It is WE who are grateful to the likes of you & LLMPapa et al.; i.e. it all adds to the context of our debate and passion in finding justice for Trayvon Martin and the likes of Jordan Davis, Ernest Hoskins Jr and Daniel Adkins Jr. etc.; unfortunately, I’m sure the list could well be longer than I care to mention.
Needless to say, it’s a pleasure to subscribe to your YouTube Channel and I wish you all the best 😀
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>^..^< I can leap 40'! No foolin'!
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@cielo62. Leap 40 feet, or was that 40 inches? LOL!!!
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) (Cheshire cat). Ain’t tellin’.
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Thank you so much for doing this! You and LLMPapa both are my heroes. I can’t wait!!!!
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@Rachael. LLMPapa is my hero!!! He can say more in a 3 minute video than Don West can say in 2 hours in a motion hearing in court.
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Yea….during the reenactment gz looked down to where he murdered Trayvon and realized he had effed up because it was obvious he lied about the attack at the T. He tried to recover by swatting but it was toooooo late.
I don’t comment a lot but you guys are amazing! I pray that this trial will begin on June 10 and justice is served with gz going to prison. The defense is deflecting big time and I hope their strategy doesn’t work by poisoning the jury pool.
There are laws in society for a reason. gz made a choice to not abide by them and as a result we had an innocent young man life taken away from him and a mother lost her child.
I have 3 children and all 3 of them lived a life as a teenager, as did I.
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@He ran. First, I want to apologize for your comment being held in moderation. You’ve had at least one comment on this blog previously that was approved, so your subsequent comments should be directly posted.
I too pray that trial begins on June 10th. Justice shall be served and Zimmerman shall spend the rest of his life behind bars. I suspect he now wishes that Wolfinger had followed through on the capias for manslaughter where he could have plead for maybe 20 years with 5 years probation.
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When he said he was punched and fell backward,. the detectives moved to that general spot and you could see the look on his face as plain as “…damn…..I better wing it now……dad will get me off, these guys just love me!!”
He’s such a bad liar and the Zidiots actually give him credit for being a good liar. Either way, everyone says he’s a liar……and so will a jury.
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Just remember how Trevor Dooley was treated by Leos and das’ in the same state for an identical situation.
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To Jessica.
Just to let you know, once I see that a comment awaiting moderation has one of the IP addresses you use, I don’t read it beyond seeing what handle and email address you use. That’s because you use the handles and email addresses of other GZ supporters.
Using an IP address change program does not keep you hidden. You’ve been reported for harassment and extortion previously and dealt with by your ISPs, which is why you now use an IP address changing program. Your harassment and extortion shall be reported again.
It’s not cool that you send comments here under the handles of GZ supporters. You’ve sent comments using Nettles’ name and email address, Diwataman, and others. You’ve used the handles of Jordan2222, hwoon1st and others. Why do you wish to give the impression that those you agree with are committing the harassment? Or, maybe you don’t agree with them but simply associate with them to get their email addresses so you can use them in violating law. Does MT realize that you give him credit in your comments as being the organizer and initiator of doxing in violation of federal law?
Funny; although your comments are aimed to harass and extort, they are also aimed to get your “friends” incorporated in your violation of law.
Your IP address always leads back to you. All of the IP addresses assigned to the program you use to change them will now be blacklisted by this blog. Just like before you started using the IP changing address program, once those IP addresses are blacklisted by this blog, your comments will go into the black hole, never again going into moderation first. In other words, it’s as though you never submit a comment and do not exist.
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Xena- smack her down good!!
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@Cielo. Please, allow me to share a little history. Back around June 2012 was when I first searched for blogs that supported justice for Trayvon. I found TheJBMission and began posting comments there. I will always consider that my blog home. JB and the others were welcoming. We talked personal things. I shared with them, for instance, that my husband died in 2009.
I did not start Blackbutterfly7 until around August 2012. As soon as I announced it on TheJBMission, Jessica sent comments disparaging JB. She warned me that if I didn’t stop participating on TheJBMission, that she would ruin my reputation. She confused the name of this blog as my handle, threatened to defame me, mocked the death of my husband, and said that MT had my real name and she started posting what she mistakenly believes it to be.
Then she stalked me over on Leatherman’s and sent threatening comments that if I didn’t stop participating there, that she would ruin me and Leatherman. If she believes that posting disparaging things about us is ruining us, she is badly mistaken. What she does has just the opposite effect.
Her further threats included that if I didn’t start supporting GZ, that she was going to spread lies about me to all Trayvon supporters with threats that if they continued to support this blog, that she would do the same to them. She sent links to places where she disparaged Trayvon supporters, some whose handles I am unfamiliar with. I blocked her IP addresses.
After reporting her to both of her ISPs, she now claims that I doxed her. Evidently, she fails to understand that IP addresses are the fingerprints of the internet. ISPs not only know who is assigned the IP address, but they have assess to all activity to verify whatever is submitted to them. Jessica has gone beyond harassment and her actions have been reported to and verified by law enforcement, including federal, the Attorney Generals where she lives and where she attends college.
Now, she apparently believes that using a proxy server and an IP address program to change her IP address will prevent her from being blocked and hide her, and she thinks nothing of impersonating GZ supporters to commit harassment, extortion, and issue threats. I have no fight with Nettles and Diwataman. They do their thing and I do mine. I’ve never submitted a comment to any of their blogs, and will not do so. I may not like some of their opinions and the way they express them, but they have a First Amendment right to do so, and I exercise the same right and will defend it.
Jessica, otoh, has no First Amendment right to threaten, harass, and attempt extortion. She has learned the difference, which is why she is now without an ISP and impersonates Nettles and Diwataman in her illegal activities.
It’s her life and her decision if she wants to continue violating law.
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Xena- she’s seriously mentally unbalanced.
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@Cielo. I tend to agree which is why I was merciful.
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What a diplomatically all correct ass kicking…..Man are you good !!
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@Racerrodig. Diplomatic because I intend no harm. If her parents own the accounts that she uses to access the internet, then she has exposed them to legal action. I gave Ms. Filth opportunity to stop her illegal behavior. She made the choice not to.
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You are the best. I tend to take a more “direct approach” as you can see.
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Oh Snap!
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Oh My Dear Xena!! You knew I would show up here to say a BIG THANK YOU!! I ask & you produce!! You are really using your talents to show Trayvons Family how we feel & all the Love that is in our hearts for them,while a few are TRYING to distract from the real FACTS.You should be so proud of yourself for the work you are doing for Trayvon,I am certainly proud of you! Keep up the GREAT WORK from ALL of US b/c we do appreciate it!
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@Marilyn C. Great to see you!!! As you know, there is no “I” in the word “team.” Those who support justice for Trayvon — we all — are motivators for each other. Yeah, the distractions are ridiculous. None of them prove that GZ killed Trayvon in self-defense.
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You also have me on your TEAM as I was happy to meet you at JB’s.I can see that the threats only make you fight harder & YOUR TEAM is here to back you up!! They don’t scare us away!
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@Marilyn C. You know, TheJBMission was the first blog I commented on. I was welcomed and find it to be a great place with great people. Threats do not persuade me to turn my back on people. I found the threats to be mere school playground bully tactics.
Heck! I’m a butterfly, and butterflies already know what it’s like to break through and be free. 🙂
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Hi Marilyn C.: Now that Xena has pointed out that when DD’s call disconnects at 7:16:– (no seconds because T-Mobile rounds to the nearest minute) the first 911 callers phone picks up from there. So there’s only a gap of about 11 seconds from the time the encounter starts, until we start getting info again. So from about 7:16:00 onward until the gunshot 45 seconds later, we know where gz was, right near the callers house.
The problem is, another witness claims to have heard an argument “bending the corner”, coming around from TTL towards the T. From the description Trent Sawyer’s video gives, it sounds contemporaneous with gz engaged with Trayvon. If so, then who are these people and what are they doing out there? There’s also a blood stain found on the garage frame of 2861 RVC. Which makes it seem like gz was knocking on his door, and not on the flashlight that Serino found to be in perfect working order.
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Grrreat work Xena. You’re already our shining star. Next up is this blood found on 2861 Retreat View Circles garage frame here I’ve got the photo and a photoshop enhancement there and a little bit more.
You should probably be aware of this:
“Look at the daytime photos in the discovery taken the day after the shooting, by Crime Scene Tech Diana Smith. She chose what to photograph, most likely based on what she understood to be the key locations that would either corroborate or refute GZ’s version, as related to the officers who interviewed him the night before and the witness statements obtained the night before.” Which comes from the FLOPPING ACES BLOG
They’re pro gz over there, but they’re not doing the nasty, they seem to be unable or unwilling to grasp the rules and laws that control the situation, thus it allows them to dismiss gz criminal activities that provoked the attack that gz lies about having happened.
Anyone who cares to pop over an try to give them a clue, is of course, welcomed to do so, we’d be pleased to have a report back on the results obtained. Who knows, they seem reasonable enough people that some might even be won over.
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@Lonnie. It always concerned me that Jon would hear a gunshot and come out of his house. Most of the other witnesses were trying to hide in their house in a safe place, but Jon grabs a flashlight and goes through his garage — a garage with a stain that looks like blood. Hmmm.
As you know, my position has always been that GZ placed blood on his head to make the wounds appear fresh. The EMT’s found that the blood on his head was dry. That drying was too fast to have come out of the head boo-boos just moments before the EMTs cleaned them.
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Hmmm… Now I wonder, since it appears he was at Jon’s front door before the NEN call ended, That sound like a gun being racked could also be Jon opening either front door or the garage door. Maybe someone should enhance the NEN call and post it, so we can listen more carefully to other parts and not just the “oons” part.
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Oh and for anyone with the time, there may be even more gold in the photos that Crime Scene Tech Diana Smith took. I don’t have a link yet for them, if anyone has it please post.
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Who lives at that address ???
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Witness #13 Jon!
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Yep…..how convenient.
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Of interest is that Serino looks south on RVC at timestamp 1:53 even though gz has been saying he looked across the street (east side of RVC) for an address in reenactment.
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Also, timestamp 6:52 to gz refers to Jon with flashlight and says he still had his handgun out + when the police came, gz says he stood up and holstered his gun and was handcuffed.
Yet, we know that Jon took a photo of gz seconds before Officer Smith came and, in that photo gz is holding his cellphone to his right ear. (=no gun out to be holstered)
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Also note that he doesn’t mention that he left his vehicle on the dead run, so he gets to RVC quite a bit earlier than what he’s trying to tell us. Plenty of time for him to go around to leave that blood stain on Jon’s garage door frame, eh? Then Jon comes out through the front of his garage and around to find gz standing there with his gun in one hand and probably the phone in the other hand, while he’s taking the picture? Then ofc Smith arrives and only then does he holster his gun, which he’s had in his hand for some 3 full minutes after the shot.
A shot, which we know was fired 40 feet south of where he’s claiming it happened. Jon says that when he rounded the corner near the dog path, gz was only 6 to 8 feet from the T. Obviously he’d walked there from where he shot Trayvon, so he’s leaving out a whole lot of activities that took place during those 3 minutes.
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@Xena: I’ve found a site that let’s you create countdown clocks, pretty cool, simple and easy. Here I’ve put one on my blog head and another in the [url=http://tinyurl.com/bn5e4xe]master revisable timeline[/url]. check it out.
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@Lonnie. Sorry. Just found your comment in moderation because it has more than one link. Thanks for the reference. I’ll check it out.
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Have you seen LLMPapa’s latest– GZ’s membership in a MMA gym? What next? How could anyone support the defendant’s alibis? And the defendant? Too much.
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@Cercando Luce. One of our first posts was about trace evidence providing evidence that GZ used a take down move on Trayvon. GZ was a bouncer and there is one scream by Trayvon that conveys pain. Now that there are facts that GZ trained in MMA and kickboxing, that lends more support that he knew exactly how to restrain Trayvon while he aimed and shot the kid in the heart. GZ deliberately, and maliciously, took Trayvon’s life.
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I remember that– good sleuthing. The defense (not surprisingly) has completely de-emphasized the bouncer job, and it’s amazing how successful GZ and O’Mara have been at portraying GZ as some mild schlub who wouldn’t even know how to lift 10 lbs. I hope a gym trainer will bear true witness to what this man was capable of.
Loved your videos, Xena, please keep up the good work. It is inspiring!
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@Cercando Luce. Hopefully, the State has lined up GZ’s trainer to testify at trial.
Last night, I noticed that HLN presented something to raise eyebrows. They had on the criminal defense attorney who once represented GZ. They said nothing about what he was charged with — just that she represented him. That tells viewers that GZ has been criminal charged in the past.
Computer problems have me behind in work, and I hope to catch-up by this weekend. Thanks for the encouragement.
Justice for Trayvon!
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