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Police: Zimmerman says Trayvon decked him with one blow then began hammering his head
Orlando Sentinel ^ | March 26, 2012 | Rene Stutzman

Posted on 03/26/2012 8:41:12 AM PDT by maggief

With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George Zimmerman and slammed his head into the sidewalk several times, leaving him bloody and battered, authorities have revealed to the Orlando Sentinel.

That is the account Zimmerman gave police, and much of it has been corroborated by witnesses, authorities say.

Zimmerman has not spoken publicly about what happened, but that night, Feb. 26, and in later meetings he described and re-enacted for police what he says happened.

In his version of events, he had turned around and was walking back to his SUV when Trayvon approached him from behind, the two exchanged words then Trayvon punched him in the nose, sending him to the ground, and began beating him.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; martin; thug; trayvon; trayvonassaultedz; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: Linda Frances

You gotta take what you can get, which is why Zimmerman is WHITE-hispanic.


61 posted on 03/26/2012 9:10:17 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Wizdum

Tells us why you think Mr. Zimmerman will go down for Murder 2.


62 posted on 03/26/2012 9:12:35 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: joe fonebone
"...recently been suspended for beating up a bus driver picked..."

Where did you hear this?

63 posted on 03/26/2012 9:12:40 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Cicero
"Maybe, it’s been suggested, because they were fighting over the gun and Zimmerman’s hand blocked the reloading."

This is the only plausible explanation.

The pistol was physically constrained from cycling properly.

64 posted on 03/26/2012 9:13:01 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SamuraiScot

Busted for carrying an *empty* marihuana baggie? Wouldn’t that be called a “baggie?” Is it illegal to carry empty baggies in the school?


65 posted on 03/26/2012 9:14:19 AM PDT by dangus
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To: maggief
Trayvon was visiting his father's fiancée, who lived there. He had been suspended from school in Miami after being found with an empty marijuana baggie. Miami schools have a zero-tolerance policy for drug possession.

Zimmerman called police and reported a suspicious person, describing Trayvon as black, acting strangely and perhaps on drugs.

Zimmerman got out of his SUV to follow Trayvon on foot. When a dispatch employee asked Zimmerman if he was following the 17-year-old, Zimmerman said yes. The dispatcher told Zimmerman he did not need to do that.

There is about a one-minute gap during which police say they're not sure what happened.

Zimmerman told them he lost sight of Trayvon and was walking back to his SUV when Trayvon approached him from the left rear, and they exchanged words.

Trayvon asked Zimmerman if he had a problem. Zimmerman said no and reached for his cell phone, he told police.

Trayvon then said, “Well, you do now” or something similar and punched Zimmerman in the nose.

Zimmerman fell to the ground and Trayvon got on top of him and began slamming his head into the sidewalk, he told police.

Zimmerman began yelling for help.

Several witnesses heard those cries, and there's been a dispute about from whom they came: Zimmerman or Trayvon.

66 posted on 03/26/2012 9:15:41 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Anti-Bubba182
" If that is true Zimerman had reason to fear for his life and was justified in shooting him."

Absolutely. Repeated concrete slams easily result in death.

67 posted on 03/26/2012 9:16:00 AM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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To: murron

Wouldn’t the eyewitness testimony work, too?


68 posted on 03/26/2012 9:16:46 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SampleMan

Think more like the riots across Kenya after Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, narrowly lost the presidential election there. A few hours after Odinga spoke with Obama about losing the election the riots started.


69 posted on 03/26/2012 9:17:08 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: EEGator

“I hope you can run fast.”

You mean I wouldn’t make it into the national new as a senior that was pummeled by black racists just for stepping into their church?


70 posted on 03/26/2012 9:17:33 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: NormsRevenge

So following somebody is a crime in FL?


71 posted on 03/26/2012 9:20:07 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: freeangel

If you are white, you deserved it.
If you are white and Christian, you really deserved it.
If you are an atheist and gay, the PC media will blame it on white Christians for hate speech.


72 posted on 03/26/2012 9:22:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This hit the interwebs yesterday... turns out his 5 day suspension from school was actually a 10 day....his school records were sealed by his familys attorney... well they got released yesterday


73 posted on 03/26/2012 9:22:35 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: SampleMan
Yeah, he is as white as the President of the NAACP Ben Jealous! Photobucket Photobucket Seperated at birth?
74 posted on 03/26/2012 9:24:07 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: freeangel
You mean I wouldn’t make it into the national new as a senior that was pummeled

If making the news is your goal, there's safer ways of doing it. Fer instance, instead of walking into the church wearing the hoodie and laughing, you could just stand outside in the nude laughing.

Trust me, nobody messes with a nude senior who is standing on the sidewalk laughing hysterically........

75 posted on 03/26/2012 9:24:20 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: maggief
Clay Aiken was just on the third hour of the Today Show wearing a hoodie in support of Trayvon Martin.

Gay Tenors for Tray'?

76 posted on 03/26/2012 9:25:37 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: maggief
The REAL Trayvon Martin, gold teeth and all.

77 posted on 03/26/2012 9:28:02 AM PDT by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: maggief

Zimmerman’s first big mistake: Volunteering for a crime watch in a very diverse HOA and pursuing a “guest” of the HOA. I can’t even ask a “guest” to leave if they are creating a ruckus at our pool. He shot one. Sometimes freepers shape information to fit their preconceived notions. I’m sure if I was armed with only a bag of Skittles and maybe Trayvon saw the gun, I’d be wailing on the big guy myself.


78 posted on 03/26/2012 9:28:22 AM PDT by floriduh voter ( Obamacare is to you as a can of RAID is to a bug. R A I D !)
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To: Mariner

“”Maybe, it’s been suggested, because they were fighting over the gun and Zimmerman’s hand blocked the reloading.”

This is the only plausible explanation.”

No, the more likely explanation is Martin had a hold on the gun trying to take it from Zimmerman when Zimmerman fired.


79 posted on 03/26/2012 9:29:35 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: murron

Very well put. I surely agree with you 100%.


80 posted on 03/26/2012 9:31:15 AM PDT by papageo
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