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Witness: Zimmerman 'Never ... Tried To Help' Trayvon Martin
MSNBC ^ | March 25, 2012

Posted on 03/25/2012 12:30:48 PM PDT by Steelfish

Witness: Zimmerman 'Never ... Tried To Help' Trayvon Martin

By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services

A woman who says she and her roommate witnessed the final moments of Trayvon Martin's life told Dateline NBC that George Zimmerman had "his hands pressed on his back" and "never turned him over or tried to help him."

Zimmerman's lawyer, when shown part of the interview being aired Sunday night on Dateline, emphasized that his client would be claiming self-defense.

"I think there were efforts made to render aid to Trayvon," Craig Sonner told NBC's TODAY show.

Mary Cutcher told Dateline that she and her roommate both saw Zimmerman "straddling the body, basically a foot on both sides of Trayvon's body, and his hands pressed on his back."

Cutcher added that Zimmerman told her and her roommate to call the police. "Zimmerman never turned him over or tried to help him or CPR or anything," Cutcher said.

Sonner also reiterated what he had said in recent days, that Zimmerman suffered a broken nose and a gash to the back of his head.

A friend of Zimmerman's who appeared on TODAY with Sonner added that Zimmerman, 28, was distraught over the teen's death.

"Right after the shooting he couldn't stop crying," said Joe Oliver, who is African American and a former TV reporetr and anchor in Orlando.

Zimmerman has not been charged in the Feb. 26 shooting that has ignited racial tensions and raised questions about the Sanford police's handling of the case. Martin was black, and Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Hispanic.

In a separate interview Sunday, Oliver said that "I'm a black male and all that I know is that George has never given me any reason whatsoever to believe he has anything against people of color.''

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; trayvonmartin
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To: Hattie

Saying that something is “not necessary” is not an order.


241 posted on 03/25/2012 3:57:22 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: sauropod

No logic there. Both an apple and an orange are round. To a degree.


242 posted on 03/25/2012 3:58:31 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Sorry, but I have to agree with Hattie here. The 911 call did appear to me to tell Zimmerman to cease and desist.

You are arguing over semantics.


243 posted on 03/25/2012 3:59:10 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: Hattie

Your “fact” is made up.

He was told “We don’t need you to do that”. His response was “OK”.

That isn’t “stop following the boy”

Even if the dispatcher said “stop following the boy” (highly unlikely, since the dispatcher didn’t know Martin was 17 years old at the moment) AFAIK it doesn’t constitute a lawful order from an LEO. Dispatchers cannot command you to not do something you have every legal right to do.


244 posted on 03/25/2012 3:59:22 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: org.whodat

Have a nice day.

You’re hopeless.


245 posted on 03/25/2012 4:00:55 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: Cboldt

“Contrary to your contention that “I cannot sanely make that determination while being attacked,” I am pretty sure you could tell the difference between a beatdown by a person who is strong enough to break you, from one where the person is NOT strong enough to break you. If you can’t tell the difference, they you run the risk of failing the “reasonably” part of “reasonably apprehended risk of serious injury.””

That is a massive mistake. If a person is attacking you and they don’t have the strength to beat you down, you must, as the intended victim assume that the attacker has the ability to step up the attack using other means. That can include mace, stun gun, baton, knife, or gun.

With that being said, I’ve been in that exact situation. I was jumped in an attempted mugging. The mugger had the intention of knocking me out and taking my money. When I didn’t go down on the first blow, he resorted to his secondary means of attack. He stabbed me with a knife with the intent of killing me. I was able to draw my gun at which point he ran behind the building and out of site.

The person that attacked me was killed in a home invasion less than a year later. He killed the son of the home owner in that attack.

I’ve been down this road and I will won’t make the same mistakes again.


246 posted on 03/25/2012 4:01:04 PM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: sauropod

It is what the press is trying to Inflame.

Never let a crisis be wasted.

They are hoping for a repeat of London after a thug was shot.


247 posted on 03/25/2012 4:01:44 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: TASMANIANRED

I know.

Our populace is dumbed down enough that this will happen.


248 posted on 03/25/2012 4:03:08 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: Hattie

From the City Manager’s statement-

“...telecommunications call taker asked Zimmerman “are you
following him”. Zimmerman replied, “yes”. The call taker stated “you don’t need to do that”. The call taker’s suggestion is not a lawful order that Mr. Zimmerman would be required to follow....”

How does “you don’t need to do that” equate to an order to stop? And what does it matter, because the dispatcher can’t give a legal order? He also told the dispatcher, “Okay.”


249 posted on 03/25/2012 4:04:12 PM PDT by pops88 (Geek chick over 50)
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To: BCR #226

You get it.

I also have been mugged, although not with those consequences.

Stay safe, FRiend.


250 posted on 03/25/2012 4:05:17 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: org.whodat

Persecution complex.


251 posted on 03/25/2012 4:07:27 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: org.whodat

I wouldn’t care if thousands of elected officials told me what the law they wrote was intended to do. It only matters what a court decides the actual law, as written states.

Thank God for that.

Are you advocating ignoring written law by popular acclaim and the whim of the author of those laws?


252 posted on 03/25/2012 4:07:33 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Cboldt

10 seconds of yelling when he had a fire arm...suggests that it was last resort.. not first.


253 posted on 03/25/2012 4:10:49 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: mcjordansc
So, if Trayvon Martin feared for his life because he was being followed by a suspicious man, does he have the right to fight back?

Fight back against what? Reports are now indicating that he attacked Zimmerman from behind..........Wound on back of head, broken nose, grass stains on back of shirt.

254 posted on 03/25/2012 4:12:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: BCR #226
-- If a person is attacking you and they don't have the strength to beat you down, you must, as the intended victim assume that the attacker has the ability to step up the attack using other means. --

So, if some chick is rubbing your crotch, you are in reasonable apprehension of serious personal injury? Or the attacker is literally your 5 year old, 30 pound nephew or something, who is pissed off at you?

I agree with you, if it is some able-bodied adult stranger undertaking the attack, it is reasonable to apprehend risk of serious personal injury. My point was just that in the entire spectrum of unwelcome contact, there are contacts where it is UNreasonable to apprehend serious personal injury. You contend there is no such thing. Well, if you kill that chick who is lustfully rubbing your crotch, or your 5 year old nephew, you are probably in trouble with the law.

255 posted on 03/25/2012 4:12:56 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: org.whodat

“.....that you cannot pursue someone and then claim stand your ground as a defense....”
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I don’t believe I’ve read anywhere that Zimmerman will claim “stand your ground” as a defense should any action be brought against him. That wouldn’t be likely to match the facts on the ground. It would be difficult for me to visualize “STANDING my ground” if I wasn’t standing but was instead laying on the ground screaming for help with someone on top of me pummeling me. In such a situation you have basically two choices—allow yourself to be beat (possibly to death) or defend yourself.

Me? I’d defend myself. You? I don’t care.


256 posted on 03/25/2012 4:12:59 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: M1911A1

I’ll answer that.

Yes, she is.


257 posted on 03/25/2012 4:14:02 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: BCR #226

I’m glad you survived.


258 posted on 03/25/2012 4:14:21 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: Cboldt
So, if some chick is rubbing your crotch, you are in reasonable apprehension of serious personal injury?

No, just serious fun!

259 posted on 03/25/2012 4:15:49 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: sauropod

Trying to step up the time table .


260 posted on 03/25/2012 4:17:52 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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