The MSM doesn't have all of the facts. The narrative they are pushing isn't supported by the scant few facts we do have...
Ah, well, that does make the beat down he was supposedly giving Zimmerman more believable. In my limited personal experience facts mean little to the MSM today. What matters is how the story can be twisted to promote the agenda of the far left, in this case the message appears to be “guns and whitey are evil”.