the police should have a news conference and fill in some of what happened to try stop the media from making up what they want to have happened
Why should the police put any effort into protecting the media's credibility? The media is out to hang the police and prosecutor too, for not charging Zimmerman. If I was in the police chief's shoes, I would consider the media to be my adversary - and anything I said would be excerpted and rearranged so it would make me appear unreasonable, stupid, biased, etc.
The city of Sanford has all kinds of material up on their web site. If I were home on a computer I’d put up the links. The media rabble rousing is especially egregious given how much good raw data is there.