Posted on 04/03/2012 11:27:09 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A partially-redacted police report detailing the initial investigation in the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin has surfaced.
Reuters reporter Matthew Keys first posted scanned copies of the report to his Twitter account. As the Chicago Tribune noted, the report contains details that conflict with several rumors surrounding the case.
The report states that George Zimmerman's gun "was placed into evidence" and not returned to him, and the scene of the shooting was secured with crime scene tape. This directly conflicts with statements made by civil rights activists, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had claimed the Sanford, Fla., police department "didn't even bother to put yellow tape around the murder scene when he died--that's how much the police did to find out what happened to this young boy."
After officers discovered Martin's body, the report states, they unsuccessfully attempted to revive him.
According to the report, Sanford police spent more than seven hours at the scene. They interviewed six witnesses, whose names were redacted from the report. The partial report contains information from the first two officers to arrive at the scene.
The first to arrive was officer Timothy Smith. From Smith's report:
"While I was in such close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe that his back appeared to be wet and was covered in grass, as if he had been laying on his back on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and back of his head."
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Trademarking on the loss of a loved one.
Unbelievable? No, sadly all too believable.
Love your tagline. I’m right there with you.
I don’t pretend to know anything about this neighborhood, but in my neighborhood an incident of this kind, (gunfire, police coming and staying) would draw a big crowd of everyone who lived in the neighborhood.
in old people enclaves in fl, it is all a bunker mentality. Nobody goes out. Nobody knows neighbors. Elderly who die sometimes go for days if not weeks until being discovered.
That is a bit dramatic but the general concept with the condo commandoes.
It’s a middle-income, mixed-race neighborhood. “Gated community” is misleading.
For various reasons, I accept that Tracy didn't know there had been a shooting 70 yards from his back door, until the next day.
Thanks for the post/info .. will compare/contrast this evening when time permits.
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