FWIW, the prosecutor makes the same error in the affidavit in support of the charging document.
She has to be basing that assertion on DeeDee, because other than DeeDee, all the evidence contradicts Zimmerman following (and the recorded evidence of what the dispatcher said contradicts what the prosecutor claims).
[the dispatcher] instructed Zimmerman not to [follow Martin] and that the responding officer would meet [Zimmerman]. Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher and continued to follow Martin who was trying to return to his home.So says the prosecutor. The prosecutor can't come close to proving that, as DeeDee herself has Martin moving away from his "home" after reaching it; and the site of the fight is 70 yards from Martin's "home." If DeeDee's testimony is cherry picked (set aside what I just noted), she is the ONLY source for "Zimmerman continued to follow Martin." The recorded call with dispatch appears to contradict this cherry-picked narrative; as it has Zimmerman losing sight of Martin.
At any rate, I think it is worth remembering that the press has been told, by the prosecutor, that Zimmerman continued to follow Martin [after Zimmerman lost sight of Martin], and that it isn;t the press making this up out of whole cloth after listening to Zimmerman's recorded conversation with dispatch.
“FWIW, the prosecutor makes the same error in the affidavit in support of the charging document.”
She’s not making an error, she has access to ALL the evidence. What she’s doing is deliberate politically motivated malfeasance and why she should be disbarred and jailed.
Apparently when Crump wrote the script for Dee Dee he didn’t have all of the police reports. In her interview she said the earphones fell off of TM and she heard the grass. Police reports say the earphones were INSIDE the hoodie pocket with the skittles, lighter and the pin/button TM was wearing when George described him to the non-emergency Operator.
Apparently when Crump wrote the script for Dee Dee he didn’t have all of the police reports. In her interview she said the earphones fell off of TM and she heard the grass. Police reports say the earphones were INSIDE the hoodie pocket with the skittles, lighter and the pin/button TM was wearing when George described him to the non-emergency Operator.
I both agree and disagree. It was the press making it up out of whole cloth—inasmuch as they started alleging this as soon as transcripts of the call appeared. The very special prosecutor's office said nothing about it until she repeated this "narrative media" allegation in her complaint. I'm concluding that the prosecutrix picked it up from the media and from the Sharptonians. This doesn't seem a stretch to me, since she seems to have picked up all her other assertions about the case from them, such as that Zimmerman was "profiling" the subject.