I've read a couple of the State's responses to motions filed by Zimmerman's attorney. I decided to stop when I came across this statement in the State's Response to Defendant's Motion to Take Additional Deposition:
"[Zimmerman] then followed Trayvon Martin even though he was told by the SPD operator not to follow the Victim."
What the dispatcher actually said when Zimmerman said he was following Martin was:
"OK we don't need you to do that."
The City of Sanford has stated in writing that the dispatcher's statement was not an order.
Nobody ever told Zimmerman not to follow Martin, yet the prosecutors repeat this lie in pleadings.
That prosecutor lie is also slapped down in #2 here:
http://184.172.211.159/~gzdocs/documents/1212/zimmerman_reply_to_resp_to_motion_for_deposition.pdf
Perhaps just as important...after told ‘we don’t need you to do that’, Zimmerman did in fact stop following Martin. You can hear his heavy breathing stop; and, he turns his attention to giving the dispatcher directions on where to find him.
Not only is it incorrect to state that an ‘order’ was given...its complete fantasy that he disobeyed the phantom ‘order’.
He’s on the neighborhood watch, and, gasp, he follows a stranger in the complex...and this vigilante calls the police. Then he does exactly what the dispatcher tells him to do.
I wonder if Zimmerman had been beaten to death, with Martin’s identity unknown...would the headline be:
“Young Hispanic Man Beaten to Death in White Neighborhood”.
Zimmerman’s response to the dispatcher (not an LEO) was “OK.” People assume that Z continued to follow Martin, but is that in fact true? Martin was bashing Z’s head against a concrete sidewalk and not soft grassy turf. The evidence is clear. Therefore I can only assume that Z left the site and was returning to his car parked along the sidewalk. Martin turned around and approached Z from behind and initated the attack which ended up with Zimmerman on the ground/sidewalk with his nose broken and his skull cracked.