I think it was just buried. This whole thing is a set up (imo). But to answer your question, I have a copy (redacted) of the police report that was written by the responding officer that nite. He didn’t state that his nose ‘was broken’ but instead said it was bleeding and he wrote about seeing blood on the back of his head. He also wrote that there was grass on his back as well as his back being wet.
I’m still confused why anyone thinks the existence/nature Zimmerman’s injuries are relevant to the legal determination in this matter. Based on everything known to this point, the altercation happened after Zimmerman confronted/tried to detain Martin, and after he chased him down after Martin tried to run. At that point, in my professional legal opinion (but nB I am not a Florida lawyer) if Martin had beaten Zimmerman unconscious, or even to death, he would have been within HIS self-defense rights (it’s what I’ve trained MY son to do if he was accosted by a stranger on dark street, but then he’s a 250lb starting nose tackle on his HS team)
Conversely however, the most generous legal interpretation of Zimmerman’s actions would still support a conviction for “mutual affray” You can’t gain the legal right to kill someone in self defense if you are the one who starts the violence.
Zimmerman isn’t someone we should be defending, he’s going to seriously hurt the concealed constitutional carry cause in this country, you just watch (and FL may well repeal “stand your ground” because of this).
By all means let’s point out the liberal’s hypocrisy and over-reaction in this case, but let’s try very hard not to in any way make Zimmerman out to be a better person than he is in the process
Police are trained to put down only observations, not inferences. If the officer was not medically trained and did not personally conduct a medical exam of Zimmerman, then he would not infer whether the nose was broken.