how was the tape that ABC showed made and/or how did they get their particular copy?
Why does this make the difference?....What is in the police report is what really should be the concern. This, if it goes to court??? will be the basic’s for Mr. Zimmerman defense.
It is of enormous significance on several levels: the obvious one is the issue in this thread: Did ABC News manipulate information it presented to the public. If, for example, they had an original copy, with the crawl, with clearer resolution, the “edited” copy they showed the public is all the more damning.
Another level relates to Zimmerman’s criminal case: what does the original tape show? If it clearly does show the injuries documented in the police report, it eliminate any attack on the veracity of the police report concerning the single most critical issue for Zimmerman’s defense: was he attacked by Martin? Was the attack severe enough to put him in fear for his life sufficient to justify the use of deadly force in self-defense?
Yet another level is the effect on Zimmerman’s potential gigantic civil action against ABC and other news agency for defamation. If it is shown that they treacherously altered images and information to fit an agenda, Mr. Zimmerman may be a very rich man someday.