Hi, Nita — good to see you. The following shows how perverse this travesty of a trial is:
I was just re-reading Z’s statement on the way to finding a link to the entire re-enactment video.
de la Rionda earlier in his closing made big deal (high pitched theatrics) claiming that Z had **no reason** to immediately suspect TM, that TM was an innocent kid on his way home, why did Z suspect him just because he was lurking around a house (on a dark, COLD, RAINY evening) — which, for all Z knew, could have been TM’s own house? Clearly Z was profiling (code: racist bigot) and out of line.
But according to Z’s statements, he was immediately on the alert because he knew TM *didn’t* live in that house:
// Zimmerman said he was driving to buy groceries when he spotted the unarmed teen walking near a house **that he knew Martin did not live in** and called police [non-emergency number] to report a suspicious person. //
Z’s handwritten statement: http://newspreview.corp.dig.com/images/US/Zimmerman_Handwritten_Narrative.pdf
It’s not coming up; here’s paraphrase: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/06/21/abc-coverage-of-zimmerman-re-enactment-video-release/
Racehorse, this is the video of the re-enactment Z did for the police for you in case you’d not seen it — it explains a whole lot and will help fill in some of your gaps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qfkRTC5gF4
I’m gonna go check my garden now.
// But according to Z’s statements, he was immediately on the alert because he knew TM *didn’t* live in that house //
To clarify: in the beginning video re-enactment, Z explains that TM was loitering/slowly walking IN THE YARD (not on a sidewalk or a cut-through) of a house that WAS NOT HIS.
Hey, Cyn! Look at all the great stuff you left me. Thanks! And it’s so weird because i JUST saw this subject on TV and was getting irritated at the media spin.
You said,
<< // Zimmerman said he was driving to buy groceries when he spotted the unarmed teen walking near a house **that he knew Martin did not live in** and called police [non-emergency number] to report a suspicious person. >>
Coincidentally, Z’s friend was just on CNN. (I think it was that middle-age white male with greying hair & in-your-face attitude who owned that house you’re talking about. I didn’t look up, i was just listening). Jane Velez Mitchell (sp?) was talking about what you just wrote, and she repeated the lie! Well, Z’s friend promptly corrected her, explaining that Z had seen TM looking in this friend’s windows and had made Z suspicious.
Well, Jane balked, not believing him. So he kept saying, “It’s on the video! At the beginning of it. Look at the video!” Sure enough, I remember seeing it on Z’s video at the very beginning.
Lots of lies the defense is going to have to correct.