Bowlartz posted:
The 13 year old witness couldn't see what was going on before running after his dog. His Mother is making claims that the police tried to lead the 13 year old into saying that Zimmerman was in control during the fight and that it couldn't have been self defense. The quote from the Mother:
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/28/10909475-witness-mom-says-police-told-her-trayvon-martin-shooting-wasnt-self-defense
"The shooting occurred Feb. 26, and Brown's son called 911 to report it at the time. But police didn't seek to question him until March 2, Brown said. She wasn't home, so they returned March 5, meaning eight days passed before police actually questioned a key eyewitness.
"I was waiting every day for someone to come knocking on the door," she said.
Once they did, Brown alleged, police tried to lead her son to agree to certain assertions, such as the race of the person on the ground and what he was wearing. But the boy stuck to his insistence that he couldn't make out either because it was too dark.
Brown alleged that the lead investigator "told me this was not self-defense," saying she should "read between the lines" because "this was racial stereotyping."
Martin was black; Zimmerman is Hispanic.
She said the investigator said he had children of his own "and seemed angered by it," saying, "I need to prove this was not self-defense."
The 13 year old couldn't see and to compound things, his Mother is claiming the police were pressuring him to say he saw something he did not. This witness is actually terribly damaging for the prospects of prosecution due to the obvious attempt to tamper.
The main witness named "John" is an adult who saw the fight happening (not from the start) is on the police record and a TV interview as having said he saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman beating him while he cried out like a wee school girl. The witness yelled at Trayvon to stop and said he was calling police...which he did, there is a 911 call from him. When he got done with the call he checked back and saw Trayvon now dead.
That's it.
If you don't know how police questioning works...They always try to get witnesses to change their stories...it about credibility. If a witness changes their story to match what they think the police want them to say ,they are dismissed because they aren't credible witnesses and are very likely to change their story under questioning during a trial.
BTW:John isn't "the main witness" he is a witness..The only evidence that wasn't already known that john gave was that at one point in the confrontation,John believes he saw Zimmerman losing a fight.
If their stupidity didn't shelter them from the full shame of their actions,their would be alot more republican suicides.
