Witnesses change stories ahead of Zimmerman trial

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/trayvon-martin-shooting-witnesses-change-stories-ahead-zimmerman-133743219.html

By Dylan Stableford | The Lookout – 14 hrs ago

Four witnesses in the Trayvon Martin case have changed their stories, some "in ways that may damage" George Zimmerman, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

According to records released last week in the second-degree murder case, the witnesses—all of them neighbors—were interviewed multiple times by police and special prosecutors about what they saw on Feb. 26, the night Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in Sanford, Fla.

Four days after the shooting, one woman told police she "saw two guys running" and then "a fistfight. Just fists. I don't know who was hitting who." But on March 20, she told investigators she saw just one person.

"I couldn't tell you if it was a man, a woman, a kid, black or white," the woman, "Witness 2," said. "I couldn't tell you because it was dark and because I didn't have my contacts on or glasses. I just know I saw a person out there."

Another witness, who was initially interviewed on March 20, said she saw two people on the ground immediately after the shooting but was not sure who was on top.

But in another interview with investigators six days later, the paper reported, she was sure: It was Zimmerman on top.

"I know after seeing the TV of what's happening, comparing their sizes, I think Zimmerman was definitely on top because of his size," the woman, "Witness 12," said.

A third witness, "Witness 6," told police on the night of the shooting that he saw a black man on top of a lighter-skinned man "just throwing down blows on the guy, MMA-style." He said the lighter-skinned man was calling for help. Interviewed later by investigators, he said he was not sure who was calling for help, and was not sure any punches were thrown.

A fourth witness also interviewed on the night of the shooting said he heard the shooting, ran outside, and saw Zimmerman standing with "blood on the back of his head." According to "Witness 13," Zimmerman told him that Martin "was beating up on me, so I had to shoot him."

A month later, the same witness described Zimmerman's demeanor: "[it was] not like 'I can't believe I just shot someone!' It was more like, 'Just tell my wife I shot somebody,' like it was nothing."

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http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/05/four-witnesses-in-zimmerman-case-change-their-stories-after-meeting-with-state-investigators/

Four witnesses in Zimmerman case change their stories after meeting with state investigators

Written By: Bob - May• 23•12

Someone please explain to me how this doesn’t raise the possibility of a witness tampering investigation:

vidence released last week in the second-degree-murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made major changes in what they say they saw and heard the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.

Three changed their stories in ways that may damage Zimmerman. A fourth abandoned her initial story, that she saw one person chasing another. Now, she says, she saw a single figure running.

More than one person has said that the identities of the witnesses is well known within the apartment community, which is not in and of itself much of a shock. Considering the volatile nature of the case, and the–how else to say it–bloodthirsty demands for lynching by the New Black Panther Party echoed by far too many black leaders (including so-called “Reverends” Sharpton and Jackson), and interference from President “if I had a son…” Obama himself, no wonder witnesses feel pressured to change their stories to comply with public opinion.

I have a very hard time condemning them.

They fear–rightly so–that their lives and the lives of their families could be at risk from the violent cult-like following of martyred St. Trayvon, for whom reason, logic, and evidence long stopped mattering. The lynching of George Zimmerman is their blood ransom. They demand his conviction, or else threats of rioting and (even more) racial violence if they are not appeased.

It’s blackmail by a large minority of a minority group, and it should not be allowed to stand. Under this Presidential Administration, however, I see no signs of anything other than “racial justice” on the horizon, even if the Republic falls apart as a result.

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The Black Panthers were strong arming people in 2008 at the voting booths in black neighborhoods in Philly, Chicago, etc... they even have pics of them near the voting places with clubs talking to people before they voted. Federal charges were brought against them for voter tampering and when Obama got elected the US Justice Dept. (Eric Holder) dropped all the charges against them with no explanation.

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The Black Panthers were strong arming people in 2008 at the voting booths in black neighborhoods in Philly, Chicago, etc... they even have pics of them near the voting places with clubs talking to people before they voted. Federal charges were brought against them for voter tampering and when Obama got elected the US Justice Dept. (Eric Holder) dropped all the charges against them with no explanation.

no explaination?

"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html

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No explanation he felt like posting, is what he meant.

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no explaination?

"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html

If there were a group of people up here strong arming voters with clubs there would be a blood bath.

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No explanation he felt like posting, is what he meant.

'my people' explains it.