Time for the DOJ to Expand Sanford Investigation-False Reports, Cover-Ups, Lies, Distortions

[kpete]

Once again, we have further evidence to suggest that Officer Tim Smith submitted a false police report. His report, which he filed at 3:29 AM on the night of the shooting, has the following exonerating information:

While I was in such close contact with Zimmerman, I could observe that his back appeared to be wet and was covered with grass, as if he had been laying on his back on the ground. Zimmerman was also bleeding from his nose and back of his head.

...Zimmerman was placed in the rear of my police vehicle and given first aid by the SFD [Sanford Police Department]. While the SFD was attending to Zimmerman, I over heard him state, "I was yelling for someone to help me, but no one would help me."
http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/327370-trayvon-martin-police-report

Every bit of this exonerating evidence appears to be false. None of it is corroborated by the police report of Ricardo Ayala that was submitted at 2:28 AM. The video of Zimmerman arriving at the police station a mere 34 minutes after the police arrived on the scene shows no evidence of blood on the head, nose, or clothing. It shows no evidence that Zimmerman had received any medical attention. There is no visual evidence of grass or wetness on his jacket. And the experts say that it was not Zimmerman crying for help on the 911 call. It is now time for the Department of Justice to expand their investigation:

Trayvon lawyers want U.S. to review prosecutor's role
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...Lawyers for Martin's family are preparing a formal request that the federal government also investigate the specific report that state attorney prosecutors interfered with a homicide detective who wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter.

"We are asking the Justice Department to investigate that," attorney Benjamin Crump, who has been retained by the Martin family as it pressures authorities to arrest Zimmerman, told Reuters late Saturday. "We are concerned about interference in the investigation."

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...A separate report by TheGrio.com, unconfirmed by Reuters, said Wolfinger left his home the Sunday night of the shooting to meet with Sanford police in person.

"Why did he get out of his bed and go to the police station that night and overrule the lead investigator?" Crump said. "It doesn't fit well."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/us-usa-shooting-florida-idUSBRE82U0B120120401
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/4/1/103613/2967

[trumad]

1. I'd really like to see the org chart of Zimmermans connections.

I know his Dad was a Magistrate--- but how well did he and his Dad know the Sanford Justice system.

Why would the cop lie on his report?

Lot's of questions for sure.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I don't understand why someone hasn't come up with a campaign donation list for Wolfinger.

Where would I find that? On the Seminole County or Brevard Supervisor of Election's website?

[riverwalker]

2. Would like to see the phone records

of calls from Zimmermans father to Wolfinger that night. Also, they need to track how charges were dropped in his other 3 arrests, one a felony.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Bingo!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. If/when/ever the current state attorney releases what they have, a lot of the FUDs

could be cleared up.

The trickle of information has been so contradictory over time, that the rational thing to do is wait to everything is on the table and then go after those that deserve it.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Yeah! Keep the pressure up!

[TahitiNut]

7. The hinge issue in this entire tragic episode has and will be the institutional bias

... of the Sanford PD. All the rest is the "perfect storm" of a confluence of events bringing it at long last to national attention. The embedded institutional bias (yes, and racism) has been guaranteed to take human lives, including Trayvon Martin's. If the DOJ does not act in a manner as fulsome as it did in Mississippi Burning and the Birmingham church fire-bombing, and more promptly, we can be assured more lives will be destroyed. This does not and cannot be laid in the lap of any single individual. Selecting a "fall guy," whether Zimmerman or his father or the Chief of Police, or even all three cannot be sufficient. There are and will be members of SPD who will "turn state's evidence" but the root and branch of the conditions under which Trayvon's life was held inconsequential to other "priorities" must be dug out and exterminated.

[intheflow]

8. DOJ already slated to investigate Sanford PD.

From the Orlando Sentinal last Wednesday: Trayvon Martin Case: Department of Justice to investigate entire Sanford police.