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In reply to the discussion: Medical Examiner says he has proof Trayvon was not the aggressor, told to shut up about it [View all]PorridgeGun
(80 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 12, 2013, 01:34 PM - Edit history (1)
..how there was no way Trayvon Martin could have been on top of George Zimmerman."
This is impossible. When a semi-auto is fired the casing is ejected to the right. Had Zimmerman been on top of Trayvon, or in any other position, the placement of the casing would have been quite damning evidence that Zimmerman had lied about the last moments before the shooting.
One of the reasons he wasn't charged in the beginning is that the walk through demonstration Zimmerman was happy to provide (twice) for the police was entirely consistent with exactly that sort of physical evidence and the one eyewitness. Cops and ballistics experts are very, very good at rooting out inconsistencies in peoples stories using small things like powder burns, the position of spent brass and such.
In fact according to police testimony Z was very happy when they told him (falsely) that the entire incident had been recorded by CCTV or a cell phone cam (can't quite remember which.)
Bao strikes me as yet another person with sour grapes who is going to try and use the lingering racial polarisation on this issue to create a bit of publicity for himself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the medical examiners report and all the other forensic evidence in this case are public record. Had there been evidence contradicting Z it'd have been splashed across every demonestic news station, news paper and news oriented site long before now.
I suspect, therefore, that this "proof" will turn out to be an opinion that has three charicteristics. 1. It will be something that will play well with the anti-Z crowd -- already a given. 2. It will have very little or no hard evidence in favor of it. 3. It will be impossible to conclusively refute, perhaps because the body has been destroyed.
#3 is by far the most important for setting off the kook meter and probably the best indicator that Bao is an opportunistic liar.
Unless he has something genuinely revolutionary which can be independently confirmed, all he's after is a bit of cash, some publicity, a few paid speaking engagements, and, of course, to thumb his nose at his old bosses.