Yeah that story is total pile of horse-shit, saw it on the news last night.
Do people not have "locked" holsters btw? You know, so people don't try take your pistol off you and use it on you?!
zimmbot was on a budget i suppose.
i just thought of another thing that doesn't match up.
in the video, zimm says he didn't think he hit martin with his gunshot, and describes in really precise detail what the murder itself was like. martin says "you got me" or "you shot me", and he magically goes into an upright, hands-up-surrender position as to say "you got me" or "you shot me".
and then all of a sudden, he says he doesn't remember anything anymore. he said thinks he did not even shoot the kid, and so gets on top of him after his brutal, non-life threatening "beating" and says he was calling to others to help him detain the guy.
he never mentions someone asking him for help and him finally responding to it by saying "call 911" seconds after the gunshot is fired. multiple witnesses saw what happened after the gunshot. zimm was straddling martin for a few seconds, then got up looking worried, walked back to the sidewalk, put his hand to his forehead etc.
that is one of the key parts where his story does not match with eyewitness accounts. plural.
it also does not match up to his own account in the interrogation room, where zimm says he shot the guy at point blank range. how do you say you shot someone at point blank range, yet proclaim to think you missed?
serino said the bullet went right through martin's heart. how do you say you think you missed from point blank range, about 0''-5'' by the autopsy reports?
i can believe there was a fight, but zimm was not simply walking back to his truck, and his injuries and the length of the fight were nowhere near life threatening. not to mention zimm provoked the whole thing.
his stories are bunk. they contradict each other and the eyewitness reports. that doesn't mean he can't create his reasonable doubt, but i'm still guessing manslaughter. who knows if negligent or aggravated. my personal opinion is aggravated.