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CHANGES IN THE REPORT
On March 13, Sanford police changed their final report on the Trayvon Martin shooting at least four times in five hours.
9:40 a.m.: A 10-page case summary. It recommends a second-degree-murder charge.
1:31 p.m.: No substantive changes.
1:54 p.m.: One page of proposed additions that downgrades the charge to manslaughter. It also adds criticism of Zimmerman for assuming Trayvon was about to commit a crime and for getting out of his truck and confronting the teenager.
2:06 p.m.: A 13-page rewrite adds that a doctor’s office the next day diagnosed Zimmerman with a fractured nose and scalp wound.
2:23 p.m.: The last version, 13 pages. It points out that Zimmerman had called Sanford police four other times since August, complaining about suspicious young black men in his neighborhood.
SOURCES: Sanford Police Department, Orlando Sentinel reporting
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/...d-4-times-george-zimmerman-case#ixzz2YNlAK1Ir
The second was a strongly worded section condemning Zimmerman’s actions, pointing out that there was no need for a confrontation with Martin.
“The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialog in an effort to dispel each party’s concern. There is no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter.”
In that same new section, added in the third of the five drafts released Tuesday and left in each version thereafter, Serino and his bosses faulted Zimmerman for assuming that Martin was about to break into a home.
“Zimmerman ... made it clear that he had already reached a faulty conclusion as to Martin’s purpose for being in the neighborhood,” the revised report says.
On March 13, Sanford police changed their final report on the Trayvon Martin shooting at least four times in five hours.
9:40 a.m.: A 10-page case summary. It recommends a second-degree-murder charge.
1:31 p.m.: No substantive changes.
1:54 p.m.: One page of proposed additions that downgrades the charge to manslaughter. It also adds criticism of Zimmerman for assuming Trayvon was about to commit a crime and for getting out of his truck and confronting the teenager.
2:06 p.m.: A 13-page rewrite adds that a doctor’s office the next day diagnosed Zimmerman with a fractured nose and scalp wound.
2:23 p.m.: The last version, 13 pages. It points out that Zimmerman had called Sanford police four other times since August, complaining about suspicious young black men in his neighborhood.
SOURCES: Sanford Police Department, Orlando Sentinel reporting
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/...d-4-times-george-zimmerman-case#ixzz2YNlAK1Ir
The second was a strongly worded section condemning Zimmerman’s actions, pointing out that there was no need for a confrontation with Martin.
“The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement or conversely if he had identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and initiated dialog in an effort to dispel each party’s concern. There is no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter.”
In that same new section, added in the third of the five drafts released Tuesday and left in each version thereafter, Serino and his bosses faulted Zimmerman for assuming that Martin was about to break into a home.
“Zimmerman ... made it clear that he had already reached a faulty conclusion as to Martin’s purpose for being in the neighborhood,” the revised report says.
