so in terms of what she said, she heard or not, she was focusing on providing whatever comfort she could. yes, sir. to the father of the death the father of trayvon martin? yes, sir. would that be accurate? yes, sir. okay. now, i gather in all your experience, you ve never had a recording such as this where you don t just have a voice, but you also have the shooting itself all in one recording, or have you had that before? no, this is the first. that s the first time? yes, sir. so it was pretty emotionally draining for you, too, i m assuming having to play that for the victim s dad? that and the circumstances surrounding the entire incident. yes, sir. we are watching key a key witness here, the lead investigator in the case, detective chris serino, talking about really the heart of this issue. whose voice was on that tape and
mma-style punching, but the only guy in the case with the mma-style background is george zimmerman. jump in here, mark. this is a really tricky little line to walk. it is. it s a very dangerous line because mma is just brutal fighting. nears there s no way around it. although i ve got to say if we could roll that video, it doesn t look so brutal as you see the actual demonstration done in court. it looked pretty darn tame. watch, this is adam pollock on the stand. he s asked to get off the stand and show a few of his moves and a bit about what he taught zimmerman. you ve got guys in suits and ties in an air-conditioned courtroom. not the training that is typical. here it was very gentlemanly and basically just meant for purposes of illustrating to the jury what a ground and pound was and what some of the moves were. i just want to let our control room now, this isn t the video i m looking for. i m looking to are that demonstration video if we have it handy. but this was the tes
of trayvon martin or george zimmerman, and they have all said the same thing, which was, it was my loved one whose voice that i hear on the tape. this is very important, this 911 tape, who was screaming before the gunshot because is t really goes to the heart of the question in the case, who was the aggressor? what we ve seen here from mark o mara, the questions he has thrown at detective serino here, we re seeing the detective say that he spoke with tracy martin, trayvon martin s father, and the first time he heard the 911 tape, when asked if it was his son s voice, he said no. how damaging do you think this may be, michael, or was do you think the prosecutor here was able to kind of, i guess, fix some of the damage? no, i think it s very damaging. i think that by bringing somebody in and bringing being able to bring out the testimony of the father without actually having to put the father on the stand and show to
consider him soft? absolutely. nothing further, then, your honor. thank you. thank you. may mr. pollock be excused? yes, your honor. thank you very much. you are excused. call your next witness, please. any chance this might be a decent time for a break? i can organize and as we wait to find out if they re actually going to call a break in the session, we are midafternoon at 20 past 3:00 eastern time. this jury is working so hard. but let s not forget, they re sequestered. so oftentimes they prefer to work hard so they can get out sooner. they ve been working for two weeks. and this is their third week at it, folks. we want to squeeze in a quick commercial break. but we will wrap up the reason that witness hit that stand and if that witness helped the defense or helped the prosecution. coming up next. out there owning it.
this is a gym owner who trained george zimmerman in mixed martial arts in the weeks leading up to the death of trayvon martin. he actually showcased some of the moves that he showed zimmerman on the defense attorney. he s a witness for the defense. we ll show you that in a second. but first let s listen in. where would mr. zimmerman fit? like i said, about a one. generally in his overall athleticism as well? well, as far as what i m looking at in the gym, yes. this talk about his proficiency in the boxing that he took, first of all, tell us what it is, what you do when you start out and what do you progress to as you learn more about boxing? the way we first start in my facility is we start simply getting proficient within your own body. so if you don t have control of