george zimmerman s injury. where was the focus on trayvon martin, the victim? the defense cleverly brought it back every single witness whether emt or physician s assistant or the resident that came out and snapped the cell phone photos always bringing it back to george zimmerman s injuries. ultimately, i think the prosecution has to come up with a good explanation of why george zimmerman has those injuries and explain it in a way in the jury s mind. gloria, they have got to prove that. i mean, the advantage the defense has in this is florida s law plays really to the zimmerman camp, unless there is compelling evidence that he was not fearing for his life, and i haven t seen it yet, you just can t say for sure either way, it s hard to see now where this conviction comes. well, right, and i mean, some people think that george zimmerman has to take the stand and testify that he was in fear of imminent danger to himself in
of the puzzle so you can decide for yourself based on the evidence what happened that night. today a leegd forensic audio expert listened to george zimmerman s 911 call and weighed in on whether zimmerman uttered a racial slur when he got out of his suv to follow martin i. s only 1.6 seconds of audio. but it s important because the federal government is investigating this as a possible hate crime. the audio could be a major piece of evidence. the fbi is certainly treating it that way doing their own analysis of the tape. before we go further, a warning about the language. if you want to send the kids out of the room, now would be a good time. so about the phrase. some believe they hear zimmerman saying fing coons. others hear what our enhanced audio hear, f ing cold. i don t want to say what a lot of people are saying it sounds like, but let s let the viewer hear it and make their own conclusion. [ inaudible ]. it does sound less like that racial slur, last timed i acknow
reporter: sure, martin. this is a witness. this isn t anything new. the side, the zimmerman camp has been saying there is a witness that would corroborate his story. pretty much from the beginning. i know nbc news would love to talk to this guy. we have be interviewed him as, we have not interviewed him as of yet. he said he saw trayvon martin on the top of this scrum that took place before the shooting. of course, there are other witnesses. one who appeared on another network who said that they saw the bigger man, the hispanic man on top and get up quickly. soes 33 contradictory witnesses that can really only be sorted out by the state attorney. right. so not quite as clear cut as they would have us believe. they all talk about how awful the court of public opinion is. and then they allow george zimmerman s father to take the stand and testify with what is essentially hearsay. i mean, you can call it testimony, i guess. but about trayvon s poundings zim zimmerman s head into the s
and george, have not spoken in years and the comments by the brother robert are totally irrelevant. that s according to the defense attorney or the attorney for george zimmerman. let me bring in david here. how do you put this together? people coming out of the woodwork on both sides and this guy for zimmerman. we don t know the source of the information and assume that he talked to the father or did he talk to the brother? well, it appears that the father and the brother have a similar story, and what is interesting about the story is that it is sort of like painting a life and death situation for george zimmerman, that this was something where he had to act, to do something. what was also interesting about both of their statements was the fact that they say that trayvon martin was reaching for the gun. this is new information that we obviously didn t hear last week. i think it s just creating this story that, look, he had to act. when you look at the police tape, that video that
not release any evidence like that. we don t know if they exist or not. we would presume they do. if the investigation was conducted in a professional manner, that s something that is usually there. i ve been listening to talk radio here, to people in the community all day since these tapes hit the airwaves. people who think that george zimmerman are guilty are convinced these tapes close the case. and people who think he s innocent think that this is more of a rush to judgment on this and they re saying as the attorney did, this is grainy video and you can t make up your mind about it. the fascinating thing about this case from the start, the emotions really amped up when the 911 call are released. that seems to be happening again to some extent because people have a look. they can see what happened. and the case that the zimmerman camp has been making has been so, so insistent that he was beaten, that he was bloody. but a casual observer, most people at these tapes just don t think t