George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin threatened my life

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin threatened my life

By the CNN Wire Staff
June 21, 2012 -- Updated 1309 GMT (2109 HKT)

(CNN) -- In an initial interview with police just after the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman described a life-and-death struggle that began when the youth "jumped out from the bushes."

The audio of the February 26 interview, made public late Wednesday, is part of discovery items released by Zimmerman's defense team. Zimmerman said Martin punched him repeatedly in the face.

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Martin, he said, put his hand over Zimmerman's mouth and nose and told him, "You're going to die tonight."

"When I slid, my jacket and my shirt came up, and when he said, 'You're going to die tonight,' I felt his hand go down my side, and I thought he was going for my firearm, so I grabbed it immediately, and as he banged my head again, I just pulled out my firearm and shot him."

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html

[Walk away]

1. Just look to the republican base for a jury and these scum bag lawyers...

will get him acquitted.

[BlueToTheBone]

2. Tryavon threatened him just by existing.

Pathetic little liar.

Justice for all the Trayvon's.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Jumped out of the bushes? Zimmerman was following him all over the neighborhood!

Lying sack of shit.

[WI_DEM]

4. how many times has this guy changed his story? he was following Martin and now

suddenly Trayvon is jumping out of the bushes!?

[cbrer]

5. I'd fight for my fucking life too

If I saw that pistol

[Ganja Ninja]

6. "And I hardly have any money for bail your honor."

[marmar]

7. Wow. That weak-ass nonsense is the best he could come up with?

He's not even a creative asshole.

[madashelltoo]

8. The 911 tapes don't corroborate any of this.

The cries for help were not broken or muffled. The cries stopped the moment the shot was fired. All of the back and forth between he and Trayvon after the shot is not there.

Zimmerman is what my grandmother used to call "a long-winded liar."

[erpowers]

9. Does Not Make Sense

Everything that Zimmerman said made no sense. I am glad that the investigator Chris Serino mentioned the idea that Zimmerman was supposedly the leader of a neighborhood watch, lived in the neighborhood for three years, but did not know the street on which he was driving. Not knowing what street on which he was driving supposedly caused him to get out of his vehicle to find the street name or address. To what Serino said I would add, Zimmerman claimed part of what made him suspicious of Trayvon Martin was that he had stopped in front of a house that Zimmerman had previously called police about. So, this guy called about police a house, but he could not remember the address of the house or the name of the street on which the house was located.

[HooptieWagon]

10. Trayvon was standing his ground against an armed stalking and assault.

[jwirr]

11. Bushes? I do not remember seeing any bushes in any of the pics of the death scene.

[11 Bravo]

12. I'll buy that. (After all, Zimmerman is famous for being honest and forthright.)

[MoonRiver]

13. His reputation for telling the truth has been somewhat tarnished since that interview.

Everything he and his trailer trash wife say now will be met with disbelief.