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In reply to the discussion: A couple of years ago, I was personally responsible for starting a lot of OPs on Zimmerman [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,155 posts)On the dispatch tape, you have "Shit, he's running" at around the 2:10 mark and the dispatcher telling Zimmerman not to follow at 2:28. So there's 18 seconds there. But then you figure he has to open the door, remove the keys, pocket the keys, exit the car, close the door, and navigate around the car before he gets anything of a sprint. So there's a few seconds off there, and we're looking at most a 15 second period of time where Zimmerman's actually running. How far can you run in 15 seconds?
And he's running, but he's not exactly Usain Bolt, plus he's carrying a phone and talking, so he's not 100% dedicating himself to running. So if he's lucky, he'll get to around the east end of the T towards Retreat View before he's told to back off and a normal person would have started back to the car. It's not as though he made it all the way down to the East entrance of the community. He could have easily returned to his car within a 45 second period at a leisurely walk.
And this is where it gets really problematic for Zimmerman's story. So at 2:28 he's told he doesn't need to follow Trayvon. He remains on the phone with dispatch roughly for another 1:45 seconds. Then it's estimated based on Jeantel's phone records and 911 calls that the physical altercation with Trayvon began about 2 minutes after Zimmerman hung up with dispatch. So if Zimmerman made it all the way to the east end of the T in that 15 second sprint from the car, and the altercation between Zimmerman and Trayvon occurred around the intersection of the T, if we are supposed to believe that Zimmerman intended to return to his car and had no intention of snooping around for Trayvon, it would have taken him 3 minutes, 45 seconds to travel a grand total of 40 or so feet before the fight started. Oh, and it's raining, and most people don't like to stand around too long in the rain if they don't have to.
That is literally unbelievable.