The Huffington Post
By Peter Finocchiaro
Posted: 03/27/2012 2:08 am
Updated: 03/27/2012 11:25 am
In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed
an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before the show began.
Sonner represents George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Florida resident Trayvon Martin in February. His appearance on O'Donnell's program would have been just the latest in a string of high-profile media interviews
over the past several days, as he's attempted to shift the narrative
surrounding the case. In previous conversations, Sonner has continually
insisted that the shooting was motivated not by race, but was instead a
matter of self-defense -- though the attorney has declined to answer
several questions about the specifics of his client's defense.
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===================MY OPINION==================>
Several very big problems here. Lawyer says "grass stains on Zimmerman's shirt", but Z is wearing a jacket at the time.
Now I just learn that Zimmerman was wearing his gun fully visible in a holster at his waist.
Okay, show of hands, how many of you would attack an armed stranger?
Isn't it more likely that you'd attempt to disarm him IF you attacked at all?
Wouldn't that attempt result in a wrestling match for control of the gun? So where is the testimony about Martin trying to disarm Zimmerman? He just walks up, punches a 340 lb armed stranger, breaking his nose, then, without the slightest concern for the firearm, he starts smashing the 340lb armed strangers head on the concrete. YEAH! RIGHT!
You couldn't sell that script to N.C.I.S. or C.S.I.!
The open display of a firearm has the expected effect of intimidating people. It's most effective when the person being confronted, has no martial arts training at all, and even then it bodes caution. Was Trayvon a Navy Seal? How did we miss that? Watch the video and learn that bit about the holstered gun!
I'm sure we'll find even more unexpected errata spread over a wide range of missives as this case goes on.
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