All of these witnesses so far support GZ's account. Any of them who've weighed in with an OPINION that it was Trayvon on bottom can be dismissed as mistaken quite easily based on the ACTUAL sizes of the two individuals relative to one another on that night, and by comparing what they saw to what the closest witness, Witness 6 saw.
Isn't it interesting that the closer you get to the two individuals struggling, the more closely what you see lines up with what GZ describes?
It's painfully obvious that these other witnesses allowed the media coverage to impact who they thought was doing what to whom out there. They've also started to adopt elements of other witnesses' testimony and integrate them into their own, which is highly troubling. This is one of the many drawbacks to this much media sensationalism, and people descending on their neighborhood to try to talk to them. A lawyer affiliated with Crump ending up representing Austin Brown's mother, is one good example. Mary Cutcher holding press conferences alongside Crump and the Martin family, is hugely indicative of how irrevocably tainted this case is.
If you use logic and deductive reasoning you can cut right through all of the media sensationalism and race-baiting narrative surrounding this entire thing, and hone in on the key facts which are not as susceptible to those influences:
1.) Statements given immediately after the event before any taint could seep in
2.) The photos taken that night particularly showing injuries on one party, none on the other
3.) What the witness said in his excited utterances moments after the event
4.) The NEN call which took place before Zimmerman was in any legal peril, and which demonstrated he was not intoxicated, not hostile, and not behaving in any way that concerned the operator.
If you don't retain focus on the hard evidence, and grant preference to the earliest witness accounts, you're liable to get out into the weeds of "coons" and stuff like that. People on these boards should be keenly aware of the power of suggestion and imagination... Alan Reich should be the ultimate example of that, but Marcy Cutcher, the female witnesses on the stand today... etc should all be obviously suffering from the same thing.
Edited by LashL:
Removed non-trial-related comment.
