One of the amazing things about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is how quickly it all unfolded. Zimmerman’s phone call to the non-emergency number began at 7:09:34 and the fatal gunshot went off six minutes and twenty-two seconds later at 7:16:55. In fact the time between the end of Zimmerman’s phone call (7:13:41) and the gunshot (7:16:55) was a mere three minutes and fourteen seconds. The time between the end of Zimmerman’s phone call and the first witness 911 call (7:16:11) was two minutes and thirty seconds.
What’s more, Trayvon Martin was on the phone with his friend during the majority of Zimmerman’s non-emergency phone call. Martin and Rachel Jeantel were on the phone from 6:54 to 7:12, when the call was dropped roughly halfway through Zimmerman’s (7:09:34-7:13:41) call. She called him back immediately. And she was still on the phone with him at least at the beginning of the fatal 7:16 minute.
When you read the earwitness and one witnesses’s testimony, they talk about an altercation that began with heated words, then moved to grunting, then to yelps, then to cries for help, and finally a gunshot. But the whole thing seems to have taken no more than about 50 seconds. I say that because the first witness 911 call happened a mere 44 seconds before the gunshot, and yet Martin was still on the phone at the beginning of the 16th minute.
Meanwhile, Zimmerman claims that he walked down the sidewalk past where the shooting would shortly take place to Retreat View Circle and back to the T, all in this short period of time. That’s why it matters that you don’t hear any wind on his telephone past the (roughly) 7:12:19 point of his non-emergency phone call. It appears that he was back in his car at that point, and he remained there until the end of his call at 7:13:41. I don’t think he had time to exit his vehicle and walk past the ‘T’ all the way to Retreat View Circle and back to the ‘T’ in a mere two minutes and twenty seconds. But he wanted to say that he wasn’t pursuing Trayvon and that he was retreating to his car.
In fact, he lied to the police when he said that he had arranged to meet the police at his car. In fact, he had arranged for the police to call them when they arrived so that he could tell them where he was precisely because he did not plan to be at his car.
If you look at his reenactment video, you can that his lies are even more obvious.
His credibility is pretty much shot, and it’s astounding that he wasn’t arrested initially. The Second Degree murder charge is still hard to prove, but it isn’t hard to prove that he lied his ass off about what happened immediately prior to their confrontation.
