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garybeck

(9,942 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:50 PM Mar 2012

About that "broken nose".....

So the latest story is they didn't "discover" his nose was broken until the next day:

Joe Oliver, a friend of Zimmerman's, said Zimmerman told him he was "cleaned up by cops at the scene" that night before being brought to the station.
Oliver also said it was discovered the next day that Zimmerman's nose was broken.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/29/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


my question is, how did they come to that conclusion? did he go to a doctor? do they have an x-ray? doctor's report? I don't think people can just "discover" that their nose is broken the day after an incident on their own, without getting this information from a doctor, who would have records of the visit to the doctor's office and the medical records thereof.

Otherwise it sounds to me like they just made it up.

Hey, come to think of it, I think my nose is broken. It happened yesterday. Really. Trust me.
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Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
2. His nose would have been swollen
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:56 PM
Mar 2012

And there would have been blood down his shirt. Since daddy was a judge, this makes more and more sense as we learn more.

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
9. Agreed, the longer this charade goes on, the more people will lose their jobs
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:03 PM
Mar 2012

and possibly face prison time for protecting this thug.

appleannie1

(5,067 posts)
4. Usually with a broken nose, the eyes start swelling and turning black within about 15 minutes along
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:58 PM
Mar 2012

with profuse bleeding of the nose. And the claims are that Trayvon hit him repeatedly yet there is no swelling, no abrasions, no bruising, nothing, zilch to show he was in an altercations. You can't just clean that sort of thing up.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
5. If he was beaten up, wouldn't the cops have taken photos at the scene
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:59 PM
Mar 2012
for their own protection!?! They would need to have evidence proving that they weren't the ones who beat on him.

Does this police department have video cams on the patrol cars? Where's that close-up video?
 

Life Long Dem

(8,582 posts)
11. I know.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:06 PM
Mar 2012

With everyone catching everything on video and with youtube and all you would think someone caught something on video.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
6. Oliver needs to sit hs lying ass and STFU,. By his own admission, he hasn't seen Zimmy in
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:00 PM
Mar 2012

person since a WEEK BEFORE the murder! I don't know why anyone is giving that son of a bitch any attention. He's based everything he's said on his 'GUT FEELING". that's a quote.

 

Life Long Dem

(8,582 posts)
7. Did the cops change a bloody shirt as well?
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:02 PM
Mar 2012

Because I don't see a drop of blood on his light colored gray shirt. Cops don't clean up people or do their laundry.

 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
14. Cops should have confiscateded his clothes.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:32 PM
Mar 2012

Maybe they carry clothes to the scene if they are needed. It's standard procedure. (As if I know... )

--imm

safeinOhio

(32,683 posts)
10. That's the ticket
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:06 PM
Mar 2012

I broke my nose, that's the ticket
Didn't find out, had no idea until the next day, yah, that's the ticket.

Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)
12. Is this the same "Friend" Lawrence O'Donell basically proved he didn't know Zimmerman all that well?
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:06 PM
Mar 2012

Second of all. Okay IF the cops did "Clean him up at the scene" I'll give you that arguement for 1 second THAN answer me these questions:

So did the cops allow Zimmerman to change his clothes? IF they didn't How come there is no BLood on his clothes like you would expect to see from at the very least a broken nose?


Where are the grass stains?


Where is the broken and nose and bruises? I asked a friend of mine who use to be an emt in the military. He said the standard procedure to pack his nose. He's able to stand with his mouth clothes and IF there was something in his nose how is he breathing with his mouth close?

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