The strangest is that Austin Brown saw both Zimmerman and Martin that night. I haven't seen that repeated elsewhere.

The others, in the order they appear in the report:

A dispatcher told him to wait for a police cruiser, and not leave his vehicle.

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But after the shooting, a source inside the police department told ABC News that a narcotics detective and not a homicide detective first approached Zimmerman. The detective pepppered Zimmerman with questions . . .

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Another officer corrected a witness after she told him that she heard the teen cry for help.

The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.

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Lee publically admitted that officers accepted Zimmerman's word at the scene that he had no police record.

The first was shown to be false by the release of the tapes, but it still circulates. The last one I haven't researched.

The narcotics detective story got some play for a while, but I think it was dropped when the narrative of Chris Serino as the courageous dissident emerged. Serino himself debunked that for The Orlando Sentinel.

The anonymous witness has not been heard from again, by ABC or anyone else, unless she can be identified with one of the known witnesses.

At first I thought she might be Mary Cutcher or Selma Lamilla. After going over several of their interviews, I saw that neither of them were making that particular complaint.

The witness who has appeared anonymously on CNN, on March 29 and April 6, might be the ABC witness. I think she is the caller on the longest 911 call, which lasts almost fifteen minutes.

It's only in the second CNN interview that she said she believed Trayvon Martin was the screamer. In her 911 call she seemed to vaguely assume that the person calling for help must have been the one who wound up dead. In the second CNN interview she said that an investigator told her it was the screamer who survived.

the rumors of this tweet and alleged assault are posted all over rightwing websites.  Yet, oddly enough, not a single news organization was able to confirm them.  In fact, the Miami Herald examined trayvon Martin's school records, specifically noting that the reason for the suspension was marijuana paraphernalia.

The tweet came from "Tray's big bruh" @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA and read "yu ain't tell me yu swung on a bus driver". So the rumor didn't come from the winger website, the interpretation is straightforward, and there's no reason to think it was a school bus driver, so why would mere examination of school police reports dispel it? And even if "big bruh" was responding to a rumor, it sheds light, perhaps, on Tray if his brother believed it. Not dispositive, but spare the whitewash.

Really?  And how is it that you know this was Martin's big brother? (hint - you don't)  You do realize that anyone can make up any screen name and post something on Twitter, right?  There's even a "no limit nigga" on twitter right now.  Of course, it appears to be a young woman.  I say "appears" because, as we all know, there's no way to know.

As far as the school police reports, do you seriously think that - if Martin had done something like that - it wouldn't have been part of those records?

I think that type of violence is not uncommon among teens these days, and that is because I have personal experience as a victim, and as the parent of teen victims.

17 year old football players play it tough, the expression is to go hard.

Again, as I stated in my first post to this site, as a resident of a high crime area I have monitored where a YBM was heading after I profiled him as suspicious based on observed  behaviors such as street drug sales, adjusting a gun in his trousers, or casing houses. As have most of my neighbors who happened to be black, Hispanic, Asian and white and attend crime prevention meetings run by the community not the police. You learn that pretending is not doing anyone any favors. That we need to step up to be a part of the solution, otherwise we are a part of problem, bystanders who do nothing.

Remember, witness John, he stated he was not going to intervene, very common.

When my 15 year old son was stalked and robbed by three black males aged 25-30, my son fought them, flagged a car over  that stopped and then took off, he called out for help to the lady across the street, she went inside and closed the door. My son was out placing noticing on porches about the upcoming neighborhood meeting following a series of shootings. It was broad daylight.

I do not have a gun, nor will I ever.

One of the primary warning given against concealed weapons is the threat of having the gun taken in a fight or assault.

I think TM assaulted GZ, there is no evidence yet that GZ fought back or was in a position to.

Anybody s looking for the truth in this case would have to investigate what Trayvon Martin might have done or even might have had a predisposition to do.  It can't be off limits.  Preferably, this is done by police and detectives, right? They go around trying to determine answers to possible alternative explanations:  "Did he have a bad temper? Bad judgment? Did he take drugs or talk about trying them?"

One of the puzzles of this case is how brief the police investigation was.  I think most of would agree that had it been the unarmed son of the governor found dead,  the self-admitted shooter would have been held for however long it took to get to the bottom of previous charges of domestic violence, assaulting an undercover cop, etc.

Reducing the number of suspension of minority  students particularly males has been a primary focus of educational agencies for the past decade.

These policy directives represent progress in discipline programming aimed at improving educational outcomes, as described in the Dade county handbook the preferred discipline alternative are referrals to on campus interventions and supportive services.  

When I was in American high school, punishments and suspensions were highly arbitrary and unfair -- and kids regarded them with mixed feelings, to say the least. Certainly nobody respected them or thought they were proof of anything. They were meaningless. Kids disregarded them (even came to school to see their friends), to which the administrative response was to -- ta-dah! -- create longer suspensions, so kids fell behind, had worse attitudes.

In deciding whether defendant was justified in the use of deadly force, you must judge him by the circumstances by which he was surrounded at the time the force was used.  The danger facing the defendant need not have been actual; however, to justify the use of deadly force, the appearance of danger must have been so real that a reasonably cautious and prudent person under the same circumstances would have believed that the danger could be avoided only through the use of that force.  Based upon appearances, the defendant must have actually believed that the danger was real.

All SYG does is take away the duty to retreat:

If the defendant was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony (by the victim.)