Let's examine the 13 year old boy and his role here...This is what he stated to the 911 operator the night of the shooting:
"I saw a man laying on the ground that needed help, that was screaming and then I was going to go over there to try and help him, but my dog got off the leash, so I went and got my dog, and then I heard a loud sound and then the screaming stopped."
Here's what transpired in the days that followed:
1. He tells police and reporters that he saw someone lying on the ground screaming for help.
2. He identifies the man on the ground screaming, as wearing a red shirt to reporters and police.
3. We know that Zimmerman was the one who was wearing a red/orange top and Martin was wearing a dark hoodie
4. Just as every other witness has, the boy identified Zimmerman as the one on the ground.
5. So the boy witnessed a man on the ground screaming for help, who he identified by clothing to be George Zimmerman.
Now fast forward to the article linked in post #30:
1. The mother claims his sons words were twisted to incinuate it was Zimmerman screaming.
2. Both the boy and his mother now claim he couldn't determine who it was screaming for help that night.
3. Both the boy and his mother now believe it was Trayvon Martin who was screaming, not George Zimmerman.
4. Near the end it says the boy "...didn't see much, just someone lying on the ground and screaming".
The story seems to contradict itself. They didn't change or dispute the description the boy gave of the man on the ground as wearing a red shirt, just that he didn't see who it was screaming... Then with no reasons given, they say they believe now it was Martin screaming, yet at the end of the story it says he saw a man on the ground screaming. I'm confused?
The question now is, what changed between then and now that would lead them to tell that reporter that they now believe it was Martin who was screaming for help? I think maybe these quotes from the story might give us some idea:
1. The boy said "They still haven't arrested him yet," and "That's pretty much the main thing that's upsetting me."
2. The mother said, "That investigator said flat out that we don't think it was self-defense,"
3. The mother said, "Several times he (an investigator) said, 'I have kids, and I'm going to tell you something that I don't tell many people... You have to read between the lines. There's some stereotyping going on.'"
4. The mother said, "He stood here in my family room telling me that this guy [Zimmerman] is not right and
it wasn't self-defense and that they have to prove that it wasn't. He was adamant about that."
5. The boy said, "If I was like two years older, that could have happened to me"
So lets review... An investigator interviews the family, a black family, and insinuates that Zimmerman has mental problems and he wasn't acting in self defense, that he targeted Martin because he was black, and states adamantly to the family how they have to prove it wasn't self defense... I'm no rocket scientist, but I think it's pretty clear why the boy's story changed, and it has nothing to do with twisted words, manipulation by police, or the truth about what the boy actually saw...
Whether the mother's claims about what that investigator told her are true or not, the reason the boy's story changed comes down to one thing, and one thing only... It's because Trayvon Martin was black, and George Zimmerman was not... PERIOD.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that what the boy said to the 911 operator that night, to the police, and to that TV reporter was the truth... That George Zimmerman was on the ground screaming for help.
