was race a factor when Zimmerman killed Martin

Should Zimmerman be jailed, the jury is out.Have the evidence and decides for yourself Inconsistencies whether planned or happening just by chance seem to be the only thing which can save Zimmerman from jail in the shooting of Travyon Martin, a teenager, who was unarmed. Zimmerman a 29 year old man is being charged with second degree murder in the shooting of Martin, who was a 17 year old boy on Feb. 26, 2012. Zimmerman talked to the police after the shooting, and said he did so out of self defense. During the same night, he talked with the police at the police station. Some ten days later, he walked with the police to the scene of crime and narrated in detail what had transpired during the day of the shooting. All this was recorded using a video. The six person jury all heard and watched both the oral and video statements and heard the written statements read loudly for everyone to hear during the start of 2nd week prosecution process of the case. Lead investigators Doris Singleton and Christopher Serino who conducted the 1st interview after the shooting took the stand. Serino said he was concerned with the inconsistencies made among the different accounts. He told Zimmerman his statements of being hit 25-30 times were not consistent with the level of injuries he got during the confrontation process with the deceased. More investigations to the case also need to be done taking into consideration that Martin was black while Zimmerman is a Latino, thus the case could still take a profiling aspect. Serino acknowledge speaking with Zimmerman and asking whether he could have reacted in the same way, was Martin a Latino or a white man. as expected for a man on defense, Zimmerman said he would have, Serino testified in response to questions from defense attorney Mark O’Mara. During the cross examination period, O'Mara asked whether the officer thought Zimmerman's inconsistencies might be those of a person who had just gone through a traumatic event. Serino agreed that Zimmerman had been open with police and that an investigator would expect some differences. If Serino came across a person who gave an account "fact for fact, word for word, what would you think of the person's veracity?" O'Mara asked. "I would think he was completely honest or completely false," Serino said. In one recording, Zimmerman is heard describing how he saw Martin and told a police dispatcher: "These guys always get away ... the people committing the burglaries." The prosecution has portrayed Zimmerman as having been increasingly frustrated by crime in the housing community. Zimmerman told Singleton that he lost track of Martin, so he got out of his vehicle to look for a street name that he could pass on to authorities. When the dispatcher said that Zimmerman didn't need to follow Martin, Zimmerman said he started to head back to his vehicle. At that point, Zimmerman said in the recording, Martin jumped out, apparently from some bushes and attacked him. Zimmerman said he fell to the ground and yelled for help as Martin began hitting his head against the sidewalk. "I said, 'Help me. Help me. He's killing me,'" Zimmerman said. He told the police investigator that Martin replied, "You're going to die tonight." He and Martin struggled, Zimmerman said, and as they fought his gun became visible. Zimmerman said he shot Martin because he thought Martin was reaching for the weapon. "You got me," the teenager said, Zimmerman told the officer. Singleton said Zimmerman seemed surprised when she told him Martin was dead. "He's dead?" Singleton recounted him asking. O'Mara also asked Singleton whether a traumatic event, such as a shooting, could have an effect on a person's ability to recount the events of which she agreed it could. Singleton also said she had no evidence that Zimmerman had any ill will, anger or hatred for the teen — terms that could be crucial for the prosecution to get a second-degree murder conviction and not a first degree one. Earlier, an FBI audio expert who played a key role helping the defense during pretrial hearings testified as a prosecution witness indicated that there was no way one definitively identify whose voice is heard screaming on an emergency call. Hirotaka Nakasone was called to establish the effectiveness of voice identification by someone who is familiar with the sounds being examined. Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, is expected to testify that the screams on the tape were her son's. Shall keep you updated on the progress