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Zimmerman Video Shows No Injuries

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Contradicting claims of self-defense.

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George Zimmerman’s face may not have taken a hit, but his credibility sure has. Zimmerman’s attorney had claimed in recent days that Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old his client shot and killed last month, attacked him before the fatal incident, breaking the neighborhood watch captain’s nose and bloodying his head and face. But a police video released Wednesday showed police frisking a handcuffed Zimmerman with no discernible facial injuries. The attorney for the Martin family said that the video “dramatically contradicts his version of the events.”

Read it at The Boston Globe