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She thought the wet grass sounds might have been sounds of running feet moving through the wet grass, not Martin and Zimmerman hitting the ground. The "get off, get off" sounds were faint, as though from a distance.
There was contention on whether she first said she didn't know who said get off get, but that's minor. On the stand she said she thought Z might have hitten M first, but didn't know. On her interviews after the trial she said she believed that Martin hit Z first because she thought like some people that maybe Z tried to detain him. She didn't know. From the place of the two exchanging words to them fighting she could only guess what happened.
Yes, she said she didn't know who struck first. She said she believed Martin was trying to run away again when the phone dropped and she heard the wet grass sounds, and that Martin was shouting "get off, get off" because Zimmerman had grabbed him, but she couldn't say exactly what happened because she could only hear them, not see them.
She was asked what she meant by wet grass and she said two people rolling around in the grass. So we have rolling around in the grass, which is consistent with Z's testimony followed by get off which she originally said it might have been Martin but she didn't know. And then on her interviews she said that Martin most likely threw the first punch, different than what she said on the stand.
Links please.
The first sounds like one of West's attempts to obfuscate and confuse. He kept jerking the narrative this way and that, trying to trick Jeantel into a contradiction. He never actually succeeded but he did muddy the waters a bit.
The second sounds like a rehash of Derec's misrepresentations about what Jeantel said to Piers Morgan. I hoped by now that issue would have been cleared up, but apparently not. Jeantel told Morgan she objected to the Prosecution's use of the term bashing to describe Martin hitting Zimmerman, because to her the term bashing means attacking, which Martin didn't do. She used the term whoop ass, meaning a vigorous defense, to describe what she believes Martin would have done when he was attacked by Zimmerman. She never said Martin likely threw the first punch. That's just wishful thinking on the part of Zimmerman defenders looking for any possible way to blame the victim.