Yes, but a person can only walk so slow. 2 extra minutes is a very slow walk over such a short distance.
You know what would be safer than walking on a treacherous wet sidewalk ? Staying in his truck.
No, you are confused Tom.
The news show had only 10 second, from the walking part as a discrepancy with the demo that GZ provided. While on the phone with the non emergency police dispatch call, he claims he is walking from his parked truck to the following street and back to the T intersection on the sidewalk. When he does the walk with police for demonstration he reaches the T 10 seconds faster than what he said in the call.
10 seconds is not a big deal and can be attributed to him walking a bit slower than he thought he was. That does not in any way damage his credibility for his story.
The next part they talk about is that GZ says after he got off the phone with dispatch, almost immediately after TM appears in front of him and sucker punches him after a small exchange. A 911 call is placed by a neighborhood resident and the time from the end of the non emergency call until the gun shot is heard on the 911 call is 2 and a half minutes.
The shot in the 911 call takes place about 45 seconds into the duration of the call. During which time the fight was still ongoing with GZ's pleading for help.
We know for 45 seconds GZ has completely under control of TM by the 911 call. What we don't know is how long before that time that it happened. GZ claims that TM came at him immediately after hanging up with the non emergency call. So GZ account has to explain for 1 minute and 45 seconds of what happened between the hangup of the non emergency call and the start of the 911 call. GZ says there was some talking at first, but his account is very short of what was said. Most of which he stated was backed up by Dee Dee as well. We do not know the exact following in the timeline.
1) Exactly how soon did TM appear after GZ hung up with the non emergency call. GZ claims immediately, but his sense could be off. Immediately could have been the second after, or 20 seconds after. Either would feel very damn fast to the average person that is hoped up on adrenaline.
2) We do not know how long or what was said during the initial vocal confrontation between GZ and TM. The verbal part before the first physical part of the altercation started could have been a few seconds or 30. There could have been a bit more said between both parties than GZ stated or there could have been longer pauses as they were eye balling each other up. Again, time dilation here when two people are amped up on adrenaline from fright is going to occur.
3) We do not know the exact time the physical part of the altercation started, nor how long it lasted before the 1 minute 45 second mark which starts the beginning of the 911 call after the non emergency call.
Again, none of this hurts GZ's creditability at all. The time frame in question is very small and can be attributed to small bits unreconstructed from memory. Time seems to change when you are very amped up from fright in a flight or fight response.
Now if the time unaccounted for had been 5 minutes or more and not a measly 1:45 minutes then there would certainly be a problem with GZ's story.
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