More details are emerging about the night George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
The Sanford, FL police department conducted a lie detector test once Zimmerman was in custody — and he passed! The positive results of the test are partially why police did not initially arrest Zimmerman on murder charges.
However, it has since been learned that Sanford police did not conduct a polygraph test, but rather a voice stress analysis.
Ron Grenier, a former FBI agent and lie detector expert, said the voice stress analysis test is not as reliable as a polygraph test. “Such tests don’t measure a person’s state of mind or fear at some other time,” Grenier said. “He (Zimmerman) may have convinced himself that he was in fear of his life, but whether or not he was is not definitive,” Grenier added.
According to Grenier, Zimmerman’s responses would have been more meaningful if he had been asked, ” ‘Did Trayvon Martin attack you and knock you to the ground?’ Or ‘Was Trayvon Martin on top of you hitting you before you shot him?’ “
Joe Navarro, a former FBI agent who teaches interviewing techniques at Saint Leo University, agreed. “You have to ask precise questions,” he said. “You want to know at what point you feared for your life.”
Wait. What?!An altercation unfolds one evening resulting in the DEATH of a 17 y/o UNARMED Black man ..and the most the Sanford, FL. Police dept thought was necessary to try to determine the TRUTH about what exactly led to that young Black UNARMED man's DEATH is a "voice stress analysis" of the shooter???!Wow. Just. Wow.