Report: Zimmerman to sue NBC over biased edit job on 911 call about #Trayvon
Via the NY Post’s Page Six:
Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman is suing NBC over the networkβs botched editing of his 911 tape, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
We hear Zimmermanβs attorneys are about to file a complaint against NBC and its top executives, naming news president Steve Capus and correspondent Ron Allen, who was the reporter on the scene for the broadcast on βTodayβ on March 27. He also remained the reporter for the story on βNBC Nightly News.β
A source tells us, βThe suit will be filed imminently against NBC and its news executives. The networkβs legal department has put everybody in the news department involved with this incident on notice, telling them not to comment.β
NBC launched an internal probe after producers misleadingly edited the 911 call placed by Zimmerman just before he shot the unarmed Florida teenager. The edit made it appear that Zimmerman had immediately told police that Martin was black, when the full tape reveals the neighborhood watch captain only did so when responding to a question posed by a dispatcher. Combined sections from two different parts of the tape gave the false impression that Zimmerman had said: βThis guy looks like heβs up to no good or on drugs or something. Heβs got his hand in his waistband. And heβs a black male.β
My advice for Zimmerman’s legal team: Nail the b*stards.