PRICK UP HIS NOSE

There are three images just below this text. One is a photograph of George Zimmerman’s nose the night he shot Trayvon. Taken by a Sanford police officer, evidence may exist that the picture was altered in Gimp, an open source/free GNU image manipulation program that’s similar (but not equal) to Photoshop. Having spent a good part of my career in the world of graphics — art & design — I am quite familiar with photo editing software. While the information pertaining to the metadata file of this particular photograph is not new, it could be argued in court that the iPhone photograph should not be allowed into evidence. All it shows, in my opinion, is that he got hurt, so is it really worth the fight? Perhaps.

Look at the second image, which is nothing more than a screen capture of the fotoforensics Website that examined the photo. If you go to the link, make sure you click on “Metafile” located on the left side to see the data. (This information was e-mailed to me, so I won’t take any credit for finding it.)

Finally, take a look at the third image in this post. It’s my finger from earlier today. I am an insulin-dependent type 2 diabetic. Each and every day, I take a fresh lancet and PRICK my fingertip to monitor my blood sugar level with test strips that cost over $1.00 each. I do this at least twice, sometimes three, times a day — each and every day, puncturing finger after finger. Sometimes, I hit an area that produces more blood. The lancets I use are a mere 1/8” long.

Hmm… if an itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, tiny, little thing like that could produce this much blood, imagine what amount of damage an MMA-trained fist would have REALLY done.

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