I saw the headline “Possible Racial Slur” before hearing the recording. I was listening for nigger. I heard fucking coons. Then I went to the Orlando Sentinel to hear the original and heard fucking punks. And then I watched the CNN audio and heard coon again. So I lean toward coon but I wouldn’t swear on it.
On Nancy Grace, it sounded like maybe he was saying ‘it’s fucking cold’. But there was a man on her show leading the audience to that interpretation, so I might have been lead. I honestly can’t really make it out.
Link?
I saw CNN playing it on The Daily Show and I heard “fucking dogs”.
I said, “other” because when I first heard it, I thought he said, “fucking cops.” I was thinking he was perterbed with the 911 guy telling him not to follow Martin.
That enhanced thing that CNN did is pretty damning, but it seemed a little odd to me. By then I’d already been told what I was supposed to hear, and I couldn’t hear anything else but that … especially when they played it on a loop about 10 times in a row: “Coon … coon … coon … back and to the left … back and to the left …”
Without prompting, what percentage of listeners would come up with “fucking coon”? Ten percent? Five?
For all I know maybe he did say it (and, having been sufficiently primed, I think I do hear “… coon” when I listen), but his words are anything but clear, and so should probably be disregarded by rational observers.
I heard punks when I first listened to the full recording of the 911 call. I watched the CNN enhanced recording and expected to hear coons because everyone said it was very clear. I still heard punks.
I heard coons. But then again, that’s what I was expecting to hear from the accompanying story I read.
I was positive I heard the “ooo” sound, but I can’t listen to it again right now.
When listening to the enhanced audio when they were playing it over and over on CNN, I only heard “fucking punk(s)”. Even when trying to hear “Coons” after being told to do so, I still heard “Punk”. The “P” and “K” sounds seem obvious to me, and the vowel doesn’t sound anything like “oo”. I’m definitely not a supporter of Mr. Zimmerman, but I’m surprised so few people hear “punk”.
I heard ''fucking cunts" and I thought that makes absolutely no sense at all.
I heard a noise. Can’t say for sure what it was.
I heard it without having already been told what he was supposed to have said. I couldn’t make anything remotely intelligible out of it.
I heard ‘fucking coons’ and hadn’t been told that’s what he said - all I had was ‘listen to this around the 2.27 mark.’
See, I don’t get how you guys heard anything on the CNN clips. It was just a bunch of whooshy sounds that didn’t even sound like it came from a human. And since the first I heard of this was the enhanced version, I went with “other” in the options.
If someone has a link to the original clip, I’d gladly take another listen, and see if context made it make more sense.
Please forgive the hijack… I haven’t heard the clip or followed the case in detail.
How did “hoodies” get associated with it so directly? Did Zimmerman emphasize it himself?
The first time I heard the tape, I didn’t hear anything. Once I was told when to listen I could hear it, but that was in a video where the words were displayed on the screen at the time Zimerman is saying whatever it is he’s saying.
Fucking punks. I can definitely hear it as fucking coons if I close my eyes and assume that’s actually what he’s saying but, after reading this whole thread and listening to this video, I heard punks first.
The CNN article I read said that after they enhanced it their own staffers could not agree. I put down other because it’s not clear to me.
It’s too garbled for me to say one way or the other.