# Question about the Trayvon Martin Case?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 11, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504 "2012-04-11T22:28:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504/441 "2012-04-24T15:17:34Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> How about a medical grade cyanoacrylate wound closure product like GluStitch? Might they have used that?

we didnt have that back in my day. LOL but then, we took blood pressures with a cuff and stethoscope too.

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**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504/442 "2012-04-24T15:20:05Z")

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> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#):
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> If the surveillance video is any indication, it doesn’t appear as if this was done by the paramedics. Zimmerman’s head was without wound dressings on that tape.

I believe the photo was taken before they were there. The article says it was taken 3 minutes after some event on the phone (providing the date stamp wasnt manipulated)

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> As a paramedic, would there ever be occasion in which you wouldn’t at least stick a bandaid on a scalp wound? Just wondering.

Depends on the wound. His being greatly superficial, I doubt it. That being said, today they have steri-strips, we didnt have them. They are tape like sutures. Personally, I would have slapped a few folded 4x4s after applying a bit of pressure, and some zip tape.

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**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504/443 "2012-04-24T16:53:47Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Was that the same reporter that had George’s weight at 250, and Treyvon’s at 140? Or was that a different reporter?

I haven’t through every report Stutzman has done on the story, but she didn’t mention either Zimmerman or Martin’s weight in the article in which she revealed the police reports that had been leaked to her by some disgruntled police officers.

I think the “250 pounds” that was floating around the media came from Zimmerman’s license or the old arrest report from a few years ago, since he used to be much, much heavier as you can tell from his mug shot that was shown around the media.

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