CBS/AP) ORLANDO, Fla. - A police video of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman reenacting the fight he had with Trayvon Martin that led to the unarmed teenager's shooting death was released on Thursday. In the video, Zimmerman gave his most detailed account yet of the incident and claimed that Martin said "you're going to die" and reached for Zimmerman's gun just before the shooting.
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Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Meara released the video, which was recorded a day after the Feb. 26 shooting. This was nearly a week before Zimmerman's second bond hearing on second-degree murder charges. He pleaded not guilty, claiming he acted in self-defense under Florida's "stand your ground" law.
In the video, Zimmerman told detectives he grabbed his gun from a holster on his waist before Martin could get it and shot the teenager once in the chest. Zimmerman said thought he missed because Martin didn't immediately fall over.
"He sat up and said, 'You got me. You got me,' or something like that," Zimmerman said in the video.
Zimmerman said Martin was on top of him, slamming his head against the ground and smothering his mouth and nose with his hand and arm. The tape showed two butterfly bandages on the back of Zimmerman's head and another on his nose. There are also red marks on the front of his head.
"It felt like my head was going to explode," he said.
Although Zimmerman claimed he shot the teen in self-defense, Martin's parents said Zimmerman was the aggressor. They said Martin was walking back from a convenience store through the gated community in Sanford when Zimmerman spotted the black teenager and started following him. They claim their son was racially-profiled. Zimmerman's father is white and his mother Hispanic.
David Hill, an Orlando-area defense attorney who has no connection to the case, said Zimmerman comes across as "a reasonable guy" in the video and not the zealous "cop-wannabe" that Martin's parents have portrayed him.
"He came across as being straight-forward," Hill told The Associated Press after reviewing the video. "It doesn't hurt him."
Zimmerman's second bond hearing will be June 29. His $150,000 bond was revoked earlier this month after prosecutors said Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, misled the court about how much money they had available for bail.
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Seems to me that he is coming accross as very believeable.