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Video: George Zimmerman's Friend Joe Oliver Grilled on 'The Last Word'

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Talking Point Detective3/28/2012 9:30:09 am PDT

re: #319 ‘M AFFN FUN

No, it’s not clear. Different people hear it differently. Obdicut, SFZ and me don’t hear ‘coons’ because the vowel doesn’t sound anything like [u:]. Other people heard different words, e.g. Gus hears ‘punks’.

Just curious - have you listened to the recordings that have been edited to isolate the consonant sound at the beginning of the second word? Of course, confirmation bias is suspect (the influence of him constantly calling 911 about black males has to be there) - but those recordings do sound pretty conclusive to me that he’s using a racial epithet.