Trayvon Call Edit ‘Not Deliberate’

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 5:09PM EDT / Published Apr. 08, 2012 7:45AM EDT

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NBC can’t unring this bell. After airing an edited segment of George Zimmerman’s 911 call from the night the Florida neighborhood watch captain shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the network apologized Saturday. The edited version of the call, which made it appear that Zimmerman identified Martin as black before being prompted by the emergency dispatcher, was “a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call,” NBC News president Steve Capus said Saturday. According to an internal NBC probe, a producer made the editing call.

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Trayvon Call Edit ‘Not Deliberate’

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