“You decided to get the address a fraction of a second after you said, ‘Oh s--t. He’s running?’” Det. Singleton said. “And it sounds like you’re running too.”

Zimmerman said he wasn’t running; it was just windy.

Legal analysts who are watching the case closely said the reenactment video benefits Zimmerman, because it shows him telling his self-defense account clearly and convincingly.

“For George Zimmerman, this is one big positive,” said Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz, who has had a public scrap with the prosecutor Gov. Rick Scott appointed to the case, Angela Corey. “If it’s admitted in court, he is not subject to cross examination and then that makes it harder for the prosecution.”

Dershowitz said he’s not sure if the defense, however, can submit the video statements as evidence. The prosecution might have to do that. And it probably won’t, he said, because it makes Corey look bad.

Corey and Dershowitz have had a public battle over what he considers a grossly overcharged case and an unethical probable-cause affidavit filed in court, which failed to mention Zimmerman’s broken nose and scraped head.

The affidavit Corey filed “knowingly tells a false story,” Dershowitz said. “She overcharged. But that’s her reputation: She over-charges. If Rick Scott wanted to avoid a riot and make sure that George Zimmerman was overcharged, he picked the right prosecutor.”

Cheney Mason, an Orlando criminal defense attorney who helped successfully defend accused “tot-mom” killer Casey Anthony last year, said the reenactment video is just more proof that “Zimmerman shouldn’t have been charged in the first place.”

“If a jury sees this tape, this case is over,” Mason said. “George Zimmerman will walk as a free man. But it shouldn’t even get to a jury. A judge, if he has the political courage, should throw this case out.... Zimmerman has made a strong case that he was fighting for his life.”

Trayvon’s family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump, said he noticed several inconsistencies between Zimmerman’s written statement and what could be heard on his call to police:

“It is clear to us and should be clear to everyone why Angela Corey charged him with second degree murder.”

.Crump was with Trayvon’s parents in New Orleans at a journalism convention speaking about the shooting.

Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, along with Al Sharpton, spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists convention about the importance of Trayvon’s case exploding into a national discussion about racial profiling and Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law.

Neither parent has seen or heard the police statements and audio made public on Thursday. And Sybrina Fulton never plans to look.

"I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to relive it," she said. "It would be too hard."

She talked about missing her son’s smile and driving him to school. “He was loving,” she said. “He used to kiss me everyday."

His father, whom Trayvon was staying with at the time of the shooting, will review the case, no matter how painful.

“As a father, I have to look at the stuff, because I am looking for the answers to why my son’s life was taken,” he said. “I know it will be troubling, but I have to see it for myself.”

Staff writers Audra D.S. Burch and Janey Tate contributed to this report.