you ve seen the worst part of the criminal justice system. as you hear this conversation, what do you think? you know, it saddens me, it sickens me that we still go through this 25 years later after the central park jogger case. when i found out about the verdict, i was crushed. it took me back to when we was convicted and i had to relive that all over again. it s like, you know, you get to a point when you say enough is enough. when do we win one? it s like we go through all these cases [ applause ] you know, we can read the list off. when does it stop? and it sickens me. but it strengthens me in a sense because it pushes our own case. we re still in the legal battle with the city right now. for ten years. and it s sad. charles, when you say that the system failed trayvon martin long before that shot was fired,
analyze a case, it has nothing to do with the race of the defendant or the victim. we look at the evidence, the proof and who was the victim. you don t believe in our justice system there are inherent biases, that are inherent from who gets stopped more often by police to the way people perceive other people without realizing it? i saw a study that analyzed jury verdicts in florida from 2000 to 2010, all-white juries convict african-american defendants 16% more than a white defendant, and if you have one black juror, that inequity goes away. we don t see that the way you re portraying it, or the way it s being portrayed. we have had all-white juries convict white people of killing
we cannot fault their verdict, and i don t believe it can be faulted based on race. this was a tough case. we felt it was compelling that george zimmerman got out of his car after profiling trayvon martin, followed him, and attempted to apprehend him. we felt we could prove it was not justifiable use of deadly force. we have to leave it there. i want to talk about sort of how we got here when we come back. the long history of race and justice in america and what the future holds as our 360 town hall continues. we ll be right back. this man is about to be the millionth customer. would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fifty thousand dollars. congratulations you are our one millionth customer. nobody likes to miss out.
and the man who killed him went free. when it comes to a racially charged case, this is far from the first. here is some perspective. in the early 1960s, spurred by martin luther king, jr., congress passed and president johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964, guaranteeing minority rights would be protected. even though it was a remarkable piece of legislation, on the streets the impact was less than clear. it seemed time after time minorities in the literal and symbolic cross hairs when it came to authority. you don t have to look too far back to find examples. in 1989, five young men, four black, one hispanic, were charged with assault and rape. a white woman has been attacked in new york s central park. all confessed or were implicated. at trial a year later they were all convicted.
into the divisive issue of race. they said he criminally profiled trayvon martin. we don t know if george zimmerman is racist or not. we can try to look to his words and past actions, and i pray that is what the department of justice is going to do. but he criminally profiled trayvon and why? what was it about trayvon that made him a criminal or f -ing punk or a-hole? the conversation is evolving now, because this verdict, people are saying can people profile my child just walking home and follow and confront him? because the police can t do that. the united states supreme court says the police can t profile based on race. you said you believe racial profiling was part of this case, race was part of this case. yes. i think what s important here is that race was an element of his decision. in fact, when race did come into the arguments here, it was