it was a painful reminder that, just like with trayvon martin and tamir rice, and so many others that law enforcement officers killed our black and brown men and boys without repercussions. that was the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus, marcia fudge on the house floor yesterday. darrell parks is with us. hands up, don t shoot. powerful symbol. great chant. great phrase. one problem, darrell. you have eyewitnesses, many of them black, saying that michael brown did not have his hands up. michael brown was not cooperating with the police. as a matter of fact, they said he was charging at the officer like a football player with his head down. so that s all based in fiction. it s a complete fabrication. what do you say to those people who are advancing a narrative we all now know is false? well, here s the problem, sean, couple things. number one, i think people are
we can actually feed ourselves. change is going to a corporation is that applying for a job and being qualified and not being overlooked strictly because of the target we was born. with change is us being treated like citizens of this country. i appreciate your time tonight. i turn now to darrell parks, attorney for the brown family. what is the federal process here now? where do you see this going? what can the attorney general and the u.s. attorney do? well, the experience that i ve had and both trayvon martin and michael brown, that the federal government has the ability to bring as many agents as they need to the area to interview the people who are involved in this case. they have ability to lose all the laboratory and all the scientific equipment available to the fbi that some departments don t have to investigate this case. so they have asset that s are far bigger than most, obviously
this case who do marital and criminal law, we are civil lawyers. so i do this day in and day out. we ll size up and determine, is it worthwhile for us to do it, how we should do, and when we should do it. darrell parks, appreciate your time. thank you. thank you, sir. quick programming note. you can see more of chris cuomo s interview with mark o mara tomorrow morning on new day from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. up next, in the aftermath of the polarizing case, we re going to take a look at the kind of life george zimmerman now faces and why he may be looking over his shoulder for a long time.
shown to the jury. his parents were not in the courtroom for the verdict. their family attorney darrell parks was. i spoke to him earlier tonight. i want to ask you about the martin family. how are they holding up? anderson, you know, obviously they were devastated last evening. as the day s progressed, they ve gathered themselves together and really had a chance to think about moving forward and trayvon s legacy and trying to turn a situation into a positive. so we are encouraged by them and their fortitude to make sure that they, one, tell people to remain calm, but also now to build on trayvon s name and what his name will mean in american history. i know you were in the courtroom when the verdict was read. trayvon s parents weren t there. a lot of people were maybe surprised by that since they d been in the court every day. do you know why they decided they didn t want to be there at that moment? based on our advice, number one. we already had decided that they probably sho
their family attorney darrell parks was. i spoke to him earlier tonight. i want to ask you about the martin family. how are they holding up? anderson, you know, obviously they were devastated last evening. as the day s progressed, they ve gathered themselves together and really had a chance to think about moving forward and trayvon s legacy and trying to turn a situation into a positive. so we are encouraged by them and their fortitude to make sure that they, one, tell people to remain calm, but also now to build on trayvon s name and what his name will mean in american history. i know you were in the courtroom when the verdict was read. trayvon s parents weren t there. a lot of people were maybe surprised by that since they d been in the court every day. do you know why they decided they didn t want to be there at