tests on the deadly accident but destroyed the findings. the company which pay a $230,000 fine and make a $55 million donation to the national fish and wildlife foundation. wonder if that s tax deductible? 11 people died on the explosion on the deep water horizon rig. at juror in the second degree murder trial of george zimmerman spoke out thursday. the only minority on the six person jury that found zimmerman not guilty. she had some harsh words in an interview with abc news. george zimmerman got away with murder but you can t get away from god. at the end of the day, he s going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with. the law couldn t prove it. joining me now from miami is nbc correspondent mark potter who s filed the zimmerman trial closely. it seems like she didn t want to let george zimmerman go free but
after the not guilty verdict in the second degree murder trial of george zimmerman. you are now looking at the president. this was within the last hour. the first time the president publicly opened up about the verdict and about african-american boys, including himself once upon a time in america. here he was. they rendered a verdict. and once the jury has spoken, that s how our system works. but i did want to just talk a little bit about context. and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling. you know, when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is, trayvon martin could have been me. 35 years ago. coming up, some folks are praising the president coming forward and speaking about this. others saying, no, he s injecting himself in a
an uneasy paralysis in washington. both seem resigned to the fact they are victims of political circumstances. as little was getting done before, even less seems possible now. at what point does the collision change either for the president or boehner? something to watch. now to the growing nationwide reaction to george zimmerman s acquittal. in the second degree murder trial over the murder, over the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. protesters poured into the streets across the country in a dozen cities including chicago, denver and washington, d.c. demonstrators, most of them peaceful, demanded justice for trayvon martin. in new york s times square, a virtual shutdown with demonstrators blocking streets. in los angeles, the mayor called for calm after about 200 protesters closed a portion of the freeway. and in sanford, florida, protesters vowed to demand justice and express their anger and disappointment. my biggest disappointment is
in finishing up tonight, i want to take a moment to talk to you about freedom. one of my favorite lines from one of our greatest president, franklin delano roosevelt was his speech on the four freedoms. freedom of speech, freedom to worship god, each in our own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. freedom from fear. we ve heard a lot about george zimmerman s fear of great bodily harm during his second degree murder trial. it was an expert defense that convinced a jury of his peers that he was not guilty of second degree murder. what we didn t hear much about until the very end of the case was trayvon martin s fear. it was nonl the rebuttal to closing argument that the prosecution finally asked isn t it every child s worst nightmare to be followed by a stranger? every parent in this country, whether they re republican, a democrat, an independent, right
and so robert zimmerman, sr. himself has put on line a few blogs over the past six to nine months. each time ranting, railing against the fact that his son is even a defendant in the second degree murder trial as we were leading up to the trial. he was saying that the evidence doesn t fit it. the entire thing was a politically driven case, and there s the wife, shellie zimmerman, who had her own his zimmerman, who had her own issues with the court after the first bond hearing of george zimmerman, then it was divulged that the two of them were talking somewhat in code while zimmerman, george zimmerman, was still in the jail here behind the courthouse, and all of those more than $100,000 in donations had come in, and they were trying to plead basically poverty stricken and get him out of court. we are showing this group that s growing with the posters and what not here. tell us about it. these are some local