because i want to plis interpret this. i want to be careful in what i say with what you re asking. i m trying to make it more simple. if a person sees a firearm, would it be unusual for them to yell for help? if an average individual saw a gun and it was pointed at them, i would say absolutely not. anybody looking down the barrel of a firearm if you re able to vocalize something would probably yell for help. if you re looking down the barrel of a gun, you would hope, i hope if you re looking down the barrel of a gun, you would be in fear for your life. all right. back to the options. we kind of got away from that. there are other options that george zimmerman could have used to get out of that situation, right? based on my understanding of his physical skills and things, he wasn t physically trained. you know, you re asking of options. we go back to what we talk about for subject facts. variables involved in an individual in the event. what is your background training and exper
my job as an expert is to look at the event, not hearsay take comes from somebody else that they are saying. number one, dealing with man demand, i have always got a concern that i haven t met too many men whose egos is don t enter into it when they are having a conversation with somebody. again, we are watching the cross-examination from the prosecution to this expert witness dennis root who is put on by the defense as a safety and law enforcement expert. we saw prosecution attorney guy there on the floor with the dummy executing the exhibit of the 90-degree angle of how it would have been physically impossible or possible for trayvon martin to see george glimm zimmerman s gun during that fight. we will be back with much more after the break. served it up in the heart of peach country. it s a fresh-over. we want you to eat some peaches and tell us what you think. they re really juicy. it must have just come from the farm. this right here is ideal for me. walmart works directly
talking about now, when he was down on the floor with the dummy there was really, i think, interesting and it s going to limit the testimony from the stabbed. we re outside the courthouse in sanford. craig, i know that you re able to report that the jury was very interested in how they used that dummy in the demonstration on the floor. yeah. you know, one of the things that we ve been doing down here is trying to keep a close eye on the jury and their reaction to certain witnesses, their reaction to certain parts of the testimony as well and at one point when john gott, attorney for the state was down on the floor demonstrating with the dummy, how he would be, how he could be that george zimmerman fired the shot at trayvon martin. he was where witnesses are saying he was and where george zimmerman the position of george zimmerman. jurors in the back row all stood up at that point to watch this
that witness is a guy by the name of dennis root who is safety and law enforcement expert. our expert msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom has been watching this. we saw john guy for the prosecution demonstrate the angle necessary for trayvon martin being on top and george zimmerman on the ground. this 90-degree angle and the physical possibility or impossibility of how zimmerman would be able to get his gun. one thing and i think you were struggling with this too that john guy didn t demonstrate the fact that george zimmerman has said his gun was behind him, not in front of him. in the police re-enactment video george zimmerman was positioned behind him with his gun in the holster. that is a good point for john guy to make. i like the demonstration. i like him on top of the mannequin and showing it. a picture is worth a thousand words. when you actually see it, you think how is that possible? the expert, though, has said, look, a fight is dynamic, it s a
constantly moving situation. and i think that is true as well. so something a little bit for both sides. is he demonstrating that the 90-degree angle is more believe with trayvon martin disengaging from some kind of altercation and the gun being brandished? that is the argument that perhaps trayvon martin was pulling away and george zimmerman may have been pulling on his shirt and may explain the gap between the shirt and the bullet weaned heard about yesterday. a big blunder on this expert on cross-examination when he said he thought the incident may have happened in early june and he went around that time and the sun was not completely set so he thought the light conditions were reasonably good. number witnesses have testified it was very dark and we know this incident happened in february in the winter where it s much darker at 7:30. we are go back in and listen to the prosecution asking questions of this defense witness dennis root. you re asking me if somebody