closest most trusted friends are african-american adding there s a tremendous amount of evidence that george is absolutely not a racist in any sense of the word. in an effort to prove that zimmerman himself has african-american roots the family released this photo exclusively to a cnn legal analyst showing zimmerman s grandmother who is half black and his grandfather. the girl on the lap is george zimmerman s mother. but none of that squares with what his cousin said in police in the audio recording. i was afraid he may have done something because the kid was black. because growing up they have always made him and his family have always made statements that they don t like black people if they don t act like white people. his immediate family has always stayed on message. when this over, they hope people will conclude that george zimmerman is a nice guy.
discrepancy and contradiction they can. lay one atop the other. that s their argument. they have no other argument other than george zimmerman has been lying and he created this and over reacted. they have to prove over reaction to get lesser included manslaughter and that s why you are hearing of a deprafed mind. knowing they have hardly any chance on a second degree merchandise homicide. they are going to take every statement and show every discrepancy they can and that s the plan. the defense was fighting allowing the witness. zimmerman s criminal justice professor to testify because they say brought in his past. mark o mara said on this program yesterday that if this evidence was allowed in, which it was, it could open up evidence from trayvon martin s past in to the courtroom. i want top play what mark o mara said to me yesterday. based on what was in george s
prosecutors made him out to be. randy king looks in it to. george zimmerman may have killed trayvon martin but make no mistake, his family says he s no monster. his older brother says that george zimmerman would never chase anyone down. he s the neighbor that everyone would want to have. he s the kind of guy that sees somebody struggling to change a tire and stops to help them or helps older people with their groceries. he goes out of his way to help people. he always has. reporter: at this bail hearing last year, george zimmerman s mother testified over the phone talked about him mentoring african-american students. he is protective of people and protective of homeless people and children. no matter their race. his father has tried to dispel rumors that george zimmerman is a racist who racially profiled trayvon martin the night he shot him. in a book he wrote about the case, he wrote many of george s
person reasonably believed he was imminent endangered of death. and the nature of the injuries conflicts with george zimmerman s account. that s what is significant about the injuries, not whether they were death defying. that is a red herring. the issue is whether george jrch was truthful when he said he bashed my head in the pavement and smacked me and rained blows that kind of thing. whether that is true or he was exaggerating it. couldn t they have accomplished the same thing by introducing the syllabus itself? why did they bring this guy in and allow the defense to get what i consider to be defense-oriented testimony out? i know, mark. i can t answer. i just don t i have i actually thought it was helpful to the prosecution. we have to remember the jury saw the interview he gave to sean hannity. when he asked him what about
background, his past through the table that it brings in what trayvon martin brings to the table all of his violent acts that we know about and some of the fighting he was involved in. if that is not on the table, whatever george did in the background shouldn t be on the table, as well. what part of trayvon martin s past could come in as evidence? this is the variation of the goosy gander rule. if you are going to let in something for zimmerman, you should let in something for martin. obviously, the only way i can see and maybe you can correct me under florida law. only way i see them get in the trayvon martin stuff is if zimmerman testifies and pushes the story a little farther. i don t think based on the current take that they have introduced to this jury they are that this judge will let that go down. do you agree with that. yeah. mark is right. they didn t open the door.