says that he had to the guy was following him back to the truck, well, his truck was a distance away and trayvon was almost home, so that s a total contradiction, but even more importantly, though, it doesn t make sense. i mean, for folks have to use their common sense. this is not adding up, folks and also why i mean he tries to say that trayvon went for his gun, trayvon had iced tea and skittles. that s all he had. this guy was walking around with a 9 mm weighs almost 100 pounds more than trayvon. this guy was a vigilante. i mean, he took this situation to what it is now and he killed trayvon. daryl park, thank you very much for joining me tonight, the rest of the crew is going to stay with me. another point i want to make just before we go to this break is that george zimmerman s father keeps using the word walk. he never says run. he never allows for the possibility that george zimmerman ran after trayvon. now, trayvon s running away.
is something that s hard to track especially here where we re delivering this news to the country. what is your sense of the way this is being followed and what people are focusing on? well, one of the things i do is track social media and politics and one of the first things i did after this case started to gather some team is to if you go to farai.com, my personal website you ll see a twitter map of basically where trayvon is trending and it s very notable that it s really trending coastally, not so much in the middle of the country, i think that has to do with patterns of news coverage and also with political leanings and i m really afraid that this case, you ve talked about a lot of different testimony and a lot of it with, you know there s a lot of uncertainty to just to put it mildly and a lot of conflict. i m afraid that our country will
get very divided. the politics have come up. george zimmerman s father referenced the president. the president is someone who when he was elected, people made a run on assault weapons assuming that he would change gun laws. so i think that the last person who could make a really strong statement in some ways is the president. so i m looking at it from political angles, social media angles and also this is this should be in the end not just about justice for trayvon and a question of prosecution of zimmerman, it should be about the gun laws that exist in 20 states that are putting people s lives in danger. jonathan capehart, i hate making judgments about george zimmerman s father, but, you know, or his brother in a situation like this but there are things that happen in these cases and you watch people come forward and you give their statements and you have to make a judgment about it. this line he spoke, i never foresaw so much hate coming from
put it mildly and a lot of conflict. i m afraid that our country will get very divided. the politics have come up. george zimmerman s father referenced the president. the president is someone who when he was elected, people made a run on assault weapons assuming that he would change gun laws. so i think that the last person who could make a really strong statement in some ways is the president. so i m looking at it from political angles, social media angles and also this is this should be in the end not just about justice for trayvon and a question of prosecution of zimmerman, it should be about the gun laws that exist in 20 states that are putting people s lives in danger. jonathan capehart, i hate making judgments about george zimmerman s father, but, you know, or his brother in a situation like this but there are things that happen in these cases and you watch people come forward and you give their statements and you have to make a judgment about it. this line he spoke, i never
narrative being shaped to try to fit the facts because the facts are that trayvon martin s body was found face down with his face in the grass. so his feet would have been toward the concrete. so then you d have to explain how george zimmerman was having his head bashed in on the concrete but trayvon ended up 180-degree turn with that with his feet 20rds the concrete and he ended up face down so the concrete is down the middle between the grassy backyards which are all common and by the way, lawrence, you know, people who live there have said to local reporters that s where the kids go and walk their dogs. that s where the children who live in the community play football together. it s not a sinister behind the there are trash receptacles for people walking there. it s very clearly not some sort of sinister area and as you point out and there s a sidewalk. it is the direct route to where trayvon martin would walk to go home. it also shows in the diagram just how far george zi