police department, they had done quite a good job. you can look across the country at who does good or bad with their investigations. they had done quite a lot. what happened is this became the focus for a civil rights event, which is a wonderful event to have, but they decide george zimmerman would be the person who they were to blame and sort of use as the creation of a civil rights violation. none of which was brought out by the facts. we have darrell parks with us, attorney for trayvon martin s family. what do you make after hearing that claim, if zimmerman were black, he never would have been charged? i don t believe anyone in america knows that except mark o ma o mara. everyone sitting at home knows that if a 28-year-old black man
what does that mean? so it s because what s happening is we re saying race no longer matters, that black kid was violent. right. and let s i mean, that actually or that, well, george zimmerman had race, right, because so george zimmerman was raced, so ergo that cancels i find race is like the weather. people think about it when the weather events are extreme but the weather is con stand and race is constantly part of almost everything. you mentioned daryl parks and we interviewed him earlier. i do want to go back to something he said earlier, in-show flashback. let s just play daryl parks talking about how the defense portrayed trayvon martin. i don t want to call mark o mara a racist, but i will say this, i really believe he made it his point to portray this young black man as a young, black thug, right? there s a picture in there that shows trayvon martin from an
that should not be rioting. white officer acquitted shooting dialo 19 times going for his wallet. sean bell, 23 years old, shot and killed right before his wedding, unarmed. no right. ricky boyd in chicago, two months after trayvon martin, shot and killed by an off-duty detective, no riot. we have more incidents of not rioting that it should not be news we re not rioting. it plays into the same narrative mr. o mara gave us after this verdict, which is tearing the social fabric of this country which is that black people are to be feared. the question i was trying to get at with what mr. cobb wrote, not about violence, but he was saying in his mind he was not expecting a positive result. i m wondering, in general, how pervasive we were on all in with
jury s decision in finding a not guilty verdict? it s funny you would say that. various times through these proceedings you heard mark o mara take little stabs at the fact that the prosecutors in this case are from jacksonville and various times he would attack them about them being that s inappropriate, as you know. it has no bearing on the decision they would have made. all it was intended to do is draw a wedge between the jury and the prosecutors and make their job that much harder and inflame them. that was an issue that came into the proceedings several times and it was totally wrong. but do you feel george zimmerman in some way looked less culpable because if the police believed him, if the police decided let me wait 45 days until, frankly you and your associates, you are the ones who got this arrest, if not for that, we wouldn t be here.
for free. did you know that? yeah. i thought that was out there. so, at some point mark o mara did not get money for this? this is what happened was this publicity? that was my point. i thought this was out there. at some point mark o mara wasn t getting paid. the problem is this is on a practical level. if you have a private case and you re getting paid, the client can no longer afford you, you ask the court to appoint you and have the court pay. because george zimmerman had the legal defense fund with the hundreds of thousands of dollars you re talking about, the court couldn t claim that george zimmerman was indigent and, therefore, had that available, that option available to get appointed counsel. so, from my understanding, o mara and, perhaps, don west, they haven t been paid for a very long time. and to your point, yes, of course, it s for the publicity.