some of the lack that the prosecutor uses. he calls them loud-mouths, right? so, again, this is to a white jury, again, their imagination goes into, these are the kinds of young people that my i might be threatened by. so the problem is that it s never, as rinku said, brought out explicitly on the table. what s going on here. why is it this man feels threatened by these young people? does he have a history of feeling animosity towards african-americans? that s never wrought up in the case. and therefore, we re looking at the case in a vacuum, even though the context is being shaped by these powerful, heavily loaded racial stereotypes, which i think results in the kind of verdict that we found. so, kendall, just to bring you back in, is there something about the law, the stand your ground law itself, that encourages that kind of framing or makes it difficult to bring an issue of race, because you really don t need to do it. you just feneed to prove that yr
bloom. nbc news legal analyst, as well as a legal analyst for avoo.com, and also the author of the upcoming book, suspicion nation. i want to thank both of you guys for being here. and i want to start with you, kendall. if you could just explain, something that s become sort of a matter of confusion over this case, and that is stand your ground. whether or not or how stand your ground was actually used in the case? well, i m glad you raids sed, joy, it is confusing, and defense counsel suggested it s not a stand your ground case, but what they re saying is they did not use the right to have a separate stand your ground hearing, decided only by a judge, where a trial could be avoided entirely, criminal and civil immunity given, if in the judge-only stand your ground hearing, the judge decides that self-defense is sufficiently proven. now, stand your ground, the principle, the lack of duty to retreat, the fact that you don t have to walk away from trouble in the state of florida, you
and lars larsen, host of the lars larsen show. how do you attribute falling poll numbers while you are president to your race? well, the president sees a lot of things through a racial lens, we have seen plenty of examples of that, his typical white grandmother and the tray on the martin case certainly. and now he sees this. anything that he does wrong that republicans call him on and say he s not doing a good job, the president says they must not like me because of my race. i think it s pure bologna. mark? i think the comment tear that u you re going to hear from a lot of right the president said on martin luther king s birthday, to call the president
a 2008 campaign aid for obama. and lars larsen, host of the lars larsen show. how do you attribute falling poll numbers while you are president to your race? well, the president sees a lot of things through a racial lens, we have seen plenty of examples of that, his typical white grandmother and the tray on the martin case certainly. and now he sees this. anything that he does wrong that republicans call him on and say he s not doing a good job, the president says they must not like me because of my race. i think it s pure bologna. mark? i think the comment tear that u you re going to hear from a lot of right the president said on martin luther king s birthday, to call the president
the emergency is now being taken care of outside. he actually pushed her outside according to the officer s report and barricaded the door. the reason the police are outside instead of inside is he barricaded the door so that the police couldn t get in and then he composes himself and in that very calm, serene voice goes on to lay out the case against the now alleged victim. lisa bloom, the victim told the police that as the police have said, the victim has disclosed to us that she is not pregnant. so that pregnant element of the story, there is a true or false there and we can t say which one is true right now. one of the interesting things is the glass table. george zimmerman told her say that he broke the glass table. she says that on her 911 call. so he in the middle of his 911 call says very calmly she just broke the glass table knowing that that s one of the evidentiary elements there.