was being followed and so he called him a crazy, well today it was a crazy, creepy cracker. uh-huh. something to that effect. the issue is the word cracker. right. she said that this was that he was being targeted because it was a race thing, but then she said the word cracker, itself, wasn t racial. did you hear that. yeah. it made total sense to me. you know why? a lot of black folks all over the country, a lot of southern folks, nothing wrong with that statement. there is a cultural divide that is going on in this trial that played out between rachel jeantel and don west. he s an older white guy, she s a teenage could not be further difference. she s explaining, this is what he said to me. that s how kids talk to each other. that s what they say when somebody is coming after them and look creepy. is she trying to say something about george zimmerman and his race? we think about it too deeply. kids are saying this guy s this, that guy s that. that s what she was try
so your house is right here at the corner? yes. okay. ma am, i m going to show you now another photograph. thank you. state s exhibit number 3. can you tell from that photograph your residence back in as you can see, some photos are being shown of the neighborhood where this entire altercation happened. again, this is this woman by the name of jenna lauer. she s being questioned right now. she s on the stand following many, many hours of testimony by this friend of trayvon martin, rachel jeantel. it s been a grueling cross-examination today in this murder trial in sanford, florida, of george zimmerman. on the stand most of the day today was this young woman, here she was, who was the one on the phone with teenager trayvon martin just before george zimmerman shot him. and zimmerman s lawyer challenged her testimony about
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might have some information pertaining to the double slaying from last year that they re now investigating hernandez about. so possibly there s a connection there. certainly that s very interesting. aaron hernandez said you can t trust anyone anymore. that s what he allegedly said right before the events of two weeks ago unfolded. so this is just a long, twisted case and i think we re kind of finding out now that aaron hernandez has had a lot of trouble with getting in fights with people at clubs and then being reckless with guns. he s had a lawsuit now where he s being sued for firing a gun. he had an incident in college where he was questioned. so clearly he s had a problem with some guns dating back several years. wow. ben volin with the boston globe. we ll follow it along with you here as he s denied bail yet again. facing as you point out this murder one charge. thank you. we re going to take you back to sanford, florida, here in just a moment. as this george zimmerman trial
what she heard on the phone the night martin was killed. and for the first time, the defense asked jeantel whether martin confronted zimmerman. told you that he could see the man again, the man was behind him, correct? yes. close. sure. yes, sir. and if he were hiding somewhere and the man walked close to him, they would be close together, correct? objection, your honor. argumentive. sustained. in any event, your sense of it was that they got close together at that point? he got close to trayvon, yes, sir. and you don t know whether the man was approaching trayvon at that point in getting closer, or whether trayvon was approaching the man and getting closer? trayvon would have told me, he ll call me back, sir, if he was going to approach him, sir.