now backed by allstate. click or call. as we continue with our panel, real quick, guys. we found out one of the jurors said well, it was obvious. i think the prosecution fought a fight they couldn t win by trying to say it was trayvon martin s voice. especially given all the evidence. john good s testimony. the fact that george stated he was crying for help when the first officer arrived without knowing that it was recorded so there was tons and tons of
eric holder had this to say about the case. of course, as this celebration unfolds, we are also mindful of the pain felt by our nation surrounding the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of trayvon martin in sanford, florida, last year. the justice department shares your i share your concerns. and as we first acknowledge last spring, we have opened an investigation into this matter independent of the legal determination that will be made. i believe that this tragedy provides yet another opportunity for our nation to speak honestly about the complicated and emotionally charged issues that this case has raised. i want to assure you that the department will continue to act in a manner that is consistent
for god s sakes, i don t even know what to tell my kids about how to fear every civilian because so many of them are carrying a gun and so many of them think that they re suspicious and assume them to be a criminal when they re just walking down the street. so we re still working at my house on what to tell my kids. reverend al sharpton, thank you very much for joining me on this important night of this discussion. and joy reid, a very special thanks to you. i know your very first appearance on this program was to discuss what was going on in florida on the killing of trayvon martin where no charges had yet been brought. you were crucial in helping me understand the case and helping this network understand it. so joy, a special thanks tonight. thanks, lawrence. in the rewrite tonight you will get my final thoughts about the final thoughts for this evening anyway on this verdict. but first, the filibuster face-off here in washington. senator mitch mcconnell versus harry reid.
i have no reason why they took a case that was an absolutely obvious self-defense case and prosecute it. it divided the country. it will take us years to get past this. we can t have the conversations that we should have with other things wrong with the justice system. i would like to know myself, why did trayvon feel the need to punch george and get on top of him? why did that happen? i don t know. we know that he had plenty of time to think about it. i think the evidence proved conclusively that there were about four minutes in between the time that it was clear from the testimony that trayvon martin ran and essentially lost george zimmerman and four minutes later the confrontation took place. what went through trayvon martin s mind, we don t know. he made a conscious decision to
problem is profiling by police. well, now we ve gone all the way back to people policing you when they are not an authority, that a civilian can actually pursue you, question you. i ve seen so many comments online about, well, why didn t trayvon martin just tell him who he was? well, because this wasn t a cop and he didn t have any authority to ask him where he was. neighborhood watch people are not police officers. they don t have any authority over any teenager. so the idea that people are saying, well, trayvon was acting suspicious, george was just doing his job to find out where he was going, this is setting us back in a way that is so ugly and so uncomfortable. and i m glad that the country s being forced to look at it. well, i think also i might add that the question should be asked why didn t mr. zimmerman tell trayvon who he was? according to zimmerman s statement, he never identified himself to trayvon martin as a member of the watchman s group or the captain of the watchman