watching the reaction to the verdict since it came down last weekend. so he surprised us all by stepping behind the podium this afternoon. the reason i actually want to come out today is not to take questions, but to speak to an issue that obviously has gotten a lot of attention over the course of the last week, the issue of the trayvon martin ruling. you know, when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. and when you think about why in the african-american community, at least, there s a lot of pain around what happened here, i think it s important to recognize that the african-american community is looking at this issue through a
at a very personal level, what happened to trayvon martin really affected president obama. and it s something that i, as an african-american man, think about all the time. that could have been one of my sons very easily. he saw it in those very stark personal terms, and he talked about it that way. to us regular everyday people, trayvon martin was a huge deal, huge deal. how many presidents would acknowledge that on any given sunday? so for him to do that, you know, it was just a reminder like, you know, that s a black man. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. rush, for five minutes. i thought that something was missing in his response. racial profiling has to stop, mr.
court. this isn t a trial that s been infected by mob violence of a woke left mob. joining me now is criminal defense attorney, he was the defense attorney for george zimmerman who was acquitted in the 20912 shooting death of trayvon martin. mark, we just heard defendant william brian s lawyer invoking lynching in a case where the defendant s three white men chased down, ambushed and fatally shot an unarmed young black man who was jogging down the street. his father called his death lynching. these comments sound ridiculous. it sounds like a dog whistle put through a bullhorn. the people that he is reaching out to, and now calling this a lynching against his client.
mcglockton and his girlfriend went to the store she parked illegally in the handicap spot and he went inside. that s when michael approached her and started arguing about her not having a handicapped placard. that s when the unarmed mclaughlin comes out of store. pushes him to the ground, who then, on the asphalt pulls out his legally concealed handgun and shoots. just like florida s 2012 shooting death of trayvon martin george martin he claims the same defense the controversial stand your ground law saying he felt like his life was threatened. the jury in that high profile trial acquitted as i remember of murder. in this case the mcglockton family says the video is on their side. pay close attention to mcglockton s body motion in the final moments of the altercation. after the shove and then the shot. here s mcglockton s father. as you can see when he pulled that gun out, marquise was taking a couple steps back, he had full
they were sneaking in some of these mortgage fees, actually in that 1 billion-dollar fine as well u and then this is the la it sest. the federa latest. they did something unprecedented in the banking world they told wells fargo you can t grow your balance sheet any more. shepard: see what happens next. susan lee from the biz. there is word attackers tried to use a drone to assassinate the leader of venezuela. again, there s word that that happened. now, we re waiting to hear about arrests. but, first, protests over florida s controversial stand your ground law. the law used to defend, among others, the gunman in the death of trayvon martin. the new case now that is sparking demonstrations. that s next.