the case took off and i will not compare to o.j. simpson. but in the same way it took off and you have incredible media coverage and sat when he is asked about the case. he can say i don t know what you are talking. he commented on it reasonably. he never said trayvon martin was innocent or guilty and never said george zimmerman is innocent or dpelt. but he shed sympathy to one party. he stirred up passions and going back to wall to wall coverage. there was wall to wall coverage and we are not self serving here. we labor to make sure we got the context with every single story and a lot of media outlets, nbc with the clever editing did not do that. and the coverage that was out
that george zimmerman has been acquitted. plus, jurors in the jodi arias murder trial tell us what the zimmerman jurors are going through right now and how it could get worse if they go public. and huge protest against the republican-led state government. is north carolina the new wisconsin? i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. the white house says president obama won t personally get involved in deciding whether to pursue civil rights charges against george zimmerman. the president issued a carefully worded statement yesterday, urging americans to respect the not guilty verdict in zimmerman s murder trial. he also called the death of trayvon martin a tragedy. it was a less emotional take on the case than we heard from the president in his now famous remark shortly after martin was killed. but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. you know, if i had a son, he d
higher than the standard for murder. a jury of six people spent five weeks listening to all the case, all the arguments, and concluded there was not a case there. this is a tragedy. it s a tragedy that trayvon martin is dead. but the jury concluded it was not an act of murder. it wasn t even an act of manslaughter. to think that the justice department can come in and cross this much higher threshold, i think would be absolutely an abuse of justice rather than the behavior of injustice. let s see what van jones has to say. go ahead. well, look, i think we need to let the process go forward. there is, i think, a basis for continuing an inquiry here. it does seem that there was a pattern and practice on the part of mr. zimmerman of focusing in on minority kids when he began to become this neighborhood watch hero, possibly in his own
plus, one of the zimmerman jurors makes plans to tell her story, but right now, there s enormous secrecy and fear surrounding those six women. and we re awaiting the results of an autopsy and drug test on the glee star cory monteith after the 31-year-old actor s shocking death. i m wolf blitzer. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. in churches, on the streets, online, americans are venting their opinions and emotions about george zimmerman s not guilty verdict. for trayvon martin supporters, the outrage seems to be hardening with each passing hour since the jury s decision saturday night. many protesters are focused on the possibility of new charges against zimmerman for martin s death, but the former neighborhood watch volunteer supporters say justice was served and it s time to move on. cnn s martin savidge is in
sunny hostin is a cnn legal analyst and linda kenney baden. discussion of these federal chashlgs have typically been applied to public pliies like the police officers in the rodney king case. can you walk us through this high bar? what would be needed? is this really credible? it is a high bar. i do, jake, think that it s a possibility. i think it s credible and we do know the justice department has a parallel investigation going on into this matter and they have had for some time, for about a year now. and that investigation, as the attorney general said, was still ongoing. what they would have to prove is under the matthew shepherd and james bird act, the hate crime act many people call it, it was passed in 2009. they would have to prove that george zimmerman s actions were racially motivated, that he willfully injured trayvon martin because of his race, that part of it was because of his race. i don t know. when you look at that and you