they re going to take a little photo with the former president of the united states. his wife barbara is in the audience. we congratulate him. we congratulate all of those who volunteer to help make the country and the world a little bit better. we ll continue to watch this going on. there they are in the east room of the white house. and the cnn newsroom continues with brooke baldwin right now. it s 2013, but in america the issue of race is hitting a fevered pitch. mostly because of two words. not guilty. i m brooke baldwin. the news is now. george zimmerman disappears. but for how long? and where? plus i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was disgraceful. one word to describe george zimmerman? the verdict doesn t stop the bickering between legal teams.
the fbi looked into the case. they found there was no racial profiling. the doj can continue all they want. but they also have to meet the burden that was proven or disproven in the civil in the criminal trial. so how do they go forward? they didn t charge where they didn t have a race based incident. so we hear from mark o mara saying this morning this wasn t about race. he sort of agreed with you talking about the education of the judicial system. but let me go back to really this is to anyone. on the issue, you know, some folks are saying, you know, yes, justice has been done. others obviously vehemently disafwree with that. when this happened last february lawyers for trayvon martin s family, the ben crumps, were saying, listen, for months and months and months. we just need to have a judge apd a jury. let this play out. it seems like now that it has, that verdict and that system hasn t been accepted. is that fair? no.
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hit her. i got five baby mamas. and i put my hands on every last one of them except for one. i believe when he threatened to kill me that s what he was going to do. that s exactly what he intended to do. and had i not discharged my weapon at that point, i would not be here. reporter: but later at a court hearing to determine whether marissa alexander should get immunity based on the stand your ground law, rico gray changed his story. saying he d lied repeatedly in the deposition to protect his wife. claiming he did not threaten to kill her. testifying, quote, i begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun. the jury deliberated for 12 minutes before convicting her. the jacksonville naacp wrote a letter to the trial judge saying marissa alexander may not have received justice because of her gender, race or economic status. some african-american news websites are saying much the same thing. that if marissa had been white, her stand your ground defense would have been accepted a
it s actually relief and from the defense perspective, they felt like they were fhting the righteous battle, that they had justice on their side, that it was the prosecution s witnesses that and we all saw this. the prosecution witnesses became de facto defense witnesses. from their perspective what that speaks to is that they believe they re representing an innocent man wrongfully accused. i don t know that i have too much to blame for them in that regard. we have to leave it there. it s amazing. i ve been on vacation the last week. welcome back. let me tell you, everywhere i went someone had something to say about this trial. it has been fascinating every which way. darren and tanya, thank you both very, very much. coming up here, we will continue this conversation about the george zimmerman trial. but next we will focus on race. whatessage does this verdict send to african-american families in this country? do not miss that discussion, back in just a minute. norfolk sout