you have exercised against a class. they were found by the judge to have exercised two challenges against white women jurors. they ended up, the judge ended up with those two preemptories receipting those jurors, and you ended up with five white women on that jury. the idea that you re not going to have race enter into this has got to be the single most naive thing i ve heard about this raise. because number one, race determines everything in the criminal justice system. there isn t any case that goes through the criminal justice system that s not determined by race. it determines everything. i can explain 90% of all cases, because no theory is 100%, but i can explain 90% of cases, starting with number one the police. the police traditionally, in the
fulton s child, trayvon, as her child. she never saw that could have been her child. in fact, he did just like the sanford police did on february 26, 2012, when they profiled trayvon, too. they never looked at it from the vantage point of the dead kid on the ground. so you don t think she understood who trayvon martin was? not at all, especially when you asked her the question, did she feel sympathy for trayvon martin? she said, i feel sympathy for both of them. trayvon is dead. george zimmerman was the killer, and she equated them just the same. during the trial, race was not brought up. do you wish it had been? do you think it was part of the equation in george zimmerman s mind, the reason he was profiled? well, i think the prosecutors made a strategic decision that they didn t even have to get
says you have exercised against a class. in this case, they were found by the judge to have xer sized two pre-emptory challenges against a coggizable jurors, white women. the judge ended up receipting those two jurors, and you ended up having six white women, or at least five white women on that jury. the idea that you re not going to have race enter into this has got to be the single most naive thing. raise determines everything in the criminal justice system. you believe race determines everything? determines everything. i can explain 90% of all cases, because no theory is 100%. but i can explain 90% of all cases, starting with the police. the police traditionally, in the
trayvon martin? i think it was all of it. i think it could have been clothing. i think george zimmerman felt like no one could walk through his neighborhood without him knowing who you were and where you were going. and we think that he stepped over the boundaries. we said this was always about boundaries. we know that trayvon had no idea who george zimmerman was. but, but george zimmerman assumed he knew who trayvon martin was, and that s where he was wrong. and we believe he was criminally wrong. mark, the prosecutors decided not to talk about race during this trial. was that, you think, a mistake? first of all, it s naive. second of all, it s untrue. ask angela corey if in jury selection the preemptory challenges, that means you can eliminate so many without reason.
tossing rocks and things like that, but that is largely the exception. people have been organizing in churches and communities and holding town halls like this one, the focus to a large degree on racial injustice. interestingly when i spoke with juror b37 yesterday, she told me race never came up in deliberations. joining us tonight, mark geragos. also barbara arnwein. in addition, we have ben crump, senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, and with us from florida, state attorney angela corey, who prosecuted george zimmerman. i appreciate you all being with us. [ applause ] so ben crump, i want to start off with you. as you heard, i interviewed juror b37 yesterday, and she said that race, in her opinion, was not a factor in this and never came up in the jury deliberation.