ground was not used in this case. i heard stand your ground for over a year. it wasn t until the defense had had to file a motion that i stopped hearing stand your ground, which was a year later. which was april of 2013. from february 26, 2012, i had been hearing about stand your ground from the police department, from the attorneys, from the news. everybody said stand your ground. and it wasn t something that we made up. it was something that they were going to use. so it certainly played a part. in addition to that, also the jury was given instructions that had information on there about stand your ground. so it s not that we re making you know, making anything up. it s just that it was being used. stand your ground, attorney parks, was why they didn t they let zimmerman go at the precinct and not charge him. part of it was stand your ground. for certain. and rev, i think you have to
good morning. good morning, i m john muller. and i m diana perez. here are some of the top headlines we re following on world news now. the day is the day of reckoning in cleveland for ariel castro. the former school bus driver faces a prison sentence of more than 1,000 years for imprisoning and torturing three women for nearly a decade. george zimmerman caught up again by the long arm of the law. police dash cam telling the officer he s carrying a firearm. he also let zimmerman go with a warning. president obama meets with congressional leaders at the white house today to discuss the nsa surveillance programs. the agency is acknowledging the existence of a program that allows the u.s. to snoop on nearly everything an internet user does in realtime. a man sleepwalking apparently had a bad dream at the same time and shot himself in the knee. the man says
of injuries that showed altercation. as we take out one piece of it, it makes it difficult. i agree, i thought the voice was going to be easy to identify one or the other and it s just not. we ve had three public experts that say contrary to that. let me go to another issue. yes, sir. on the night of trayvon martin s death, police let mr. zimmerman go. many of us felt that that violated the rights of mr. martin and which is why a lot of us became interested in the case. did they make the right decision to let him go without a full investigation? well, three answers. for those who are very concerned that young black males are treated in the criminal justice system, no. because it looked like they were ignoring the fact that a young black teen was lost or killed and the guy went home. so from that perspective, no. they didn t make the right decision. from the perspective of looking at the statute that says if you
office. he didn t refuse to take it despite apparently having made the ka you will to let zimmerman go. he ultimately recused himself and now there is a question of whether had he kept it would there have been a thorough investigation, would that grand jury have resulted in an indictment. now it is out of his hands. he recused himself and angela cory has been appointed to take care of the case at the state level. karen, aren t some sections of the media attempting in death to miss characterize this young man s personality as george zimmerman appeared to do so in his life when he assumed that trayvon martin was a troublemaker and a delinquent? well, absolutely. ironically, i suppose, people want that to fit the narrative, right, in the same way that zimmerman saw this young man in this community and something in his head said that seems out of place to me. folks, online or going crazy, again trying to revert to a lot of the same stereo types, and
the national news. megyn: even if hay had let the black shooter go the way they let zimmerman go. i think that s a safe bet. now one other thing. i have never taken sides in this saying george zimmerman is not guilty, or that the kid, trayvon martin did something terrible. i have never said a syllable in that direction, you about that didn t stop some people who wrote to me last night after i was on o reilly, not a lot of people but a few, saying you re a racist. now, i didn t say a word that any reasonable person could conclude that made me a racist. but you know what? race is the wound in this country that never seems to heal. so here you have a hispanic-white, and a black kid, it s a perfect miss for groups that want to make something out of this. and let me say one other thing.