the Zimmerman case was /is all about race! I am sickened by the denial of so many whites. Being White myself, 66yrs old, born and raised in a racist community, I could not stomache rall the injustice, and hatred, cruelty I saw and heard all around me.
How o"Mara, West, Angela Corey, allt he others deny the racism involved in this jis utterly mindboggling!
Wonder wht juror #B37 will think when she finds out about zimmermans assault on a police officer, domestiv violence charges, when hook line and sinker, bought defense making GZ out to be a weak helpless wimp. People so often believe only who they like and want to believe .
Perhaps the evidence was not strong enough to convct for second degree. But I am so disheartened that the three jurors initailly for 2nd degree/manslaughter did not hold out at least for manslaugter.
Rachel Jeantels' testimony was so compelling for me. I believed her: Trayvon was still on the phone with her as Zimmerman caught up to him , confronted then immediately a bump. No-one jumps out from bushes and throws the first punch while holding a phone in ones hand still onthe phone with a friend.
I am so angry also at the prosecution team. They made objections, cross examined but what spoke so much more loudly to me was all the objections they should have made, all the cross examination questions they could have asked, and all the strong statements inc. presenting a theory they could have made, and DIDN"T!
I too am heartbroken, over the loss of Trayvon Martin, at the way Rachel Jeantel, the Martin family have been treated all the vile racist putrid remarks on the internet. I am sickened to the core of my sould for black youth and for their parents who have to worry so and not be able to walk down the street in safety. I am so sick and tired and fed up with racists, and from hearing the stupid term reverse racism!
i pray for tremendous victory in this movement as ongoing to bring our country to where ther is respect, justice, equality and dignity for all!