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Part of the -- a big part of law is notice. i think with the tragedy of trayvon martins shooting has put all of america on know vis. so what are we going to do about it now? once you have notice, you have a duty, you have a responsibility. are policemen going to do better and neighborhood watch going to do better and is the society going to do better? are we going to progress from this where it doesnt happen again? because they have often said, we cant wring trayvon back, but were now worried ab...

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Black male race can be profiled or if you have a white male do something, are we now going to say you can indict them? its really different when you have a caucasian do something. nobody says thats how all them are. >> do you think that -- i dont want to put you on the spot about prosecution and stuff because i know youre thankful that it was brought to trial but do you think race was not mentioned in this trial and prosecutors went out of their way to say race was not part of this? do you think...

Brought the case and i thought they got to the heart of the matter. lawyers have different strategies. they did not want to get into the divisive issue of race. in fact, it was the defense that brought up race and they responded. its interesting now because in the civil rights case, we do get to look directly at race which was not addressed in the state case, so its somewhere where they minute for bad and minute for good, nobody can say we addressed race in the trial so it should be something th...

Conversation. part of the -- a big part of law is notice. i think with the tragedy of trayvons martins shooting put everybody on notice. are policemen going to do better and neighborhood watch going to do better and is the society going to do better? will we progress from this where it doesnt happen again because sabrina and tracy say we cant brink trayvon back but were worried about the next trayvon unknown. >> you have teenage sons, what do you tell them? have you had that conversation? >> ive...

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Any level in this case. lets play that. do you feel that george zimmerman racially profiled trayvon martin? do you think race played a role in his decision, his view of trayvon martin as suspicious? >> i dont think he did. i think circumstances caused george to think he might be robber or trying to do something bad in the neighborhood because of all that had gone on previously. there were unbelievable number of robberies in the neighborhood. >> so you dont believe race played a role in this case...

Black teenage there walked in his neighborhood and are we going to ever people based on the acts of a few, say the whole black male race can be profiled or if you have a white male do something, are we now going to say you can indict them? its really different when you have a caucasian do something. nobody says thats how all them are. >> do you think that -- i dont want to put you on the spot about prosecution and stuff because i know youre thankful that it was brought to trial but do you think ...

>> theres one other thing that she said, they clear -- and you referenced this. the jury, she, clearly bought the defenses argument about what happened. i asked her about that animation that the defense put on in the closing argument and she said she believes that was pretty accurate, and even though no one actually finally saw what was happening, that was just based on the defenses. so she bought into the idea that trayvon martin threw the first punch. i just want to listen a little bit what sh...

We want to connect with them and empower them and help them motivate themselves and encourage themselves and so that they can move on and have protective lives because this takes a lot out of you. >> you must feel connected to so many others who have lost their children. >> yes, we do. we do. and through the foundation, also, through change in the laws, we want to have a mentoring program. we going to have different pastors like come on the line, on a conference call and pray for these families ...