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Poverty that has been dragging down black americans for over 50 years, and that is a direct result of the breakdown of the black family. its not like its just happening out of nowhere, and that, i think, is the frustration were not having an honest dialogue about. >> first of all, i dont think the president was saying theres no hope at the federal level. i think he was managing expectations, and i think thats important for him to do. he was essentially saying theres going to be an investigation,...

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You young." you go into great detail on how young black men, the assumption is often one that is dehumanizing, that theyre not allowed -- or young black men like trayvon martin are not allowed to be children. but i want to play the jurors response to the question regarding race and her not feeling that race played any part in this case. let me play it. >> i dont think it did. i think if there was another person, spanish, white, asian, if they came in the same situation where trayvon was, i think...

Dots, you know, in its description of the way george zimmerman had pretty evidently profiled it trayvon martin as, you know -- these punks always get away with it. and in my recollection, they didnt totally ignore the race issue. i suppose you could argue, you can envision in an alternate world a prosecution that had made that a more central factor. it was certainly seen as a central factor to most people or many people from the beginning of the case. perhaps prosecutors were nervous about that ...

This. and he says the death of trayvon martin was a tragedy, not just for his family or for any one community but for america. and i now ask everybody to respect the call for calm reflection for two parents who lost their son, the president of the united states. >> all right, thank you, march since. cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, sunny hostin, also, mark geragos. i want to talk about the pivotal moment in the trial, this is jeff toobin. >> what i dont think you should do is fil...

Came back, sold it to them. nine months later, they charged me. im not denying i committed the crime, but the state set me up. youve got undercover cops out there, intentionally, intentionally coming after people like me, just how i look and my past. people see me on the streets, you know, with all the tattoos and i got a vibe of, like, they think im a bad guy. but im not a bad guy, you know what i mean? im a product of the state. this is how the state made me. >> some of kunkels tattoos are inf...

Really the only conclusion they could draw. so i was asked a few days ago on this network about what i thought they were going to do. and i said i thought it would have to be a defense verdict. i was disappointed that the evidence did not connect with what the prosecution was doing in this case. and ive raised a lot of questions throughout. taken some heat for that. there was a lot of very strong evidence for the prosecution that did not get argued to the jury. a the love cross-examination quest...

And should have been tried differently. this was really like trying a police officer for a prosecutor, which is totally different than how you try a regular murder case. and the defense lawyers tried this case like they were the prosecutors. they put forth all the evidence and they did all the cute stuff that prosecutors normally do. the prosecutors didnt do any of it. in fact, they were on the defensive the entire time. even in their own case they were in the defensive. >> wendy, do you really ...

Some very odd decisions and the way they put this case in, particularly in closing argument. asking questions and using a lot of maybes and mights, rather than connecting the dots. leaving a very wide door open for the defense to say, this is a reasonable doubt case. and i know these prosecutors practice down there. and i thought programs that was the strategy that was unique to them. but it was really very surprising to me. this prosecution team missed a lot in this case. they missed the fact t...

Pointedly and very purposefully from the beginning of the trial through the end of the trial. and that that conversation is not taking place. and the fact that people didnt hear the conversation about race, and didnt hear the presentation about how raised an implication on zimmerman and why he behaved, even at some points in the trial as black people come up and testify or you heard testimony about other black people, no one was connecting those dots and saying, hey, thats inappropriate. hey, we...