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Marching together and 99% peacefully and not looting that others have predicted. obviously, that was not going to happen. in retrospect to think that an almost all-white jury in the south would find justice for a black victim im like, what was i thinking? you know? the other thing i noticed in the montage you played earlier john guy has a theory of the case which we have not heard the whole time! >> its hard to take and when we look at the crowds and how many of them are white, i think the jury ...

Reaction and that is what john guy was basically begging them to do. because they didnt charge it properly and they did not prepare their witnesses. there was no excuse for witness after witness after witness saying to the prosecutors questions, i dont know. i dont know. i dont know. how do you ask a question, you do not know the answer to? and it was not just one witness, don. >> i want to bring in faith jenkins here, i think it was made earlier, a good point, and i want to get your reaction to...

Did their very best in their statements. john guy had a line and the last part of his line was, george zimmerman will always have the blood of trayvon martin on his hands. >> yes, i remember that. >> there was a lot of truth to that, whether you are the prosecution or the defense much i think everyone acknowledges that this was a tragedy. >> right. >> and george zimmerman will always have to live with that. he will have to live with that. regardless of being exonerated. that is on him. he knows ...

And its not the way they would have liked it. and they were not there. it was noticeable. you could not help but notice. we see the family every day in that courtroom and watch and know that they have to, you know, suffer as they do seeing the imaginary and hearing about the death of their child. so, you know, that you knew, and you figured at this moment, where were they? did they know in some way? we dont know. >> yeah, it was very different in his mood when he entered. he did an interview wit...

>> you could see the defense was pushing it. >> was that on purpose? >> well, they were frustrated. they were angry. the judge, this trial moved along quickly. i would have to say. we are six, what are we? a year and a half. i think that the judge did a good job of keeping everybody on time. the defense clearly always, their tactic was delay. delay, delay. and right up to the beginning of the trial, they wanted a delay. the judge said no, this is time to adjudicate the case. he is still trying t...

>> yeah. >> is that considered classy to do that? does that normally happen? >> it doesnt normally happen. what you see is a true not a spur of the moment, not just a moment of passion, but a true distrust each side to the other. and they have come to totally disrespect each other. you hear don west, who i happen to have known for years, never heard him act that way or say anything like that. when i looked at his comments, i think he truly believes his perspective is that the prosecutors did thi...

>> right. >> and some of the critics said prosecutors shouldnt have gone for a murder conviction against zimmerman in the first place, too ambitious, that the evidence wouldnt support it. but floridas state attorney, angela corey, was defending the decision, even after the verdict came down. take a listen. >> that for a case like this to come out in bits and pieces served no good to no one. as mr. guy told the jury yesterday, to the living we owe respect, to the dead we owe the truth. we have be...

Me. its a long process. that happens at times, didnt happen in this case. and clearly, they were very deliberate in taking their time to understand those instructions they were given to make a decision. just a couple quick points, the things that stood out to me yesterday. with john guy walking up to don west, you remember there was some animosity in the courtroom about these possible discovery violations. don west refused to shake his hand. so, you saw that animosity between the defense attorne...

The defense clearly always, their tactic was delay. delay, delay. and right up to the beginning of the trial, they wanted a delay. the judge said no, this is time to adjudicate the case. he is still trying to say its a funny joke. he stands by his joke. can we hear it and then we will talk about it? okay, they will work on it. >> it was not funny. there was never a time it was funny. and i think what he was trying to say is that the passion that john guy delivered for the prosecution, that he wa...

Mouth. he said shut the [ muted ] up. i started squirming again. all i could think about is when he was hitting my head against it it felt like my head was going to explode. >> john guy brought in a foam dummy straddling it to show the jury george zimmerman was inconsistent in his statements about trayvon martin going for his gun, then defense attorney mark omara decided he would borrow the mannequin for his own demonstration. >> yes, sir. >> okay. by the way, did you have the defendant do this?...