attorney for trayvon martin s family after george zimmerman was found not guilty last night. i want to remind folks when he says emmett till and medgar evers, not because they were african-american men who were killed but also whose killers had jury trials and were found not guilty. i want to preserve a sense that there is justice in the justice system because i don t know how to go on if i don t preserve that. is either the civil courts or the justice department coming down and potentially bringing federal charges around civil rights? are those possibilities for avenues here? yes. it s something i ve been wanting to say since we began the discussion to this point, was justice served. there were so many problems with this case and the presentation all the way through it. we have to remember before we judge the jury and the system, there can be legally justifiable
closing arguments. you know the evidence, essentially, you figure it out. i was really astounded at that. i have no explanation for why that happened. the outcome was entirely predictable. in my opinion not based on the evidence. but based on the case. trayvon martin s parents, tracy martin and sabrina fulton were not in the courtroom when it was read by the father tweeted this in response. even though i m brokenhearted, my faith is unshattered. i will always love my baby tray. thanks to everyone who are with us and who will be with us, together we can make sure this doesn t happen again. god bless me an sabrina with tray. even in death, i know my baby is proud of the fight we, along with all of you, put up for him. joining me benjamin crump, attorney for trayvon martin s family. mr. crump, what is the latest
individually either. also aware the media at this point are not allowed to reach out to them either. this by order of judge nelson. anonymity effect for a while. theoretically it is possible we will never know how jurors reach the decision they reached. thank you to msnbc s craig melvin in sanford, florida. you have been on the ground for weeks. thank you for your reporting. thank you. i wan to brow the panel with me in the studio this morning. attorney lisa bloom is msnbc legal analyst. she followed the trial step by step. seema, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutors in the bronx d.a. office and editor in chief of global.com. he s founding board member for
there as possible so the department of justice will see we are still screaming out for justice for trayvon an unknown trayvons. benjamin crump, attorney for trayvon martin s family. thanks so much for reminding us grief may be reasonable but despair is unacceptable when this family refuses to be in despair. thank you. up next a closer look at this case and the role of race in this case. i m going to bring my panel in. what if george zimmerman was an african-american man. that was his attorney actually asked that question last night.
before the break or during the break, one of the things you have to feel on a day like today is the inadequacy of the criminal legal system to come to a satisfactory result. i can understand as a lawyer and a person who teaches the law of evidence how a jury came to a verdict of not guilty. as we were saying, my guess is in that jury room, they probably felt something other than george zimmerman isn t guilty. they may have felt the prosecution didn t prove its case and those are different quite different statements. there s a deep dissatisfaction if you think as a legal matter, sterile matter maybe the jury did its job but not a satisfactory result given what happened that night. of course a trial that began with an ill considered knock knock joke is being very kind to don west, as the attorney. when you begin a profound trial about profound matters making a joke about the jurors and at the jurors expense, but even setting that aside, to begin a