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Zimmerman, wound up killing trayvon martin and yet there is no legal responsibility, and people cant understand it. what are they missing? >> well, what theyre missing is that george had an absolute right to be where he was. he also had a right to see where trayvon martin was. people want to say that it was improper profiling. the reality is with the circumstances that night and circumstances unrelated to trayvon martin, i think george had a reason to be concerned. when they met, it was trayvon ...

And instead of dealing with that, they ran away from it. and ill go back to the other conundrum about this case. if george zimmerman was anybody but a cop, he would have been arrested that night. thats something that every young black male in america knows, and thats something that everybody whos in the criminal justice system knows. you do not kill somebody and get a pass. the cops arrest first and ask questions later. >> so when mark omara says that if george zimmerman was black, this never wo...

Anderson, this is a very tough issue for them. for them to have been through all of this for the last four weeks, we decided it was better to allow them to head home to miami since it was so late in the evening so they could attend church in miami. they were on their way home, and we informed them of the verdict. they were devastated. sometimes these types of situations have a lot of emotion tied to it. so we believed as their counsel that it was probably best they not be in there. >> the case h...

We have a lot more to talk about. were going to be on for the next two hours, until the 10:00 hour. were going to hear from zimmermans defense attorney mark omara who says he is somewhat surprised over the outrage of the verdict who says his client followed trayvon martin in the first place after being told not to. also, well talk to martin family material daryl parks. he was in the courtroom when the verdict was read. well ask him how the family is doing in light of the verdict, and what happen...

African-american client. tomorrow i have a couple of cases involving african-american clients. i think that the system is racist. i think the system does not get it right a lot of the times. i think this verdict was the just or right verdict, but for all the wrong reasons. and thats going the take us a lot longer than weve got here to discuss it. >> explain what you mean, if you can there. >> are so many problems with this. there are so problems with this case. number one, george zimmerman, if h...

Hossain and mark geragos, author of how the criminal system works and sometimes doesnt. lets just get first impressions. jeff, what do you think? >> i had a contradictory reaction. i thought the jurys verdict was understandable. im not sure i would have resolved it the same way, but i certainly wasnt surprised. but i just felt tremendous sadness too. i thought this is a verdict that will -- a lot of people will view with great cynicism and will not reflect well on the american legal system or th...

Boys, a 19-year-old and 16-year-old. you know, this case you dont just look at the verdict. thats just like looking at the last few minutes of the game. you have to look at the entire sweep of this case and the entire criminal justice system and what it says to parents like me and boys like mine. it says that this is a fight on some level about the politics of brown bodies. in particular, about black, young masculinity. because you cannot separate what name. george zimmerman initially saw. he di...

In my opinion -- >> but what i dont understand is why -- im sorry, you are saying you do not belief race was a factor in this case, or -- because the prosecution went out of their way to not invoke race during the actual trial. >> let me show you again. when they started this jury selection, they started bouncing white women. why did they do that? because they were afraid, in my humble opinion, the prosecution was afraid that the white women were going to view trayvon martin through this prism o...

Are going to be receptive to it. thats the schizophrenia about this case. >> so charles, to you, what is this -- i mean, does this case change anything? what -- can anything come out of this? >> well, it is an amazing focal point, right. i think mark is right in the sense that what makes this such an outlier is that -- its not just that it is an adult and a child. thats one of them, that the adult is armed and the child is unarmed. theres disproportionate use of force. trayvon martin is using hi...

I think he has to understand that in america, we see young black men go to jail for far less or far more time for similar type situations. so its really an intellectual insult for him to say that to people when we all know if things were reversed and 28-year-old trayvon had killed 17-year-old white george zimmerman, he would have been locked up that day, no bond, and good luck. >> so you think the exact opposite is true from what omara said? >> of course. i mean -- and no one can deny -- anyone ...