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Peremptory challenges, to the point where the judge granted a batson challenge and receded two of those white women. that was when this case was over. there was race from the beginning in those prosecutors' minds. and instead of dealing with that, they ran away from it. and i'll go back to the other conundrum about this case. if george zimmerman was anybody but a cop, he would have been arrested that night. that's something that every young black male in america knows, and that's something that everybody who's in the criminal justice system knows. you do not kill somebody and get a pass. the c...

In my opinion -- >> but what i don't understand is why -- i'm 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 of, as charles says, a young black male. if this had been a young black female, i don't think it wo...