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Your children as well. don? >> all right, alina, thank you very much. we want to head now to washington, d.c., athena jones is there. athena, what did you see today? >> reporter: hi, don, that chant no justice, no peace was also the refrain here outside the federal courthouse in d.c., hundreds of people showed up for the justice for trayvon rally here, braving very high temperatures, some of them even wearing hoodies, some brought ice tea and skittles in solidarity with trayvon martin, all of them, of course, wanting the department of justice to bring federal civil rights charges against georg...

Tell anybody what trayvon martin did wrong. he went to the store to get some skittles and ice tea and to go home. he did not commit a crime or was trespassing. there was no reason that mr. zimmerman would have approached him at all. when he did, you're saying that trayvon didn't have a right to defend himself in any way after he was under attack. it seemed like the law only worked for george zimmerman. and this is based on the law and the fact that the judge gives discretion on how the law and who the law will work for. and i think that is why this law is so unfair and unjust, is why people ar...

That is now also in 32 other states that gives people the right to go and use deadly force without any kind of backing up, with any kind of retreat, is the language in the law. and you could be wrong. what people are escaping in this debate and discussion around the law, lawrence, is that you cannot in any way shape or form tell anybody what trayvon martin did wrong. he went to the store to get some skittles and ice tea and to go home. he did not commit a crime or was trespassing. there was no reason that mr. zimmerman would have approached him at all. when he did, you're saying that trayvon d...

>> gregg: couple things on that point. wonderful demonstration, i think anybody would agree, by mark o'mara when he when he block the concrete. wait a minute, his weapon was not skittles and ice tea. no it was a deadly weapon, concrete which, which can cause brain damage to our pathologist. he said, take a look at the jury instructions when you go back to the jury room. injuries are largely irrelevant under the law. marcellus? >> that is true, but i think the prosecution scored critical points with the statement, this really isn't a question of whether or not you have stand your ground. it's q...

Trip around the world in 80 seconds. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. a teenager is dead through no fault of his own. that's how the lead prosecutor began his animated closing arguments today in the murder trial of george zimmerman. >> he bought skittles and some kind of watermelon or ice tea or whatever it's called. that was his crime. he had $40 and 15 cents in his pockets. >> shepard: jurors are set to hear from zimmerman's attorneys tomorrow as they argue that their client did not commit murder in the second degree. that,...