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Makeup of the jury. if you're at home, tell your friends and family and people you don't like, they better tune in to cnn right now. we're absolutely going there. this is ridiculous. if this turns out to be a mistrial, there's going to be outrage. i will be one of those people. so i want to get -- where's richard gabriel. are you there? until we get richard gabriel on the, if an the phone, he's a jury consultant. four white women, two black women, one asian, four white men, one hispanic. richard, what impact does this have? >> the racial makeup has less of an impact than whether the fear facto...

And the man who killed him went free. when it comes to a racially charged case, this is far from the first. here is some perspective. in the early 1960s, spurred by martin luther king, jr., congress passed and president johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964, guaranteeing minority rights would be protected. even though it was a remarkable piece of legislation, on the streets the impact was less than clear. it seemed time after time minorities in the literal and symbolic cross hairs when it came to authority. you don't have to look too far back to find examples. in 1989, five young men, fo...

Mother is peruvian and identifies himself as hispanic. >> i want you to know that what is happened here is not acceptable. here, nowhere in florida, nowhere in the country, and nowhere in the world. >> soon, there were rallies across the country. a large group marching in protest in front of the white house. still, no formal charges. and timely the president himself, 27 days after the shooting saying this. >> my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. if i had a son he would look like trayvon. you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as

It seemed time after time minorities were in the literal and symbolic cross hairs when it came to authority. you don't have to look too far back to find examples. in 1989, five young men, four black, one hispanic, were charged with assault and rape. a white woman has been attacked while jogging in new york's central park. all confessed or were implicated. at trial a year later they were all convicted. 12 years later, those convictions were vacated and questions raised about how the police obtained those confessions. in los angeles, a black motorist named rodney king was beaten over and over ag...

In 1989, five young men, four black, one hispanic, were charged with assault and rape. a white woman has been attacked in new york's central park. all confessed or were implicated. at trial a year later they were all convicted. 12 years later, those convictions were vacated and questions raised about how the police obtained those confessions. in los angeles, a black motorist named rodney king was beaten over and over again by los angeles police. the videotape that surfaced ignited a nation. when the officers were found not guilty, the rioting was unlike anything the country had seen. sentiment...