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George zimmerman is a free man after a jury found him not guilty. the front page of the huffington post describing it-t this way, not guilty but not innocent. reverend al sharpton reacted to the verdict on today s meet the press . the verdict came in. does not exhaust the legal options of this family and the bigger community issues of civil rights. we now have a position on the books in the state of florida, where an unarmed teenager who committed no crime can be killed. and the killer can say self-defense. that is dangerous. that is an atrocity. and i think that must be addressed. you can watch the full interview when meet the press reairs at 2 p.m. eastern/11 a.m. pacific time right here on msnbc. george zimmerman s father reacted to the verdict through a tweet sent out by zimmerman s ....
Anywhere in america, that person would be arrested and face a trial, without question. those comments come after zimmerman s defense team reacted last night by expressing gratitude to the jury of six women that found their client not guilty. we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i m glad the jury saw it that way and give everyone thanks, particularly those who doubteded george s reasons and doubted his background now understand the jury knew, everything they knew, was enough for them to find him not guilty. that reaction came moments after the prosecution team expressed their disappointment with the verdict. we truly believe that the mind set of george zimmerman and the words that he used and the reason that he was out doing what he was doing fit the bill for second-degree murder. want to go straight now to ....
What the jury does, but that s a system. i support the system. now, i may feel differently, but i wasn t sitting as a juror or a prosecutor or defense attorney, so i ll accept the verdict and take a look at the law they have in florida that is so unusual. the senator referring to florida s stand your ground law. joining me from washington is chair of the congressional black caucus, ohio congresswoman marsha fudge. thank you for joining us. i want to say we brought on you because you have the opportunity and talk about meeting with the president this past week. but since we have the verdict now of the george zimmerman trial, what is your reaction to what we all know and what questions we all might have as a country now? well, first off, thank you for having me. i am certainly disheartened and troubled by the decision. but i have to say that he was found not guilty, mr. zimmerman ....
Joining me is usa today reporter and misha. the reaction from inside this courtroom was what? the judge had obviously given out the instructions before to not have any type of loud outbursts, but the reaction, the energy in that room. you could feel this verdict happen. it was stunning how quiet it got after it was read. it was a really shockingly short verdict because there were so many charges well, want so many. two charges they could have gone with and several options but they basically said he s not guilty. after not guilty it was dead silent for at least 30 seconds, i think. and then after that the judge released him and people started leaving the courtroom. that s when you could really start feeling george zimmerman s family relief, their tears started coming, and you could feel their relief. and for the trayvon martin, the family attorneys, you could feel their disappointment because ....
Effect for the foreseeable future. so, we may not know who these jurors are for weeks, months to come even. the jurors very much also wanting to get back to leading a normal life. i m sure there s a lot of curiosity surrounding who they are, but certainly understanding why they may not want to come forward to talk about this. they had a lot of hard work ahead of them. craig melvin in sanford, thank you. as we ve been talking about, george zimmerman officially being a free man, but the martin family were conspicuously absent from the courtroom while the verdict was being read last night. we asked their family attorney, daryl parks, why they were not seated for the verdict? we recommended they not be there and that they go ahead and travel back to south florida so they could be in church today. i think them being there probably wouldn t have added anything to what we witnessed last night. trayvon s father, tracy, sent this tweet out not long after that verdict was read. ....