Meme bites Left.
From
Noel Sheppard:
George
Zimmerman haters throughout the media have carped and whined about the fact
that there weren’t any African-Americans on the jury despite the law requiring
the accused to be judged by his peers NOT the victim.
On
CNN Newsroom Tuesday, it was revealed that a potential black juror had
been struck by the prosecution for committing the crime of being a Fox News
watcher.
Video
here.
From
the CNN transcript:
CAROL COSTELLO, HOST:
So Mark, do Trayvon Martin's parents you think, I mean, when they look at the
jury makeup and they look at the decision that jury came to, do they say why
didn't we have an African-American on the jury? Why did we have six white
women?
MARK NEJAME, CNN
LEGAL ANALYST: And that's what we were saying from the beginning. You know,
sometimes I've been criticized by some who don't understand that a legal
opinion is very different than a personal, a social, or a philosophical
opinion. When you look at the composition of Seminole County, it's eleven
percent African-American. And when you look at Sanford, it’s 30 percent
African-American. So when you subtract Sanford from the overall Seminole
County, you have, you know, a very, very small minority, specifically
African-American representation within Seminole County. So when in fact you
condense that down to a jury, the odds of getting an African-American on the
jury are very slim when you're in Seminole County.
COSTELLO:
Although if I remember correctly one of the prosecutors struck a black, a
potential black juror from the jury.
MICHAEL
SKOLNICK, POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO RUSSELL SIMMONS, CO-PRESIDENT GLOBALGRIND.COM: Yeah,
he was also, I was just, he was also a Fox News watcher. So that was, you know,
problematic for the prosecution.
If
you think that Michael Skolnick is a George Zimmerman fan, think again.
Not only is he Russell Simmons' political director, he's also on the Board of
Directors of the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
The
man in question was juror B35. Quote:
Later described by
television commentators as an African-American man, he said that he watches the
national FOX station for his news information. In particular he said he watched
Hannity at night, sometimes also O’Reilly—later he referred to them as “Shaun”
and “Bill.”
He expressed
resentment that the whole affair had been made into a “racial thing.” He also
recalled hearing that Zimmerman had “chased Martin down.” He emphasized again
that maybe both Zimmerman and Martin were at the “wrong place at the wrong
time,” and that he didn’t think it was racially motivated. He recalled that NBC
had tampered with the recording of Zimmerman’s non-emergency call to police to
make it sound as if Zimmerman, rather than the police, had been concerned with
Martin’s race.
He said he did not
approve of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Jr. “saber rattling”. He recalled the
TV news saying that Zimmerman claimed he was screaming for his life, and that
Zimmerman claims he was returning to his truck when Martin attacked him. B35
noted that all his friends and family are pro-Martin, and that he’s alone in
not yet forming an opinion. He also spoke of recalling seeing pictures taken at
the jail of Zimmerman’s head injuries. “When I saw the scars, I thought he got
a pretty good beating, that it was a rough fight.”
He also recalled
seeing the photos of Trayvon as a young boy. When questioned by West, B35 said
that he “can count on one hand the number of people he knows who have not yet
made up their mind,” and that he thought that the people who believed that
Martin was killed simply for “walking while being black” were wrong.
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