Boogie Man isn't exactly the term I would use, but if the hoodie fits...
Posted on 07/20/2013 3:10:19 PM PDT by kristinn
Natalie Jackson, co-counsel for the family of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin accused the nearly all white jury that acquitted George Zimmerman in the February 26, 2012 shooting death of Martin in Sanford, Florida of viewing Martin as “the black boogeyman everybody is afraid of.”
The jury was comprised of five white women and one mixed race woman believed to be black-Hispanic.
Jackson made the racially inflammatory charge in an interview with Bright House Networks’ CFNEws 13, a cable TV news channel serving central Florida, broadcast on Wednesday.
Jackson criticized juror B-37, who spoke out this week on CNN, for not identifying with Trayvon Martin as her own child. Jackson compared the juror’s lack of identifying with the 5’11” 158 pound athletic 17 year old black male to the universal sentiment for two year old Caylee Anthony, a central Florida white female found murdered in 2008 whose case similarly garnered obsessive national attention.
While Jackson said “everyone has to accept” the jury’s verdict, she accused the jury of racism and basing their decision on “emotional elements.” Jackson accused juror B-37 specifically of deciding the case on “other things besides the law” for stating her opinion of Zimmerman as a good person.
Asked what she thought changed the jury to vote not guilty after the initial vote of three for acquittal, two for manslaughter and one for second degree murder, and what was missing in the prosecution’s case, Jackson said, “I think there was not a real dialogue on race. I think that the fact that race played a part in this and how even when it came down to the defense putting on a witness who talked about crime at her house, being burglarized in 2011 (note: by two black males while the white woman resident hid in the house with her young child), and that was associated with Trayvon, a person George Zimmerman didn’t even know, that you know to me that, that brought it in. You have a picture of Trayvon shirtless that was shown to the jury–an upshot of a 17 year old body shirtless. You have silhouettes of a hoodie person and silhouettes of George Zimmerman. And that silhouette looked hulking over George Zimmerman. And it was, it was the black boogeyman that everybody’s afraid of.”
Jackson was asked about her expressed confidence before the trial that an all-white jury would convict Zimmerman and what she thinks about that now.
“I’ve always thought it was, I’ve always thought that (the racial make-up of the jury would matter.) The reason I wanted a white jury was because I wanted to see how far we’ve come in America. If people would base their evidence on the information that was presented in trial and base it on the common sense of this case, because I thought if they did that then surely George Zimmerman would be convicted.”
Asked what that meant about America, Jackson said, “I think we’re seeing it with the demonstrations. I think we’re seeing that people are not happy with the justice system, they’re not happy with the way that young black males are thought of in this case. And that’s why it was important to have a white jury. It was important for America to see that people who said, “Surely you can’t do this!” you know, they need to see where we are. This is not a po–we’re not in a post-racial society. Race certainly plays a part in everything that we do in life. And so now, that was to me the reason I wanted the white jury. It was the tough discussion. It was either the confirmation or the disappointment. And many people got the disappointment. And now, let’s talk about it.”
While expressing support for the prosecution in the interview, Jackson went on to reiterate her criticism of the prosecution for taking race out of the case. Jackson also made more direct her accusation that the defense engaged in race-baiting.
“The one thing that I’ve said was missing and I’ve already told you that of this case was that the element of race was taken out. And the only person that presented an element of race was the defense and they presented the ‘scary boogeyman black boy’ to the jury. So I think that if there was any tactical mistake it was that mistake.”
Jackson then went on to accuse the jurors of being liars and racists, “I will submit to you all of them will say that race played no part in this case when we all know that it did.”
Jackson’s blasting of the jury as racist follows softer attacks on the jury made by two of her co-counsels in interviews with Greta Van Susteren, host of the Fox News Channel show On the Record. As an experienced trial attorney, Van Susteren was quite upset with her guests’ attacks on the jury.
Jasmine Rand told Van Susteren she considers herself a “social engineer” more than a lawyer as her reason for seeking to overturn the verdict by rabblerousing for federal prosecution of Zimmerman.
In a subsequent interview with Van Susteren, Daryl Parks attacked juror B-37 over her statements to CNN.
Parks is co-founder of Parks & Crump, the firm representing the Martin family. Rand works for Parks & Crump. Jackson is an independent attorney based in Orlando.
(Transcription of CFNews 13 interview by Kristinn Taylor.)
Boogie Man isn't exactly the term I would use, but if the hoodie fits...
I guess they still talk like that down on the Democrat plantation.
The gravy train they anticipated went off the rails and into the abys with the not guilty verdict. They’re done in Florida. By law, civil is DOA with a not guilty verdict. Unless the DOJ can pull a rabbit out of the FBI’s ass, they’re running ou of steam fast.
And ther is plenty of blame to go around. Just look at the cesspool called Detroit.
It’s made a lot of people open their eyes though. Obama taking sides with the race hustlers and criminal element.
Hearse-chasing scum.
The homeowners association should sue to get their money back.
So what I’m hearing from these morons is that if there had been a black person on that jury, Zimmerman would have had a different verdict - not based on evidence - but race. So, then tell me who are the real racists in this situation?
They saw him for exactly what he was:
an aspiring gangster thug, who was correctly profiled as the neighborhood thug who had been breaking into homes in the area who then attacked a poor man trying to help his neighbors forcing him to defend himself with deadly force.
Is she the “social engineer”? Whatever the heck that is. Perhaps “social engineering” is the same as race-baiting, because that’s what she’s doing.
“A feral youth, growing up in a thug culture,”
A betrayed youth, too. Betrayed by his parents. When he was ~2 his father started cheating on his mother. When TM was 3 his father, Tracy, divorced Sybrina in order to marry the co-homewrecker, Alicia. Incredibly, Sybrina handed her beautiful, innocent toddler over to Alicia—a woman TM didn’t know from Adam.
What kind of mother does that? How cd she look into the scared, tearful eyes of her precious baby & hand him to a stranger?????
Against all odds, TM bonded w Alicia. She treated him as one of her own, & he did well in school & appeared to flourish.
But tomcat Tracy wasn’t done. He started cheating on Alicia w Brandi Green. He cheated for 2 yrs, & then divorced Alicia. I’m going from memory, but I believe TM was ~15 when the divorce came through.
Tracy ripped TM out of the only home he’d never known—away from the mother he loved—& handed him back over to the woman who’d rejected him: Sybrina.
& TM’s troubles began in earnest. He got into drugs, fighting & breaking & entering. He was transferred out of the good school near Sybrina’s house & into a worse school a greater distance away. In addition to 3 suspensions, he racked up truant 53 days.
Sybrina’s answer was to keep kicking TM out of her house. He usually went to live w an aunt & uncle. When his fighting & misbehavior got to be too much for them, they tried to pan him off onto Tracy.
There is an online rant of Tracy’s talking about his rage w TM. He says he’s about to go from using a belt to a closed fist—& wd need bail $ for what ensued. When cautioned by relatives, he says he needs “a drink & a lapdance”. He intimates he wd take TM along for both. The aunt TM sometimes stayed w urges him to pass TM on to them so they can add their harsh discipline to his. A great lot of wonderful choices/people TM had in his life. Oh, & Sybrina made no secret of preferring her ‘real’ son, Jaharvis, to Trayvon. How’s that for a toxic mix?
Not absolving TM. Just mentioning that the parents treated him like crap. One might say, in ref to Sybrina handing her precious child over to the co-homewrecker/a stranger, worse than crap. Slave owners were vilified [& rightly so] for splitting up families & taking children away from their parents. Now the black community is doing this to their own kids on their own volition.
& now the abusers want to profit off TM’s corpse. There are no words.
Now there is a petition online at change.org for Angela Corey to investigate the jury; the petitioners believe that there was misconduct and also that one of the jurors who voted initially to convict, was intimidated by juror B37.
Unreal...
Crumps team, along with the implied threats from the Feds DOJ probably managed to scare the HOA into a large settlement.(I have no specific knowledge of the details, just an outsiders observation)
They should have waited, but they drank the purple Koo-laid too fast.Must have watched too much MSNBC.....
I can't quote the exact Florida laws and statutes like a lawyer, since I am not one, but there is no basis for a civil case against Zimmerman now.
He has been judged not guilty of both 2nd Degree murder and manslaughter, the not guilty verdict derived from the adjudication of justifiable homicide.
There is no “groundwork” to be laid.
a certain segment of the population is flat crazy.
This tw*t (insert your preferred vowel) should be disbarred for making inflammatory and unfounded speculations about the state of mind of the jurors.
This is a mixed race neighborhood watch area. There should be signage all over the place and probably is letting anyone who enters the area know they may be questioned as to their purpose being in that area..That lawyer is feeding on the MSM portayal of an exclusive “whitey” “gated” community that sits well with the socialists and “it’s all whitey’s fault”blame the honky .
Why is this being done ? If there’s an impeachment process launched citing the use of federal funds as gifts in the form of touring as guests of the president on those expensive “vacations” might be in the articles of inpeachment as well as other items there will be riots.
Well said...
What an ass hat that attorney is. He must have had his head up his rear end when the evidence was presented, the trial was concluded and the jury made it decision. Where or where do those people come from, Mars?
They have had things handed to them on a platter for soooooooo long, they cannot see anything other than what they want to see. They didn’t get their way this time and now all hell to pay for those who went against their wishes.
Are they really too stupid to realize that ITS OVER? Guess that answers itslef......
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