Trayvon Martin's Mother Devastated to Hear Zimmerman Juror Say 'We Felt He Was Guilty'

Yahoo! News / ABC News ^ | July 26, 2013 | Alyssa Newcomb

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Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, said it was "devastating" to hear a juror tell ABC News in an exclusive interview that the jury in the George Zimmerman case thought the former neighborhood watchman was guilty and "got away with murder."

"It is devastating for my family to hear the comments from juror B29, comments which we already knew in our hearts to be true. That George Zimmerman literally got away with murder," Fulton said in a statement released Thursday through The Trayvon Martin Foundation. "This new information challenges our nation once again to do everything we can to make sure that this never happens to another child.

"That's why Tracy [Martin] and I have launched The Trayvon Martin Foundation to try and take something very painful and negative and turn it into something positive as a legacy to our son," Fulton added.

At the National Urban League's annual conference today in Philadelphia, Fulton asked people to "wrap your mind around what has happened."

"No prom for Trayvon. No high school graduation for Trayvon. No college for Trayvon. No grandkids coming from Trayvon," she said. "All because of a law, a law that has prevented the person who shot and killed my son to be held accountable and to pay for this awful crime."(continued)

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I don’t dispute what you’ve said here, but if all true about the stepmom raising him, etc., I wish the reverend Manning, I believe, in the link above had his facts straight.

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I am in complete agreement with that post. And with that context, I am fascinated that the juror said he got away with murder. It simply does not compute - in a rational world.

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We really need to leave logic to the men.

Statements like this have no place here.

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Well, I say it in the vein of “we need to leave professional football to the men.

Men and women are different. They bring different strengths to the table as well as different weaknesses. The legal system was designed around the male thought process. It is really that simple. And actually quite obvious. I insult women when I say I have the intuition of a woman. And a woman insults men when she says she has the logic of a man.