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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.)
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 itself......
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 itself......
they’re not doing this for the Zimmerman jury, they’re doing this as a warning to the next jury that dares to convict a black man or to fail to convict the next person that protects themselves.
I saw her the other night on Greta. Obviously she’s never actually practiced law just preached it from her ra list P.O.V.
Greta tore her too shreds. Asked her what a social engineer was. This dunce could do nothing but sputter. She’ s a wanna be poverty pimp racial agitator.
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 so 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
He was a black boogey man.
You can't really blame Blacks anymore than you can blame the coddled children...it's the parents who need to grow up and inject a little--no, a lot--of tough love and maturity into the situation.
What is good for Blacks in America is for them to realize that if they don't work for it...they won't get it.
If they contribute to society, society itself will reward their behavior...if not, the sugar teat is out of business!
Facts don’t matter. These people will demand the jury be tried as accomplices.
Natalie Jackson is a slandering witch.
I’ve come across some of this info as well. I will be anxious to read Jack Cashill’s book when it is released,
because he will uncover ALL of this crap.
Fulton has had an ongoing problem solved for her, and is
surely thinking of little else than how she’s not ever going to have to work again. Sorry, but you know it’s true.
everyone has reason to be concerned about black thugs who feel its totally okay to beat the living crap out of someone for a perceived slight or diss.
But when it came time for reciprocation, Jackson not only led the charge for hate crimes against Zimmerman but also denied his assistance in the Sherman Ware incident.
She is beyond despicable.
Breaking News: Justice Department to try Zimmerman for the crime of being acquitted. (sarc)
Exactly what the press does not want to talk about...
Trayvon Martin is dead.
He orchestrated his own death.
Just as hundreds upon hundreds of other Black men have and do, day after day. Usually at the hands of other Black men.
The ‘’genocide’’ of Blacks in this country is one of intraracial murder and slaughter.
The vast majority of Blacks are slaughtered by other Blacks.
These racebaiting ‘’lawyers’’, racepimps, ‘’celebrities’’, politicians, liberals and others refuse to speak that which they already know: Black genocide is a Black spawned problem. They attempt to redirect blame for an endemic issue they are incapable of comprehending and one they refuse to own. To do so would reveal their utter powerlessness and lack of solutions for the problems. Should they acknowledge the truth, their influence and standing would be lost. They would become non-entities.
“Sorry, but you know it’s true.”
It is certainly true. People think that b/c she got $ from the HOA & from passing a trashcan around for TM donations she’s well off. The lawyers took a big chunk of the HOA $ & the rest was split at least 2 ways. Doubt the trashcan ever amounted to that much by comparison.
Well then you have to calculate what this pair, Martin & Fulton, pay to be surrounded by lawyers all the time. A couple of them may work pro bono but others absolutely do not. Billable hrs add up w scary speed—trust me, I know.
I read somewhere that a piece of property Sybrina bought is already being foreclosed on. I don’t have the link. But it made perfect sense. She’s spent like a mad woman on clothes, travel, consultants, etc. Then there is the tax bite. I can only imagine.
She & Tracy are desperate for another big score. She’s hoping GZ wipes NBC out in his defamation suit, & then she fantasizes about stealing that cash. Mark O’Mara already said he wd get GZ immunity at the first sign of a civil suit, however. Imho, Sybrina’s gusher ran dry the day the jury announced its verdict. She better hope the Housing Authority held her job open for her. She’s gonna need it.
Anything you can imagine you can state as an absolute fact. The Zimmerman case is a prime example; in or out of court, no one has come up with a scintilla of evidence that George Zimmerman harbors animus against blacks. It’s presumed by those who are angry and some who just want to whine and complain. If America was the evil nation they want you to believe it is, they’d be getting gunned down in the streets. In the Rodney King riot in LA, 54 people were killed. Ask any liberal to name one of them or explain why they had to die.
I hope this woman, and Sharpton, and Jackson, and Crump, and Obama, and all the other race baiters do not shut up for the next year.
This kind of crap does not sit well with most Americans.
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