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FLORIDA'S STAND YOUR GROUND LAW.
I SPOKE TO THEM A SHORT TIME
AGO.
>> I WANT TO START OFF WITH THE
JUROR WE JUST HEARD FROM.
WHEN THE JUROR SAYS THIS WASN'T
ABOUT RACE IN HER OPINION, FOR
HER ABOUT JUSTICE, CAN YOU
SEPARATE RACE FROM JUSTICE IN
THIS CASE?
>> I DON'T THINK SHE'S BEING
GENUINE.
FOR HER AS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN
FEMALE, TO GO INTO THIS CASE
WITH THIS TYPE OF EVIDENCE, WITH
THIS TYPE OF RAGE, WITH HIM
SAYING THUG MUSIC, HOW CAN YOU
AS A JUROR NOT THINK THAT THIS
WAS ABOUT RACE?
BECAUSE BEFORE YOU EVEN MET
JORDAN, BEFORE YOU EVEN LOOKED
AT JORDAN, LOOKED AT HIS CLOTHES
OR ANYTHING ELSE, YOU HEARD RAP
MUSIC.
AND SO YOU ASSUMED THAT IT'S ALL
AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE CAR.
AND YOU SAID I HATE THAT THUG
MUSIC.
SO IT IS ABOUT RACE.
>> DO YOU THINK SHE IS NAIVE?
TO SAY THAT THIS ISN'T ABOUT
RACE OR RACE IS NOT INVOLVED
WITH THIS?
>> I THINK SHE DIDN'T WANT IT TO
BE ABOUT RACE.
I THINK SHE REALLY HOPED THAT
THAT WAS NOT AN ELEMENT OF IT.
BUT IT'S ALWAYS BEEN AN ELEMENT
OF WHAT'S HAPPENED IN OUR CASE.
>> SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT MICHAEL
DUNN WAS A NICE GUY.
>> THAT WAS VERY SURPRISING.
SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A NICE GUY.
BECAUSE IN MY MIND, NICE GUYS
DON'T SHOOT UNARMED TEENAGERS.
>> WHEN YOU HEARD THAT, RON,
WHAT DID YOU THINK?
>> RIGHT.
AND IF SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A NICE
GUY, THAT TELLS ME SHE WASN'T
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE
TESTIMONY WHEN MS. ROUER
TESTIFIED, HE NEVER SAID THERE
WAS A WEAPON IN THE CAR.
NO GUN, NO STICK, BOTTLE,
ANYTHING.
AND HE DROVE TO THE HOTEL, ATE
PIZZA, DROVE BACK TO HIS HOME
THE NEXT DAY.
NOT ONE TIME DID HE SAY THERE
WAS A WEAPON.
AND WHO WOULD DO THAT?
IF SOMEBODY THREATENED YOU WITH
A SHOTGUN, YOU WOULD TELL THE