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FELT THEY COULD HAVE PRESENTED
IT.
DID IT COME JUST AS A COMPLETE
SHOCK?
>> IT CAME AS A COMPLETE SHOCK
FOR ME, AND THE REASON I SAY
THAT IS BECAUSE I JUST LOOK AT
PEOPLE AS PEOPLE, AND I THOUGHT
FOR SURE THAT THE JURY LOOKED AT
TRAYVON AS AN AVERAGE TEENAGER
THAT WAS MINDING HIS OWN
BUSINESS, THAT WASN'T COMMITTING
ANY CRIME, THAT WAS COMING HOME
FROM THE STORE AND WAS FEET FROM
WHERE HE WAS ACTUALLY GOING, AND
I JUST BELIEVED THAT THEY
REALIZED THAT, BUT WHEN I HEARD
THE VERDICT, I KIND OF
UNDERSTAND THE DISCONNECT AND
THAT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T SEE
TRAYVON AS THEIR SON.
THEY DIDN'T SEE TRAYVON AS A
TEENAGER.
THEY DIDN'T SEE TRAYVON AS JUST
A HUMAN BEING THAT WAS MINDING
HIS OWN BUSINESS.
>> WHEN, WHEN IT WAS SIX WOMEN
SELECTED, MOST OF THEM, NEARLY
ALL OF THEM MOTHERS, YOU FELT
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE MOTHERS,
THEY MIGHT UNDERSTAND SOME OF
YOUR PAIN, THEY MIGHT UNDERSTAND
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE A SON?
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?
>> I JUST LOOKED AT THEM AS
PEOPLE.
I'M NOT SAYING BECAUSE THEY WERE
MOTHERS I ASSUMED THEY WOULD SAY
HE WAS GUILTY, BUT I JUST
THOUGHT THE HUMAN SIDE OF THEM,
THE HUMAN SIDE OF THEM WOULD SAY
LISTEN, THIS WAS A KID.
THIS GUY MADE A MISTAKE.
THIS WASN'T A BURGLAR, AND JUST
FOR THEM TO SUGGEST THAT HE WAS