MSNBC had broadcasted a picture of Trayvon Martin's dead body
and it was a picture that authorities talk when they arrived to the scene
and this picture was shown to the jury as
evidence in the george Zimmerman trap as you guys can see it's
graphic and and difficult to look at but it gives you a sense of what train juan
Martin look like
on the night about shooting I I know that
the defense tried to make him look like he was some sort of thug
but as you look at that picture you he's wearing skinny jeans are skinny khakis
they're folded at the bottom his hoodie is not even a baggy hoodie and he
he looks nothing like I thought he looks like a child
and he was 17 years old are you know when he got shot
no work no thug has ever worn skin G scale yeah I think hacking is also but
you know they keep making a big deal about the hoodie
right and what they showed him wearing their is not what we all think there's a
hoodie
right when you think about 30 it's like a big sorta back he said laughing
that's not what he's wearing right there which not that has any relevance I'm
so i win but it does have it has on the pretext right
exactly so when you gettin said you said khakis and a sweatshirt
right which is basically what he's wearing yeah then it doesn't seem as
menacing as a hoodie
you although I don't think what he's missing but but some do right apparently
her all over
yeah things is the most amazing thing in the world when was the last time a thug
cuffed their khakis on the bottom yeah you know like I don't remember seeing
anyone a stir
west side story from the valujet yeah it's it's absurd and I i like the gym
front of the framing other because that's really
you know the essence of the story here I mean you have the two sides
and the the defense keeps making it seem like george Zimmerman was in grave
danger and it was like this very suspicious kid
and key I don't outlook do I think that he was capable of hurting
george Zimmerman in all not in an altercation yes sure you can choose
judge someone based on their looks
but what made george Zimmerman follow him in the first place
if I had seen that guy walking in my neighborhood I would automatically think
K
that I suspicious yeah what is it about room on one that made him one of Allah
and
into that point you know oftentimes the people in our zone inside will simply
isn't about race
you know and oftentimes ill talk about League depends on what you're wearing
with the context is a cetera
but okay now we saw what he was wearing and it seems like it was about race
I mean if you have a white kid wearing khakis rolled up with a sweatshirt
no way Zimmerman or anybody goes around its
because look if he if it was like a wholly and he's got tattoos
when I love this is just file nunnery right but like but you might say like
oughta know you had a neck tattoo and I got here actually scare
right but here know if it is the case
and the only thing that remains is race yeah and so that's part of the issue
here the other thing is
but I was torn on whether to show the picture I get accusing as you
I meant ivory to kids in arms look into that 17 year old kid
and it rips you up inside looking at him there he's passed away center
bread I want the jury to see that I mean I'm a jury did see that yeah
alia any good because you got to remember it is a victim we're not just
talking about george Zimmerman and what happens in the rest of his life
week the whole thrust the cases the seventy orchid is not going to have
the rest of his life yes the end of course and associated
so much show it as the poll that that was what the pool
reporter that's what the pork amor showed and then they have another camera
in all trials that they can go to if something graphic shows up that the poor
showing an MSNBC was justly to switch
by the way did right before we started to just now they did apologize for any
wasn't easy yeah I don't think
I think we should start thinking about how we view this is a
matter that the country is interested in this is a new story
and see in the dead body is a big part of that story and
I you know and and that guy who wrote this for Gawker
Adam Weinstein you know he says tutor victory on parents a beautiful
Tracy Martin love story that I feel compelled to share its picture and I get
is a nice thing for him to say
I totally get why he feels is a reporter compelled to share the story
I think we ought to see it think we'll see the bodies that american soldiers in
Iraq and Afghanistan and it's largely the same point
that somehow disrespectful to show it but here in a case for talking about
literally
the manner of his death and the tragedy if such a young death
I think it's course rather than any instantly makes an impact on us as I'm
sure no doubt
it did to the jury and so if you don't see that
you might not be seen with the jury totally saw
so you got a lot of these experts so-called legal experts on TV saying oh
is likely to get acquitted likely to get acquitted
but if you didn't see that dead body like the jury did you might think he's
likely to get acquitted but maybe the jury says
why did he chased them this kid I mean look at the picture at cetera
and so its its on questionably relevant
and then the second part of it is a great plan I mean we're having this
discussion of air so we showed a nap
so that we show the that that Syrian kids when we talk about the Syrian war
and newt those pictures were for far more graphic
because it's important to know what war is like and it's important to know what
will really happen here
this kid actually died and it's one thing to think about it theoretically
is another thing to see it and the feel it 8
and when you see it as a human being you have the reaction and honestly the right
the right reaction which is outrage now that doesn't mean you go on a witch hunt
gotta figure out who did it you gotta be rational about that you gotta see if you
can prove it
right a part of that process is seeing what actually happened in just one more
thing when I look at that picture
it may be even more enraged at the fact that when police arrived on the scene
they were fused to arrest George Zimmerman and they refused to do a
toxicology test
on him they did the toxicology test on trade 11
again I look at that kid and I don't think oh my God he's a threat
what why would you do the toxicology exam on him first night and speaking tax
cut him in the idea that because he was stoned
or has something little amount of weed in the system without being glib about
weed
I mean nobody is smoking weed and they getting violent it just never has
happened
now I can understand part of what they were saying was that could have impaired
his judgment
in a way that may be made him seem more suspicious or something like that I
guess there's
some slight colonel in truth to that park but the fact that it was even
brought and you know it's not like
we all know what he does to you it's not something that doing splits away
demonizing him but to me at this point is overwhelming here because we don't
know what was is there a system
because that assumption of the cops was the guy who did the shooting
is is not the person we should investigate not only did they not do
toxicology they also did not do criminal background check
as a min he's the shooter they didn't go not only time tell you but criminal
background check
on the kid lying dead I mean if your copy shop and seen you see what we just
saw
and you say I was enormous line but let me make sure that this kid
is is not a criminal orderly counter to what every copper policemen in the
country with you
ninety-eight percent the cops are gonna see a dead kid
going to his father's house and the other guy had a gun you gotta run a
toxicology test on the guy with the gun