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Dec. 2, 2024 - MyronGainesX
02:01:30
Former Fed Explains Trayvon Martin Shooting
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This guy got arrested espionage, okay?
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Yeah, we got audio, I think.
I think he had the mic muted by accident.
No, no, no, it was working.
I just had to switch the scenes.
I switched scenes and made the audio.
All right, give me one so you guys can hear.
All right.
Should be good now.
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You guys, shout out to you, Bills.
Thank you.
Yeah, guys, welcome to the show.
Sorry for the delays and everything else like that.
Obviously, had some audio issues.
Had to retune my OBS.
It was all messed up, but we're good now.
Let me see here.
Let me make sure you guys aren't hearing random shit.
All right, I think we're good on all the platforms now.
All right, cool.
All right, welcome to the stream, guys.
Welcome, welcome.
I apologize for that.
I've restructured a bunch of stuff after last night's stream, guys.
I restructured my mic where it is.
You guys can see here the mic.
I switched it.
It's a little bit closer to me now, right?
Because you guys have been giving me complaints about the audio.
So y'all can see it right here in front of me.
I moved my stream deck, added some sound effects so things are a bit better.
But Angie, you want to say what's up to the people, Fast?
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Hi, Pippa.
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Hold on.
Hi, people.
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How are you guys doing?
I missed you.
I missed FedReaxed.
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So I want to tell you the story and how we got to this case.
So basically, I don't know if you guys know, but Myron has been wilding lately with the Twitter.
And he's been posting a bunch of stuff, crazy stuff, about a certain group of people.
So no, no, I know, I know.
Anyway, so he posted a tweet saying about something about Simmer Man special.
And I didn't know what that was because, you know, I'm not familiar with a bunch of stuff.
might not be saying sometimes so i asked him because i already like when i read that i googled it and there was this weird brand case not brand but like it was like a clothing store department store that is called Zimmerman appearing like showing up on google so i asked him like what that was and he said it was a case about some guy that um killed another one on self-defense
so i told him we should definitely do this for fred reacts on sunday and he was all excited about it and that's why we're doing this case and not the zodiac but we're gonna do the zodiac we're gonna react to the zodiac last episode after this so stay tuned it's gonna be a long night
no it's not on yeah i know but it doesn't look good at least i mean it looks fine when i look at it the lights off no no i mean the lighting looks good though right yeah it looks all right all
right yeah you look fine angie yeah sorry guys i was trying to adjust she has two lights i was trying to turn one of them on but i couldn't turn it on but she looks good with the lighting um but yeah um yeah so guys we're gonna do the uh trayvon martin case i apologize for a delay before this obviously is a very big case famous case brought a lot of national attention attention to um i mean this brought this was blm before blm was even a thing this brought a lot of attention to um stand your ground laws self-defense etc one of the biggest self-defense cases
i'll argue in american history but let's get right into it because we're already behind schedule here um why is this not what the when i screen share it doesn't show my screen let me fix this chat that's not it
hold on i don't know why my screen share now it's acting man bro this shit is annoying this is why your dad tells us to do like a test before we go live no it's because this crap just started happening now no hold on chat i don't know why the hell this thing is acting like this it
doesn't like to be on camera okay so it shows me here but it doesn't show all right angie can you call bills real quick sure sorry i'm gonna fix this shit right now
huh 800 bills yeah 1 800 bills god damn it man did none of this shit happen yesterday i don't know what the fuck is going on yo bills when i hit screen share bro it won't let me screen share right here so i hit screen share and it just brings this black screen uh-huh okay
yeah this one i think i think i should be good bro it's fine all right um okay let me chat please send w bills yeah sorry chat um yeah
this i don't know bro like everything just reset overnight or something man yeah so say that in the chat okay
um so the next thing okay so we got so we got that fixed um the next thing i gotta do was uh i'll get team viewer in right for bills all right you can hang up i'll uh i'll get uh make sure you don't open it yeah i want to open up so get off the screen share before you open up one other side all right cool Send him a picture of this, Angie, please.
All right.
All right.
All right, chat.
Sorry about that, man.
All right, we're good now.
Oh man.
All right.
Give me ones of audio and everything is good now, guys.
I don't know what happened.
OBS reset or something.
Because I've never had these issues before.
But we should be straight now, man.
Give me ones of everything is all good so that we can start cooking.
Cooking?
Cooking, yeah, so we can start doing this thing.
Yeah?
We good?
Yeah.
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Where'd my energy drink call?
Just have you busted me.
All right.
So, guys, so the killing of Trayvon Martin, okay?
So on the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, which is right here, Central Florida, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American, who was visiting his father.
So here's George Zimmerman right here.
Oh, they don't got pictures of this.
Here's Trayvon and George Zimmerman.
Did they not show pictures?
Well, you guys are going to see some photos of them.
But this reenacts what happened on that day.
Okay?
So let's go ahead.
Trayvon Martin was walking home from 7-Eleven after buying Skittles and iced tea.
Self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman spotted Martin and called a non-emergency police phone line.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
It's raining and he's just walking around looking about.
Okay, and this guy is white like our Spencer.
He looks black.
Are you following him?
Yeah.
Okay, we don't.
He just knew that.
Okay.
After the call ended, the dispatcher sent a patrol car.
According to a version of events newly leaked by police, Zimmerman said he had stopped looking for Martin when Martin accosted him from behind.
Martin then floored him with a single punch and began slamming his head into the sidewalk.
The anonymous police source who leaked the account to the Orlando Sentinel said witnesses have corroborated this version of events.
The dispatch patrol officer arrived.
And obviously, this is a big deal, right?
Because he came and knocked him out with a single punch, by the way.
So this guy was a strong 17-year-old.
I'll tell you that.
So at that point, there's a struggle, there's a gun involved, etc.
I have to find Martin dead on the ground.
Zimmerman reportedly was bleeding from the nose.
But according to Martin's unnamed girlfriend, it was Zimmerman who instigated the confrontation.
In an account given to Martin's family's lawyer and reported by ABC News, the girlfriend said he had just called her before his death and told her he was being followed.
He said he was going to lose his follower shortly before she heard Martin ask, What are you following me for?
What are you doing around here?
came the reply.
She said she believes someone pushed Martin because she heard his earpiece fall and the line went dead.
Neighbors who called 911 said they saw two men wrestling.
Someone can be heard calling for help on one of the 911 calls.
Seconds later, Martin was dead.
Neighbors who went outside to investigate recall a nonchalant Zimmerman told them to call the police.
So as you can see, obviously different accounts.
This case ended up going a trial, guys.
This is a big case.
So here's some statements from Zimmerman, and we got this documentary that we're going to watch as well.
First television interview since the shooting of Trayvon Martin in February.
It is the first time we are hearing Zimmerman's account of the killing.
The big question now is: will it help or hurt his defense?
ABC's Matt Gutman starts us off.
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Remember, you mentioned you're going to have kids out of state.
What's your take on this?
And how would you handle the situation and prevent any issues like that?
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Make sure she's not a 304.
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But in all serious, would you say is more efficient, shorter workouts every day?
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I think three on the low end to five on the high end is fine.
Four is like a perfect middle ground.
So, so yeah.
Uh, let's see here.
And yeah, guys, audio should be good.
Um, let me see here.
What I got the I got the, it got a 10 dB.
You guys want me to bring it up?
Maybe 14, 15 dB.
Is that better?
I got it at 15 dB right now.
Tell me if that's better, chat.
Tell me if that's better.
All right, cool, cool, cool.
All right, that's better.
Sweet.
All right.
I'm not going to fight.
In his first TV interview, a stunning admission from George Zimmerman.
Is there anything you regret?
Do you regret getting out of the car to follow Trayvon that night?
No, sir.
Do you regret that you had a gun that night?
No, sir.
Saying the deadly shooting was faded.
I feel that it was all God's plan, and for me to second-guess it or judge it.
Oh, shit, this is crazy.
He said it's God's plan.
Is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit?
No, sir.
At the end of his interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, Zimmerman changes tack, turning to the camera.
But I do wish that there was something, anything I could have done that wouldn't have put me in the position where I had to take his life.
But after this reenactment of the shooting in March, Sanford police stated Zimmerman could have avoided it all.
Had he only identified himself or followed police instructions, to stay in his vehicle.
During the interview, Zimmerman seemed relatively at ease, even smiling, assuring Hannity this part of his call to police was not a racist remark.
Punks.
Punks.
He was not a racial editor of any type.
He then describes his first interaction with the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin that tragic night in February.
He asked me what my problem was.
Exploded a problem.
I was shocked.
I looked up and he punched me and broke my nose.
One shot.
And then the fight.
He started bashing my head into the concrete sidewall.
Zimmerman says when he shot Martin, he thought he missed.
I didn't think I hit him.
Martin died almost instantly.
Zimmerman had previously apologized to the Martin family in court on April 20th, but he did it again last night.
I am sorry that they buried their child.
I can't imagine what it must feel like.
And I pray for them daily.
Now, I spoke with the Martin family last night, and they said they were overcome with emotion, especially painful for them.
George was when Trey Zimmerman said that this was all part of God's plan.
Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father, said they must worship different gods.
Now, I remember, guys, when this case came out, it split the nation.
A lot of people were like, you know, pissed off because this is like really like the first situation where you didn't have a cop, you had like kind of like a vigilante that was pissed off.
So everyone was like very angry because it's like, yo, this is just like some neighborhood watch guy.
What the fuck?
And it really brought up the topic and the concept of racism in the United States and profiling, etc.
I remember I was in college when this happened and people were marching in Boston and all this other shit.
So it was a big fucking deal.
T.I. was very adamant talking about this case.
Rihanna talked about this case a lot.
For anybody that, you know, remembers this time, it was very turbulent time for the races.
Racial tensions.
Now, this is in our hearts, we felt he was guilty.
And now, this is from one of the jurors.
I want you guys to check this out.
...flaring across the country.
But what was it like for the jurors themselves?
Tonight, one woman comes forward to tell us what happened on the other side of those closed doors.
ABC's Robin Roberts sat down for an exclusive interview with a woman who felt the weight of the world on her shoulders.
Yo, I could imagine being a juror on a case like this.
Like, you know, something like this or OJ Simpson is going to be extremely fucking with this much press release.
And the P. See, because guys, once you get like, if you get selected to be on a jury on a case big like this, you're pretty much got to kiss the next like two to six months goodbye, right?
And then on top of that, you're going to have to deal with people trying to contact you.
Going to have to deal with people trying to pay you off or something, especially like a big case like this, threats, etc.
So it's not easy to be a juror on a high-profile case like this.
To the contrary, it's extremely difficult, right?
So I could only imagine, especially with the size of this case, I would say, like before the BLM protests and George Floyd and Ferguson and everything else like this, it was this case, the Trayvon Martin case.
This was, I would argue, this was the first big racial divide case in the United States that kind of set off the whole BLM thing.
And what set it off was that this guy wasn't a cop.
Zimmerman was not a cop.
And it really brought to attention the whole standard ground and self-defense statutes in the United States, especially in the state of Florida.
I remember this was a big deal in the state of Florida with stand your ground.
Because a lot of states don't have standard ground.
Which stand your ground, guys, basically means, right?
So stand your ground.
Florida.
Standing in the sand.
Basically, it means you don't have to, you don't have a duty to retreat, right?
So a standard ground law, sometimes called a line in the sand or no duty to retreat law, provides that people may use deadly force when they reasonably believe it to be necessary to defend against certain violent crimes, right, right of self-defense.
Under such a law, people have no duty to retreat before using deadly force in self-defense, so long as they are in a place where they are lawfully present.
The exact details vary by jurisdiction.
So basically, if you're lawfully there, like in this case, they're out in the public, you're lawfully there, and you get into it.
You don't have to run away.
You can defend yourself.
Now, there are some states that don't have this.
I think New Jersey is one of them, where you have a duty to actually retreat.
So, and then the alternative to standard ground is duty to retreat.
In jurisdictions that implement a duty to retreat, even a person who is lawfully attacked or who was defending someone who's unlawfully attacked may not use deadly force if it is possible to instead avoid the danger with complete safety by retreating.
Even areas that impose a duty to retreat generally follow the Castle doctrine under which people have no duty to retreat when they are attacked in their homes or in some places in their vehicle or workplaces.
The Castle Doctrine and Standard Ground laws provide legal defenses to persons who have been charged with various use of force crimes against persons such as murder, mass slaughter, aggravated assault, and illegal discharge or brandishing of weapons, as well as attempts to commit such crimes.
So Florida is a Castle doctrine/slash standard ground state, but a lot of the blue states, New York, New Jersey, et cetera, are not.
So if someone breaks into your house in New Jersey, right, and they break in and you can run away, you could get in trouble if you shoot them.
Crazy.
Clown world.
Because his God did not want his.
Hold on, we were here.
Did the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty?
The not guilty verdict that set George Zimmerman free in the shape.
He got fat as hell from the stress, I guess.
Shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin rattled the nation, with many Americans questioning the jury's decision and wanting to ask the jurors a very tough question.
Some people have said, George Zimmerman got away with murder.
How do you respond to those people who say that?
George Zimmerman got away with murder.
But you can't get away from God.
Juror B29, Maddie, came forward today in an ABC News exclusive interview.
She said it wasn't an easy decision.
It's hard for me to sleep.
It's hard for me to eat.
You haven't asked for money.
You haven't asked for a book deal.
You haven't asked for anything other than a forum to be able to tell your story.
Yeah, guys, he was acquitted, guys.
That's why this case is so controversial.
It's because he was acquitted that everyone got so pissed off.
What does that mean?
It means he didn't get convicted when he went to trial.
He won the trial.
I don't need money.
No money in this world could pay me to forget the pain that I'm going through.
Trayvon Martin will always be in my heart.
But she wanted to talk about the verdict, how the jury reached it, and about what she sees as perhaps a higher justice.
At the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with.
The law couldn't prove it.
We just have to believe in the Lord that he's, if he has to pay, he will pay.
Maddie says putting her emotions aside and only considering the law was not easy.
I stand by the law.
And that's why they had to, they found, because if you look at the law, guys, was Zimmerman lawfully there, right?
Did Zimmerman feel as though his life was in danger?
Well, you know, if you can articulate it, you can.
He said that his head was getting slammed on the concrete.
Was obviously he getting attacked.
Yes, he had a big bloody nose when the cops showed up that day, right?
So, if you look at the elements of the law, it was self-defense.
And he did have a reasonable fear that he could be killed, right?
If someone's slamming your head into the concrete and you shoot him, a lot of times that's going to be considered a good shoot.
The decision because of because he was lawfully there, despite the fact that he followed him, he was still lawfully there.
If I stand by the decision because of my heart, he would have been guilty.
A 36-year-old mother of eight who calls herself a black Hispanic was the only minority on the jury since the verdict and the public backlash.
Oh, yeah, this happened in central Florida, so a little bit different up there, yeah, 2012.
Yeah, she says she has been ridden with guilt.
I feel that I was forcibly included in Trayvon Martin's death.
The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin brought the issue of race in America back to the forefront.
It definitely did.
I'll tell you guys that.
It definitely did.
And all this BLM stuff that you guys see now, it was sparked by this case right here.
Because I would argue, and Chad, I'd like to get your guys' opinions on this.
I don't think there was a case that created race tensions like this since Rodney King and OJ Simpson, if I'm be honest.
I think this was the first big case to bring back the conversation about race in the United States.
This one right here.
Rodney King, OJ Simpson did it in the 90s, and then this shit reinvigorated it in the early 2010s.
Let me know if you guys can think of another case that.
Well, definitely George Floyd, right?
Yeah, but that was way after.
That came in 2020, 2019, 2020, I think.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, guys, obviously, George Floyd, but I'm saying it was Rodney King, OJ, then Trayvon Martin are the three big cases that stick out in my head.
Then, obviously, George Floyd, Ferguson, all that.
But that came later.
Someone said, Kyle Renhaus, bro, Kyle Renhaus didn't kill any blacks, bro.
That wasn't a racial case whatsoever.
Stupid.
After Zimmerman's acquittal, outrage.
So, how do you respond when you see people?
Vice Proverbs, okay.
I was wondering what he was.
We're making this about race who are saying had Trayvon, come on, stupid.
Nah, man.
Not been a young black man, that the conversation would be different.
Is it true?
That's the question that's will be asked.
Even the president brought it up.
There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store.
That includes me.
Just like Obama, I go to a lot of places and I get people to follow me sometimes.
Trayvon Martin's parents' reaction to the verdict echoes the feelings of many.
Yeah, it's happened to me too, bro, but I don't make a victim mindset out of it.
The Americans.
I really didn't believe that he was not guilty.
Oh, yeah, Fruit Vale Station was pretty big.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I don't think you're talking about the killing of his name was like Oscar something.
They made a movie about it, actually.
Breonna Taylor came way after, guys.
Breonna Taylor came way after.
Which, by the way, I covered Breonna Taylor in detail.
Bro, she was a criminal, though, man.
Just keep it a million with you guys.
She was a part of a drug trafficking organization, man.
I find that amazing how the media never talks about how Breonna Taylor was a part of a fucking large-scale drug trafficking organization.
Yeah, Michael Brown, yeah.
Michael Brown was a good one.
Big one.
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Sorry.
Yeah.
They're saying Oscar Grant, the movie.
Oscar Grant, yes.
Fruitvale Station.
Fruitvale Station.
I think Nick Cannon played the character.
Michael will be Jordan.
Michael B. Jordan.
There we go.
Yep.
I remember that movie.
Fruitvale Station and Debart Police.
It was New Year's Eve or something like that.
Guilty.
While George Zimmerman has remained silent, his parents spoke to ABC News.
I think the two biggest ones are this case and George Floyd, though, I would say.
Offering an apology.
At Ferguson.
To Trayvon's family.
We are deeply sorry.
Revoke the 19 says, Marion, I hope.
I hope you always have your peace on you.
Eventually, these retards are going to test and see how fast your trigger finger is.
Yeah, bro, it's fine.
I'm always had my head on a school.
Waylow says her fat ass wants to think it's hard for us, hard for her to eat.
Bullshit, she still voted not guilty.
But for Trayvon Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the fight for justice continues as they consider a civil suit.
It's not just about the Trayvon Martin case.
Now it's about your key is about other keys.
Two days after the verdict, another juror, B37, spoke to Anderson Cooper on CNN.
I think both were responsible for the situation they had gotten themselves into.
I think both of them could have walked away.
There were some things that the other juror said that you wanted to respond to.
B37 used the word we.
I guess because we were in a jury together, she put it all as in a group.
And the way she made a lot of us sound was, we walk by color.
And that's not what I do.
And that was something that a lot of people from the outside thought must have been the discussion in the deliberations about race, about color, but that wasn't the case.
It was not the case.
In their first vote, B37 told CNN three jurors wanted not guilty.
One wanted murder, second degree, and two wanted manslaughter.
What was your first vote?
My first vote was second degree murder.
How did you go from and typically, guys, the big difference between first-degree murder and second-degree murder is there's no premeditation.
I'll pull it up.
Nine hours from field.
Right.
So when it's premeditated, like you planned it out and you killed them, obviously that's first-degree murder.
That typically is going to have the highest penalty.
But second-degree murder typically is like you killed them during the course of something going on.
Let's see here.
First degree and second degree murder.
Right.
So first degree involves premeditation or specific intent to kill.
First degree murder is the most serious type.
So like serial killers, et cetera.
Typically, they're going to fall under premeditated, right?
Second degree involves intent to kill or cause serious harm, but lacks premeditation.
Second degree murder is less severe than first degree murder, but still results in lengthy prison terms.
For example, killing someone in the course of a fight is a second degree murder.
Boom.
Right?
And this most states adopt this in the United States.
When he was guilty of second-degree murder to not guilty.
In between the nine hours, it was hard.
A lot of us wanted to find something bad, something that we could connect to the law.
Because for myself, he's guilty.
Because they for myself.
Bro, fuck your feelings, woman.
Evidence shows.
What does the law say?
He's guilty.
He's guilty of killing Trayvon Martin.
But as the law was read.
Yeah, but killing him under self-defense, which is why you guys couldn't convict him.
To me, if you have no proof that he killed them intentionally.
And this is the importance of when the judge gives the instructions.
So, guys, before the judge sends them to go back there and deliberate, he gives them instructions on what they need to think about as they're coming to their verdict.
And that is why, though, this woman was conflicted from a feeling standpoint.
If she wanted to put Zimmerman in jail or she wanted to convict him, she couldn't.
Because if you look at the actual elements of the law, pretty contrived, guys, self-defense case.
You might not like me saying that.
You might not like hearing that.
But if you look at the elements, this was self-defense.
You can't find it.
If we wouldn't have followed that guy, this wouldn't have happened.
But yeah, you're definitely right.
Yeah.
Yeah, because you have to just look at the elements and self-defense, right?
And stand your ground.
He was lawfully there.
It's not illegal to follow someone, right?
And be on the phone with the police.
Yeah.
It's not really illegal.
So the police tell him to like he shouldn't have followed him though.
Yeah, he said, hey, don't follow him.
And he did because obviously the dude thinks he's fucking Batman, right?
One of these neighborhood vigilantes.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Your mind, your heart.
Guys, how's the mic, by the way?
How does the mic sound?
How does this new adjustment sound, guys?
Does it sound better than usual?
Let me know.
I moved the mic.
I turned the DB up to 15.
Right?
Let me know if the audio is better now, guys.
Because I know y'all have been complaining about the audio for a bit.
This VillaTube nigga said it sounds low.
They're going to start rolling away.
Please don't fucking troll, man, when it comes to this shit because you hold the show back for everybody else.
Someone asked if that's not stalking.
Depends.
That's a good question, actually.
Someone said, how is it self-defense if you provoked it?
Remember, Trayvon hit him first.
He was slamming his head on the head.
And slamming his head on the ground.
So, okay, let's see here.
Audio is good.
All right.
So you guys are saying it's good.
Why are some niggas in here saying decent and not good?
It's Ridiglitz.
Why is it decent?
What is three Diglitz?
Yeah, bro.
I think this nigga trolling.
Because, guys, I'm using right now.
I'm using a $4,000 mic FYI I'm using a fucking Jesus This is a This is a A Newman U87 So I want to make sure that this thing sounds crispy as fuck.
This thing should be good.
Angie's using a Shuras M7B, as you guys know.
That's like our standard mic that we use for everybody else.
But I'm literally using a U87.
No, no, no, that's a good mic, Angie.
Every podcast uses that mic.
I would have used that mic too if I didn't have one of these extras laying around.
I wish I could use this mic for Overwatch.
That was going to give him the hungry.
Or I was.
I fought to the end.
Do you have regrets that you didn't?
Kind of.
I mean, I'm the only minority, and I felt like I let a lot of people.
Okay, VillaTube says my ears are bad.
All right, bro.
Then come on, man.
How y'all niggas going to tell me, oh, it's low, but your audio on your end fucking sucks.
Are you hearing?
Tridiglitz says, actually, it sounds good, Myron.
I put the volume up on my hand.
All right, you guys are killing me, bro.
This is the case began in a gated community in Sanford, Florida.
On February 26th, 2012, Martin was walking back to a house where he and his father were staying.
He caught the attention of the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, who called police.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
They suggested he stay in his car.
Are you following him?
Yeah, okay, we don't need you to do that.
What happened next is in dispute, but there seems to be no question there was an altercation loud enough so that multiple neighbors called 911.
Yeah.
See, this is, you can see here.
Who was the attacker?
Oh my God, it's a human being shot.
Yes, the person is dead, waiting on the grass.
Zimmerman fired one gunshot and killed Trayvon Martin.
Those 911 calls were believed to be crucial pieces of evidence.
Whose voice did you think it was on the 911 call?
I have never really, really paid mind to whose voice it was.
Because the evidence shows that people's voices change when you're in extreme motion.
During the trial, the FBI's audio expert did testify that it is impossible to tell who was screaming for help.
During their 16 hours of deliberations, the consideration of a possible manslaughter verdict weighed heavily on Maddie.
When you all sent that note to the judge asking for an explanation on manslaughter, what was that about?
What we were trying to figure out was manslaughter in order to be charged.
We had to prove that when he left home, he said, I'm going to go kill Trayvon Martin.
Her own lawyer, David Chico, says even legal experts would have been confused.
And I've thought a lot about it, and I haven't really been able to come up with really another charge.
I mean, I think manslaughter was a charge that could be put forth.
Maddie says she had no idea that the world was watching so closely.
After the jury was man, I remember this stuff Bro, guys, the whole country was protesting, bro.
It was a big fucking thing.
That's Bayside.
Huh?
That's Bayside.
Yeah, it's Miami, yeah.
Released.
She says she crumbled as a negative news reports about their verdict erupted.
I literally fell on my knees and I broke down.
My husband was holding me.
I was screaming and crying.
And I kept saying to myself, I feel like I killed him.
And I feel that if maybe if they would put the law and a lot of people would read it, they would understand the choices that they gave us.
She says the choices she made, she still stands by today.
Where do we go from here?
My hope is that we stop walking around looking at color.
That also seemed the hope of the devastated parents of Trayvon Martin, who have been giving a kind of masterclass in forgiveness.
We continue to pray that, you know, that we'll find peace and strength to be forgiven parents.
What would you like to say to Trayvon's parents?
I would like to apologize because I feel like I let him down.
I didn't know how much importance I was into this case because I never looked at color and I still don't look at color.
For Nightline, Robin Roberts, New York.
All right.
So you get some insight from a juror.
So here's a documentary here.
We're going to watch this.
It's maybe we won't watch the whole thing.
speed it up a little bit, actually.
Actually, let's see this real quick, and then we'll do the documentary last.
Captured the nation's attention ever since the rainy night 16 months ago when an unarmed teenager wearing a hoodie walked through the gated community where he was staying and was shot and killed by a man who says he was just trying to protect himself and his neighbors.
Was George Zimmerman fed up, as prosecutors say, with punks getting away with crime, or was the killing in self-defense?
The case ended its second day today.
And this is George Zimmerman C's slain Trayvon Martin photo.
Turn out to my new Nightline co-anchor, Dan Abrams, for our serious crime and punishment.
We're on the record case number 12, CF10A3A, State versus George Zimmerman.
In a Sanford, Florida courtroom.
And as usual, you guys already know this from watching Federia's.
Murder cases almost always go to the state every single time.
A jury of six women listened to the second day of testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman, accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin as he walked home from the 7-Eleven.
Did you see any movement from Trayvon Martin's body as you approached him?
No, sir, I did not.
Pictures of the teenager's dead body and the now infamous hoodie he was wearing when he died were shown in court today.
It was almost too much for his mother, Sabrina Full.
Zimmerman, who sat stoically throughout the proceedings, has been living in hiding and gained over 100 pounds.
Holy shit.
Well, yeah, I mean, look at him.
That boy, fucking Michelin man.
Nine-year-old became a divisive symbol of racial tension in America.
Solidarity!
It all started 16 months ago when Martin was walking in a gated community where his father was staying, having just purchased a fruit drink and some Skittles, also on display in court today.
It was there that he caught the attention of someone.
It was in Arizona, if I'm not mistaken.
When they did the marches, everyone would wear hoodies and carry around a bag of Skittles and Arizona iced teas.
Remember those guys?
They're still a dollar to this day, by the way.
Self-appointed neighborhood watch count.
The CEO of Arizona said he's not going to raise the price because they're not really a debt.
They're good.
So he's like, I'm not going to raise the price.
They're still a dollar to this day.
Then George Zimmerman, who called police.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
It's raining.
He's just walking around looking about.
One of the most important questions in the case is what happened after the operator said this.
Are you following him?
Yeah, okay, we don't need to do that.
Did Zimmerman continue to follow him, even stalk him, as prosecutors contend?
Or was he simply trying to find his bearings to give the police an address as Zimmerman claims?
Because I didn't see a street sign here, but I knew if I went straight through that that's Retreat View Circle.
What isn't in dispute is that there was a confrontation and multiple neighbors called 911.
They're wrestling right in the back of my porch.
14 calls in 40 seconds.
Someone yelling two doors down from me, screaming, hollering health, health, health.
Then one gunshot.
I just heard a shot right behind my home.
And he got instantly killed with that gunshot.
I think I hit him right in the chest.
That killed Trayvon Martin.
Yeah, it's a person lying on the ground.
All along, Zimmerman admitted to firing the fatal shot, but claimed he had no choice and that he feared for his life.
But was it self-defense, or did he attack Trayvon Martin with the intent to kill him?
Good morning, please be seated.
In opening statements yesterday, the prosecution wasted no time trying to answer that question.
Good morning.
Pumps.
These they always get away.
Repeating expletives over and over that Zimmerman used when he called a non-emergency dispatch line.
The prosecutor painted a picture of an aggressive George Zimmerman who profiled a hooded teen in his neighborhood.
The truth about the murder of Trayvon Martin is going to come directly from his mouth.
From those hate-filled words that he used to describe a perfect stranger.
Jurors and spectators riveted to the prosecution's depiction of what happened that night.
You will know in your head, in your heart, in your stomach, that George Zimmerman did not shoot Trayvon Martin because he had to.
He shot him for the worst of all reasons.
Because he wanted to.
The defense opened with a bizarre attempt at humor.
Knock, knock.
Nick opens it up with.
Yo, I'm telling you guys.
I knock, knock, job.
Yo, state cases are fucking clown world, guys.
They're literally clown world state cases, man.
It's like a kangaroo court in there, man.
Are they public?
Huh?
Are they public?
Yeah, yeah.
There's all these people here.
Look, the case like this is going to be packed.
You can see that's all public.
Who's there?
George Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman.
Who?
All right, good.
You're on the jury.
Nothing?
That's funny.
After apologizing for the failed joke, Defense Attorney Don West spent nearly three hours.
What the fuck?
That's so sweaty.
That's so weird.
That's a L, bro.
So what?
Bro, this dude is a L. Imagine a lawyer.
Opening statements cracks a terrible joke like that in one of the most important cases in American history when it comes to this shit.
Come on, man.
There's meticulously detailing the timeline.
George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin over in this area as he was coming around here to go out to Target.
An effort to show that Zimmerman did not, could not have continued to trail and then confront Martin as prosecutors allege.
Mr. Zimmerman is sitting here on the phone with the police.
Now we have two completely contradictory stories.
One in which Trayvon Martin was hunted, presumably because he was black and he was profiled by Zimmerman, and another in which Zimmerman doing his neighborhood watch duty was disoriented, confused, and then jumped by Trayvon Martin.
Maybe most important for the defense, Zimmerman's injuries.
Which they say could have only been inflicted.
What was that?
So if there is something that Peruvians are known for, is for being xenophobics and being racist?
Yep.
Peruvians.
Yep.
Well, yeah, and then this actually saved, in my opinion, I think this is what saved Zimmerman are these scars.
Trayvon fucked his ass up.
I ain't gonna lie.
Kid is strong as hell.
17-year-old dude.
17-year-old kid, he fucked this dude up.
By Martin.
Yeah, fucked his nose up.
Bring a horrific beating.
There's a sense out there.
This is a case about a guy who chased him.
Because the injuries line up to what he said.
Hey, he slammed my head on the pavement.
You look in the back of his head, you literally see gashes.
Down Trayvon Martin.
And yet the defense is saying that didn't happen.
The defense is saying, in fact, that Zimmerman himself was the victim.
As part of the investigation, Zimmerman reenacted the events with Sanford police.
Because all I could think about was when he was hitting my head against me, I thought like my head was going to explode.
And I thought I was going to lose consciousness.
The night in question, Zimmerman was taken into custody and answered questions for five hours.
Police let him go, saying there was no evidence to contradict his self-defense claim.
Photographs from that night show his nose broken and scalp cut and bleeding.
But over the next several weeks, another side of the story.
Huh?
He was chasing him, though.
Well, the thing is, he was following him.
Trayvon lost him, and then Trayvon came up on him and punched him in the face.
That's what ended up happening.
Reemer.
Yes.
Because he's like, hey, what the fuck are you?
He said, hey, why are you fucking following me?
And then he just socked him.
That's how violent listens who broke somebody's nose.
Yeah, the idea's that.
Supporters accused the police of racism and campaigned to get national attention for Martin's case.
It definitely got national attention.
I'll tell you guys that.
I'm brokenhearted that my son is gone.
But it hurts even worse to know that somebody that murdered him still has not been arrested.
Six weeks of protests, rallies, and student walkouts transfixed the nation.
Even the president weighed in.
I can only imagine what these parents are going through.
And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.
Zimmerman would not be charged with second-degree murder until April 11th.
45 days after the shooting.
It is the search for justice for Trayvon that has and again.
The reason why the cops didn't come and arrest him until later on is because they were under an enormous amount of pressure to arrest him, guys.
Right?
When this thing hit national news and everything else happened, they were not going to go ahead and prosecute this case.
But since they had all these people pressuring them, like, what the fuck, racist police department, blah, blah, blah, they went ahead and arrested him because the thing is this, and if you guys are, you guys are going to notice that this still prevails to this day.
Anytime there's a shooting, especially with like cops and African-American, they're almost always going to arrest the cop or arrest whoever was involved because they wanted to at least go to trial so that they could go ahead and say, look, we arrested him, we tried.
It was a jury of his own peers that found him innocent.
So now there's a high likelihood if there's an officer-involved shooting or something to do where it's like a racial, the potential for it to be looked at as like a racial shooting, they're going to make an arrest because the attorney's office, the state attorney's office, doesn't want to deal with backlash of them not being arrested and prosecuted.
It takes the accountability away from them and it puts it to the court system and the jury.
Brought us to this moment.
But this remains a tricky.
And the fact that they arrested him 45 days after the fact should tell you something.
Listen to this.
So according to Simmerman's brother, in the year following the trial, Simmerman was both homeless and jobless.
And Robert Jr., his brother, said he believed his brother's state of mind was better, but Simmerman was actually a very traumatized person because he had had his celebrity taken from him.
In between the shooting of Shrayvon Martin and the trial, Simmerman gained 100 to 125 pounds in 16 months.
In the trial.
In 16 months.
So he weighed over 300 pounds in the trial.
That's crazy.
That is crazy.
Secutors.
It's pretty clear from the moment the police arrive, Zimmerman says, I was attacked.
The big picture has been pretty consistent.
But the question is, why was he attacked?
And there are only two people who know the answer to that.
And one of those two people is dead.
For now, Trayvon Martin's family has put its hopes for justice in the hands of the jury and are keeping it.
It's just an unfortunate situation, man.
It really is fucking terrible.
His memory alive.
He would have graduated from high school earlier this month.
Everything reminds me of him.
When I see someone wearing a hoodie, when I see a teenager.
To me, it looks like he came from a good family.
Both of his parents were still together.
Oh, when I see a kid listening to him.
Or no, maybe, no, I think they're divorced because he would, if I'm not mistaken, that home where he was at, that was where his father lived.
Yeah.
But not his mom.
At least that was their life.
Kids walking home from school, everything reminds me of Trayvon.
For Nightline, I'm Dan Abrams in New York.
When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and it's a real suspicious kind.
College students in Florida held rallies today demanding the arrest of a neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old.
The case has brought new attention to a Florida law that allows anyone to defend himself with deadly force.
And this guy, do you want to start?
He looked black.
Did you see what he was wearing?
A dark hoodie like a grave hoodie.
Before this case, guys, stand your law, sorry, stand your ground, self-defense wasn't really something that hit like the mainstream, right?
Like a lot of these cases had been situations where it was like police brutality, O.J. Simpson, whatever.
This was the first one that was like litigated from the perspective of self-defense.
That's why the Trayvon Martin case is so unique when it comes to these civil rights type cases.
He would have been 27 today.
Trayvon would have graduated from college.
He would have his own place.
He was a mama's boy.
Definitely could say that.
But I think he would have been doing well.
You know, is this a kid?
What is the old dog?
In the right.
In the rain.
This is a young man just walking down the street.
He wasn't arguing with George Zimmerman.
He wasn't doing anything.
Are you following him?
Yeah, okay, we don't.
You had no reason to follow him.
You had no...
Can we run a poll later to see if Chad thinks Zerman is guilty or not?
I could run the poll right now.
Oh, yeah.
Let's do that.
Yeah, three diglets, I got you.
I'll do that for you, bro.
Authority to do so.
All of that stuff came together, and it struck a deep nerve in black America.
Can't do it on YouTube.
Yeah, I'll have to do it on YouTube because Go Bo on YouTube.
Yeah, so I'll get the poll fired up right now.
Guys, do me a favor.
Actually, we should probably watch.
Yeah.
Watch the documentary for like 10 minutes and now we'll put it.
Zimmerman, not guilty.
The way in which George Zimmerman has been able to get away with this is not justice for anyone.
Trayvon, Emmett Hill, and Ahmad Arbery.
Black people doing ordinary things and being attacked for them and losing their lives for no good reason.
He was like the martyr.
The change.
Yeah.
A lot of NBA.
Like, I'm telling you.
Everyone, a lot of celebrities got involved in this.
I remember T.I. famously talked about this.
Like, T.I. was one of the biggest people for this case.
Rihanna, etc.
They started putting up pictures of themselves and their children wearing hoodies.
Yep, them wearing hoodies.
People would walk around with the Skittles in the Arizonas.
He's in solidarity with Trayvon Martin.
It's probably one of the most memorable things that I've been in the NBA for 17 years.
Is this a movement or is this a moment?
I think that we have had a movement.
It's gone beyond a moment.
and the consciousness of this nation, I think, has been raised.
Chief Ruckus of the Chief Air Martin, how the fuck is a skinny 17-year-old going to overpower a grown-ass greaseball?
Well, Trayvon wasn't a small kid, guys.
The pictures that they use of him obviously are always like when he was younger.
But 17-year-old guys can really cause some damage.
Good evening to you.
I'm Gail King.
10 years ago, a 17-year-old teenager wearing a hoodie, carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of juice that he had just brought from a convenience store, was shot and killed while walking home in Sanford, Florida.
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of the man who killed him moved America in a way that still reverberates today.
In fact, a recent CBS News poll found that 10 years later, nearly three-quarters of Americans remember Trayvon Martin's death and his trial.
Tonight, we will explore what happened back then, show how everyone from celebrities, professional athletes, and even the president of the United States identified with Trayvon and examine how his death set the stage for Black Lives Matter and the modern social justice movement.
But first, we must begin with the pain and resolve of Trayvon Martin's mother.
Her name is Sabrina Fulton.
Earlier in February, she marked what would have been her son's 27th birthday.
Guys, I got at 1.5 speed.
Let me know if 1.5 is fine.
Birthday with a weekend of events, including a march with other mothers who have also tragically lost their children.
Oh, they named the street after him.
Well, where?
In the area he got killed.
What did you think when you saw the crowd today?
I think I was good when I woke up this morning.
I prayed.
I meditated.
And so I was feeling really, really like excited and really ready and really excited.
But then when I drove in the gate and I saw so many people and I'm just, it just made me tear up.
It made me tear up and it made me realize the impact of Trayvon Martin.
10 years ago, Sabrina Fulton became the mother of a movement.
We got to see past what's in front of us.
We can't give up.
Her son, Trayvon Martin, was just 17 years old when he was gunned down while walking back to his father's house from the convenience store.
He was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who was 28.
The pain is still fresh.
The hurt is still fresh.
The disappointment and sadness is still fresh.
it seems like it happened recently and i have to remind myself that it's been 10 years this year an annual peace walk uh yeah trayvon was six foot two Peace talk about Trayvon Martin's hometown, Maya.
Yeah, he was a big teenager, man.
Fell on what would have been his 27th birthday.
I have to say, every time I look at that, it's now an iconic photo of him in his hoodie.
I see your face.
I see you when I look at him.
What do you see when you look at him?
I see at times pain.
I see Trey.
I still see my baby boy.
But there is something to smile about.
You know, I'm grateful that I did have him for 17 years.
But the pain and hurt and bitterness of him not still being here is something that I carry with me every day.
I've heard you say that you turned your pain into purpose.
What do you mean?
When this first happened, the tragedy of my son, I can absolutely say that I never thought I would be happy again.
I never thought I would smile again.
And I asked God for strength because that's what I heard other people saying about me, how strong I was.
It didn't happen overnight, but he made me strong.
It happened.
Sabrina Fulton realized there was power in sisterhood.
She created the Circle of Mothers for women who have lost children or family members to senseless gun violence.
When Sabrina did the Circle of Mothers, I remember I came so broken, but I left Owen Howard.
It's been a sisterhood that we have formed together to encourage each other, to support each other, to crowd with each other.
They're still shooting us.
They're still killing us, but we are still visible.
We are still telling them that we're not quitting.
This is our life now.
What does the Circle of Mothers mean to you?
Well, the Circle of Mothers was a dream that I had.
There was no organization.
There was no program.
There was nothing that I could connect to where there was somebody that says that I know how you feel and actually knew how I feel.
Tamika, do you remember your first conversation with Sabrina?
I remember her showing up for one of the marches we were doing.
And I remember just seeing her presence and thinking, I can't believe she came.
Tamika Palmer's daughter, Breonna Taylor, was shot to death by police officers inside of her home in Louisville, Kentucky, two years ago.
No officers have been charged for her death.
Tamika, you know, I've said you two belong to a club that no one wants to belong to.
Do Sabrina's words resonate with you?
Absolutely.
You don't know how to go on some days.
You don't know how to breathe.
I got lucky and I got grateful for people like her.
In the 10 years since we've had the murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arberry, there were convictions in both of those cases.
Does that say to you that times are changing or the times are better?
It is saying to me that we take two steps forward and two steps back because now you're seeing people being held accountable for taking a life, a life of color.
Well, by the same token, we're taking two steps back because we lost lives.
So I believe it's bittersweet.
Justice was deserved and it should have happened.
They shouldn't have had to have fought so long and hard for it.
There's still part of this system who feels that they can do whatever they want, whenever they want.
And the fact that they think that they can still operate under that is a problem.
Why do you think justice is so hard in these cases, time after time after time again?
Well, I think our criminal justice system is not yet as finely attuned to these kinds of matters as the attorney general back then.
As it ought to be.
Eric Holder was the first black attorney general serving under the first black president of the country.
Which the AG, by the way, guys, is the chief law enforcement officer in the country.
I explained this yesterday with Cash Patel, him being appointed as FBI director.
I did a whole tweet about this as well, where I explained why I think Cash Patel should have been the attorney general instead of the director of the FBI.
I could pull the tweet up for you guys if you guys want me to, but yeah, we'll keep going.
He was in office in 2012 when Trayvon Martin was killed.
In a press conference shortly after he was killed, you said this: I have great faith in our criminal justice system.
I'm confident through the investigative process that the truth will ultimately be determined and the appropriate actions will be taken.
When you look back on the case, do you feel that that's a very middle ground thing to say?
Justice system failed, Trayvon Martin?
That's an interesting question.
I think the justice system certainly elicited all of the facts.
We know what happened there in determining whether or not justice was done.
I'm not at all certain that the system served Trayvon or his family well.
But it was one of the things that I was concerned about and raised when I left the Justice Department: that for the Justice Department to become involved, we had to meet a standard in the federal civil rights laws that I thought was too high.
But for that high bar that we had to meet, the Justice Department would have acted.
I mean, it's clear that Zimmerman was at fault, I think, legally at fault, criminally at fault, for what he did.
But our statutes did not allow us to become involved.
I want to know what you think about Sabrina Fulton.
She became a nationalist.
Yeah, I told you guys, like I said before, guys, this is 100% state matter, not a federal matter.
That's why he couldn't really come in.
Because typically, when they're going to come in federally, like they did with Derek with Chauvin and stuff, they would have to do it under civil rights laws, right?
Civil rights infringing on someone's civil rights liberties.
That person needs to be typically a public official, right?
So if you look here, right, let's go ahead and look at this real quick, right?
So he was sentenced, but he got charged.
If I could put the look at the plea agreement, fuck it.
So here's a plea agreement right here.
And you look here.
Yeah, defendant with deprivation of rights in violation of 18 USC 242.
And the reason why he got hit with this is because he was a government, he was a public official, right?
So if you go here and you look at 18 USC 242, deprivation of rights under color of law, whoever under any color, whoever under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom willfully subjects any person, any state, territory, Commonwealth position, or district to deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
So basically, you need to be a government official for this charge to hit you, right?
So a lot of the times what will happen is the individual will be charged by the state, right, for like murder, second-degree murder, whatever, like Chauvin was.
Then they follow up with this, which is a federal statute that hits them for depriving someone of their rights as a government official or a state official.
That's why they couldn't go after Zimmerman for this, because Zimmerman was not a government employee of any kind.
He wasn't a public servant.
I'll figure because of the death of her son, Trayvon Martin.
Do you think it's up to family members to take up this cause?
You know, responsibilities get thrust upon people, and greatness is defined by how you react to that which is thrust upon you.
You think about Emma Till's mother.
She did not want to be that person.
And I understand New Miss Bull didn't want to be that person, and yet she's risen, I think, to the occasion.
She is, in fact, one of the mothers of the movement, and she's made the nation better.
Black Lives Matter!
Black Lives Matter!
Where are the clothes that he was wearing that night?
It took me three years to donate the items to the African American Museum in D.C. And so the Smithsonian is on display now.
His hoodie is there with a hole in his heart.
His pants, his shoes, his cell phone, the drink, the candy, and then his flight suit because he was interested in becoming an aviation mechanic and he was interested in flying the planes.
I felt that I gave my son to the world.
Who am I to keep the clothes?
We sit here today in 2022.
Concerns you most 10 years later.
What concerns me most is that we're not at the place where.
Chad, is this good 1.5 speed, by the way?
Give me ones if it's good.
Chat.
We need to be, both in terms of a criminal justice system.
Race still is too large a factor there.
Decisions are made with racial backgrounds.
And that we as a nation are not yet at the place where we need to be.
Back in 2009, I gave a black history speech where I said that the nation, that we were a nation of cowards.
We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
I understand our reluctance to do that.
It's a painful subject.
It's one that divides us, but we've got to have the strength.
We've got to have the courage to talk about things racial if we want to make racial progress.
Trayvon's only crime against him was the color of his skin.
And so we got to think about our children.
We got to protect our kids.
We got to let the world know that our children matter, too.
In the winter of 2012, CBS News broadcasted the first national story on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Senior national correspondent Mark Strassman takes us back to what happened that night and how We Are Trayvon became a national mantra.
Local Six News starts now.
Guys, this is allowed as it goes.
With a Sunday night local news story.
Officers were called to the Twin Lake Townhomes in Sanford last night.
Trayvon Martin's legacy almost died the night he did.
The man had been shot and killed.
The shooting suspect surrendered to police.
Near Orlando, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer called 911 to report a suspicious person.
This guy looks like he's up no good.
That guy was 17-year-old Trayvon Martin heading back from a convenience store doing nothing wrong.
Are you following him?
But George Zimmerman, that Neighborhood Watch volunteer, confronted Martin anyway with drink.
He showed police later how they fought on the ground.
He just kept slamming the slamming.
And losing a fight, he fatally shot the teenager.
I felt his arm going down to my side, and I grabbed it and I just grabbed my firearms and shot him.
Days went by.
No arrest.
Police said Florida's Span Your Brown Law protected Zimmerman's claim of self-defense.
He was armed and the victim was not armed.
That's correct.
But no arrest.
No arrest.
Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father, remembers.
We had an admitted killer.
We had the actual weapon, but we didn't have an arrest.
Outraged?
Outrage.
At that point, do you think the sense of anybody cared?
No.
No.
Attorney Ben Crump represents the Martin family.
And literally, they were saying to me, Okay, being a black kid got killed, that happens all the time in America.
What's so significant about this?
It must be a little bit odd to be here, huh?
He was lying right here.
When we did the first national story about Trayvon Martin 11 days after the shooting, it was the first time most people saw his picture, heard his name, and his family's desperation.
My kid went to the morgue, and this guy went home and went to sleep in his bed.
There's no justice in that.
Martin's family was in disbelief.
And I remember we did the first national interview with you, Mark Strauss, and CBS, because you all were the first people who said you would do it.
And we are grateful eternally for that.
Trayvon had already been forgotten.
Definitely by Central Florida, he had been forgotten.
I remember three of us walking around where not only were you still grieving, but you were clearly frustrated.
It was just painful to see that there had been a killing of a young black unarmed teenager.
Your son.
My son.
And there was nothing being said or done about it.
Trayvon.
Trayvon, Trayvon Martin.
Right away, more news outlets reported the story.
Shayvon, shame on Sam TV.
Pressure built on police.
What do we want?
Florida's governor appointed a special state prosecutor.
A national conversation explained.
That tells you right there, because if they had to appoint a special prosecutor for this case, that tells you that they clearly there was an enormous amount of pressure on them to take this case.
They had to wait 45 days and bring someone in as a special prosecutor.
Not common at all, especially in state cases.
Floated about racial justice.
Trayvon Martin!
Within three weeks, he's a household mate.
Yeah.
Social media was starting to take hold, and they all hashtag Trayvon Martin Life Matters.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat, they put on the hoodies and they said we are all Trayvon.
And then they had this thing called the Million Hoodie Rally.
Up in New York, they were sitting down in New York.
Sabrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother.
President Obama has made his own concerns very clear in very personal terms.
Even in the White House, Trayvon Martin's name inspired soul searching.
How on earth could a young teenager walking down the street eating Skittles, minding his own business, end up dead?
How does that happen in America?
Valerie Jarrett, former President Obama's senior advisor, a month after the shooting, she remembers him telling staff in the Oval Office he wanted to talk about Trayvon.
This was a very personal decision he made to try to lift up his story and make it a teaching moment.
You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
All of us.
And what President Obama wanted to do was to broaden the reach of that statement to reach all Americans, not just black ones.
He spoke about it so personally.
Yes.
Intimately.
Yes.
It meant that much to him.
I think for parents of black boys, particularly in America, it's very personal.
No father more than Tracy Martin.
What was that moment like for you?
Man, it was surreal.
This was the highest of high as far as being in position or in power, acknowledging the fact that this is an injustice.
You knew that it was a historical moment.
And I knew, I knew we had wine in the court of public opinion.
Protesters organized marches.
And six weeks after the killing, George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder.
Today we filed an information charging George Zimmerman with murder in the second degree.
We have.
That's interesting.
They charged him with an information.
So normally, guys, and I've explained what an information is, but basically an information, guys, is a charging document that's issued directly from the prosecutor, right?
Now, at the federal level, I can tell you guys, if someone gets an information, nine out of ten times they're cooperating with the police and they're probably getting some type of, I don't want to say immunity, but they're getting something typically when they're being charged with information.
A lot of times this will happen with people that are a white-collar crime, people that might be lower on the totem pole when it comes to a criminal organization.
So it's not as it's, you're still being charged.
Don't get it, Swiss.
You're still being charged for a felony, but it doesn't have the same formality and strength as an indictment, right?
So for them to charge him through a, and there's no grand jury involved with a information.
The prosecutor files it themselves.
So that's interesting that they did that.
It's interesting that they did that.
So that tells me that they wanted to just ensure that they got him in custody as quickly as possible versus organizing a grand jury.
Because it's not common to see an information be filed at a state level case.
So to me, I looked like they didn't even want to go through the rigor morale of assembling a grand jury.
They just wanted to get him arrested immediately for optic reasons.
I hope the arrest of George Zimmerman actually gave us a little belief in the justice system.
We just knew that we were going to get a conviction.
We just wanted an arrest and we got it.
And I say thank you.
But in July of 2013, after a five weeks.
Yeah.
And that's why they pushed to get him arrested and they filed an information versus an indictment.
Because with an indictment, guys, they have to go to the grand jury and prove probable cause, right?
Which you can make the argument there was plenty, but in front of a group of people, but with an information, in this case, the special prosecutor just files it with the court, an arrest warrant comes back, gives it to the detectives, the detectors will go get him.
Week trial.
Would the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty?
A Florida jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder and manslaughter charges.
That was heart-wrenching.
It was very disturbing.
Zimmerman went free.
Presidential Obama, again, spoke about the case.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
He asked America an important question.
If Drayvon Martin wasn't a...
He don't love, he says, do you think the boys had a role pushing this agenda heavily in mainstream media?
Well, we already know who runs the media, guys.
Ourboy says, they always say cops target African Americans, but never say the African Americans are always the ones who put themselves in these situations that lead to these unfortunate events.
A lot of times, yes.
...and armed.
Could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?
And I think those persons...
He shouldn't have punched Zimmerman, man.
If he had not punched him and just told him, hey, bro, stop fucking following me.
we might be having a different conversation right now.
...and challenging us all.
I'm not saying this is my responsibility solely as the president of the United States, but we all have a collective and individual responsibility to do better for our boys and young men of color.
In Zimmerman's verdict, much of black America saw a familiar betrayal.
Black people are Charlie Brown, and the criminal justice system is Lucy holding the football.
And every time we come to kick the football, they snatch the football away.
Over the next decade, the name of a social movement, Black Lives Matter, became as recognizable as Trayvon Martin's.
The deaths of other black men convulsed America.
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Eric Garner.
George Floyd.
Most recently, Ahmaud Arbery.
You can draw a through line from Trayvon Martin to where we are today.
I don't think since Emmett Teal had the killing of a young black person in America has such a profound impact.
You believe Black Lives Matter started with Trayvon Martin?
Oh, the founders, talk about it.
Trayvon legacy is that he raised the consciousness level in America of the plight of black people, especially young black people.
To Trayvon Martin's parents, that legacy, what he inspired, gives a measure of comfort 10 years after a needless loss that rattled our social consciousness.
This kid name resonates across the world.
And we'll use this as our starting point to get justice for the next kid.
You didn't see a lot of athletes speaking out on issues of social justice, but that changed so dramatically after Trayvon Martin was killed.
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin had a profound effect on the sports community.
CBS News special correspondent James Brown examines how one tweet of a team wearing hoodies galvanized athletes into a new era of activism.
In the 1980s, 90s, And 2000.
Being a professional athlete gave you an enormous platform.
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Athletes were showcasing their skills, talents, and brands on a global scale.
But there was one thing many weren't doing.
You didn't see a lot of athletes speaking out on issues of social justice, particularly race.
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Racial justice.
Dave Zyron is a sports editor for The Nation magazine.
You didn't see mass movements for racial justice and civil rights in the 80s and 90s.
And without those movements, you don't see the ripple effect into the world of sports.
The need and the pressure on athletes to take care of their families and their friends has become more important.
There was a whole culture to not be political in the 80s and 90s, but that changed so dramatically after Trayvon Martin was killed.
Why was it Trayvon Martin killing such a flashpoint?
Trayvon Martin was there, Emmett Till.
The experience of seeing what his body looked like, the photos of it, the bravery of his mother, Mamie Till, showing the world what they did to her son.
Till's death haunted one of America's greatest sports superstars to be more than just an athlete.
That scarred a young amateur boxer named Cassius Clay.
He saw his own face in Emmett Tills.
Muhammad Ali would speak about that a lot.
They saw themselves.
I'll give you guys my take after we finish doing this voting.
In his face, in his hoodie, in his Arizona iced tea, in his Skittles, they said that could have been me.
As a African-American male, we wear hoodies all the time.
I mean, I got one on right now.
And so when I found out what had happened and who it happened to, it was scary.
Chris Paul is a point guard for the Phoenix Suns and former president of the NBA Players Association.
What really hit home for myself, I may go into this arena in this game and play in front of these 20,000 fans who are stringing your name, cheering for you, and that's all good and well.
But as soon as that game is over and you go get in your car, you are just like everyone else.
I'm Chris Paul, an African-American black man who is driving home.
As anger over Trayvon's death grew, the sports world was ready to respond.
And it started with a tweet for one of the most influential teams in the world, the Miami Heat.
They all posed with hoodies.
They wrote Trayvon's name on their sneakers.
They did a team photo.
Black players, white players, players from all across the world, all standing together with their hoodies on in solidarity with Trayvon Martin.
And that was a huge game changer because that photo of the Miami Heat was really the first viral sports politics photo.
Trayvon's death impacted one of this generation's greatest sports superstars, LeBron James, using his brand, play, and power towards activism, both on and off the court.
It starts with the Trayvon Martin situation.
You know, if my boy left home and he never returned.
Right.
You know, that kind of hit a switch from that point on.
I knew that my voice and my platform had to be used for more than just sports.
A new era of a socially conscious athlete was unfolding.
And if one needed proof, the Yep.
I would say, yeah, this case actually did bring a lot of musicians and athletes into this situation.
Absolutely did.
Opening of the 2016 Espy Awards, one of the biggest nights of sports, was it, as the most famous NBA players opened the evening with a call for social justice.
We cannot ignore the realities of the current state of America.
When you decided to open the Espy Awards with a call for change in action.
Carmel Anthony, yeah, Dane Wade, LeBron James, Chris Paul.
Can you take us back through what that decision-making process was like?
We have a group chat.
MLO had put a message in the chat talking about some social injustice and things that were going on.
It was like, fellas, what are we going to do?
And then that started the conversation and reached out to ESPN and said, you know, we would like to open up the SVs with this.
LaQuan McDonald, Austin Sterling, Philando Castile.
This is also our reality.
As athletes began to form an identity for racial equality, the reality of America would remind them how hard it can be.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick would test America's resolve on dissent at the start of the 2016 footballs.
Oh, yeah.
He took the knee.
Decent Kaepernick sat down and would later kneel during the national anthem to bring attention to police brutality and racial inequality.
I couldn't see another hashtag Sandra Bland, hashtag Tamir Rice, hashtag Walter Scott, hashtag Eric Gardner.
Mind you, he plays for the San Francisco 49ers, one of the most woke cities in America.
The list goes on and on and on.
It's like, at what point do we do something about it?
Race relations had just tackled America's favorite sport.
That act of taking a knee during the anthem is such a specific challenge to this country.
What you're saying is that there is a gap between what this country promises and what it actually delivers.
The following season, Colin Kaepernick was not signed by an NFL team and has not played professional football since.
What was yours and some of your colleagues' reaction when you saw the reaction to Colin Kaepernick taking a knee?
Man, my reaction was this is bigger than the game.
Like Colin sacrificing everything he did, whereas a lot of people don't even listen to the details, right?
And didn't even care to understand that it wasn't about the flag or anything like that.
When he used his platform as a quarterback in what is by any measure the most culturally powerful entity in the United States, the National Football League, that had a ripple effect, unlike anything else.
A ripple effect felt by all athletes.
And Chris Paul had to navigate how to give players who were trying to be agents of change a voice.
Especially during the summer of 2020, as the country was gripped with protests over George Floyd's killing and the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the NBA to play their season in a bubble.
They went there with a singular focus of we're going to play these games, but we want to raise more awareness about different things that are affecting our communities.
For Paul, it was an opportunity to organize in real time.
The Bucs have been in serious discussion about boycotting tonight's game.
When the Jacob Blake situation happened, we said, hey, just stop everything.
Let's all get in a room and let's talk about what we can do, how we can be impactful, and how can we be as strong as possible.
Despite the overwhelming plea for change, there has been no action.
So our focus today cannot be on basketball.
While inside the bubble, players spoke about criminal justice reform, wore shirts about racial justice, and some even took a knee during the national anthem.
It really showed me how powerful our league is as a whole, the NBA and WNBA.
We have decided it's important to take a stand and raise our voices.
I want to give a huge shout out to the women at the WNBA.
They're the strongest women out there.
And I'm forever grateful that we're connected to our brothers and our sisters.
Is there any incremental hope that what you and your colleagues are?
And I'm not surprised, man.
You know, racial politics is a thing in America.
It's a very big thing.
We're probably one of the leading nations when it comes to, you know, this whole identity politics and racial politics.
And yeah.
We're doing will make a difference.
You know, young people are the most powerful when it comes to voting, when it comes to change.
So when you engage the younger community, they really understand how powerful their voice is and how when they're connected, they can make change.
So I'm definitely not giving up hope.
We're going to continue to try to do our part.
Courage is contagious.
It has this ripple effect where other athletes say, well, I can do that too.
And they are all feeling like they're more than just athletes.
You can share different ideologies, whatever you want, but when the people come together, that's when people start to listen.
Marches and protests have punctuated the last decade.
Most recently in 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, CBS News national correspondent Darika Duncan explores how this modern social justice movement all began.
And this documentary was from 2022, guys.
With a boy named Trayvon.
A 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a man who was patrolling the area, he says, as part of the local neighborhood watch group.
It was horrible.
We were working.
I was working in Miami and Fat Joe.
It was all over the news.
And we felt a huge way about it.
It was a real moment.
You know, it was a real moment.
So I've had the poll up now for about eight minutes, guys.
36% of you guys think Zerman is guilty.
46% of you guys think it was self-defense.
And 18% of you guys are unsure.
You remember that day?
I remember that.
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I remember just feeling like I needed to connect to other people.
And the way I connected was by showing up onto the streets and protesting and marching and saying his name over and over and over.
I just attended the NBA All-Star Game and began to see the social media about what was going on.
People began texting me, began tweeting me.
Are you going to talk about this?
Look at what happened to this young man.
I remember listening to the tapes.
I remember just being moved by the fact that nothing had happened to stop what was going on.
This really just moved me into a whole nother, you know, this is the next 10 years of my life.
After this, Philip Agnew and Carmen Perez marched and protested.
Rapper Fat Joe used his voice to speak out.
Professor Michael Eric Dyson educated and provided context, all connected by a tragedy that shook the nation and the world.
As we're starting this interview, you wanted to keep your hood on, sort of in honor.
I wear my hood like Trayvon.
So, now I know Trayvon, I wanted to wear my hood, and there's nothing wrong with wearing a hood.
As far as Trayvon as a student, you actually had a unique connection.
But what happened was I have a friend.
He was the dean of the school that Trayvon went to.
So, what's crazy is I went to the school and I talked to the kids, but I didn't know Trayvon Martin was there listening to me talk.
Wow.
It's crazy because here's a kid who's listening to me, say positive stuff, but yet instill, he goes out and he's killed for no reason.
Would the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty?
When you think about the moment we learned that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I knew he wouldn't be going to jail.
You know, I live in Florida, so I know to stand the ground.
It's crazy because the law just says, if you're frightened and somebody scares you, you can kill them.
Leave.
All right, no, nigga, that's that's not what it says.
It says, if you're lawfully there and you're attacked and there's reasonable expectation that you are gonna suffer some real bodily harm, you can absolutely use deadly force to defend yourself.
Come on, Fat Joe.
That's the law.
The way in which George Zimmerman has been able to get away with this is not justice for anyone.
Certainly not the family, but for the country.
We could still see something like this happen, and there's no accountability.
You believe there could be another Trayvon Martin even today, 10 years later?
I do.
I think if we don't change these policies, if we don't re-examine what public safety looks like, we're going to continue to see this.
We understand standard ground still exists.
And so the fight is still a very long way from being won.
We threw a punch and we landed and the counterpunch was very, very strong.
And we've seen the counter wave across the country.
And so if we're not organized, if we're not prepared, we're going to be very, very sad about the state of affairs that this country will be.
I am.
I am.
Trayvon Martin.
Trayvon Martin.
The death of Trayvon was an extraordinary moment to galvanize black communities that spotlighted the work that grassroots organizations were already doing.
There's something new called into existence as a result of Trayvon's death.
And what was that new?
For the first time, we heard the words Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter.
Trayvon Martin's death really put the spotlight on Black Lives Matter.
How did Trayvon Martin's death move that movement forward?
It put a face to it.
BLM, they were already organizing.
But it wasn't until Trayvon's face was attached to it.
So many young people started organizing around that.
Look, activism goes in cycles.
Some extraordinary events occur, sustained social mobility and movement as a result.
It teeters out inevitably.
We gotta move your money.
But unlike the civil rights movement from before, which was centralized, social media fueled the proliferation of the Black Lives Matter movement, embraced by not only athletes, but politicians, artists, who became activists in their own right.
In the past, we had that one leader, which we call the spider ideology.
If you cut the head of a spider, it dies.
But if you cut the leg of a starfish, it multiplies.
And that's what a decentralized structure is.
There are so many leaders across the country that are not just looking at Black Lives Matter, but they're also looking at reproductive justice rights, voting rights.
They're looking at different things.
And we have to recognize that in all of that, Black Lives Matter still exists.
We've got to do everything that we can to ensure that everyday people understand that we actually have a plan forward for where this country needs to go.
Decentralized organization only works when you have a very strong central core.
And so that's one of the other duties of our movement today.
It also doesn't mean that we throw out the blueprint of what has worked before.
We need to combine that with what we're doing now.
What does the future look like for movements like Black Lives Matter?
I always say we come together like Voltron, right?
If you bring this, you bring this gift, then we are powerful.
Fat Joe lends his voice.
We need that.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.
They're civilization's radical voice.
So you protect one person.
I've always been involved with social justice.
It's almost like the sister Carmen Perez said, we need a bunch of leaders.
We need to look everywhere you look, everybody pitching their voice.
And more voices have in the last decade with urgent calls for justice and accountability.
Trayvon's death and George Floyd's death are bookends of a dual reality that black people continually confront.
Look at the parallels between Trayvon, Immatil, and Ahmad Arbor.
Black people doing ordinary things.
All this was in your face to where they couldn't lie and they couldn't say they didn't know what was going on.
And so that's why you saw people say Black Lives Matter.
You see just as much white people, Asian people, Hispanic people out there, but when the people.
All right, so we got Andy the Gray says, but why don't people cry when blacks kill each other for wearing a certain type of color on their clothes?
That's very true.
Andy the Great.
The number one killer of black men are other black men, but no one likes to talk about that.
They never do.
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Dude, you need a vacation, take Andrew somewhere and disconnect for like a week.
Also, don't go back and forth with comedians.
It ain't worth the hassle.
What?
Now, someone, Berg Feiv, has told me that.
What do you mean by comedians?
Uh, and then we got here...
Those show, sir.
That's funny.
The picture you just said.
People come together.
That's when people start to listen.
I do believe that the young generation that is coming up is growing up, really prepared to fight for a new value system in this country.
They, in mass, really have a more progressive outlook of what this country is and what it should be.
And so it's there that I find a lot of hope for our liberation movement.
Trayvon Martin gave us the opportunity to look at things and have the self-awareness.
George Floyd gave us the opportunity and the permission to go out into the streets, but really having the George Floyd is an L, man.
These niggas.
This moral awakening because of Trayvon Martin has allowed for all these other things to happen in the world.
And if it wasn't for that foundation, we wouldn't have a women's march.
We wouldn't have.
I'm going to be closing the poll very soon, guys.
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YouTube link.
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T-shirts that say the future is female.
Trayvon's death method.
And then also, guys, let's get the likes up on YouTube.
We only got 400 to 2.
We should be at 900.
That a movement was born to solidify the meaning and mattering of black life.
And that's something that I think will never go away.
We're currently at 38% guilty, 44% self-defense, 18% unsure on the YouTube poll.
The fight for a better future is indeed a war worth waging.
Understanding the legacy of Trayvon Martin is both painful and hopeful.
There is hope that things will get better, but the pain of his loss and others like him is still very raw.
We end tonight with a commentary from Roy Wood Jr., correspondent for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
For all of us here at CBS News, we thank you for joining us.
And Trevor Noah's a fucking loser.
Joining us, I'm Dale King.
Good night.
So where are we now?
That's the question that's the most difficult to ask.
It's also the question that's the most difficult to answer.
I mean, for sure, there's been progress.
Yeah, this is a super woke documentary, as y'all can see.
But even the definition of progress has become fluid.
You know, keep your eyes on the prize, but half the time the prize sits on the horizon, unobtainable, constantly being all right.
Glock 40 spaz.
Question for you, bro, because I see in the Rumble chat.
You go, F. You Mari, nobody liking this shit.
Question for you, bro.
Why are you in here watching someone you don't like?
I'm actually genuinely intrigued as to why you're in here watching someone you dislike.
I'm actually curious.
Can you please tell me why?
Try to figure this out.
What the psyche of a hater is.
Can you please tell me?
Psyche of a hater.
Yeah, I want to really know the psyche of a hater.
Glock 40 spaz.
Since you want to be in the rumble chest saying, fuck you, Mara, we're not voting.
Then why are you here?
Or nobody liking this shit?
That man killed Trayvon, but hey, at least they arrested him.
But then he walked.
But at least they arrested him, right?
Is that progress?
I mean, at least now some of the people get arrested and a couple of them go to jail and a couple of them even go to jail for life.
But usually, if you can arrest and convict, they still get in less than 20 years.
But that black life is gone forever.
We can agree to call that progress, but you damn sure can't call it justice.
Hey, there's too much killing.
Maybe the cops should wear body cams.
Oh, hey, there's too much killing.
Maybe the cops should wear body cams and turn them on.
Hey, there's too much killing.
Maybe the cops should wear body cams.
Turn them on and release the footage.
The horizon keeps moving.
We got somebody's attention though.
Boden Rights Act, CRT misinformation.
They're trying to gerrymand the history out of the history.
But you know how safe you've got to be of the truth to gerrymander a book?
The future has always been under attack, but now they're attacking the past.
Because they know if we forget the past, then we're more likely to believe that the future isn't worth fighting for.
Because we haven't learned anything else for progress.
The fight for a better future is indeed a war worth waging.
So we battle on through the horizon.
All right.
So go ahead, guys, vote.
I want to get your guys' takes right now on this.
Right now, we are sitting at 44% self-defense, 38% guilty, 18% unsure.
So I'm going to give you guys my take on this.
But before I do that, I need the likes to hit 600.
Then I'll go ahead and give you guys my take on this because I haven't really given you guys my opinion on this situation.
So like the video, let's get 600 likes.
Nah, fuck that.
Let's get 700 likes.
There's 952 y'all niggas watching.
If you guys want me to continue on, like the video.
The YouTube link is pinned on Rumble.
And I just dropped it in Cow's Club as well.
Let's hit 700 likes, and I will give you guys my take on this thing.
And we'll continue the stream.
I think we might go ahead and do Zodiac.
The Zodiac.
600 people voted.
So, all right, we just hit 600 votes.
So, I'll end the poll.
Now, we are so the official thing, I'm putting in the chat: 43% of you guys thought it was self-defense, 37% of you guys think Zimmerman was guilty, and then 18% of you guys were unsure.
So, that's interesting.
Yeah, very, very interesting.
Close, pretty close.
So, we are now, guys, at looking here.
We have 494 likes.
Well, while I wait for you guys to get the likes up, this is where we are, by the way.
You can see it right here at 497.
Now we're at 504.
Right.
Look at that.
I'm looking at myself.
It's just inception right now.
That's confusing.
Let me scroll down.
All right.
So, 504, right here, guys, right?
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So, anyway.
where are we at here we are at 523 Guys, we need 600.
600 likes.
We'll continue the stream, ninjas.
600 likes.
Still waiting, guys.
Y'all want me to keep going on with the stream and do the zodiac, but y'all don't even like the video, man.
If that's the case, I'll just have to call it early.
I ain't tired.
I ain't got no audio.
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Also, this information broke on DB Cooper not too long ago.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
A bunch of people sent me that.
Yeah.
But I don't think that's true.
Still waiting for you guys to like the video, ninjas.
Come on, man.
Still waiting.
come on ninjas those trollsters says the funniest part of the body cams is that they show that most Oh my God.
You guys are fucking clouds, bro.
What did they say?
They're just trolling.
They're just trolling.
They're always trolling.
It's because of you, you're always trolling too.
Still waiting for y'all ninjas, man.
All right, cool.
We're at 632.
Let's get to 700, guys.
700 likes, and we're going to move on over to Rumble, and we're going to cover the zodiac.
700, guys.
Let's watch this quick video, though, on with a potential break.
I covered D.B. Cooper, by the way, guys, on FedReax.
Go back and watch that episode.
Watch this.
And one of the greatest mysteries in all of American history.
I'm talking about the hunt for the true identity of D.B. Cooper.
Now, he is the infamous airplane hijacker who jumped out of a plane back in 1971 with 200,000 bucks in cash, never to be seen again.
That's like worth one or two million nowadays, by the way.
His identity is a mystery to this very day.
But tonight, my next guest says that he has found that parachute that D.B. Cooper used, and that it could actually end the mystery once and for all.
We just solved it.
Literally.
Literally.
This is the rig because they know what rig he used when he jumped that night.
Now he says it belongs to a man named Richard McCoy Jr.
Yeah, he was one of the prime suspects, Richard McCoy, but he's been, guys, they disqualified him.
I think the FBI disqualified him as a suspect for a while now.
And look at the side-by-side comparison.
The parachute was found on the McCoy family property about two years ago.
Now, he has always been a rumored longtime suspect and was killed in 1960.
We're at 663 likes, guys.
Let's get to 700, Ninjas.
1974, after pulling off a similar heist, but there's never been any proof linking him.
Now, bits of money have been recovered in the past, and there have been literally hundreds of tips and leads over the years that have gone exactly nowhere.
But according to my next guest, his discovery of the parachute caught the attention of the FBI, who then visited the home and took the parachute into custody.
And we asked the FBI about that.
They would only point us to a 2016 statement that basically says they've stopped wasting resources on this because they got nowhere.
But they say something very interesting at the end of that 2016 statement.
Quote, although the FBI will no longer actively investigate this case, should specific physical evidence emerge related specifically to the parachutes or the money taken by the hijacker, individuals with those materials are asked to contact their local FBI field office.
Well, joining me now is the man who helped uncover the parachute, Dan Grider.
He is a retired pilot, a YouTuber, and a D.B. Cooper sleuth.
Dan, great to have you here tonight.
Tell me about how you found that piece of evidence and why you believe that that belonged to D.B. Cooper, who you believe is actually Richard McCoy Jr.
That's correct.
Hi, Laura.
Thanks for having me on.
Yes, we found that parachute.
And I talked about Richard McCoy in our last episode when we covered D.B. Cooper, by the way, guys.
If you guys want, I could drop the link of our D.B. Cooper episode in the chat for you guys, but I did cover this case pretty extensively.
It was the description of the parachute that was used that night was very, very specific in that it was modified.
So all these years, for 20 years, I've been looking for this green military, highly modified parachute.
And when we stumbled upon it by accident.
Also, he was smart.
He asked for multiple parachutes, guys.
And the reason why he did that was because to ensure that the government wouldn't give him a faulty parachute and he would die.
So he made it look like, hey, I'm going to take hostages with me.
So you need to give me three to four parachutes.
So then they couldn't risk giving him a parachute that wouldn't work.
And I pulled it out and I took one look at it and I could instantly see the modifications.
But what were these modifications?
How could you recognize, say, one parachute from another?
Really clever that he did that, by the way.
Well, in the parachuting world, it's very easy to tell.
You take one look at where the ripcord housing is and all the modifications that were done on the front side of that.
I knew, I knew what I was looking for when I pulled that out of there.
And it matched exactly on first glance.
I already knew this is it.
It was found in McCoy's mother's possessions deep in her storage with all of her prized possessions.
She was a grandmother not related to aviation or skydiving and she had the parachute, the canopy, his logbook.
Had all that stuff tucked away in her private possessions that hadn't been seen for 53 years.
That's unbelievable to think about.
And the modifications, I would assume, would have facilitated the ability to do the very highest that people have been fascinated with.
But you also say that the FBI asked for a DNA sample from one of McCoy's children.
What are they going to do with that?
Yes, well, you know, I've been tracking this thing for almost 20 years.
And over that 20 years, the McCoy children have never come out.
They've never spoken to me.
I tried like crazy to get these kids to talk to me, and they would not talk to me until both their mother and their grandmother died.
Their mother, Karen McCoy, was an accomplice in both hijackings.
And what most people don't know is that there was actually two hijackings.
There was a first one, the D.B. Cooper one, and then the same guy, Richard Floyd McCoy, he went back and did the exact same thing five months later, April of 72.
It's the same guy, but none of the kids would ever talk to me about this until they were both dead.
And then they felt relieved that their mother was no longer in danger of going to prison as an accomplice in the D.B. Cooper heist.
That's interesting.
Wow.
Incredible to think about that they may have, according to you, believed that their family was somehow connected to any of this.
There was not a charge for the mother, I understand.
But you say McCoy's family, they also found a logbook.
What was in that?
The logbook was a parachute jump logbook.
It showed 39 previous military static line jumps accomplished by McCoy in the military.
He served two terms in Vietnam.
He was a helicopter pilot, a fixed wing pilot, and a military trained jumper.
But the logbook showed eight practice jumps leading up to the D.B. Cooper jump, and then nothing.
This was his first freefall parachute jump, civilian-style logbook.
So he logged 39 previous static line jumps and then eight practice free fall jumps in anticipation of doing this hijacking and then nothing until right before April of 72.
He went back and did one more practice jump prior to his April 72 parachute jump and he logged that one.
All those jumps are in there.
They're signed.
They're in his ink.
They're symmetrical.
Everything matches Larry Patterson's logbook, matches Richard Floyd McCoy's logbook.
They're a perfect match.
Wow.
And what would have given the children an indication that either of their parents they believed to have been involved in this?
Well, they knew, they grew up with this deep family secret.
This is one thing that the kids will tell you.
They're not giving any interviews right now, but if they could, they would tell you they're not talking, and they've lived a lifetime of knowing that they cannot talk about this.
That was their family mantra.
They could not talk about what their mom and dad did.
Their mom and dad were both complicit in both hijackings and they knew it.
Wow.
I mean, you say that the FBI contacted you after you released your evidence video on YouTube.
I got to know what that was like talking to them and the fact that they were leaning in and intrigued by what you found after all these years.
Well, the FBI did call.
We're at 689 likes, guys.
Let's get to 700 ninjas.
You know, it's interesting.
We've never contacted any media.
We've never contacted any authority and we have never contacted any FBI in any way.
The FBI contacted us after watching my two YouTube videos.
They were convinced and they wanted to see what I had found.
They knew specifically exactly what they were looking for.
And they told us up front, we're going to look at it.
We're going to meet with you.
We'll meet with you at your location under your specifications.
If it's not what we're looking for, we'll give it back in seven days because we know exactly what we're looking for.
That's been a year ago.
So interesting.
And they still have it?
I'm led to believe that perhaps they are going to keep it in custody because they believe that you're on to something.
Maybe everything?
They're keeping it in custody because of the DNA.
The FBI cannot go by circumstantial evidence.
They're going to go by a DNA link and they're trying their hardest to make a solid DNA link between all the artifacts that will tie Richard Floyd McCoy.
That's the only way they can close it is with a solid DNA lock.
They're going to keep this.
Everything that I found is at Quantico, the FBI laboratory.
Everything I found is in one storage location at Quantico right now, and their efforts are purely DNA related.
Interesting.
Very, very interesting.
What the hell?
Chris, funny moments.
All right, we're at 700 likes.
Awesome.
So guys, we are going to go into episode three of the Zodiac.
Okay?
This is Sodia speaking.
This is Zodiac speaking.
Yep.
This is episode three.
This is the finale.
If you guys are watching on YouTube, I'm going to drop the Rumble link for you guys.
You guys can come on over to Rumble because I can't watch this on YouTube for obvious reasons.
Oh, I didn't give you guys my take on the whole Trayvon Martin thing.
So look.
Okay.
So here's the thing with the Trayvon Martin case, right?
Okay, yeah.
When it comes to this case, obviously it's very controversial.
It divided the nation.
Again, I think it's one of the biggest cases in American history when it comes to civil rights, you know, police brutality, even though it's not necessarily a police case, but it falls under that umbrella of the George Floyds and everything, you know, the Fruit Vale stations, the Fergusons, the, you know, I can't breathe, all that stuff, right?
So with this case, Zimmerman was wrong to follow him, right?
He was wrong to follow him.
But what made as soon as Trayvon Martin punched him and got on top of him and started bashing his head, that's when he allowed Zimmerman the ability to use deadly force.
And it's sad because he's a 17-year-old kid, probably doesn't know better, probably felt harassed.
It's like, what the fuck?
Why is this nigga following me?
Right?
And he looked at it like, yo, what the fuck are you following me for?
And just boom.
Socked him.
And he hit him hard, guys.
Zimmerman's nose is fucked.
You guys can see the scars in the back of his head.
There was absolutely a beatdown taking place.
Trayvon was whooping his ass.
But by whooping his ass, he gave Zimmerman the plausible deniability to be able to shoot him and say, yo, it's self-defense.
That is the issue.
Zimmerman was wrong for following him.
He was stupid for following him.
But as soon as Trayvon punched him and started whooping his ass, he gave Zimmerman every legal right to shoot him.
That's probably what a lot of people don't want to hear.
A lot of people don't like me saying that.
But if you look at the law, was Zimmerman there lawfully?
Yes.
It's a public area.
Could walk around and walk around as much as he wants.
Was he being attacked?
Yes.
Was there a reasonable fear for his life?
Yes.
Right?
We can look at the injuries.
We'll look at them real quick.
And this is what actually kept Zimmerman from being convicted.
Back of his head.
His nose.
Hands seem not too fucked up.
When he was arrested, his nose was bleeding.
He had a broken nose.
Yeah, so this is, these are all the different images.
This is his face when he got punched.
Oh, shit, you guys can't see.
My bad.
Sorry.
So that's his nose.
Obviously, the back of his head.
Right?
So, these are pretty serious injuries, guys.
You know what I mean?
These injuries gave Zimmerman the ability to articulate, I felt like I was in danger of my life.
I felt like I was going to die.
I had to use deadly force to save myself.
That's it.
Tragic situation, guys.
Obviously, it's terrible anytime anyone loses their life.
But the reality is, as soon as Trayvon punched him, started slamming his head on the floor, which you can clearly see is true here.
The evidence corroborates that.
Literally, how the hell would he have these marks on the back of his head had he not been getting his head hit to some degree or slammed?
Right?
That gave Zerman the ammunition he needed to defend himself.
So, anyway.
Let's go ahead, guys, and switch on over to Rumble.
That is my take on that case.
I am going to be going, I'm going to drop the link for you guys here for Rumble or watching or Castle Club.
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Waylow says D.B. Cooper was a character used in the TV show Prison Break.
Wasn't it more money?
I thought it was in the millions between million, right?
No, it was $175,000, bro.
But back then, it was, no, it was like $200,000.
Yeah, so he stole.
Yeah, worth about $1.2 million today.
We cover this case, you guys.
You can go check it out on the channel.
Fire channel.
Yeah.
I could get the link for you guys.
It was a while ago.
Here you go.
Here's the here it is.
I'll drop the link in here for you guys if you guys want to watch it.
That's the DB Cooper one, guys.
There you go.
DB Cooper Explains the only successful air hijacking in history.
Time stamps are there.
Go into details.
It was a really good case to cover.
But anyway, Rumble Link is up.
Guys, I'm going to end the YouTube stream here.
We are going to now be watching the Zodiac.
This is the Zodiac speaking, the last part, part three, Box of Secrets.
It's the last episode, if you guys remember.
Look, I got these fucking losers calling me.
I've been getting calls from random people, guys, all week on FaceTime.
These fucking losers.
All week.
Fucking hilarious.
They don't got nothing better else to do.
You should pick up.
Pick up?
Yeah, on stream.
With these fucking scumbags?
On stream.
Fucking losers, bro.
Because someone dox my fucking number, like the losers that they are.
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I actually got to go into the thing and end it.
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