Juror B37. This is who you get when you assemble a panel of people who claim to be completely unaware of national and local front page news.
In an exclusive interview on AC360, Zimmerman trial Juror B37 told Anderson that George Zimmerman is only guilty of not using good judgement.. “I think George Zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place, but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhoods and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done.” His heart was ‘in the right place’ and presumably so was his trigger finger.
The juror said she thought George Zimmerman should not have gotten out of his car after calling 911. “The 911 operator also when he was talking to him, kind of egged him on.” She said the operator should have advised George to stay in his car instead of asking him, “Can you see where he’s gone?” May I editorialize WTF? In her opinon, the directive to stay in the truck and not pursue Martin was wiped away when the dispatcher asked if Zimmerman could still see the suspect. At that time, Zimmerman was not directed to go fetch – but such is the logic of this juror. How could she have misunderstood the context?!
The entire episode from that fateful night until the end of the trial has been a clusterf*ck.
While the jury was not allowed to know about Zimmerman’s past domestic abuse charges, his altercation with a police officer, a cousin who called police (under anonymity) claimed he sexually abused her and warned police that he is a racist. She informed them that if they searched his home they would find racist materials. The jury also didn’t know of Zimmerman’s 46 calls to police in 8 years, reporting ‘suspicious persons.’ However, it’s doubtful that any of this would have made a difference to juror B37, who feels Zimmerman is just the kind of person who should be carrying a weapon on his nightly strolls…Or rounds as he would most likely call skulking about and looking for “suspects” as he referred to them…The kind who wear khakis and worst of all – hooded sweatshirts, like roughly 80% of teens own.