Reactions to the jury decision in the shooting of Trayvon Martin vary sharply along racial lines.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of American Adults agree with the jury's verdict that Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is not guilty of murder in the shooting death of the black teenager.  Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree with the Florida jury's verdict. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.

He talked at length about Corey and BDLR. I didn't know that Corey was six days from an election when she made her announcement. I also didn't know that BDLR told Judge Nelson that he did NOT have that phone information last January and O'Mara was just getting ready to call him to the stand to testify when Nelson put it on hold. He not only plans on following up, he's adding to his motion. She asked him about any future lawsuits GZ might have and he said (referring to earlier comments about calling him a "murderer"):

HOSTIN: And what about future lawsuits? People are discussing whether or not George Zimmerman may file a civil suit of his own. Is he going to do something like that?

O`MARA: We really haven`t talked it through very much. And of course I`ve not had an in-depth conversation with George about the prosecution`s reactions and the inappropriateness of their reactions. That`s probably closer to the top of my mind where I see some type of redress than anything else. I know that George would rather just move on with his life. Unfortunately that will never happen. We`ll see how the litigation goes and what we react to if anyone else files anything.

It only takes about 15 minutes to read the whole hour interview because they kept playing videos of Rachel and Juror 37. He comments on Rachel, the jury, etc., also. As pro-prosecution as I thought Sunny was, she did a good job with her questions.

I would want to question her in detail before accepting her statement at face value, though.  Did Trayvon tell her he was going to sucker punch George?  Did she hear what she thought was the first punch?  Or is she assuming that from past known behavior?

As for Trayvon's "well justified self-defense response", even if that were possible, it does not justify beating a man for almost a minute "in self defense".  Once he knocked him off his feet, he should have run as fast as he could to get away or held him down and called for help.

Here's the link.

Anyone in TM's shoes would have thought Z was going for a weapon. And why the prosecutor ignored provocation is the real mystery here.

That's possible and the prosecution did claim Zimmerman provoked TM.  But I think they didn't want to go to any level of detail in a scenario that would conflict with the evidence.  If they merely said Zimmerman reached into his pocket, Zimmerman still is acquitted as Jbsynder points out.  A misunderstanding won't send Zimmerman to jail.

On the other hand, if the prosecution states Zimmerman pulled a gun, that raises many more questions such as why he waited 40 seconds to shoot with a gun already in his hand, or why he would still call for help if all he had to do was point and shoot, or why there wouldn't be a direct battle for the gun if Martin was on top, causing Martin's DNA to be found on it.  A can of worms I'm sure the prosecution didn't want to open.

The actual evidence though does suggest Z went for his gun to "arrest" or shoot