Did George Zimmerman get away with murder? That’s what one of his jurors says, according to headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers. Trayvon Martin’s mother and the Martin family’s attorney are trumpeting this “new information” as proof that “George Zimmerman literally got away with murder.”
The reports are based on an ABC News interview with Juror B29, the
sole nonwhite juror. She has identified herself only by her first name,
Maddy. She’s been framed as the woman who was bullied out of voting to
convict Zimmerman. But that’s not true. She stands by the verdict. She
yielded to the evidence and the law, not to bullying. She thinks
Zimmerman was morally culpable but not legally guilty. And she wants us
to distinguish between this trial and larger questions of race and
justice.
ABC News hasn’t posted a full unedited video or transcript of the interview. The video that has been broadcast—on World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America—has
been cut and spliced in different ways, often so artfully that the
transitions appear continuous. So beware what you’re seeing. But the
video that’s available already shows, on closer inspection, that Maddy
has been manipulated and misrepresented. Here are the key points.
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