One of the six female jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday night said she had 'no doubt' the neighborhood watchman feared for his life before shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, she said in an interview with CNN. The woman, who was identified as Jury B37, is the fist juror to speak publicly about the case.
"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.
"But I think his heart was in the right place. It just went terribly wrong," she concluded.
"When he was in the car, and he had called 911, he shouldn't have gotten out of that car,.I think George got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldn't have been there. But Trayvon decided that he wasn't going to let him scare him ... and I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him," she added.
It was reported on Monday night that an initial was divided, as three of the jurors first voted Zimmerman was guilty while three voted he was not guilty. Juror B37 long held the believe he was not guilty.
Juror B37 also did not believe race played a factor, in that Zimmerman did not profile Martin because he was black, rather because of his suspicious behavior.
"I think all of us thought race did not play a role,"she said . "We never had that discussion."
Juror B37 also reneged on the possibility of writing a book about her experience in the trial. "Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury," she said.
Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators demanding "Justice for Trayvon" marched in major cities across the United States to protest the acquittal of Zimmerman. Demonstrators in Boston raised signs saying "We Demand Justice," "Stop Racial Profiling" and "Never Forget. Never Again. Justice for Trayvon," YAHOO News reported.
