in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman, verdict. we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty, so say we all, foreperson. >> good morning, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. it is just 6:00 in the east. good morning. great to see you this sunday. >> i'm chris cuomo. welcome to this special sunday edition of "new day," because we're here, and obviously, the big story, george zimmerman's trial. he is a free man this morning. the long, legal nightmare over. at almost exactly 10:00 p.m. eastern last night, after some 16 hours of deliberating, the verdict was announced.

the jury of six women decided zimmerman's shooting and killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin on a rainy winter night last year was justified. the parents of the victim in the case never to hold their son again heartbroken with the jury's verdict. >> mm-hmm. zimmerman stood calmly as he heard the decision, a hint of a smile only at one point. he shook hands with his lawyers but really remained pretty unemotional throughout, as he has throughout the murder trial. trayvon martin's parents, they were not in the courtroom in sanford, florida, when the verdict came in late last night. they do plan, they say, to attend church, though, this morning. >> nationwide protest! >> anticipation surrounded the verdict and the reaction to it. outside the courtroom, what you're seeing, crowds gathered to witness the finale of the murder trial that's captivated and polarized this country. many chanting "no justice, no peace" amid a sea of signs, asking justice for trayvon. in cities around the country, people gathered and marched in

protest. >> there is no way justice could have been done when you have an all-white jury and you have all white women and you have a man whose father is a federal judge. the system has failed! >> nobody wins tonight. you know, george zimmerman is free, but he has to come out into society living with a lot of people that necessarily don't like him. >> now, prosecutors who argued their case with very much passion, but this clearly was not the verdict that they were wanting. they accepted the verdict, they said, after it was read in press conferences afterward. they were unable, clearly to prove as florida law requires beyond a reasonable doubt that zimmerman did not act in self-defense. listen here. >> i am disappointed, as we are with the verdict, but we accept it. we live in a great country that has a great criminal justice system. it is not perfect, but it's the

best in the world, and we respect the jury's verdict. >> now, zimmerman's attorneys had a very interesting spin on this. they said the verdict kept the tragedy, the death of a young man, from becoming a travesty, an unjust punishment of the man who killed them. they also say their client feels like he had the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders last night. >> i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was disgraceful. i am gratified by the jury's verdict. as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. for that, we are eternally grateful. >> mirrors that line that we were talking about. also, the word used there, disgraceful. that's how defense counsel felt about prosecution bringing this case in the first place.

that's going to be something that will be judged today, for sure, as we give you this broad snapshot of the george zimmerman verdict this "new day." >> now, let's get into more specifics, especially for many of our viewers who did not have the chance to stay of late last night and are hearing about this today. it played out late into the evening and our correspondent, george howell, is in florida. alongside him, cnn legal analyst sunny hostin, who is also there and has been there all along, a former federal prosecutor. great to see you both this morning. >> good morning. >> george, just to start with you, and as i mentioned, especially for our viewers just waking up to this verdict this morning, explain how the emotion, the tension, the drama that really played out, as we got news that a verdict had come in and then how it played out when the verdict was read. >> absolutely. there was waiting, there was anticipation. we knew that the jury went to take a dinner break. and then after that, we expected for them to either close for the night, you know, recess and come back the next day. didn't really expect that that verdict would come through. and when it came through, you

know, you had people outside just in the front lawn here. the front lawn was divided by sort of a gate, a little fence, and you had people on one side very happy, you had people on the other not so happy. and here's the thing. in the press conference that was held, i was in there and i watched the defense team and the prosecutors basically explain their reaction to that verdict. this was really interesting, very telling. there came a point where prosecutor john guy walked over to defense attorney don west to shake his hand. west refused to shake his hand. you remember west saying that he thought the prosecution of this case was disgraceful. there were several, sunny, you remember, discovery violations, possible violations that, you know, the judge will deal with later, after the verdict, now that we are, you know, past the verdict. but you could tell that there was definitely an animosity between the two. >> and sunny, we've got many questions, but just on that point. i mean, we've talked about how there is an adversarial

relationship, obviously, between the defense and the prosecution, but some believe they had kind of gone beyond that between these two sides, that there was real animosity towards the end. for our viewers who don't get to sit in courtrooms all the time, is that unusual that don west refused to shake his hand? >> it is unusual. i mean, certainly, most attorneys that are trial lawyers, especially criminal trial lawyers, we know that it's an adversarial process because you're on both sides or opposite sides of a case, but oftentimes, your frien you're friends after you leave the courthouse, you go to lunch together, go to dinner together. there are people that i prosecuted cases against that we're still friends and we still contact each other. some of them contacted me last night after watching the coverage. so, i am surprised that you see that sort of discord. and it was obvious throughout the trial, but to not shake your opposing counsel's hand is something that is just simply usually not done.

it's frowned upon as members of the bar, and i was shocked to hear about that. >> and the other part of that is, you know, through the -- i'm sorry. >> go ahead, george, please. >> through the case, i remember, you heard the defense team basically saying that the prosecution was playing dirty in this case, not turning over evidence in time, not giving them the amount of time to really go through and prepare, you know, the best case for their client. so, at the end, you know, it was not too surprising, but definitely stood out when you saw this prosecutor, you know, try to shake don west's hand, and it didn't happen. >> right. now look, obviously, the surprising thing there a little bit is the context. forget about how lawyers get along with each other. a 17-year-old kid with no weapon was killed. to say that that's the kind of case that's going to wind up having charges brought about it is not such a surprise. whether they had the case to make, we'll talk about all morning long. i'll get back to you on that. and we'll discuss in detail the instruction on the manslaughter charge.

we talked about it yesterday. there were concerns about it, and obviously, the jurors shared them, the jury shared them. we'll be back to you, george and sunny. thank you very much. we want to broaden this into more of the reaction from trayvon martin's relatives saying they didn't want this case to be about race. that was the big issue that seemed to be in the room the entire time, right? but even their lawyer acknowledged this issue loomed large. >> and for many, the racial subtext, the overtones of trayvon martin's death and the trial of george zimmerman is what made this such a national story, which is what drew so much attention and so much passion to this case. some of the key players, they weighed in on that issue after the verdict. listen in. >> this case has never been about race, nor has it ever been about the right to bear arms, not in the sense of proving this as a criminal case. but trayvon martin was profiled. there is no doubt that he was profiled to be a criminal. and if race was one of the aspects in george zimmerman's

mind, then we believe that we put out the proof necessary to show that zimmerman did profile trayvon martin. >> i think that things would have been different if george zimmerman was black for this reason -- he never would have been charged with a crime. >> does it bother you when people say this case is not about race? >> no, it doesn't. but you know, the whole world was looking at this case for a reason. and what people wanted to see, as we all said how far we have come in america in matters of equal justice. and certainly, as we have said, we'll be intellectually dishonest if we didn't acknowledge the racial undertones in this case. so, we have to have very responsible conversations about how we get better as a country and move forward from this tragedy and learn from it. >> yeah, i think mr. crump there really seizes on what's most

important. if people want to dance around what's going on here, that's fine, it's up to everybody's own choice, but you know, race played a role in people's perception of why this happened. and the idea now is what do we do with this? what are the dialogues to have? angela quarry is the florida attorney general in charge of the case. he didn't try it, but -- >> brought the charges. >> it is her case. she brought the charge. she says the racial concept was enough that we felt confident about bringing a murder charge, something we'll talk about this morning. confident enough to bring a murder charge on that basis but not to bring a charge that george zimmerman picked trayvon martin because of his race. there's a law on the books in florida for exactly that. they didn't charge him with that. why not if they were confident enough in that theory to bring a murder charge? something we'll discuss this morning. >> and the question of racial profiling, the naacp and many people are actually calling for the justice department to now look into civil charges going forward from this case. that's also something else we're

going to talk about more this morning. but across the united states, across the country, as you probably well know, emotions have been running high and continue to run high this morning. in some cities, hundreds of people have gathered overnight to protest the not guilty verdict. and we've been watching that very closely. >> as we take a look at some of what happened, what is most remarkable may be what we have not seen. there have been rumors of potential violence, but in cities from new york to chicago and across the bay area and california, there were emotional calls to action. but for the most part, so far, thankful thankfully, peace. >> what do you want? >> justice! >> what's his name? >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> we're in atlanta keeping track of the reaction for us. victor, good morning to you. tell us, what are you seeing down there? >> chris, kate, good morning. we are seeing demonstrations coast to coast, across the country, but what we are not seeing, as you said, is the violence. you know, the police officers, community leaders, pastors, they were all prepared for these

demonstrations and the demonstrators indeed showed up. let's start in san francisco. >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> you see here police in riot gear alongside hundreds of demonstrators. they're marching through san francisco's mission district. the organizers called this an emergency demonstration to show their outrage in response to the not guilty verdict. you see the hundreds of people chanting calling for justice. police had no reason to use that riot gear. no reports of arrests. let's go across the bay to oakland, california. the protests started peacefully, but this is how it ended. they smashed the windows of this transit worker's car. it's a b.a.r.t. car. tagged it with graffiti. cnn affiliate kutv reports that organizers asked protesters to wear hoodies when they showed up. of course, that's the garment trayvon martin was wearing when he was killed in february of 2012. they set a few small fires, they tipped a dumpster, burned a

flag. let's go now to chicago. they're chanting "justice for trayvon martin, not one more." hundreds protesting in daley plaza in downtown chicago. police were there to keep the peace, as they were in san francisco, in oakland, other cities across the country. and for the most part, peaceful in chicago. no arrests there. no reports of arrests or violence across the country, although we did see the destruction of property. you know, there was the psa, the public service announcement in broward county, chris and kate, that was released. it asked people to raise their voices and not their hands. we're going to share later some of the voices that were raised through social media, what some celebrities and just ordinary people who followed the case have to say. also, the protests in d.c., new york and throughout the country. back to you. >> all right, victor blackwell in atlanta for us tracking the reaction. thanks so much. >> sure. >> one thing that social media is allows is for instant reaction, where people were making their voices heard in

social media, twitter, facebook, all of the above, last night. that's for sure. and it will continue. >> very easy to be incendiary on social media, also. so it's something you have to be careful about. >> responsible conversation moving forward. >> absolutely. we're going to have a lot of emotion here and we'll also have complete coverage of the jury verdict in the george zimmerman trial all morning long. it matters to us, but there are a lot of other stories we're following as well, one in particular making news overnight. actor cory monteith, star of "glee," was found dead in a hotel room saturday. >> clearly a huge shock to many fans of the show. police say the cause of death wasn't immediately known, but they believe they have one thing, that they have ruled out foul play. monteith spent time in rehab earlier this year and had been public about his struggles with substance abuse. he was just 31 years old. we'll have much more on the story throughout this morning, including an exclusive interview with the guest director of "glee." our coverage of the verdict

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welcome back, everybody. you're watching cnn's special coverage of the george zimmerman verdict. now, very interesting, everybody wants to know how george zimmerman is reacting, what's the family thinking? you're going to want to listen to this next interview, because his brother, robert, sat down with our piers morgan right after the decision was announced, and he was real insightful there. he said george has some decompressing to do and is still coming to grips with the fact that he is a free man. >> he also said he is praying for trayvon martin's family, but listen to him in his own words. here's a little bit more from that exclusive interview. >> i really can't put into words how relieved we are as a family. that's the first thing my father said. having said that, i don't think this is the time for high-fiving. i acknowledge, we all have acknowledged that mr. martin, trayvon martin, lost his life.

it was not an act of murder. it was not an act of manslaughter. the jury has spoken. our judicial system has spoken, but that does not diminish the tragedy. death is tragic in any circumstance of someone, a young person losing their life for whatever circumstances exist. if trayvon were my brother and he was the one who was armed and legally armed, and you know, able to carry that firearm in a legal way, and my brother blind-sided him by breaking his nose and pummeling his head into concrete and continuing to punch him, i would find, and the jury has found, that unfortunately, he had the greater hand in his own demise, which is causing by his own hand his death. that's unfortunate, but that's the reality and that's what -- >> do you really believe that some. >> that's what the jury believes. it doesn't matter what i believe. >> do you believe that? >> absolutely, i believe that. >> you believe that trayvon caused his own death? a 17-year-old boy just armed just with a bag of skittles? >> look, we can be cynical about

it until the end of time. >> i'm just asking you what your personal view is. >> and i've been clear on my personal view and so has the jury. the jury has been spoken and they've been very clear. >> two families changed forever in a very, i think you could say a strange day for the george zimmerman family, because they did not know what was going to come next. >> but a compelling interview, because robert zimmerman, piers puts the questions to him about what you would have on your mind about why this was wrong, about why what george zimmerman did was wrong, and robert zimmerman answers every one. very compelling, so much so that we want to have him back on. so, this morning at 11:00, robert zimmerman jr. will be on set to share his and his family's perspective on what happened here and why as well as his brother's first day of freedom. >> it will be interesting to speak with him about that. other news, breaking news overnight, actor cory monteith is dead. the 31-year-old canadian native made famous on the hit show "glee" was found in his vancouver hotel room saturday.

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hey, everyone. we're continuing our special coverage of the not guilty verdict in the case against george zimmerman, a very special edition of "new day" this morning. >> but there are plenty of other stories going on right now, and for that, we're going to go to poppy harlow in atlanta. good morning, poppy. >> good morning, chris and kate. good morning, everyone.

a warning coming this morning from the journalist who broke the nsa surveillance program story. he says information still unreleased by edward snowden, the leaker, could yet be the most damaging. in an interview with an argentinean newspaper, glenn greenwald says that snowden actually has information that would produce dire consequences for the united states if it is released. he told the newspaper, "snowden has enough information to cause more harm to the u.s. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had." greenwald went on to say "the u.s. government should be on their knees every day praying that nothing happens to snowden, because if something happens, all information will be revea d revealed, and that would be their worst nightmare." pretty powerful words. on friday, snowden said he would ask russia for temporary asylum, but russian immigration officials reportedly said yesterday they have not yet received an asylum application from snowden. and now to the stunning and

tragic death of actor cory monteith. the canadian native who became famous playing finn hudson on the television show "glee" was found in his vancouver hotel room saturday dead. police say they do not yet know the cause of death but have found no evidence of foul play. monteith's body was found by hotel staff yesterday after he missed his check-out time. >> mr. monteith checked into the hotel on july 6th and was due to check out of the room today. there about others with mr. monteith in his room earlier last night. the video and fog key entries show him returning to his room by himself in the early-morning hours, and we believe he was alone when he died. >> and earlier this morning, i spoke with director adam schankman. he worked with monteith as a guest director on several episodes of "glee," and he told me that monteith was just a joy to work with, a consummate professional, and says he had just spoken to his friend yesterday morning. listen.

>> he was the glue, he was the cheerleader that really held everybody together on that, i really felt. he was always smiling, he was patient. he always knew all of his lines right away. he was, you know, he was the first to laugh when things were muddy. i had several interactions with him yesterday where he said to me that he was feeling amazing and he even said "i'm feeling fantastic again." and you know, he was obviously referring to, you know, the moment he had this year with going to rehab. and so, i'm like everybody else, really devastated and confused by what happened. >> now, monteith had checked into a drug addiction treatment

facility earlier this year and he has been candid about his struggle with substance abuse, but i want to be clear here, ad adam shankman told me that he doesn't believe at this point anybody should be making any ties between any potential drug use and his death. we still have a lot of questions and no answers. it is a tragedy. cory monteith was 31 years old. chris, kate? >> and poppy, that's the hard part is what's definitely known, only 31 years old and his life is over. it's terrible. thank you for giving us the headlines. appreciate it. big story that we're on this morning, of course, george zimmerman trial, not guilty the verdict. the reaction, crowds, noise. you're listening to it now. protesters hit the streets in several big american cities after the not guilty verdict for george zimmerman. luckily, big voices but not a lot of violence, but we'll tell you about the reactions and why they feel this way when we come back.

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through initiatives like these, our goal is to inspire more than three million people to rediscover the joy of being active this summer. see the difference all of us can make, together. welcome back, everybody. just after 6:30 here on the east coast. i'm chris cuomo. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us this sunday, july 14th. it's great to see you. i'm kate bolduan. we're continuing our coverage of the george zimmerman verdict. george zimmerman is a free man this morning. a florida jury could have sent him to prison for the killing of trayvon martin. that did not happen. >> no, they did not make that decision, and the result for trayvon martin's family is heartache, that no one will be punished for the death of heir son. >> in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in seminole county, florida, state

of florida versus george zimmerman. verdict. we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty, so say we all, foreperson. >> does either side want to poll the jury? >> we would, your honor. >> okay. ladies and gentlemen -- i mean, ladies, sorry. as your juror number is called, please answer whether this is your verdict. >> is this your verdict? >> yes. >> jury b-76, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> juror b-37, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> juror b-51, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> juror e-6, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> juror e-40, is this your verdict? >> yes. >> thank you. >> now, as you saw right there, zimmerman barely showing any emotion as the jury's decision came in late last night. he did smile slightly, calmly shook hands with his attorneys, but really remaining stoic, just as he has throughout the trial, as everyone, the nation has

watched him so closely. zimmerman's wife, though, was seen clearly emotional, wiping away tears after the verdict -- after the jury had revealed its decision. shel shel shellie zimmerman smiled broadly and hugged supporters by her side in the florida courtroom. >> nationwide protest! nationwide protest! >> outside the courtroom, though, much more emotional response. a small crowd chanted, calling for nationwide protests against the verdict. protesters also hit the streets in a number of big cities across the country, but the crowds remained relatively small. important to note, really, none of the violence. there was a fear that there would have been violence following the verdict, but no real violence that we've seen so far, and everyone is happy because of that. >> good news on a tough night, to be sure. >> yes. >> now, the jury of six women deliberated for 16 1/2 hours, two days before finding george zimmerman not guilty and none of them has spoken publicly. >> but plenty of people are weighing in on why they think

the prosecution's case didn't stick this time. let's bring in defense attorney and former prosecutor tanya miller as well as criminal defense attorney danny sevalos. thanks for coming in. i'm sure a late night for you. tanya, everyone saying you have to wait until the verdict. you cannot get into the jury's mind, but when you see this verdict of not guilty and you know the charges, the potential convictions that the jury could have picked, do you see any point where the prosecution failed or where the prosecution lost the jury during the trial? >> you know, i don't really think you can pinpoint it to any particular moment. i, frankly, think that the prosecution did a good job. i think they presented their case well. i think they believed in their case and that came across very clearly, particularly in the closing arguments. the bottom line is this, is that it's not easy to get a conviction in our criminal justice system. it affords defendants tremendous

protection under the law. the prosecution had a high burden to meet. and i, frankly, think the defense did a good job of convincing this jury that doubt existed. they held that doubt against the state, as they should. but i also think a testament to how good a job they did is the fact that so many people are divided on this case. so many people watched this trial from their living rooms and they reached a completely different conclusion seeing the exact same evidence. so, i don't know what that necessarily means, but i certainly think that the prosecution did the best they could with what they had. >> i think that, you know, what we're dealing with here, tanya and danny, is that people pretty much never were able to move off of what we first knew about this case, you know, that this black kid, 17 years old, unarmed, going to a place where he is allowed to be, doing nothing wrong, wound up being killed. and it just seemed unnecessary and wrong, and it's hard to move off that assumption to anyone else. it just seems that it's wrong and it should be punished.

and danny, that's why i come to you now. our job here is to help people understand this verdict and why it's not just a system that doesn't make sense, that it may well have made sense under these facts. what should people know about why this case was so difficult for the prosecution to make and why you're not surprised by this verdict? >> well, first of all, i do hear a lot of the language like what you just said, chris, that this is about a kid who went and got skittles, but the facts don't necessarily show that. this may have also been a kid who initiated, possibly, a fight. he may not have, he may have. but the facts are more than just walking to 7-eleven to get a packet of skittles. that's the problem. the facts that people have focused on have very little to do with the elements of the crime. no elements of the crime involved being african-american. none involved skittles and none involved iced tea or fruit drink. the bottom line is, the prosecution always had a difficult set of facts. they do not get to choose their facts, and they did an admirable job with what they had.

they went forward like warriors and they took the facts they had and they argued them. however, ultimately, i will echo, the burden of proof was simply too high. they had to disprove that self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and i believe that that was something they could not do given these facts. >> tanya, you know, the defense counsel said in comments afterwards that this was a disgrace that the prosecution brought this case. what do you think about that? not about whether or not they had beyond a reasonable doubt of proof, but in bringing this case, charging it, how do you feel about the comments of the defense counsel? >> well, i obviously don't agree with those comments, as i have said over and over again that i thought the decision to charge second-degree murder was appropriate in this case based on the facts and supported the prosecution's decision to do so. i think using that kind of language, it really didn't make a lot of sense to me. the bottom line is that there

was a teenager who was dead. his parents lost their son. this needed to aired before a jury, and that's what happened in this case. i, frankly, think that many people view, whether it's right or wrong, this verdict as a disgrace, because they do not understand, as well as us lawyers who work in the system might, how this could happen, how a kid who was minding his own business, walking in a place where he had a right to be, who did not seek out george zimmerman, did not make it home that night. and so, how do you look at those facts and then conclude that it's a disgrace for our system to take some action? i just didn't agree with that comment. >> first of all, here's how you look at those facts. you add the additional facts, which are george zimmerman's injuries and the other facts that suggest that there was an altercation that may or may not have been started by trayvon martin. part two of that is that people

are criticizing the attorneys for saying things like it's a disgrace. you have to understand, these gentlemen have been living this case for a year and a half. they probably have fielded hate e-mails, hate calls. tonight and today they are victorious. and to the victor, for now, go the spoils. we have to forgive them for maybe saying something that isn't said with the slick packaging of a pr expert. they have been living this case, breathing it, and i understand, we should be thrilled as audience members that we had the opportunity to see the raw moment of a press conference which probably, maybe they shouldn't have given right after the win, but we certainly, the benefit to us was we got to see the raw emotion, things they may not have said a week from now. >> i don't know that -- i don't know what the benefit of that necessarily is, particularly when there were no winners in this case. i know that, technically, their client was acquitted, but there are no winners in this case.

>> all right, tanya miller, danny cevallos, we'll leave it there for a moment, but many more questions about the verdict, how they got there, and also, we want to talk about later what they're going to do going forward. we know that the naacp and many others are calling for a civil rights investigation for the justice department to be looking at that. we'll talk about that more in a little bit. thank you both so much. another significant development to talk about, something we learned yesterday. not necessarily to do with the case, but surrounding the case. >> yes. >> an employee of the florida state attorney's office has been fired. now, here's why it matters. this same employee testified that prosecutors withheld evidence from zimmerman's lawyers. >> mm-hmm. an i.t. director, the information technology director, ben cridvos testified before the trial that data from trayvon martin's cell phone, including photos of martin blowing smoke, images of marijuana and deleted text messages were not given to the defense. the state attorney's office

denied the claims and accused him of deleting public information from a laptop. again, what his dismissal and firing, how that's connected to exactly what we're seeing here. it's not entirely clear at the moment. angela was asked about it last night. >> yeah, and she was very forthright in making it clear to the media and anyone watching that his dismissal had to do with his job performance, not what he testified on in that hearing. >> right. >> that's her position on it. what does it mean for the trial? could it be grounds for an appeal? well, no, because there's going to be no appeal because it would have only affected the defense and they won the case because he was found not guilty. so, but an important detail, development in the story we wanted you to know about. and obviously, the main focus now in this, understanding the verdict and the reaction to it. a massive outpouring of support for trayvon martin at the courtroom last night and social media following the verdict in the george zimmerman trial. >> and we'll have all the reaction from regular folks to celebrities and the result of an

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mr. zimmerman, i have signed the judgment that confirms the jury's verdict. your bond will be released. your gps monitor will be cut off when you exit the courtroom over here. and you have no further business with the court. okay, thank you. is there anything else -- >> and that is how the criminal case ended. just really seems like a few hours ago. george zimmerman a free man this

morning. >> as his lawyer said, whether he decides to stay in florida or move away and start over, zimmerman's life will never really be the same. >> and part of the reason his life will never be the same is the national attention that was drawn to this case and the reactions we're hearing from fellow citizens online, really across all social media, twitter, facebook, even instagram and youtube. people are speaking out, as well they can and should. the majority, though, of the messages that you're seeing so far are disappointment, supporters of trayvon martin. victor blackwell is at cnn headquarters in atlanta following this social media reaction. so, victor, what are you seeing so far? it really seems to be very passionate dialogue we're hearing on social media. >> yeah, kate, one thing i'd like to add is, national attention, international attention. we're seeing tweets overseas from people who have followed the zimmerman case from the very start, and this is how most authorities wanted people to speak out. now, as we said, the broward county sheriff's office, they released a psa saying raise your voice and not your hands. and from what we're hearing from

most people through social media and some well-known people. let's start with a tweet from russell simmons, business mogul and founder of def jam. he tweeted about this case, writing "prayers for the martin family. only god knows what was on zimmerman's mind, but the gun laws and stand your ground laws must change." let's go to co-host of "the view," sherri shepherd. she tweeted from "sherrishepherd2h," going to pray and after i pray, i'm going to hug my son who one day might go to the store in the rain in a hoodie. maybe it will be different, #jesus." and a lot of prayers, a lot of calls for people to pray for the family and for our country. and let's also go to lana dunham, treater of the hbo series "girls." she writes simply a two-letter sta start, "no. my heart is with sybrina fulton, rachel jeantel everyone who loved trayvon and has been sent the message that his life did

not matter." kate, chris? >> i think most people would agree, people, their hearts and prayers are with the family of trayvon martin and as well with the family of george zimmerman. as i keep saying, just to remember is that two families are changed forever from this trial. >> right, and i do think that, you know, it is our responsibility to bring up that in a vacuum, these reactions make 100% complete sense. they do, anyway, on an emotional level, but we do have to remember, and it's hard to focus on, but we know from that night that george zimmerman came away with the injuries, okay? he had the nose, he had the injuries on his head, he had a story that his head was being banged against the concrete by trayvon martin. the jury accepted that. so, this isn't a mystery. this isn't where we have to search ourselves why a society went so wrong. there was a trial here. the facts and arguments were presented by the prosecution as they wanted. they did everything they wanted to do in this case. they didn't get the result they wanted. but remember, in terms of trying

to figure out how this happened, so many people are saying that, the jury believed what george zimmerman and some of the evidence suggested, which is he took the beating from trayvon martin. he may have started the fight, but he took the beating. and when that happens, in the law, the analysis changes. how bad was that beating? was it reasonable what george zimmerman says that he feared he was going to be very hurt by this 17-year-old sitting on top of him, pounding him with fists and his head against the concrete? you have to build that into your understanding. i know it's hard. i know it makes you angry, but it also helps make sense what happened here. >> one thing you've also said, and we've heard in other places as well, is while our system of justice is not perfect, it's still the best in the world. >> right. >> something to remember as we go forward. victor, thanks so much. i forgot to thank him. >> i'm sure he'll be back this morning. >> we'll see him again. >> as we've been saying here, the jurors have made their decision in this trial and they took it very seriously. >> yeah, they took it very seriously. we're going to have details of the far-reaching reaction of the verdict. we're going to keep watching

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prosecutors that tried to send george zimmerman to prison had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt -- that's the key -- that zimmerman did not act in self-defense that night in february. >> not easy to do, especially on these facts. and the jurors heard what the prosecution had to present and the defense had to counter with, and they came to a conclusion that what happened in that fight justified what george zimmerman did. take a listen. >> to prove the crime of manslaughter, the state must prove the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt. one, trayvon martin is dead. two, george zimmerman intentionally committed an act or acts that caused the death of trayvon martin. george zimmerman cannot be guilty of manslaughter or committing a merely negligent act or if the killing was justifiable or excusable homicide. >> technically, it could be a debate going on between

manslaughter and second degree. it could be a debate tweens manslaughter and acquittal. >> in the 18th judicial circuit in seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman, verdict. we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty. >> complete shock, utter shock. i cannot believe he was not found guilty. >> obviously, we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i'm glad that the jury saw it that way. >> i am gratified by the jury's verdict. as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. for that, we are eternally grateful. >> i am disappointed, as we are with the verdict, but we accept

it. we live in a great country that has a great criminal justice system. it is not perfect, but it's the best in the world, and we respect the jury's verdict. >> to the living we owe respect. to the dead we owe the truth. we have been respectful to the living. we have done our best to assure due process to all involved. and we believe that we brought out the truth on behalf of trayvon martin. >> i really can't put into words how relieved we are as a family. that's the first thing my father said. having said that, i don't think this is a time for high-fiving. i acknowledge, we all have acknowledged that mr. martin, trayvon martin, lost his life. it was not an act of murder. it was not an act of manslaughter. the jury has spoken. our judicial system has spoken, but that does not diminish the tragedy. death is tragic in any circumstance. >> we're just getting started

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in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit, seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george izimmerma. verdict -- we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty, so say we all, foreperson. >> that was the big moment from the george zimmerman trial. after 16 hours of deliberations, three weeks of trial, just eight hours ago that was the verdict. and the reactions are spilling over. good morning, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thanks for joining us. >> and i'm chris cuomo. it's 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west. thank you for starting your morning with us. protesters out in oakland, they trashed a police squad car. one of the reactions last night. thankfully, one of the few angry, violent reactions to that florida jury's decision to set george zimmerman free. a crowd numbering maybe 100

strong marched through downtown oakland an hour after the verdict came in. but again, for the most part, so far, thankfully, there have been more voices than violence. >> what's his name? >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> protests also took place in many other large american cities from there to philadelphia and washington, d.c. >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> justice for? >> trayvon martin! >> this was the scene across the bay in san francisco last night. you're watching that right now. now, we want to kind of round up what's been going on, so let's bring in victor blackwell. he's in atlanta keeping track of reaction across the country for us. victor, this is a little bit typical of what we've been seeing, right? how did it play out so far? >> yeah, those peaceful protests literally on both coasts. last hour we focused on san francisco and oakland, we talked about the west coast. chris and kate, this hour, let's go to the east coast, and i want to start in florida in

tallahassee, the capital city of florida. listen. ♪ >> about 200 people singing on the steps of the old capitol building in tallahassee, chanting and singing there with signs. reports that some of the signs say "racism is not dead," and the question "who's next?" let's go to new york now. and a few hundred people showed up with signs and also chanting in peaceful protests in union square. now, union square is a very popular place to hold protests there, protests there on an average weekday, but last night, very passionate people. listen to one of them. >> for a person that lost his life and to not get justice behind it, it doesn't make any sense. >> i think it's a gross injustice, and i think it's just gross. it makes me feel sick, embarrassed. >> pretty much something i expected. i knew the system would, you

know, pretty much not work again, and that's just how i feel about it. i'm very sad about the situation. i hope everybody just reacts calmly to it. >> even a demonstration in front of the white house in washington, d.c. this is cell phone video of several people there singing, praying for the country after this verdict from sanford, florida. we know that this went on for several hours as people joined and left that protest, that demonstration. there is a scheduled demonstration a few miles north of d.c. in baltimore. we'll see what comes to fruition there. but again, protests all over the country. and as you said, more voices than violence. most people simply went to social media to voice their concern, their displeasure, for the most part, with the verdict, and we'll talk more about that throughout the hour. chris, kate? >> victor, thank you for watching that for us. very important that we keep track. it. we'll come back to you, like you suggest. we're giving you a broad snapshot of the national reaction to the george zimmerman verdict, but we want to get to why this happened, all right?

so, let's bring in george howell, he's been covering this in sanford, florida, from the beginning. right alongside him, sunny hostin, former federal prosecutor. sunny, i'll start with you. people believe this is wrong, they don't like that this is the outcome. i suggested that you have to understand that there's more here than just this kid going to the store and then getting killed, that the jury accepted a theory about what happened during that fight, and they concluded that george zimmerman was justified in killing trayvon martin on that night. i know you don't agree with the verdict, sunny, but help the audience understand why this verdict was not a surprise to many in the legal community. >> yeah, i mean, it was a surprise to me. i will tell you, i was stunned when the verdict came down, but there was the defense of self-defense, which is a complete defense to both second-degree murder and manslaughter. and to acquit george zimmerman, the jury had to believe that he was acting in self-defense.

and clearly, that is what they believed. i will tell you, i think that, of course, as an attorney and as a former prosecutor, someone that swore to uphold the law, i respect the verdict and i want to make that very clear, that we should all respect the verdict, but i do believe that the verdict was unjust. i think, chris, to ignore that george zimmerman started this event, started the confrontation, started the ball rolling by making these unfounded, wrong assumptions that trayvon martin walking home, unarmed, was a criminal is really looking at this in a skewed way, and the defense all along, and most people, i think, that were watching this trial wanted to see this from the perspective of the dead teen being on trial for his own murder, the dead teen being responsible for starting this confrontation. >> right. >> when they're not looking at

the entire picture, who started the event. and that's why i think you see so many people that are uncomfortable with the verdict. i think, actually, this verdict is going to go down in history as one of those infamous verdicts, like casey anthony, like o.j. simpson. but i think bottom line is we do need to respect the verdict, because you know, the system that we have is the best system in the world. >> right. i just think we need to be careful, sunny, to not make it seem like this was a mistake, that they didn't have any reason to find this. because again -- >> exactly. >> -- legal analysts from the beginning have been saying, this is going to be really tough for the prosecution, i don't think they have the facts here because. and you know, we go through things quickly sometimes because we have legal backgrounds, but this jury, their test was whether or not the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that george zimmerman should not have reasonably believed he was

having serious bodily injury that night, that that was the risk. that's a very awkward thing to say. it's confusing to me, it's confusing to the jury. so, they had to acquit this man if they didn't find that the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that george zimmerman, thinking he was going to get seriously hurt, made sense. it sounds confusing, but this was a very difficult test for them. george, you followed this case. you've been in that jury room. you saw their faces as they went through. did you get a sense that the prosecution, while making its case, wasn't making it to their satisfaction? >> that's a good question. it's a tough question. all i can say, chris, is this. you could tell that these jurors, they took copious notes, they played close attention. even mark o'mara noted this isn't a jury that fell asleep on me. it's a long process. that happens at times, didn't happen in this case. and clearly, they were very

deliberate in taking their time to understand those instructions they were given to make a decision. just a couple quick points, the things that stood out to me yesterday. with john guy walking up to don west, you remember there was some animosity in the courtroom about these possible discovery violations. don west refused to shake his hand. so, you saw that animosity between the defense attorneys and the prosecutors. also, you know, when it came to the prosecutors, they said that they were disappointed with the ruling but they respect the verdict, and they still hold to their facts. they fought for those facts, even in the press conference after the verdict. and the defense team saying, look, this was david and goliath in many ways, but the defense team says we won. >> now, i want to ask you both about this. sunny, first to you. you know, we said as the jury started, began their deliberations, the instructions that they were given is the holy grail. it is what is one of the most important things that will, as they head into deliberations. what do you think about this jury instructions, specifically

about the manslaughter instruction, because that is the one question that the jury came back and had for the court, asking for clarification on that one point? the question from the jury was specifically, may we please have clarification on the instructions regarding manslaughter. the court said be more specific and we may be able to help you. they never came back with any more specificity before we had the verdict. what does that tell you, sunny? >> yeah. well, what that told me last night when i was actually on set listening to it was that that's sort of the lone hold-out juror or two jurors saying, you know what, i'm not sure yet. let's find out exactly what manslaughter means. sometimes jurors use that as a bargaining tool. i looked at the jury instructions, kate. they were pretty clear. i don't think they were -- they were very different from what any sort of standard manslaughter instruction you would get. it was a 27-page jury charge.

it was a good jury charge. you remember, the defense and the prosecution both agreed to the jury instructions. they worked on it for a while. they had a conference on it in open court. we have a copy of the jury instructions. they were pretty clear. i think what we saw yesterday with that question was are jurors trying to reach a consensus. that's what that was about, and i will tell you, i think i said it -- i'm pretty sure i said it on air yesterday when don lemon asked me what do you think about the fact that they never came back with a specific, you know, request. i said that sounds like it's good news for the defense. >> george, any final thought before we've got to go? >> you know, again, the biggest thing is you saw the prosecutors making the point that, you know, this is a case that they still believed in. angela corey said, you know, she respected the verdict but still disagreed with the facts of this case. >> and it is decided this morning. >> people are going to have feelings about it, they're going

to be passionate, but that's why our job is to kind of present this picture of what happened at trial, what the facts were and why the jury found what they did. remember, they took their job very seriously. they came back, asked a question about that instruction. sunny found it clear. i found it a little unclear. i understand why they were confused about how to fit the facts into that particular crime because there was no real mention of the intent involved, no real way for them to interpret as lay people why he would have committed this crime -- >> one thing everyone agreed on, though, is that this was a very attentive jury. >> oh, yes. >> everyone said throughout, no one had to wake anybody up that was sleeping during kind of the mundane testimony. these women were attentive, they were right on point, they were taking notes and were very deliberative. more than 16 hours of deliberation before they came back with the verdict. sunny, george, great to have you. thank you so much. >> right. now, there will be a lot of monday morning quarterbacking, right? we're doing it on sunday, let alone on monday. >> right. >> and some of the critics said prosecutors shouldn't have gone

for a murder conviction against zimmerman in the first place, too ambitious, that the evidence wouldn't support it. but florida's state attorney, angela corey, was defending the decision, even after the verdict came down. take a listen. >> that for a case like this to come out in bits and pieces served no good to no one. as mr. guy told the jury yesterday, to the living we owe respect, to the dead we owe the truth. we have been respectful to the living. we have done our best to assure due process to all involved. and we believe that we brought out the truth on behalf of trayvon martin. >> now, both sides on this case speaking after the verdict last night. don west one of george zimmerman's defense attorneys. he wasn't exactly beaming. he was not jubilant. there was nothing they were really celebrating after this verdict. he seemed to have took it to the prosecutors over the way they handled the case but had kind words for the jury. listen here. >> i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was

disgraceful. i am gratified by the jury's verdict. as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. for that, we are eternally grateful. but it makes me sad, too, that it took this long under these circumstances to finally get justice. >> both reacting there, obviously. much more reaction to come throughout the morning, throughout the weekend. there's another story we're following this morning that we're going to talk about after the break, a stunning story from the entertainment world. actor cory monteith. he played finn hudson in the hit tv show "glee." he's been found dead. we'll bring you the latest details. ♪ ♪ unh ♪ ♪ hey!

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mr. zimmerman, i have signed the judgment that confirms the jury's verdict. your bond will be released. your gps monitor will be cut off when you exit the courtroom over here. and you have no further business with the court. >> thank you, ma'am. >> okay, thank you. is there anything else the court needs to take -- >> george zimmerman a free man this morning, the first day of the rest of his life, a life that will probably never be the same. as zimmerman starts his life as

a free man, this was the scene right outside that sanford, florida, courthouse. take a look. >> justice for trayvon! justice for trayvon! justice for trayvon! >> those protesters are shouting "justice for trayvon." those who gathered did remain peaceful. no arrests were made, but "the miami herald" reported that at least one verbal fight broke out between protesters, a man and a woman arguing over the role of race in the trial. >> keep an eye that, but also, another stunning story happening overnight, the tragic death of actor cory monteith. the canadian native who became famous playing finn hudson on the hit tv show "glee" was found in a vancouver hotel room saturday. monteith's body was found by hotel staff yesterday after he missed his check-out time. nick valencia is in atlanta monitoring all of this. and it's truly a tragic story, nick. he's so young. what's the latest you're hearing? >> good morning, kate. sudden and tragic. the cause of death is not immediately known, but police have ruled out foul play. an autopsy is set for monday.

just to remind our viewers, cory monteith skyrocketed to fame as part of the hit tv show "glee." he played the loveable quarterback that was forced to join the glee club. he is actually credited for being the reason why "glee" is so successful. earlier this morning, cnn's poppy harlow spoke to a close friend of monteith, who's just simply shocked. >> he was the glue, he was the cheerleader that really held everybody together on that, that i really felt. he was always smiles, he was patient, he was the first one, you know, he always knew all of his lines right away. he was, you know, he was the first to laugh when things were muddy. i had several interactions with him yesterday where he said to me that he was feeling amazing and even said "i'm feeling fantastic again."

and you know, he was obviously referring to, you know, the moment he had this year with going to rehab. and so, i'm, like everybody else, really devastated and confused by what happened. >> shankman was not only a close friend of monteith, he was also a guest director for "glee" and had worked with monteith since the show launched in 2009. kate? >> and nick, as shankman mentioned rehab, tell us about it. monteith battled substance abuse in the past, but before that, we're not making any connection at this point between what caused his death and prior substance abuse, but -- >> that's right. >> -- people are making note of it this morning because he is so young. >> he battled with sobriety for years. he first checked into a rehab facility when he was 13 years old, and most recently, he checked in voluntarily in march. he was said to be doing well. in fact, shankman, as you

mentioned, in that interview there had said his friend was doing well and was in good spirits when he talked to just hours before his death. this death of his young 31-year-old really taking the entertainment world by surprise this morning. kate? >> yeah, many more questions about that. we'll be staying on top of it. nick, thanks so much. >> you bet. all right, it is still a heated debate. was race a factor in the death of trayvon martin and the case against george zimmerman? and if it was, how did it play out? >> after the break, we'll hear what some of the trial's key players had to say about all of that. hey, buddy? oh, hey, flo. you want to see something cool? snapshot, from progressive. my insurance company told me not to talk to people like you. you always do what they tell you? no... try it, and see what your good driving can save you. you don't even have to switch. unless you're scared. i'm not scared, it's... you know we can still see you. no, you can't. pretty sure we can... try snapshot today -- no pressure.

zimmerman's lawyer, mark o'mara, argued for more than two weeks that his client harbored no ill will, hatred or spite when he shot trayvon martin. here is what he had to say moments after the verdict. >> george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i'm glad that the jury saw it that way and i hope that everyone who thinks, particularly those who doubted george's reasons and doubted his background, now understands the jury knew, everything that they knew was enough for them to find him not guilty. >> trayvon martin's family, they have said that they did not want this case to be about race, but even their lawyers acknowledge that the issue did loom large throughout the trial. >> for many, race was at a minimum a subtext in trayvon martin's death and the trial of george zimmerman is what made this a national story, that issue. >> right. >> some of the key players weighed in on the issue after

the verdict. take a listen. >> this case has never been about race, nor has it ever been about the right to bear arms, not in the sense of proving this as a criminal case, but trayvon martin was profiled. there is no doubt that he was profiled to be a criminal. and if race was one of the aspects in george zimmerman's mind, then we believe that we put out the proof necessary to show that zimmerman did profile trayvon martin. >> i think that things would have been different if george zimmerman was black for this reason, he never would have been charged with a crime. >> does it bother you when people say this case is not about race? >> no, it doesn't. but you know, the whole world was looking at this case for a reason. and what people wanted to see, as we all said, how far we have come in america in matters of equal justice.

and certainly, as we have said, we'll be intellectually dishonest if we didn't acknowledge the racial undertones in this case. so, we have to have very responsible conversations about how we get better as a country and move forward from this tragedy and learn from it. >> it's a brilliant point. probably too early. people are feeling their emotions. and any discussion of progress is like judging emotions. and if you're going to feel anger, it's going to happen, it's going to last this time, and then hopefully, as the attorney was saying, we can move forward. also, we're getting a lot of tweets from people echoing what o'mara said, the defense counsel, that his theory, if george zimmerman had been black, he would never have been charged. except they take it in an opposite way. they're saying that maybe that is just more proof of how unfair the system is, that if a black person kills a black systpersone system doesn't respect it the

same way. the zimmerman case has been some 15 months in the making, nearly a year and a half of arguments and anticipation, all of which came to a crescendo last night. >> and one side was bound to be heartbroken, obviously, because tensions were high, emotions were high and there was a lot of outrage after the verdict. so, so far, reaction to the not guilty verdict has been passionate, both online and on the street. listen here. >> we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty, so say we all, foreperson. >> nationwide protests! [ inaudible ] >> oh, god! oh, god! >> not guilty on all counts. >> i am disappointed, as we are,

with the verdict, but we accept it. >> complete shock, utter shock. i cannot believe that he was not found guilty. >> no justice, no peace! >> i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. >> what do you want? >> justice! >> for who? >> trayvon! >> what do we want? >> justice! and during chevy's model year-end event you're getting a great deal on our remaining 2013 models, but they're going fast. what are you doing? moving in. before someone else does. ohhh...great. [ male announcer ] the chevy model year-end event. the 13s are going fast, time to get yours. right now, get this great lease on a 2013 chevy malibu ls for around $169 a month.

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hope you're having a good sunday morning. thank you so much for joining us. you're watching cnn's special coverage of the george zimmerman verdict. late last night he was found not guilty of murder in trayvon martin's death. >> after the verdict came down, zimmerman's defense attorney, mark o'mara, was asked about the role of race in the case. take a listen. >> hello, sir. >> hi. >> i have a two-part question, "l.a. times." the first part is the prosecution raised this question about whether the outcome would be different if the races of the defendant and the victim were different. do you think it would have been different if george zimmerman was black? and the other part of my question is, does he fear for his safety surrounding his security? >> well, i think that things would have been different if george zimmerman was black for this reason, he never would have been charged with a crime. it seems as though what happened was an event that was being looked into by the sanford

police department, and quite honestly, as we now know, looked into quite well. i have taken advantage of police departments who have not done a good investigation of crimes because that's what i do for a living. when i looked at the sanford police department investigation, they had done quite a good job, and you can compare what they did across the country to see who does good or bad jobs with their investigation, but they were doing quite a lot. what happened was, this became a focus for a civil rights event, which again is a wonderful event to have, but they decide that george zimmerman would be the person who they were to blame and sort of use as the creation of a civil rights violation, none of which was borne out by the facts. the facts that night, it was not borne out that he acted in a racial way. his history is a nonracist. and you know all the anecdotes

about people living in his home when he was young and the sherman ware incident. so, if only those who decided to condemn mr. zimmerman as quickly and viciously as they did would have taken just a little bit of time to find out who it was that they were condemning, it would never have happened. and it certainly wouldn't have happened if he was black, because those people who decided that they were going to make him the scapegoat would not have. >> there are a lot of explosive statements there. o'mara has told cnn that he blames martin family attorney ben crump. that's the man on your screen. for getting zimmerman charged in the case and making it a larger story about race. >> let's continue talking about this a little bit. shortly after trayvon martin was killed back in 2012, the reverend jesse jackson publicly demanded that officials in florida arrest the man who had pulled the trigger. well, now george zimmerman, the man who did pull the trigger, he is a free man, found not guilty

of second-degree murder or manslaughter in trayvon martin's death. let's talk more about all of this, the racial overtones, what this means going forward with the reverend jesse jackson, civil rights leader, joining us from chicago. reverend, it is great to see you. great to see you, as always. >> good morning. >> i want you to listen. good morning. i want to get your take on all this, but i want you to first listen to the state's attorney, angela corey, and what she said just after the verdict last night. >> this case has never been about race, nor has it ever been about the right to bear arms, not in the sense of proving this as a criminal case. but trayvon martin was profiled. there is no doubt that he was profiled to be a criminal. and if race was one of the aspects in george zimmerman's mind, then we believe that we put out the proof necessary to show that zimmerman did profile trayvon martin. >> you heard right there from

angela corey. she said two very important things. she said this case was not about race, but she said that they believe they did offer enough proof that trayvon martin was profiled. going forward, that might be a big issue. what do you see in this case, especially after this verdict, reverend? >> i remain stunned at this decision that the grown man armed murdered an unarmed man going home because he suspected him. the state's attorney avoided the issue of race. the defense team denied the issue of race. and yet, race profile was obvious from the very beginning. and because of this conclusion, you look at all white people doing the offense and defense, you look at a jury without a black or without a man on it. it certainly was not a jury of trayvon's peers. the department of justice must

intervene and take this case, frankly, to another level. >> reverend, let's take a look at that as to why, because what we're faced with now is what you're very well aware of, that the jury took a look at the situation and said that no matter how it began, once there was this altercation and trayvon martin, they assume, took the advantage and started to beat george zimmerman, that he was justified in doing what he did that night. that's the finding of the jury. and now that we know that -- >> you can't start -- you can't start at the altercation. what you start at is a boy going home attending to his business and a grown man, wanna be cop, armed, profiling and pursuing him, advised by the police not to pursue him. he did it anyhow. and the grown man murdered the unarmed boy. and i might add, walked away into the arms of police as a sanctuary because he knew them. it took protests to get him in court in the first place. all the argument about the

altercation as a start takes the whole issue out of context. i also feel across the nation, i want people who are going to protest, do so with dignity and don't dishonor the legacy of trayvon. there is a trayvon in every time. in oakland, there is the protest led by reverend sharpton in new york. as a matter of fact, last in chicago, 57 shootings or killings by the police civilians. 93% black or brown. so, there is a trayvon in every town. that's why the department of justice has a role to play and look at this pattern, because the equal protection under the law remains elusive. >> i want to ask you, going forward, we have got many statements after the verdict last night. one statement from the naacp president ben jealous -- you know him well, of course. he said this in part. we have it up there on the screen. he says, "we are outraged and heartbroken over today's verdict."

he also says "we will pursue civil rights charges with the department of justice. we will continue to fight for the removal of stand your ground rules in every state and we will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed." and as ben jealous says right there, they're asking the department of justice to look into civil rights violations here against george zimmerman. do you support that effort? >> absolutely. rainbow push is having a 10:00 press conference here in chicago. they're making the same appeal. the two unifying factors of civil rights, one is the supreme court unifying our struggle by attacking voter rights enforcement last wednesday and now the case of trayvonmartin, who joins a legacy of emmitt hill and the innocent man shot down without a sense of justice as a response. i will tell you that we all are stunned. we deserve better. people of good will and conscience must say no to this kind of blatant miscarriage of justice.

>> reverend, i want to thank you, but i want you to allow -- i want to allow you to leave this part of the discussion with a message for people. people are still figuring out how they feel about this and what to do about it. what do you want people to know, no matter how they feel about this, whether they feel george zimmerman was targeted or whether they feel trayvon martin was unfairly treated? what do you want people to know? >> well, there will be protests, but they must be carried out with dignity and discipline and let no act discredit the legacy of trayvon martin on the appeal of his family. because in the long run, we will prevail in the struggle for justice. so, in that act of violence, it could serve on the mind the innocent blood and moral authority of trayvon. because what will happen if there are, in fact, riots, you give sympathy to zimmerman and it discredits trayvon, and trayvon deserves the sympathy. zimmerman in this school of thought does not. >> all right. reverend jesse jackson joining us from chicago. reverend, thank you so much for

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welcome back to a special edition of "new day," everyone. we are continuing our coverage of the not guilty verdict in the case against george zimmerman. >> but it is not the only story going on, as important as it is, so let's get the other headlines. for that, we go to poppy harlow in atlanta. good morning, poppy. >> good morning, chris. good morning, kate. good morning, everyone. it is a tragedy, it is a shock. actor cory monteith has been found dead in his vancouver hotel room. the canadian native famous for his role as finn hudson in the television hit show "glee" was found saturday by hotel staff after missing his check-out time. police do not yet know the cause of his death but have so far ruled out foul play. there is an autopsy scheduled for monday. >> mr. monteith checked into the hotel on july 6th and was due to check out of the room today. there were others with mr. monteith in his room earlier last night, but video and fog key entries show him returning to his room by himself in the early morning hours, and we

believe he was alone when he died. >> now, the actor was just 31 years old. our thoughts, our prayers, of course, with his family at this hour. also, a warning coming from the journalist who broke the nsa surveillance program story. he says information still unreleased by edward snowden could be the most damaging yet. in an interview with an argentinean newspaper, glenn greenwald says that snowden has information that would produce dire consequences for the united states if it is released. he told the newspaper, "snowden has enough information to cause more harm to the u.s. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. the u.s. government should be on their knees every day praying that nothing happens to snowden, because if something happens, all information will be revealed and that would be their worst nightmare." pretty strong words there on friday. snowden said he would ask russia, where he currently is, for temporary asylum, but

russian immigration officials reportedly said yesterday they have not yet received an official asylum application from snowden. and this just in to cnn. asiana airlines says it may take legal action against the ntsb and a bay area television station over a report about that fatal plane crash. ktvu misreported the names of the four pilots during its noon broadcast on friday. the information wasn't just wrong, it also made fun of asian names. the report went viral not long after it aired. the station apologized and said the ntsb had confirmed those names as the pilots' names. the agency apologized and said it was a summer intern who had confirmed the names. the airline says the report seriously damaged the reputation of the four pilots of the company and they called it demeaning. kate, chris? >> not an okay mistake. poppy harlow, thank you so much.

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the jury of six women deliberated for over 16 1/2 hours, two days they did this before finding george zimmerman not guilty. now, none of them has spoken publicly. >> yeah, but plenty of people are weighing in on why they think the prosecutors failed to prove -- and here's the important part -- beyond a reasonable doubt that george zimmerman did not act in self-defense. let's talk more about all of this. there's a lot to analyze now

that we know the decision by the verdict. joining us now are cnn legal analyst paul calen. thank you so much. nice to see you, paul, as well as criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. got a lot of questions for you two, but first to you, paul. it's something chris and i have been talking about a lot in the break. you had folks saying all along that this was wrong, george zimmerman shot someone, killed someone, he should be punished. but also, all along as the trial continued, legal minds were saying this is going to be a tough case for the prosecution to win. so, how and why did the jury reach the conclusion that they did? did the prosecution's case just simply fall kate, it was a tough but very well tried case by very talented lawyers on both sides. you really had a good prosecution team and a very good defense team. the jury got to see pretty much all of the evidence that was legally admissible but in the

end this is what they concluded. george zimmerman mischaracterized and made a mistake in thinking that trayvon martin was a criminal bent on possibly burglarizing an apartment in this condominium development and he started to loosely follow him despite the fact that a 911 operator said we don't need you to follow him but what happens next is where the prosecution ran into a lot of problems and that is who initiated the physical contact between the two men? in the end, there were two things procesecutors could not t around. number one george zimmerman had a broken nose. the only injury on martin were abrasions to his fist other than the bullet wound which would indicate that he struck zimmerman in the nose initiating the contact and the second thing was a stopwatch.

omara did something that looked foolish to many people during his summation. he hit a stopwatch and let it go for four minutes and said that's how much time passed that trayvon martin had to get back to his father's house which was only a 30 second walk indicating that trayvon martin circled back and jumped george zimmerman and i think in the end because of those two things prosecutors failed to meet their burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. >> let me bring you in here. paul i haven't done it to you as much but you're been a mentor to me for years and understand where my head is. i was challenged to take the prosecutions side of the analysis. so many legal minds were saying i don't see this case. i don't get where this is going to go with all due respect to the prosecutors. but my twitter feed and social media and e-mails are filled with people that don't get how this was possible. how this jury came to this decision. so danny, take up where paul was

and let us know what people were missing that don't understand this verdict. >> well, i agree with you about the twitter feed and social media. certainly there's a lot of people who are outraged. they're outraged about things like race. they're outraged about the idea that a child went and bought skittles and a drink and was shot but taking that position ignores the additional facts in this case. there is evidence that george zimmerman was injured. we don't know how and, in fact, ultimately after all the evidence, each side, whether or not one started the fight or another, we still don't know. it's equally possible on both sides and legally, not morally, but legally when you have the 50/50 where you're not sure how this began except you know it did begin, some kind of altercation then that benefit goes to the defendant. that's it. it's about burdens and

presumptions of innocence. we can have discussions about the morality of the state of race relations in america but legal analysts on the whole agree from a legal perspective the prosecution in florida with it's self-defense law had a mountain to climb. the prosecutors were excellent attorneys, outstanding but they had a set of bad facts. >> chris, can i add one other thing. we have known each other for a long time and in new york and in the big cities in america when you bring a gun to a fistfight, it's such a disproportionate amount of force. and if you use that gun you probably go down to manslaughter and had this been tried in chicago, new york, los angeles where americans had a certain hostility to the use of firearms and guns it might have been a different result or at least a closer result but we try cases in front of local juries in america and in florida gun

ownership is common. as a matter of fact, the prosecutor prosecutor invoked the right to bear arms at a press conference. this was that george zimmerman acted in self-defense and properly used his firearm. that's what people have to understand. you can't view it from the perspective of big cities and people that are anti-gun control. it hits every faultline in american life from gun control to gender to race, to class, every issue was touched by this trial and i think it's why so many americans watched it so closely. >> paul, let me ask you this, as a former prosecutor, here's one issue that chris and i have also been talking about. you mentioned the issue of manslaughter but george zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder and even though manslaughter was added as part of the instruction for the jury to consider before they went in for deliberation it was clear the prosecutors were aiming to hit the threshold of

second-degree murder throughout the trial and throughout closing arguments. do you think and this has been asked and we disagree on this, do you think this is an issue of overcharging or did they mischarge him? >> my answer may surprise you here but i don't think it was an issue of overcharging and i'll tell you why. i think it was a strategic judgment made by prosecutors. they wanted to get into evidence that george zimmerman profiled trayvon martin as a criminal. originally they wanted to say they picked him out because he happened to be a black kid in this neighborhood where maybe you only see whites usually and that's sort of, that's racism in it's worst form. the judge threw that out though and left them with criminal profiling. they couldn't even refer to that if they didn't have that murder count. so i think what they were doing is they put that count in so they could offer that evidence and then expected the jury would compromise and come in with a manslaughter conviction but when the jury got down to manslaughter, self-defense

applies to both counts and they came in for george zimmerman. >> and paul and danny thank you very much for bringing this insight. i hope people are listening carefully to what you said. i'm sure we'll be back to you later on this morning. we'll go to break now and at the end of the day also want to be reluctant to put anything on this jury. they worked hard by all accounts. >> absolutely. >> they were doing their job as well as they could and the prosecution had to lay it out for them. it didn't make sense beyond a reasonable doubt and they couldn't find it. that's how the case ended. we'll take a break right now. thank you for starting your morning with us. >> we'll be right back. hey lin! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'.

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state of florida versus george zimmerman. we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. so say we all foreperson. >> welcome everybody to this special edition of new day. that was the moment we have all been waiting for. the reading of the verdict in the george zimmerman murder trial. jury's decision, you heard it, not guilty. some people expected it. many did not. thanks for joining us. i'm chris cuomo. >> i'm kate baldwin. it's 8:00 in the east on this sunday july 14th. thank you for joining us for "new day." it was inevitable after the verdict came down that one side would be happy and one side would express relief, declare justice -- they would also declare that justice had been done and they would want to move on. listen here. >> your bond will be released. your gps monitor will be cutoff when you exit the courtroom over

here and you have no further business with the court. >> thank you, your honor. >> but we knew from the beginning if trayvon martin was allowed to be killed and the man that did it to not go to jail there would be outrage and there is. civil rights leaders want the justice department to see if there's a civil rights case against george zimmerman. we're talking about the verdict, the reaction and where we all go from here. >> yeah, let's start with reaction to the not guilty verdict and let's go to george joining us from sanford, florida. you have been following. you have been on the man on the ground from the beginning of this trial. how did it look last night once the verdict was read inside the courtroom as well as outside? >> kate, chris, good morning. so inside he courtroom we're talking about jurors who took, you know, very copious notes. they paid close attention to all of this process. they made their decision and you saw george zimmerman in the

video. you heard the judge say he has no more business with this court and now, you know, there was a news conference right after that. we heard from the defense team basically saying look, it was a david and goliath situation. we were outspent, they had more resources but mark o'mara says, we won. prosecutors held to their facts. they said they were obviously going to respect the verdict but they disagreed with the outcome. they believe their facts all along show that george zimmerman was guilty with a prime here. bernie was disappointed with the outcome. there was one question sort of out of the ballpark of the actual case but an issue that became news. this it technician fired from the state attorney's office. he raised the red flag about possible discovery violations. i asked angela specifically about that. i want you to hear her reaction.

>> since testifying in that pretrial hearing about discovery evidence we understand that he was terminated. can you talk to us about why he was terminated from your office. >> i believe we released a letter that details why he was terminated and, again, we want to keep the focus on what we promised 15 months ago which was to get all of the facts of this case in front of a jury or in front of a judge if it had been a stand your ground hearing and i believe that's what we have done. i believe the focus needs to be on how the system worked and how now everyone in this country, because of you all, because of you all covering this case, can say that they know the facts. >> angela corey there released a letter on this but dodged the question entirely. you remember that she all along has been in the situation with the defense team. defense attorneys have said there have been discovery violations that information was not handed over in a timely manner and chris and kate, there

will be a hearing set at some point where the defense team and prosecutors will once again return to the courtroom to talk about these possible discovery violations. >> all right george. thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll be back to you soon. in some aspects this trial of george zimmerman was really a tale of two cases. you had the law of course, the legal side, but then the emotional case. >> yeah, that's for sure. florida law required prosecutors to prove as we said over and over again beyond a reasonable doubt that zimmerman did not act in self-defense. some find it hard to square, though, with the emotion that they feel about the case. we have a great panel of legal minds to join us to talk about the verdict and what it means. what got us to this point and what it means going forward in terms of the case law and the emotion. all the vantage points we want to touch on. paul is joining us here in new york. analyst and former prosecutor sonny hostin and steve greenburg, a criminal defense attorney in chicago.

we have a whole lot of you guys. i want to make sure we can get to each one of you. let's get to it. paul, let's talk to you first. you guys can jump in as well. the prosecution, they made a very passionate case. they also in closings talked about use your common sense hitting on that emotional, the emotional cord chris was talking about. they were not able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury that george zimmerman did not use force. listen to the lead prosecutor talking after the verdict and we'll chat about it. >> i am disappointed as we are with the verdict but we accept it. we live in a great country that has a great criminal justice system. it's not perfect but it's the best in the world and we respect the jury's verdict. >> so he respects the jury's verdict but if you're him this morning, what are you thinking about? where did he go wrong? what did they miss? >> well, they're stuck with the facts that they have and

frankly, they didn't have the facts in this case. bernie is a talented prosecutor. he tried a passionate, i call them a high octane bomb throwing prosecutor. he brought emotion and passion. he was up against a defense attorney that built a house of reasonable doubt and the prosecution just didn't have the evidence about what happened at the critical juncture when trayvon martin confronts george zimmerman, how that confrontation actually occurred. we only know that zimmerman's nose was fractured. the back of his head was injured and that would seem to indicate that the first punch was thrown by trayvon martin and i think ultimately that's how the jury resolved the case. >> now, sonny, let me bring you in here. it's been very important to you from the beginning that understanding the prosecutions case as beginning before what paul just describes.

you can't start with the fact that trayvon martin was by most accounts giving a beating to george zimmerman. you have to look at why it started. explain to us why that part matters legally. >> yeah, i think the prosecution's theory was very clear, chris, that you can't look at the event as starting at the confrontation, you have to look at the event in totality and what we do know is that george zimmerman made these assumptions about trayvon martin, assumed wrongfully that trayvon martin was a criminal. was up to no good. wasn't supposed to be there at the retreat at twin lakes. and we know all of that is not true and we also know that george zimmerman made a lot of statements that were inconsistent. so i think when you look at it like that -- when you don't look at it like that there's a very skewed perspective. so legally the argument was, yes, there was a confrontation

but who started the event? who started this thing? but the jury, again as a former prosecutor i want to make clear. i respect our system and i respect and accept the jury's verdict but i do think that the prosecution had the facts for second-degree murder and i think they had the facts for manslaughter. i think the way the law is in florida with stand your ground, with self-defense, the climate in florida with the acceptability of firearms the way it is here in florida. i think the law wasn't on the prosecutions side. >> chris -- >> steve, i'm going to come to you. >> what sunny's talking about -- okay. >> what sunny is talking about is the bigger social issue which has no place in the courtroom and what they did here, the facts were never on the prosecution side. they ran a roulette game with

this case and said we'll throw something out there but they could never tell the jury what happened out there that night which is what they needed to do. >> well, steve, that's what i wanted to ask you is that the jury seemed to accept the defense perspective on this which is no, it doesn't matter that he didn't listen to the 911 call or profiled trayvon martin, all that matters is once the fight is going and we don't know who started it but once trayvon martin was beating down george zimmerman, was it reasonable for him to believe that he was going to have serious bodily injury or maybe even death. that's what you have to focus on and if the prosecution doesn't prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that george zimmerman thinking that was wrong, you must acquit. explain to us how that works in common sense. >> in common sense he had a broken nose and bashed up head. how could you not think he was in fear of this harm and then you have the very strong stand your ground law in florida which is unusual which says you don't

have to retreat at all and add to that, they have a reasonable doubt instruction which doesn't say you have to prove them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, you have to prove them guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. any doubt you could have. how could you look at somebody that clearly had broken bones and not feel they were in danger of bodily harm? they had bodily harm. >> i want to bring you into this. one of the big things some folks are talking about. we disagree on this. that's why i keep asking folks about it. this issue of did the prosecution overcharge? did they make a mistake by pursuing the second-degree murder charge when the threshold, the burden of proof was too high and they couldn't overcome the hurdle. do you think that's the case? do you think they should have been pursuing manslaughter all along and if that was what they had pursued and targeted in their closing arguments then maybe the jury could have seen this differently. >> i don't share that opinion that they overcharged this case. i think that you heard them

explain really in detail for the first time yesterday why they believed this case was a second-degree murder case. the facts were there. you know, i think at the end of the day, the jury just believed george zimmerman was justified. if they believed he was justified, quite frankly, they believed he was justified in manslaughter too. prosecutors often go for the highest charge that they believe the evidence will support. this happens all the time. i think it was appropriate and many people, notwithstanding this jury's verdict which i too accept and respect, many people believe that they did prove that this was a second-degree murder case. >> tonya, kate would have been a great trial attorney because she will continue asking the question until she gets the answer that she wants. she's probably going to ask all of you throughout the morning until you give her the answer. >> that's not true. many people are asking this question. >> i have a different question for you. i want to see if many of you can answer. go with it if you can.

angela corey is known very well down there. she is the state attorney but also known as a trier of cases. she started off with this case. why didn't she try it. >> well, chris, it would be very rare for a prosecutor to try herself a high profile case like this and she, you know, this whole question of angela corey is an interesting one. she was brought in like a hired gun from an adjacent florida county and there might have been resentment in seminole county. why weren't the locals trying the case? the governor brings in a prosecutor from another county. there's local resentment on that. so i think she assigned it to her top guys and she made the right decision there. the head prosecutor is usually an administrative head of the office as opposed to someone who actually tries the cases. >> and chris, let me weigh in on that. i was in the courtroom watching angela corey. she was in the courtroom every single day seated right behind the state prosecutors here. they are considered her top prosecutors but she was very,

very involved in this case. when it came down to asking for the lesser includeds she was consulting with the attorneys and they were looking to her for guidance. she may not have tried the case personally but make no mistake about it she was extremely involved to have the opportunity to speak with her several times. she's a lovely woman. she is tenacious but she was involved in this case. >> i ask the question from a perspective of deference because she is known for a great trier of cases. thank you for the perspective on it and the ideas about the case. we'll be coming back to you guys. it's important that we give as much insight into this decision because it's divided people. thank you very much to all of you. appreciate it. >> thanks to all of you. this story we'll continue to watch this verdict and talk more about it but we also have another big story making news today. the actor has been found dead, 31-year-old canadian native was

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a stunning and tragic story this morning coming from the entertainment world. actor cory monteith, you know that name. he is found dead. the canadian native that was famous for playing finn hudson on "glee" was found in a vancouver hotel room. >> it was discovered yesterday after he missed his check out time. nick has more on the story. the obvious part is someone so young is gone. what is the latest. >> good morning. so young, sudden and tragic. this is a shock the

entertainment world. news of his death reported late last night. the cause of death is not immediately known although vancouver police have ruled out foul play. they have scheduled an autopsy for monday. cory monteith skyrocketed to fame as the star of the hit tv series "glee." he was credited, in fact, for making the show a hit and a very, very successful tv series. he played a lovable quarterback, a heart throb for many teens throughout the united states. earlier yesterday the vancouver department, they talked about the incident in a press conference. >> mr. monteith checked into the hotel on july 6th and was due to check out of the room today. there were others with mr. monteith in his room earlier last night but video and fob key entries show him returning to his room by himself in the early morning hours and we believe he was alone when he died. >> just hours before his death, he had spoken to his close friend, we talked to that close

friend and also a guest director on "glee" just a short time ago. he was shocked about the news. a lot of people very caught off guard about cory monteith's death, chris. now, nick, this is going to be the sensitive part as we move forward. people are caught off guard and shocked. of course he was young. he had admitted in the past to his own personal struggles, substance abuse. that will be, is that a fair question -- will that be something people will be asking about going forward? have we heard anything? >> it has to be. especially when you consider his history as well as his age. 31 years old. very, very young. as we mentioned, no foul play is suspected in his death. he returned to his hotel room by himself but for years monteith has battled sobriety and checked in initially into a rehab facility when he was 13 years old. most recently he was in a rehab facility in march but he was doing well and recovering. he had a girlfriend that's also

part of the hit tv series. they're caught off guard. a lot of people are caught off guard by his death. chris. >> thank you very much. we don't want to get ahead of it. what we know already is bad enough. our hearts go out to his family. >> absolutely. >> thank you for the reporting. appreciate it. >> thanks so much. >> obviously this morning we have been focused on the george zimmerman trial. we'll bring you up to date with other stories as we see them. one big part in the verdict is the reaction to it. we have been following protests across the u.s. hundreds of men and women, black and white, taking their frustration at the trial to the streets making sure they are heard. we'll have more on all of this just ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds. ♪ ♪ others are designed to leave them behind. ♪

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welcome back to this special edition of "new day." thank you for joining us. across the united states emotions are running high. in some cities hundreds of people have gathered to protest the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman trial. >> some people shouting and chanting, justice for trayvon. others saying prayers for the martin family but will they be

most remarkable about all of this is what's not happening. that's also important to protest. what's not happening is violence. for everything that could have happened leading up to this it has been remarkably calm. victor blackwell is at cnn in atlanta. what are you seeing. >> the protests across the country, l.a., san francisco, chicago, tallahassee, tampa, new york. let's go to sanford, right outside the seminole county courthouse where the verdict was lead. listen. >> do demand justice, nationwide protest to demand justice. >> do you hear the shouts for nationwide protest. we have shown you where the protests are happening all across the country. for the most part peaceful but the miami harold is reporting that in sanford during the protest there was a heated argument between a zimmerman supporter on a martin supporter on the role of race.

everything was cooled off before it got to the point of arrest. no arrests reported across the country but let's go to the nation's capitol where the element of race was also a motivator. one reads only white life is protected in america. they're calling for people to come off the sidewalks and walk in the street. now prosecutors and the defense team, they say that their cases were not about race. clearly you see from the signs and from what we heard from protestors across the country, they disagree. now let's go to philadelphia. a very different mood at thomas payne plaza. no protests. instead a vigil. candles, signs, people praying and the silence there. just people taking a moment to remember that this is about a 17-year-old who lost his life. again, there is a demonstration planned for the top of the hour, 9:00 eastern in baltimore. we'll see if that happens but no arrests, no reports of physical violence although property damage reported in the bay area. chris, kate.

>> victor, you know something interesting there that we saw, the faces. a lot of black people, sure, but there was white, there was asian, there was man, there was female. it's important to note there are a lot of people who are sharing upset about this verdict and on both sides of it. a lot of people feel that this was unfair. a lot of people feel that it was unfair to george zimmerman as well. there's all types of outrage in the fix. victor blackwell. thank you for the reporting. >> sure. >> still ahead, some say george zimmerman's case was not about race while others say it was all about race even though that might not have been part of the criminal case. we'll dig deeper into that coming up next on "new day." if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me,

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saving time by booking an appointment online, even smarter. online scheduling. available now at meineke.com. welcome back everybody. it's now the bottom of the hour. welcome to this special edition of new day. i'm chris cuomo. >> i'm kate baldwin. it's about 8:30 in the east. we're watching it all for you on this special edition of new day. >> here's what you need to know about the verdict in the george zimmerman murder trial. >> a jury of six women found zimmerman was not legally responsible for the death of trayvon martin in february 2012. >> in the 18th judicial circuit, state of florida versus george zimmerman, verdict, we the jury

find george zimmerman not guilty. >> watching last night at about 10:00 p.m. eastern. the camera was on zimmerman almost the entire time and you could barely see the beginning of a smile when he hears he is a freeman. then he just calmly shakes his lawyers hands and turns to his family. >> people angry over the jury's decision hit the streets in major cities across the country. >> that was the scene in washington d.c. last night after the verdicts. similar protests from san francisco to philadelphia and many other major cities in the u.s. there was some vandalism to police cars in oakland and other property in some cities but for the most part, important to note, people have kept their cool. >> we have heard quite a bit about race. it's been part of the discussion. question is was it part of the case? the role of race in the death of

trayvon martin 17 months ago was when the story began but there's little talk about implicit biases. >> first explaining what we're talking about those are the subconscious subtle racial assumptions people make that you might not even know you're making in split seconds after encountering someone. did george zimmerman make implicit biases when they crossed paths? researchers are saying that 90% of americans make those assumptions. they have those biases. laura mcneil is leading a new study at harvard law school where she is a senior fellow. she is joining us from atlanta great to see you. he is joining us from orlando, a community activist and leader there that can bring us the perspective from on the ground. professor, i want to start with you as you can lay this out for us. as i just said, 90% of people do

make these biases. give us an example of that. kind of an every day life and how that may relate to what we're talking about here. >> a quick example would be icon ducted a presentation last week and a judge came up to me. she was a white female and was getting ready to make a ruling in a divorce proceeding for harassment charge. she paused and changed the gender of the harasser from female to male and realized that she was giving a more lenient sentence because of the implicit association he attached to males having a higher propensity for violence and that was a learning experience for her and from now on when she is sitting on the bench she changes the gender, the race and if known the sexual orientation to make sure that the biases aren't impacting her decisions. >> when you're talking about this -- and talk to me more about the study that you're doing, do people even know they're making these assumptions? applying this standard? they have this bias.

>> yes, the study that i'm conducting is really fascinating because people are unaware of these unconscious biases. they operate unknowingly and they have a very large influence on split second decisions such as the ones we saw by george zimmerman when he chose to exit his car and pursue trayvon martin based on these, again, implicit assumptions that he associated with black males. >> so let me bring you in here, when you look at the situation with george zimmerman and trayvon martin, do you believe zimmerman was profiling based on subconscious or very conscious bias? what do you think drove this? >> i think when you take a look at it chris and see what went on that night, no one will know other than those two individuals but i think you can see a case of profiling and it does not require you to be a racist to conduct profiling. i think in this case, you know,

there were some assumptions, i think as the doctor just asserted. but what we need to move now toward is how do we begin to move this forward? when you think about this still in sanford, one of the things that was really relevant last night is how people handled this. while they were disappointed, they still respected the jury's verdict. while they had protests, it was done in a seasoned manner. i think when you take a look, as you pointed out earlier in your show, people from all backgrounds are calling and saying we need to get past the implicit biases. we need to work on those things and be aware of them and begin to move ourselves closer together and move forward as we continue to leverage a justice system that needs to represent all of us. >> laura, answer that question, though. how do we move forward. you're studying if it exists and

how it exists and to what extent but from your study how do you move from that? what are you learning from that? >> what we learned that is the majority of americans do hold implicit bias toward certain groups of people and what we have learned through research at the university of wisconsin is you can self-correct these biases. one of the strategies, for example, that patricia devine developed is replacement. you simply switch the name of the individual. if the assumption is that black males are unintelligent you think of colin powell or barrack obama to counter act the stereo types. >> let me ask you this laura. we have to respect it is it is and analyze it as much. the jury had to believe that trayvon martin was a big actor in this conflict that wound up

leading to his own death. taking your idea about subconscious bias and the defense theory that trayvon martin was using unflattering words about who was following him. what can we possibly see as insight into what may have been going on in his mind that night? and i ask, clear ly he is the victim but that wound up becoming something important to jurors. what might they have seen in his actions. >> it appears based on the jury verdict that the jurors must not have realized or been able to really understand the implicit assumptions that trayvon martin had. meaning as a young african american male being pursued by a hispanic individual, it appears based on some of the court testimony that, you know, he was frightened and rightfully so. i think for many african american youth trayvon martin represents the type of racial profiling that he experience on

a daily basis and i think from a juror perspective it's hard to understand that unless you have walked in trayvon's shoes. >> please. >> no, that's an excellent point. laura mcneal great to see you. thank you for laying it out for us and thank you for bringing the perspective on the ground. when we have this conversation it reminds me of closing arguments where you had the prosecution talking about use your common sense and playing to emotion but then a very different approach from the defense who said do not make assumptions. only look at the facts and the evidence before you and when you kind of look at this implicit bias concept it's very interesting. >> we have parallel realities. in the courtroom we only know what we show. that's what lawyers are caught. you have to prove it. but outside, we have morale responsibility. and that's what this study goes to. that's what he is talking about in organizing his community. when you go after the kid

because you don't like what he looks and what he represents it wines up dead it's wrong. but then you go into a courtroom where we're supposed to get validation and the out come doesn't come out the way it's expected from that perspective but in the courtroom it's not about truth it's about proof. i don't mean to rhyme. that's how you're taught these things as a lawyer. that's why the community organizing efforts are important and important for the media to support also because at the end of the day everybody is going to come to the same conclusion is we have to figure out how to move forward together after this. that's going to be the challenge. >> that starts right now. that starts today. >> absolutely right now. as i say that have to segway because we're not just going to follow the george zimmerman story all day. other news as well. notably, the story about a young actor, cory monteith. he has been found dead. the 31-year-old canadian native was famous for his role in the tv hit "glee."

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welcome everybody. thank you for joining us this sunday morning for a special edition of "new day." our coverage of the george zimmerman trial will continue but first we'll get you caught up on other news. let's get the stories making headlines. good morning. >> good morning everyone. we begin today with shocking and tragic news, actor cory monteith has been found dead. the 31-year-old canadian native who played finn hudson in the television show "glee" was found in his vancouver hotel room on saturday. hotel staff discovered his body after he missed his check out time. he was seen on surveillance video returning to his home alone early saturday. authorities don't know the cause of death. they say there's no evidence of foul play and there will be an autopsy on monday. our thought with all of those who love him. >> meantime, more than 100 people gathered saturday to honor the three girls killed in

the crash of asiana flight 214 which happened one week ago. the parents of the first two girls who died in that crash joined the vigil and spoke to the crowd. pilots tried to abort the landing of flight 214 twice before the plane's tail clipped a seawall short of the run way. another twist. a bizarre twist in the edward snowden saga. greenwald said snowden had information that would be the united states worst nightmare if it is released. he warned the u.s. government that if anybody happened to snowden that information would be revealed. on friday, snowden said he would ask russia for temporary asylum but russian immigration official versus not received an asylum application from him. >> meantime, royal baby watch is in full swing. the duchess of cambridge, kate

middleton, spending her due date which is today relaxing at her parents home. meanwhile, her husband, prince william played polo just a short distance from his inlaws home. when that baby is born, he or she, that's what everyone wants to know will be third in line to the british thrown. let's look at the weather. things are starting to heat up. what can you tell us. >> good morning everyone. what we're going to see are big pattern changes. usually in the u.s. patterns move from west to east. not so. we have this odd retrograting pattern. it's going to do a couple of things and ease the rain we've had in the southeast. that's good news. the heat returns in earnest. we'll see a heat wave, 95 to 100 degree heat incease in the northeast. the humidity will be high. we'll see a lot of rain come to areas where we need it.

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welcome back to this special edition of "new day" this sunday morning. the not guilty verdict in the trial of george zimmerman drew a strong reaction from the president of the naacp. he vowed to fight stand your ground laws around the country. >> which is why as a perfect guest for cnn's "state of the union." there's a lot to talk about. you'll have him on in about ten minutes. very strong reaction after that verdict. >> very and very quick. it was the first reaction that hit my e-mail was from the naacp and vary arms of the naacp. he is outraged by the verdict. he thinks it's very clear that it's racial profiling. something that the state attorney said it was not.

nonetheless. so we want to talk to him about that. where he sees the civil rights violations. we understand from his office that eric holder, at the justice department, the attorney general, will be down at the naacp meeting which is taking place about 30 miles, i think from the courthouse and he wants to talk to him about that and about pursuing a civil rights case against zimmerman. >> all right. there's a big question of what that means going forward and what the justice department will do about it. clearly, coverage of the george zimmerman verdict and what that all means will be a big part of the show but who else do you have on? what else is coming up. >> we also have governor rick perry and pat quinn of illinois. governor perry ended the governor part of his career and everyone wants to know whether he'll run for president. he's also passed and will sign this week one of the strictest abortion bills in the country.

you'll remember the democratic congresswoman from texas who held that filabuster but the second time around it passed. governor quinn has his own problem with the state legislature. there was also protests in chicago over the zimmerman verdict. lots to talk to them about as well. >> very busy sunday. great guests candy. great to see you. >> thank you. >> candy crowley. state of the union, 9:00 eastern, 6:00 a.m. out west. right here on cnn. >> one of the provocative questions coming out of the george zimmerman verdict. where do you stand? george zimmerman left off the hook or was the jury right in confirming his plea of self-defense. we'll find out what you had to say in a result from an exclusive cnn poll coming up next. ♪

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good morning everybody. thank you for joining us for this special edition of "new day." we want to take a look back at the final moments of the trial. >> this is from the judge's instructions from the reaction to the street after the verdict. it's everything you need to know. >> to prove the crime of manslaughter, the state must prove the following two elements beyond a reasonable doubt. one trayvon martin is dead. two george zimmerman intentionally committed an act or acts that caused the death of trayvon martin. george zimmerman cannot be guilty of manslaughter or committing a nearly negligent act or if the killing was either justifiable or excusable homicide. >> there could be a debate between manslaughter and second-degree. it could be a debate between manslaughter and acquittal. >> in the circuit court of the

18th judicial circuit in and for seminole county florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman. verdict, we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> complete shock. utter shot. i cannot believe he was not found guilty. >> the system has failed us. >> obviously we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never ilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i'm glad the jury saw it that way. >> i am gratified by the jury's verdict. as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. we are eternally grateful. >> i'm disappointed as we are with the verdict. we accept it. we live in a great country with

a great criminal justice system. it's not perfect but it's the best in the world and we respect the jury's verdict. >> to the living we owe respect. to the dead we owe the truth. we have been respectful to the living. we have done our best to assure due process to all involved. and we believe that we brought out the truth on behalf of trayvon martin. >> i really can't put into words how relieved we have as a family. that's the first thing my father said. having said that, i don't think this is a time for high fiveing. i acknowledge, we have all acknowledged that mr. martin, trayvon martin lost his life. it was not an act of murder. it was not an act of manslaughter. the jury has spoken. our judicial system has spoken. but that does not diminish the tragedy. death is tragic in any circumstance. >> they look very similar. that's actually robert zimmerman, george zimmerman's brother talking about how his

brother is a freeman this morning found not guilty just hours ago in a sanford, florida courtroom. >> yeah but he still does face really the court of public opinion, if you will, who in that court of public opinion might not feel the same way as the criminal court that we learned their verdict. we'll take a look at the wide scope of opinion online from twitter to facebook and everything in between and victor blackwell has been keeping an eye on all of it for us. what are you seeing this morning? >> you speak about the court of public opinion. since the start of the case it seems the verdict has been in on that. so many people supporting trayvon martin but not everyone supporting martin. let's look at people that are not a celebrity. ted nugent, ultimate zimmerman lesson tell your kids not to attack people for no damn reason. lindsey says everybody is acting like it wasn't fairly because it wasn't what they wanted. >> sanford, florida never wanted

zimmerman arrested. now he's free to kill another child. >> i'm not going to say i lost faith in america, i just lost faith in the people. #no justice. right after the end of the closing arguments and the rebuttal, we asked through twitter guilty or not guilty. simply and here's the result of that survey. more than 2400 people responded. 34% not guilty. 66% believe that george zimmerman was guilty of either second degree murder or manslaughter. back to you in new york. >> all right victor. thank you for tracking it all. it's a lot to keep count of. good to hear everyone's opinions. >> you can get us on twitter and facebook. >> that's right. >> feel free and of course cnn will have continuing coverage of the aftermath of the verdict all week long. we'll be back with an interview with george zimmerman's brother. >> don't want to miss that. and a special report at 8:00