they were soon confronted by michael dunn, a middle-aged white man who pulled in next to them in the parking lot. dunn demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. he pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. the shots rang out 3 and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. one of boys, 17-year-old jordan davis, was killed. today we will spend the hour with his parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. >> trayvon martin's father text me, i want to welcome you to a club none of us want to be in. >> it is time to pick up where dr. king left off. >> all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the leftist, anti-austerity syriza party has swept to victory in greece. syriza won 149 seats in the 300-seat parliament, two short of an absolute majority. this marks the first time since the economic crisis in 2009 that a member of the 19-nation euro zone will be led by a party rejecting german-backed austerity.

and polite, his friends in the car leland and tevin admit to the court that jordan did yell at michael dunn. >> do you recall anything that jordan davis said to the defendant? >> yes, sir. >> what was that? >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: dunn insists davis had a gun. but when none was found, dunn's self-defense claim falls flat. according to detective musser, investigators found no weapons in the suv the night of the shooting nor anywhere near the gas station parking lot. testimony the jury goes out to deliberate their verdict while jacksonville waits for justice. >> no one person has all the rights. >> waiting on that verdict, there was a lot of tension in the city. >> my twitter page, my phone, everything was blowing up. >> reporter: it takes the jury four days to come to a unanimous decision on three attempted murder charges. >> the state of florida versus michael david dunn. verdict as to count 2, we the jury find the defendant guilty. verdict as to count 3, we the jury find the defendant guilty. verdict as to count 4, we the jury find the defendant guilty of attempted second-degree murder.

and i believe what tevin thompson remembers is jordan saying [ bleep ] to michael dunn. >> according to witnesses there were statements of are you talking to me coming from mr. dunn and i believe a couple witnesses said they heard "you're not going to talk to me that way." >> reporter: suddenly the argument escalates. >> and before anybody knows it dunn is leaning over to his right reaching into his glove box pulling out a taurus 9-millimeter. right about this time tommy comes out of the store. gets into the car, straps himself in, looks over, and sees a gun pointed three feet away. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: it was over in moments. a life gone, lives ruined. jordan's mom tried to cope with her heartache by clinging to the last conversation she had with her beloved son, less than 24 hours before he died. i just want to tell you thank you thank you for loving me. >> tell me about your boy. >> he was not a perfect child by any means, but he was a good young man. always the life of the party. people would say when jordan walks in the room the room lights up. he was humorous. very sensitiv

michael dunn asked them to turn the music down. tevin thompson, who was sitting in the front passenger seat complied,,urned it down. >> jordan didn't want to turn the music down. said let's turn that back up, i'm tired of people telling me what to do. they turn the music back up. and then there was an exchange of words. >> at that p pnt is whehe michael dunn and jordan davis started exchanging words. and i believe what tevin thompson remembers is jordan saying [ bleep ] to michael dunn. >> according to witnesses there were statements of are you talking to me coming from mr. dunn and i believe a couple witnesses said they heard "you're not going to talk to me that way." >> reporter: suddenly the argument escalates. >> and before anybobo knows it dunn i i leaning o or to his box pulling out a taurus 9-millimeter. right about this time tommy comes out of the store. gets into t t car, straps himself in, looks over, and sees a gun pointed three feet away. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: it was over in moments. a l le g ge, lives ruined. jorda

seventeen year old boy yes or what convinced you that to me it was unnecessary you didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis i don't believe most of the jurors while valerie thought the dunn should have been found guilty for the marriott murder of jordan davis two jurors thought the dunn was justified in taking the actions that he did so why did those two jurors think that dunn was justified in opening fire on an s.u.v. filled with teenagers after argument over loud music because of florida's stand your ground shoot first law during closing arguments in the dunn case dunn's defense attorney corey stroll repeatedly instructed jurors to look over page twenty five of the jury instructions he said to them i'm going to talk to you a little bit about justifiable use of force is honor's going to instruct you in ages twenty five to twenty eight i ask you when you go back in the jury room go all the way to page twenty five and start there because the law is going to tell you very clearly here's what page twenty five of the jury instructions if michael dunn was not engaged in an unlawful acti

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michael dunn's defense attorney cory strolla argued in court dunn's actions were justified. .threatened michael bitch." dead, you are going down. whatever it was, it was a deadly weapon. you will hear the law, and you will rule on that law. you will see the evidence. they can try to show you the forensics, but what they cannot do is match the trajectory of jordan davis getting out of the car. and it was not as mr. guy said, mr. davis was leaning over. there will be testimony that as dunnsell mr. -- saw mr. reach for the gun, everybody in the card duct. you know who did not dock? jordan davis because he was getting out of a car with a weapon after telling michael dun bitch. are dead, this is going down now." you have four man against one. you know what jordan davis did not realize? the other man was armed, and gode is an expression -- did not make all men equal, cold did, and that is a firearm. it is a tragedy. we are not here to change the law, to say anybody deserved to lose their life, but under the law it is justified. >> cory strolla attorney for michael dunn, the man on

michael dunn was in his car. michael dunn rolled up his window.or a minute or so, when the other kid came back, he decided that michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say, you guys are still talking to me, and had a concealed weapon in his car, and started shooting at the car, and he shot my son twice. as the car was pulling away, trying to get away from him, he was continuing to shoot at the car with these children, 17- year-old children, in the car. a few yards away, he still shot more bullets in the back of the car, trying to kill these kids. which to me, as a father -- i cannot believe in our society today that someone would try to kill children. but i see things that happen on the news. sometimes, you do not know if it will hit home or not. it hit home because it has torn jordan from me and his mother. and you have a teenager at home who is missing, it breaks your heart and ruins your life. i am standing up for jordan. i am standing my ground for jordan. his mother is standing her ground for jordan. >> do you think your son'

argument ensued verbal michael dunn backed off a little bit closer wrote down as rolled up his window in the. for about a minute or so when the other kid came back in the car from the store he decided that he was going to michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say you know are you talking to me you guys are still talking to me and i had a concealed weapon in his car and started shooting at the current shooting at my son and he shot my son twice and as the car was pulling away trying to get away from him he was continuing to shoot at the car with these children seventeen year old children in the car and pull disappear yards away he still shot two more bullets in the back of the car trying to kill these kids which to me as a father i can't believe in our society today that someone is trying to kill children but you know i see things that happen on the news and sometimes you know know if it's going to hit home or not but here it hit home for me because it has torn jordan from me and his mother and when you have a teenager someone at home who's missing could break your h

there's movement now on the michael dunn trial. the loud music trial down in florida in jacksonville, florida. back with our correspondents and our analysts right after a quick break. there's this kid. coach calls her a team player. she's kind of special. she makes the whole team better. he's the kind of player that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he's a great passer. dependable. a winning team has to have one. somebody you can count on. somebody like my dad. this is my dad. somebody like my mom. my grandfather. i'm very pround of him. her. them. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense

the only person who ever said that he saw one was that of the accused here, michael dunn.pistol, ten shots into a car, several of which actually hit the victim here and killed him. and so the community is wanting to know, you know, is there in their sense sort of an unarmed -- i mean an open season on just if you feel threatened, you can take a gun and shoot, even at a car where, again, the police found no weapon and no evidence of a weapon. there have been some protesters outside. they have been out here for some time. but more i would say people are just watching it very closely through the internet, through twitter and of course right here on cable television to see if they can determine what the jury verdict is going to be and if it sits well with their perspective of what they think they know about this case, richard. >> kerry, thank you so much. nbc's kerry sanders with the very latest from jacksonville, florida. >>> take you now to an accident on the bobsled run that leaves an olympic worker injured. that tops our look at stories around the news nation. the worker w

michael dunn charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn says he acted in self-defense after the teen threatened him. the jury reconvened this morning arounden 9:00 a.m. eastern time, and just about 30 minutes later actually had questions for the judge. >> the first question -- is the defense of self-defense separate for each person in each count? the answer is, yes. second question -- are we determining if deadly force is justified against each person in each count? the answer is, yes. the third question -- or if we determine deadly force is justified against one person, is it justified against the others? no. self-defense and justifiable use of deadly force applies separately to each count. >>> i'm joined now by cnn legal analyst paul callan. so, paul, good to see you. you know, you're a criminal defense attorney and a former prosecutor. try to get into the minds of those representatives on each side. what might they be thinking as they hear these kinds of questions coming from the jurors? >> well, you know, i think most lawyers watc

reaction to what one of the jurors had to say about the case. >> the verdict in the michael dunn murder trial is raising questions. >> the jury delivered a verdict. >> he's accused of killing a teenager. >> dunn fired ten rounds. >> the shots killed 17-year-old jordan davis. >> dunn says he shot davis in self-defense. >> no gun was ever found. >> no weapon, however, was ever found at the scene. >> this was a mixed verdict. >> guilty on four of five charge against dunn. >> that's three counts of attempted murder. >> and one count of firing into the vehicle. >> jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. >> the jury was unable to come to a decision on the charge of first degree murder. >> retrying the case is something that we've all had to do. >> the prosecutor said she would retry the case on the outstanding charge. >> and we'll give it the same full attention. >> he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground proop. >> for the stand your ground law -- >> something that's become sort of a matter of confusion over this case. >> stand your ground. >> stand your ground, th

the both sides of the emotionally charged of the loud music trial. >> last night the jury found michael dunn guilty but on the most serious charge the jury deadlocked. mistrial. but dunn is still facing a lot of time in prison. martin savage, the reaction on both sides? >> yeah, i mean last night the reaction outside of the courthouse here was immediate. primarily that it was focuseded squarely on 17 year old jordan davis. outside the courtroom different reactions. first from the parents of davis. >> listen to this. >> we are so grateful for the truth. we are so grateful that the j y juriers were so able to understand it all and we will stand and wait for justice for jordan. >> heart breaking to listen to the mother there. next up was the defense attorney. and he was talking about the reaction of his client michael dunn who seemed like he was in a state of shock. even when he sat next to me he said how is this happening. i said i'll talk to you in the back. i didn't want to comment in the courtroom. it has not set in. i don't think it will set in anytime soon. >> it is expected that sentenci

she has a conversation with michael dunn, her fiance.ere is how she said everything unfolded. >> when the defendant pulled into the parking spacings could you hear music coming from the red suv? >> yes. >> you could tell it was coming from that car? >> yes. >> from where you were sitting inside the car, could you hear the lyrics of the music? >> no, i couldn't make out the lyrics. >> could you tell what kind of music it was? >> yes, i could. >> could you hear the bass? >> yes. >> from inside the car, was anything in the car rattling in the bass? >> no. >> did the defendant say anything about the music when he parked the car next to the red car? >> yes. >> what did the defendant say? >> i hate that thug music. >> what was your response to the defendant? >> i said yes, i know. >> as you were walking to the register, did you hear anything unusual? >> yes. >> what did you hear? >> i heard pop, pop, pop. >> when you heard those noises, did you know what they were? >> no, i dnlt. >> did you know where they were coming from? >> no, i didn't. >>

and he was in the back seat in the passenger side in his best friend next to and a guy drove up michael dunn and brought out his window and beef and told his girlfriend for she are because i hate that thug music you know and so he kind of profile them you know. and so he told them to cut down below after the girl from going in the store and of course like teenagers i mean if you're not their parent they're not really to listen to you and so. they didn't turn it down and he got into a verbal altercation with my son and my son never got out of the car you know here the window half way down in michael dunn he was in his car and argument ensued verbal am i could burn backed off a little bit close the road i was rolled up his window in the. for about a minute or so when the other kid came back in the car from the store he decided that he was going to michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say you know are you talking to me you guys are still talking to me and i had a concealed weapon in his car and started shooting at the car and shooting at my son and he shot my son twice and a

, and i took it. >> michael dunn repeated the sentiment as he testified in his own defense. in an emotional moment, a 47-year-old software engineer described what was going through his mind. he said he was concerned not only about his own safety, but that of his fiancee. she had gob in the store at -- gone in the star at the jacksonville gas station to buy a bottle of wine. >> michael dunn said he saw what looked like the barrel of the shotgun, that jordan davis opened the door, got out and threatened to kill him. >> i was in fear for my life. i was probably stunned. >> during cross-examination, the prosecution argued that doesn't sprayed bullets into the s.u.vl with four unarmed teenagers. he was asked why he kept firing. dunn responded that he shot at the teens to, "keep their heads down so they wouldn't shoot at him", he said he didn't shoot to kill, but the prosecutor noted there was no gun or sign that anyone shot at him. >> you could imagine a gun. >> anything is possible. between his threats and action, they are reinforcing what my eyes told me. >> during rebuttal the

. >> you didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis? >> i don't think so. >> stand your ground is part of the consciousness in florida and the other stand your ground states. >> even if we don't ever receive the verdict for jordan, he will still pay because he will spend the rest of his life in jail. and i feel sorry for him for that. >>> today, prosecutors announced that michael dunn will be retried for the first degree murder of jordan davis in may. and today, we heard from a second member of the jury, juror number eight, a 21-year-old who says she thinks michael dunn is a good guy, but she also thinks he is guilty of murder. >> i honestly think he was a good guy. i think he is a good guy. i don't think he hates everybody. i don't think he wants around wanting to shoot everybody. i think that he made a bad decision. >> the first juror to speak, juror number four, known only as valerie says race was not a factor in their deliberations. >> for a lot of folk in america, they would say white man shoots and kills a 17-year-old black boy. h

>>> crime and punishment tonight, the murder trial of michael dunn in florida, prosecutors rested theirhe defense called witnesses. dunn is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old jordan davis in a confrontation at a gas station. now, he admits he shot the teen in a dispute over loud music, but claims he fired in self-defense, he said he thought he saw a shotgun in the suv davis was riding in. no weapon was ever found. seeing as martin savage was inside the courtroom today. the details about the shooting of jordan davis were so intense his parents for the first time had to leave the courtroom. jurors were shown photographs, x-rays in the blood stained clothes, the 17-year-old was wearing when he was killed. the prosecution's final witness, former associate medical examener stacy simmons, testifying davis was shot three times, twice in the leg, it was a bullet to the abdomen that killed him. >> right about here is where the bullet entered. it entered at the actual border. over here it perforated the right lung and continued on behind the heart and in front o

now the case of michael dunn in many ways parallel parallels the george zimmerman trial in the shooting death of trayvon martin including the age of the boys the color of their skin and the states that the shootings happened in but there are also a number of key differences jury selection could take a week or more to complete before the trial begins the jury of six men and women and four alternates will likely be sequestered during the duration of the trial and secluded from the media frenzy that is already beginning to take place outside. but also in florida state lawmakers are working on a bill to protect the rights of students but not from too much homework or mean lunch ladies they're trying to protect students from bio metrics things like fingerprinting or retina standers scanners the new bill would prohibit school districts from collecting biometric information including the characteristics of fingerprints hands eyes and the voice it would force schools to inform parents about their rights regarding educational records being collected on their son or daughter annually it would per

and they are indeed a jury of michael dunn's peers. and even with that, even with maybe their biases that they may have as far as culture is concerned. maybe not connecting with jordan and his culture, but we can still have a society where we can depend on them and count on them to render a verdict based on the facts of the case and the witnesses that they hear and not on any biases that they have. so i'm elated that we have this time. i think it's something for the history books. i think it's something that our young people all across this nation should understand and view, that this is really great for our nation, that we can maybe have a start of having justice and making sure that justice is equal and we don't have to worry about the makeup of the jury. i joined the human rights network, and we go to different places around the country where there's violations of human rights and i know there's a lot of people that have been unable to attain the justice that me an lucy have for our son. so immediately i'll be going to valdosta, geo

this is the girlfriend now on the stand of michael dunn. that's michael dunn there.ess stand. let's listen to the testimony. >> i'm showing you state's exhibit number 2. do you recognize that to be an overview of the gas station? >> yes. >> looking at state's exhibit 2, can you tell the jury which entrance you used when you got to the gate gas station? do you remember? >> i just don't know how to tell you. >> you can touch the screen and make a mark on it. >> i think we went in this entrance. >> for the record, it's the turn off south side boulevard showing on the screen. >> if you put pressure on there, you can draw a line with your finger. there you go. >> good? >> now, when you pulled into the entrance or when the defendant did, did he then park the car? >> yes. >> what was the reason for stopping at the gas station? >> to get a bottle of wine. >> whose idea was it? >> mine. >> i'm showing you state's exhibit 5. is that then, just the front doors of the gas station you stopped at? >> yes. >> this is now state's exhibit 7. can you show on this screen where the defe

i'm don lemon and the jury is hung up on the murder trial of michael dunn.some questions, and i have spoken to many people here on cnn, but none more heartfelt than the trayvon martin family's attorney benjamin crump, and i was going to have you go and have dinner and come back to me when there is a verdict, and i think 245 what you said when we went to break is very, very important for the people in the country to understand. can you say it again. >> yes, don. it is very important to know how this system will break our hearts sometimes, and especially for trayvon martin's, and jordan martin's as well, but whatever the verdict is, we have to respect that whatever the killers in our the -- killers of our children is to maintain peace at all costs. that is what their parents would want, and trayvon would want and jordan davis would want and his parents. >> thank you, benjamin crump, and very emotional. thank you. we will see you when we get a verdict. >> thank you. >>> and i want to get to sunny hostin who is also down there in florida with the florida congre

was michael dunn simply believable to some but just not to others?, here is what he said in his own defense. >> were you still in fear for your life? >> i became even more fearful at that point. >> okay. at that point, what did you believe was about to happen to you? >> i thought i was going to be killed. this is where rhonda starts coming into my mind, because i know she has heard the shots. it wasn't just my life i was worried about. >> all right. some say very convincing. but as the hours wore on, some others say he appeared to sound less genuine, perhaps more coached, in his answers. i want to replay that first time that dunn's own attorney asks him about those words, imminent fear. those are important words, they're in statute. but listen carefully as dunn continues to repeat those critical words. >> at that point, what was going through your mind in terms of fear? were you still in imminent fear? >> absolutely. i had already been afraid for my life. but now the fear was imminent. >> in your mind, did you think he was just going to get out to ye

mattress discounters >> a jury in jacksonville, florida is now deciding the guilt of innocence of michael dunnjurors began deliberating late this afternoon. we've learned they've wrapped up for the night without reaching a verdict. they'll resume deliberations tomorrow morning at 10:00. dunn is charged in murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old man, jordan davis at a gas station in 2012. he claims he acted in self-defense during a confrontation with a group of teenagers in an suv. martin savidge was inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: in closing arguments, prosecutors said 17-year-old jordan davis may have a big mouth, but he never had a weapon. >> let me be very clear. on november 23rd, 2012, when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis, there was no gun in that durango. there was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipe. there was no gun. >> reporter: 47-year-old michael dunn says it all started when he exchanged words over loud music coming from an suv carrying four teens. he says he pulled his weapon after he thought he saw the teens, at least one of them, point so

if michael dunn takes the witness stand the state can use those statements to cross examine him.nnot put those statements forth himself in lieu of him testifying. >> let me play another interrogation, michael dunn, the man charged with killing this young man, describes how things in his words began to get agitated and heated up. let's listen in. >> i don't know if they're singing or what, but it's like -- they're saying kill him. so i put my window down again. and i said, excuse me? are you talking about me? and it was like kill that [ bleep ]. and i'm still not reacting but this guy like goes down on the ground and comes up with something. i thought it was a shotgun. >> faith, he thought it was a shotgun, he says. there was never a gun found there. >> right. and that's going to be problematic for him. there was no shotgun found. there was nothing even resembling a shot gone found. i mentioned yesterday there was not a water gun, bb gun, nothing in that vehicle those kids could have held up and said -- where he could have said it's a shotgun. thinking that you see a gun and there

>>> michael dunn in the cross hairs. ore on this from cnn martin savage. >> i'm the victim here. i was the one who was victimized. >> prosecutors releasing audio of jailhouse phone calls between michael dunn and his fiance. >> i don't know how else to put it. they attacked me. i'm the victim. i'm the victor but i was the victim too. >> the calls recorded in the weeks following dunn's arrest after he shot and killed jordan davis in an argument over loud music at the gas station. dunn maintains he was threatened by jordan davis and his friends. in one of the calls released, dunn complains about being housed alone in the cell. >> it would be better than being in the room with animals. >> he was convicted on saturday but the jury failed to reach a charge on the most serious, first degree murder. the mistrial sparked outrage from some in jacksonville. protestors gathered at the gas station where the shooting occurred. >> i brought my grand son. i love this man with all my life. i don't want him or no other black child to have

but let's start at the top of the hour here with the trial of michael dunn and the shooting death of florida teenager jordan davis. the trial is over. the jury's verdict means dunn will go to prison but not for killing jordan davis. a mistrial was declared on the most serious count, murder in the first degree. but dunn was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and a charge of firing into a vehicle. prosecutors hope to retrial davis, retry dunn, i should say, on the murder charge. now kerry sanders live outside the courthouse. what has the reaction been in jacksonville? >> reporter: well, those who believed that michael dunn was guilty are very upset and they don't understand how it is that after all of the presentation made to the jury that they could not conclude that he was guilty of first-degree murder. it appears according to analysts that looked at this because we have not heard from the jurors, that they were hung up on the issue of first degree or second degree. and the reason it appear this is they're hung up on the two is because they did find him guilty of aterveted

did >> reporter: michael dunn did not appear to show much emotion as the verdicts were read. he was also found guilty of three counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting into a vehicle. dunn fired ten shots at an suv full of teenagers at a jacksonville convenience store parking lot in november 2012. he testified that he did it in self-defense, after an argument over loud music coming from the suv. he claimed he saw one teenager, jordan davis, holding the barrel of a shotgun and that's when he grabbed his gun and fired. davis was shot and killed. but police did not find a weapon on him or the suv. not. >> we're so very happy to have just a little bit of closure. >>> dunn now faces at least 60 years in prison. the judge set sentencing for late march. the prosecution must now decide whether they will try michael dunn on the charge of murder. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, florida. >> >> axelrod: if you think this has been an especially miserable winter, you from absolutely right. and another winter storm is now bearing down on the northeast tonight. this is the 13th major

loud music was on the radio. 45-year-old michael dunn pulled into the parking spot next to them.st attending his son's wedding reception with his girlfriend ron da and as she went inside he said he politely turn down the music down. >> michael dunn concedes as much in a later interrogation. >> and then it comes back on and i'm like you know i don't need any trouble. >> but there was trouble. police say what followed was a verbal altercation between dunn in his car and the teens sitting in theirs. >> michael dunn said it was one of the teens trying to threaten and kill him. >> i put my window down again and i said exkecuse me are you talking about me? and he said kill that [ bleep ] pitch. and i'm still not reacting and then this guy goes down on the ground and comes up with something and i thought it was a shotgun and he goes you are dead. and he opens his door. and [ bleep ] bricks. and that is when i reached in my glove box and unholstered my miss ton. he opened fire and then he sped away. the only person hit, he spent the night at a local hotel before driving the 159 miles to

the only person that can testify to that is michael dunn. prosecution in this case learned from the zimmerman case. no video interrgation of michael dunn telling his story is in evidence. the only way to prove self-defense at this point is to have michael dunn testify. when i was in court right before the end of the day, the defense indicated they had one or maybe two witnesses pending. when going over the jury instructions, the defense wanted to go over the self-defense instruction, she made it clear it would be inappropriate to go over that instruction unless there was evidence of self-defense. i suspect we will hear from michael dunn tomorrow. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> up next we're back on the charity money trail keeping them honest. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck, good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year. ♪ and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibilities become reality. with century

michael dunn convicted of three counts of attempted murder. him guilty of murdering jordan davis. today dozens of davis supporters gathered in jacksonville to protest. we begin our coverage tonight with martin savage. >> we find the defendant guilty of attempted second degree murder. >> reporter: protesters gathered at the gas station where the shooting occurred. for a second time in six months they have seen an admitted killer not convicted for a black teen's death, first trayvon martin, now jordan davis. >> this little man here i love with all my life. i don't want him or no other black child to have to continue to go through this. it has to end and it has to be now. it has to come to an end now. >> reporter: not far away parked his suv hip hop blaring just as davis was doing. loud music has become a symbol of protest. like many in jacksonville think prosecutor failed the black community just as she did he says in the trial of george m zimmerman. >> you think she should resign? >> immediately. >> the night of the verdict protesters marched d

new york with the quick headlines. >> a florida judge declared a partial mistrial in the case of michael dunncused of killing an unarmed black teenager during an argument over loud music. jurors found dunn guilty of attempted murder and one count of firing at a vehicle. they could not decide if he was guilty of murder. prosecutors say they'll try michael dunn again on the murder charges. >> peace talks if geneva lasted less than half an your. the u.n. mediator apologised to the syrian people. no date has been given for the third round of talks. >> secretary of state john kerry says the u.s. is concerned by reports that the venezuela government arrested scores of protesters. >> another blast of snow is ripping through the north-east. 5 to 10 inches are expected. it's the third snow storm new england has had this week. the u.s. defeated russia at an early round hockey match. american oesh scored -- tj oshie soared the game-winning goal. u.s. 3, russia 2. the host team, russia is in the lead in the medal count. u.s. and netherlands are tied on second. those are the headlines. "america tonight" s

in light of the dunn case and the stand your ground case. >> if you had the chance to interview michael dunnlutely. the dunn verdict has created another stand your ground backlash. the hashtag sdang russ black kids materialized on twitter along with pictures. this one says, my son is clearly planning a robbery and shows a young boy drinking a root beer float and the picture of a baby with this underneath. he is getting aggressive, his temper is flaring and, my god, i feel fear. with me to talk about florida's stand your ground law, florida state representative, matt gates, a supporter of stand your ground and ahmad abu snided, co-founders of dream founders, a group opposed to stand your ground. thanks, gentlemen. >> ahmad, i want to start with you. the fact that this jury could not agree to convict mr. dunn on a first-degree murder? how does that affect those in florida? >> i don't think it had anything to do with the state of florida whether it was first-degree or second-degree. we are grieving. we are upset. we feel like that the justice system has let us down, because it was unable to pro

michael dunn is charged with first degree murder for jordan davis' death.so charged with three counts of attempted murder for the three other passengers in the car. joining me now are larry hannan, a court reporter for the florida times union. he's been in the courtroom every day of the dunn trial. and mark thompson, host of "make it plain" on sirius xm radio. larry, was there anything that you could read in jury reaction to the testimony, the direct testimony of the -- from the witnesses, the kids in the car and that -- and the defendant taking the stand himself? >> lawrence, the jurors were really raptly listening to dunn throughout his testimony. it was a struggle to figure out what they thought they were watching. i saw a juror shake her head in disgust. it was after the fiancee left that they basically turned on dunn. she contradicted a lot of what dunn said on the stand. >> the key point being that he in the testimony, it emerges that he never told the girlfriend that jordan davis had a gun. he never said that to her with plenty of opportunities to do

after four days of deliberation, michael dunn on trial for the november, 2012, killing of 17-year-oldempted murder for firing ten shots into an suv full of teenagers after a dispute over the volume of the music they were playing. while dunn was also found guilty of the lesser charge of firing into an occupied car, the judge drayer eed -- declared a mistri when the jury was unable to come to a decision on the top count of first-degree murder which applies only to the death of jordan davis. dunn's sentencing hearing is expected to take place next month. state attorney angela corey said that her office plans to retry dunn on the first-degree murder charge. jordan davis' mother voiced her gratitude and her disappointment saturday night. >> we're so grateful for the truth. we're so grateful that the jurors were able to understand the common sense of it all. and we will continue to stand, and we will continue to wait for justice for jordan. >> jordan davis would have turned 19 years ode yesterday. for more on the verdict and fallout, i'm joined by criminal defense and civil rights attorney

. >> i know you know i have forgiven michael dunn for taking your life. >> michael dunn says it was self-defense. >> this guy comes up with something. i thought it was a shotgun. >> police say they never found a gun. dunn expected to take the stand today. >> i went over this a million times. what i should have done is put the car in reverse. >> our coverage begins right now in the cnn newsroom. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. we start in jacksonville, florida in a courtroom where the loud music murder trial could go to the jury today. in a dramatic move, we could hear from michael dunn himself, the man who opened fire into a parked car blaring loud rap music. three of the bullets struck and killed 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn says he fired in self-defense leabelieving they e armed and threatening. jurors were told davis was leaning away from the shooter when he was killed. >> we know we're dealing with a horizontal track of the bullet. that happens by motion of the body. as you notice when i bend over t track becomes horizontal. that path of the liver and path of t