Update: Fixed the headline. Need more coffee.

Via Newsbusters:

SCHULTZ:  Do we have a broken system? Should we have people of color and diversity on, on, in, in juries or we don’t move forward with a trial? You know, I thought about that last night, I thought, you don’t know what it’s like to have red hair unless you have red hair! You don’t know what it’s like to be Asian unless you’re an Asian. You don’t know what it’s like to be a terribly overweight person unless you have to live with it every second of your life. You don’t know what it’s like to be black. And so how can this woman (juror interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper) think that Zimmerman’s heart was in the right place? That the only thing he’s guilty of is poor judgment. And oh by the way, she thinks that Trayvon threw the first punch. Not sure, but thinks! Enough to think that it’s OK that he’s dead and the guy that caused the death should walk scot free! I do not believe that a person of color would have come to that conclusion! Because a person of color has different life experiences. This, of course, was absent in the jury. And what is absent is (sic) our guts to discuss it. I think it is a vital discussion that we have to have in this country, that until you walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes, you really don’t know.

We do know that Zimmerman had a firearm and I think we can easily come to the conclusion that he felt pretty safe. And when he didn’t feel safe, and by evidence he was getting his ass kicked, he decided to take someone else, someone else’s life.