Shocker.
(Reuters) – The mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was shot dead in Florida last year by volunteer watchman George Zimmerman, said on Thursday she was “stunned” and felt “disgust” when a jury found her son’s killer not guilty.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, told “CBS This Morning.” “I just knew that they would see that this was a teenager just trying to get home. This was no burglar.”
On Saturday, a six-woman jury acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the February 26, 2012, killing of Martin inside a gated community in the central Florida town of Sanford.
“My first thought was shock, disgust,” Fulton said on another TV show, ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“I was stunned absolutely,” Fulton told ABC. […]
Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Martin family, said the parents were considering filing a civil lawsuit against Zimmerman.
“We are looking at all legal options right now,” Crump told CBS.