Mychal Denzel Smith, a social commentator and contributor to The Nation magazine, claimed during a Sunday morning broadcast of MSNBC’s “UP” that Zimmerman’s defense team invoked the same strategy that one would for a lynching and went on to note that they attempted to inflame the all woman jury by showing them a shirtless photo of Trayvon Martin, hoping to convince them that Zimmerman was protecting “white womanhood from this vicious black thug.”
MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH: They had no respect for Trayvon Martin to begin with. The thing that disgusted me, the jury was made up of six women, five white women — the defense literally invoked the same justification for the killing of Trayvon Martin that you would during lynching.
They showed a picture of George Zimmerman’s white woman neighbor and showed her as the picture of fear and said, ‘this is what the neighborhood was up against,’ and put a picture of Trayvon Martin with his shirt off and looking like, you know, the most thugged-out version of Trayvon Martin that you could get, and basically said George Zimmerman was protecting, not just himself, but white womanhood, his neighborhood from this vicious, black thug.
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