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.
Jesse Jackson comments on the composition of the jury in George Zimmerman's trial and calls for federal intervention in the case.
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