Bill Cosby: George Zimmerman Racial Profiling Not Proven
Bill Cosby has offered his opinion about the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder case.
In a radio interview, the iconic actor/comedian said the racism allegation in the George Zimmerman trial wasn’t proven and overall the prosecution blew the case.
Cosby initially said in the interview on the DomNnate radio show that he lost all faith in media coverage of these big trials after the Casey Anthony not guilty verdict when all the television talking heads insisted she would be convicted. “And I will, quote unquote according to myself, my iconic self, never pay attention to information given to me by TV, radio, or whatever about a high-profile case until the jury says what it says. Because these people and their opinions were moneymaking things. They were just having a ball drawing this up.”
As far as how the Zimmerman case was presented in the courtroom, Cosby explained that “I found that the prosecution did not tell the story well. And they lost.” When radio hosts Domenick Nati and Nate Foutz asked him to clarify, Cosby added that “Okay, if you’re a lawyer and I’m a lawyer, and I’m going up against you, we both have to talk to the jury, agreed? We present our story. And I think if I don’t present the story well enough that you will win.”
When asked about the alleged racial profiling implications in the case, Cosby asserted that “See this racial stuff goes into a whole bunch of discussion which has stuff that you can’t prove. You can’t prove if somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.”
He also suggested that the right to self defense may be getting out of hand in Florida. Listen to the George Zimmerman portion of the Bill Cosby interview embedded below.
Yesterday Charles Barkley also scolded the media for the tone of the Zimmerman trial coverage. “… I don’t like when race gets out in the media, because I don’t think media has a pure heart… and I don’t like it when it gets out there in the media because I don’t think the media has clean hands, ” Barkley commented.
As we reported previously, Bill Cosby will be returning to television for the first time in 30 years for a concert special on Comedy Central in November.
