Juror Speaking Out on Anderson Cooper 360

[Awsi Dooger]

121. Simplistic and gullible

I'd like to be shocked but she reminds me of so many people I've met in Las Vegas sportsbooks over the decades. Invariably they are right wingers. Guys come to town determined to bet sports for a living, at least for a while. They sit in the sportsbooks and dissect the games. It's unbelievable how many of them sound exactly like her, with no background in correlation or probability but determined to hoist the most ridiculous version imaginable. "I feel sorry for both of them." Granted, they never last long in my world, generally leaving town broke on a bus. But the replacements are identical.

In particular, I'm annoyed at the insistence that Trayvon started the fight. I'd love to bet against that, if a tape somehow emerged. The defense spent a day and a half determined to describe Zimmerman as the most pathetic person on the planet. Zero capabilities. I believe that was the term. Guys don't think that way. He'd invested month after month losing nearly 100 pounds, probably in the best shape of his life. Physical prime, late 20s. Yet they wouldn't let him in the ring, not for a single round. He found his own confrontation.

After that it's two guys scuffling in the rain. The wimp pulled a gun.