GOP rep on Zimmerman verdict: 'Get over it' [View all]
Source: USA Today
A Republican congressman from Maryland has this message for people fixating over the verdict in George Zimmerman's trial: "Get over it."
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted Saturday in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager. Trayvon's death and Zimmerman's trial have been at the center of a national debate over racial profiling.
"We're hung up on this one case, where this one fellow was, in fact, found not guilty by a jury. That's the way the American law system works. Get over it, " Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., said Tuesday on WMAL radio.
Harris, a conservative who was first elected in 2010, also suggested there has been too much news media coverage -- especially on TV -- about the trial and its aftermath. "We missed the forest through the trees to a large extent with all the huge issues going on in the world," Harris said.
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Audio from the July 16 Mornings on the Mall show is at 6:20
Transcript, courtesy BaltimoreSun.com:
WMAL: Have you been watching -- I know its way off topic -- but have you been watching, as everyone has, the Zimmerman case?
HARRIS: You know, I haven't been watching day by day but it honestly you can't turn on any news program now without 90% of it taken up by the Zimmerman case. Again, you know we missed the forest for the trees to a large extent with all the huge issues going on in the world with unrest in the Middle East, we're hung up on this one case where this one fellow was in fact found not guilty by a jury. That's the way the American law system works. Get over it.
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