Teen Killed By Neighborhood Watch
O'BRIEN: Heartbroken family is speaking out for the very first time. Outraged at the man who killed their son is still walking free. The boy was 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He was shot dead on February 26th. He was walking home from 7-11 near Orlando through a gated community, which is where his father's fiance lives. A neighborhood watch captain by the name of George Zimmerman, that's his picture there, admits he shot Trayvon Martin, but he claims it was in self- defense. The family says it was racial profiling. An unarmed black boy shot by a larger armed white man. Joining me this morning for an exclusive interview is Tracy Martin, his Trayvon's dad, Sybrina Fulton is Trayvon's mom, and Benjamin Crump is the family's attorney. It's nice to see you all of you and I thank you for joining us. Mr. Crump, I'll start with you because when we spoke last you were outraged that there had been no charges filed against George Zimmerman. The 911 tapes had not been released yet. What's changed since we last spoke?</s>BENJAMIN CRUMP, ATTORNEY: Nothing, nothing at all. The Sanford Police Department has passed the buck to the state attorney's office. And now they are doing an investigation. So more nights go by where these parents go to bed knowing that their son is in a grave and the man who killed their son is free sleeping in his own bed.</s>O'BRIEN: Tracy, I want to ask you a little bit about Trayvon. Do you feel that there's been enough focus on him and his story? Tell me a little bit about him.</s>TRACY MARTIN, TRAYVON MARTIN'S FATHER: I think that they're trying to focus -- they're trying to turn the focus away from Mr. Zimmerman. Certainly Trayvon's story is getting out. And the whole world see that this is a tragedy. It's sad. It's sad as a father to have to bury your child. As a parent, you never want to imagine about burying your kids. And for me to have to bury my son is just -- it's sad.</s>O'BRIEN: I got to tell you, we can't even imagine. It's just absolutely heartbreaking to hear you say that. Sybrina, if I could ask you, tell me about Trayvon as a kid, 17 years old. What were his hobbies, tell me about, you know, what he liked.</s>SYBRINA, FULTON, TRAYVON MARTIN'S MOTHER: He was into sports. He loved playing football. He loved watching football. He loves basketball. He loves to eat everything in your house.</s>O'BRIEN: Seventeen-year-old boy, yes.</s>FULTON: Yes. He loved music. He loves kids. He loves to baby- sit and wash cars and just a normal kid.</s>O'BRIEN: We're hearing in the absence of 911 calls sort of fill- in conversations from some of the neighbors. And I'm going to play a little bit of what one neighbor had to say. Listen.</s>MARY CATCHER, WITNESS: We were both standing in here. And as we heard the kid crying, we kind of looked at each other and that's when we heard the gunshot immediately. Once the gun went off, the crying stopped.</s>O'BRIEN: It's the neighbors, Benjamin, that have had to sort of fill in the gaps because the 911 tapes had not been released. What are you hearing? What are the details you're getting from the neighbors?</s>CRUMP: It's real clear that the police chief said the reason they could not arrest this homeowner's association loose cannon is because they said they had no evidence to contradict his claim of self-defense. Well, that isn't true. These women called the police. They said several times. And the police either disregarded them or tried to attack their statements. And that is the pattern we're seeing, Soledad, that anything to effect an arrest on George Zimmerman, the Sanford Police Department continues to deny or try the frustration of these parents saying we're not going to arrest him.</s>O'BRIEN: Why do you think that is, Mr. Martin, or Mrs. Martin? Why do you think that they seem to be so reluctant to move forward on, you know, the guy representing the homeowner's association?</s>MARTIN: I have no idea. It's surprising. It's shocking. It just leaves -- it lets me know that justice is just not being served here. All we want is justice for our son. We're not asking for anything out of the ordinary. We're asking that justice for Trayvon is brought upon the American people.</s>O'BRIEN: We're going to take a short -- yes, go ahead, Mr. Crump. Excuse me.</s>CRUMP: I was just going to simply say, they are trying to espouse this claim of self-defense. Trayvon Martin had a bag of Skittles. He was walking home. These witnesses say the kid was the one crying for help. And that seemed like he was trying to get home. And it was Zimmerman who was pursuing him. Now why the police won't arrest Zimmerman, it is baffling. If Trayvon would have been the person who pulled the trigger he would have been arrested day one, hour one, and he wouldn't have even been given bail.</s>O'BRIEN: We're going to continue this conversation, if we can, right after this short break. And we're going to bring in Jeff Toobin to talk a little bit about the law that a lot of this rests on in the state of Florida. A short break and we're back in just a moment.