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Trayvon Martin case: Zimmerman attorney faults Sharpton, Jackson for 'racial event'

by theGrio | April 8, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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Hal Uhrig, the high profile attorney of Trayvon Martin’s shooter — George Zimmerman is going on the offensive. During recent interviews he has accused Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson of turning the case “into a racial event when it never was one.” The Orlando Sentinel reports:

George Zimmerman’s new attorney, Hal Uhrig, has come out swinging. Less than 72 hours after announcing he was on the defense team, he’s done interviews on CBS, NBC, CNN and the Fox network, and he’s aggressively pushing this message: George Zimmerman is a victim.

The people victimizing him, Uhrig said, include Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“They turned it into a racial event when it never was one,” he told Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday.

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