Mark O'Mara, the lead defense attorney for George Zimmerman, took the opportunity during the final moments of his post-verdict press conference to chastise the media for its handling of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case.
"Two systems went against George Zimmerman that he can't understand: you guys, the media. He was like a patient in an operating table where a mad scientists were committing experiments on him and he he had no anesthesia," an agitated O'Mara said after a reporter asked if Zimmerman ever showed emotion. "He didn't know why he was turned into this monster, but quite honestly you guys had a lot to do with it. You just did. Because you took a story that was fed to you and you ran with it, and you ran right over him. And that was horrid to him.
"Then he comes into a system that he trusts -- let's not forget, six voluntary statements, voluntary surrender -- and he believes in a system that he really wanted to be a part of, right? And then he gets prosecutors that charge him with a crime that they could never, ever, prove. ... So those two systems failed him."
This story has been updated with additional quotes.
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