B37's fellow jurors in Trayvon Martin trial bash her for leading country to believe spoke for them

Four jurors in the Trayvon Martin case issued a statement Tuesday

night bashing a fellow panelist for going on TV and leading the

country to believe she spoke for them.

Just moments after CNN aired part two of its interview with the juror

known as B37, four of her fellow members on the six-woman jury issued

a joint statement.

"We also wish to point out that the opinions of Juror B37, expressed

on the Anderson Cooper show were her own, and not in any way

representative of the jurors listed below."

The jurors added, "We ask you to remember that we are not public

officials and we did not invite this type of attention into our

lives."

In the interview aired Tuesday night, juror B37 said Trayvon "played a

huge role in his death" and that race had nothing to do with it.

The anonymous juror said she believes neighborhood watchman George

Zimmerman, who is half-Peruvian, was "justified in shooting" the

17-year-year high school student.

"I don't think race had anything to do with this trial," she told Cooper.

"I mean just because he was black and George was Spanish or Puerto

Rican, I don't think it had anything to do with this trial," she said.

"But I think people are looking for things to make race play a part."

The jury's post-trial conflict played out as U.S. Attorney General

Eric Holder said he is gunning for "Stand Your Ground" laws.

The nation's top lawman said during a speech at an NAACP convention in

Orlando that the law — which featured prominently during the murder

trial of George Zimmerman — should be reexamined and reformed.

"It's time to question laws that so dangerously expand self-defense

and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods," Holder said, just

miles from the Sanford, Fla., courtroom where Zimmerman, 29, stood

trial in Trayvon Martin's death.

Stand Your Ground laws give the benefit of the doubt to the gunman if

he can prove he fired because he feared for his life. The law, which

exists in some form in more than 20 states, does not require that a

person retreat if possible — a concept Holder said is critical in

legal concepts of self-defense.

"By allowing — and perhaps encouraging — violent situations to

escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety," Holder said.

He did not comment on the Justice Department's ongoing investigation

into whether Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon, an unarmed black teen,

was motivated by racial bias.

But Juror B37 said Zimmerman is only guilty of "not using his senses"

when he confronted Trayvon.

"I don't think he profiled him as a racial thing," the juror said. "I

think he profiled him just as someone in the neighborhood who was

suspicious."

The Rev. Al Sharpton has been one of many civil rights leaders urging

Holder to bring civil rights charges against Zimmerman, who was

acquitted Saturday of murdering Trayvon, 17.

Sharpton announced Tuesday he is organizing 100 rallies in cities

around the country to press the Justice Department to bring the

charges.

Sharpton did not say which cities are involved in the protests planned

for this weekend.

Meanwhile a tell-all book by Juror B37 — one of six unnamed women who

acquitted Zimmerman — is off the table following an outcry that she

was trying to profit from the trial and its controversial conclusion.

The anonymous juror had announced Monday through a literary agent that

she hoped to write the book that would give a behind-the-scenes look

at the trial.

The plan was scuttled after the juror gave an interview to CNN's

Anderson Cooper in which she sympathized with Zimmerman, saying his

"heart was in the right place."

"Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have

realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any

sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was

called to sit on this jury," the juror said in a statement Tuesday.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, authorities remained on guard for further

rowdy protests after about 150 people split off from a demonstration

Monday night and ran through the streets, committing vandalism and

assaults and stopping traffic. Fourteen people were arrested.

With News Wire Services