Rachel Jeantel was the last person to talk to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin while he was alive and was a crucial witness during the George Zimmerman trial.
Since appearing on the stand, Jeantel did her first interview with Piers Morgan and told the TV journalist what she thought about the Zimmerman verdict, what she believes happened that fatal night and gave people a glimpse into the kind of person Trayvon Martin was.
Jeantel told Morgan that she and Martin would spend hours on the phone with each other, sometimes talking all day. She said she was shocked when she was showed phone logs of their conversations. When asked what the friends would discuss she said they would often talk about life adding that they would discuss that they planned on doing with their lives and what they were going to be.
"He was a calm, chill, loving person," Jeantel said. "Loved his family, definitely his mother and a good friend."
The star witness brushed aside allegations that Martin was into drugs and a thug. She said the only drug Martin did was weed or marijuana adding that it is very common in their neighborhood. However, Jeantel said that she herself didn't smoke. As far a Martin being labeled a thug throughout the trial the teenager said "Trayvon was not a thug...teenagers post things to brag, he's not a thug."
Jeantel was referring to several of the slain teen's Facebook pictures. She insisted that her friend wasn't aggressive and the fact that weed was found in his system did not make him angry.
"Weed don't make him go crazy," she said. "It just makes him go hungry."
In the often times touching interview Jeantel opened up about her reaction to Zimmerman's acquittal calling it "BS."
"I was disappointed, upset, angry, questioning and mad," she said before adding that Martin was a "loving person."
According to Jeantel she has no doubt in her mind that race played a crucial part in the death if her friend.
Said she was She said it wasn't that she didn't want to be there but she was under a lot of stress and his death saying that she doesn't believe the same thing would happened that night if "Trayvon was white and he had a hoodie on."
A juror, who remained anonymous, spoke to Anderson Copper on "AC 360" saying that she didn't find the girl to be "a credible witness" but felt "sorry for her," CNN reports.
"She didn't ask to be in this place... She wanted to go. She wanted to leave. She didn't want to be any part of this jury. I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills. I just felt sadness for her."
Jeantel explained her behavior, admitting to Morgan that she did have "an attitude," especially when dealing with Don Weston, because she was under a lot of stress and was trying to come to terms that her best friend had been killed.
