Jurors hear statements from Parkland victims' families at shooter's penalty trial | August 2 

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This guy is a murderer that killed unarmed children and he attacked a prison guard. How in the world can they let him sit next to two women without being at least hand cuffed?

I'm watching every minute of this victim statements video. It's really not much but least I can do to honor the victims. RIP to all the victims.

His lawyer crying broke my heart I know she hates that she has to sit next to him I couldn’t do it..

How can a person do this? It’s impossible not to be in tears hearing these victim’s statements. All those people either dead or injured due to one person’s actions. This is one of the saddest cases I’ve seen on here. RIP to the victims who lost their lives and well wishes for the survivors of this tragic event.

There is such a beautiful bond between the victim’s families. My heart breaks for all of them.

These statements are heart wrenching. Can't even or ever fathom the pain, and suffering these families are going through. My heart is with them.

The way the mom held up Luke's picture and stroked it a little has me in tears already. I can't imagine...

Luke’s mom:’( ugh made me cry

Dear Lord this is breaking my heart hearing this. I'm so sorry for these families.

i dont understand how that whole court room is in tears - I'd be bawling my eyes out. The staff/attorneys/jurors,how are they so calm? When someone cries - i cry. I supposed their used to it being in courts, but I wouldnt be able to contain my emotions

You know the case is really bad, when the defense attorney cries hearing the victim impact statements.

He said in a video people were going to know who he was. He said he hated people. You won’t see any expression of remorse, regret or sadness because he got what he wanted.

The determination, strength, and integrity this must take to get up there and face that monster. What he did was done for nothing but notoriety. But nobody is impressed by him. I’m disgusted.

He wears the typical Serial Killer eye glasses

It seems like he's enjoying watching them in pain 😡😡💔

Omg. This is heartbreaking. 😥 I feel so bad for the families.

I’ve seen men and women commit murders not Mass Shootings and have to be hand cuffed the whole trial this guy gets to dress “nice” , color , and have free hands to scratch his head .. disgusting

Even the defense attorney is crying, listening to the families speak of their murdered children. How can one be so empty of life and deranged to think it's ok to do this, to be known for being evil?

My heart ❤️ truly goes out to the families who have lost their loved ones but just know that they are not gone in spirit prayer with you everyday keep the light shining for them they are there for you 🕯️🌹🕊️

When defense attorney struggles to maintain professional demeanor, but cries instead during testimony of parents, you know it’s personal.

His lawyers need to put him in a chair the same size as everyone else ... I call it manipulation making him look smaller then he really is ...

Shouldn't have even had a jury, just let the family decide that monster's punishment

Listening to all these families has reduced me to a sobbing mess. Then seeing him sitting there with not an ounce of emotion makes me so angry. I think death is too quick for him he needs to live a long and tortured life. Let him live with the street justice that other inmates can dish out best for a long time

Prayers 🙏 & Honor the victims. Heart breaking to the families. God bless and be strong everyday.

The monster is enjoying this he said he likes to see the families suffer I hope he meets his maker soon he's a devil on earth

With full understanding that everyone is entitled to defense, and that it is necessary, there just is no defense.

So Sad 😭😭😭😭😭 Am Really Sorry For All The Victims , And There Families . All My Prayers 🙏 For All Of Them

That POS almost looks amuzed. God this is horrible😥 I feel so bad for the parents. Breaks my heart

it’s nice to see that cruz’s lawyers crying

cruz doesnt care what they said...he was just bored...they made him be there...

Oh how difficult it would be to be this murderers lawyer. 😒

⚠️ ‘No -Mercy’ for ‘ Nick Cruz ‘ !!!⚠️🎭💀

Omg Jamie’s Brother 🙏🙏💔💔😢😢

As depressing and heartbreaking as it is, I am taking the time to listen to all of the victim impact statements to honour the victims (which includes the victim's families). They have spent hours, days, weeks, months and years preparing their statements and summoning the courage to speak. I just wish that something good can come of this horrendous tragedy by curtailing the access to guns that Americans just don't seem to want to give up despite these tragedies being so common in the US. My thoughts are with the families and I commend you on your courage.

Very Sad...

Look at his face he is so evil 😡

They should make him stand to hear this

Heights of evil

One of the most hated monsters in the world.

How does anybody defend this monster? You Just can’t! The court will assign you but you just can’t!!!

I started crying uncontrollably and had to pause. I’ve never done this before. Mama bear. My heart breaks for you. All of you. This should not have have happened. An avoidable tragedy where a child, and eventually a young adult likely displayed warning signs. Failed, never addressed. So much agony. So much pain and loss.

Zero emotion, so creepy. That smirk is so chilling 😏

I wish they put blinders and ear plugs on this guy. He is getting off on this whole ordeal.

Why isn’t he in handcuffs ???

It looks like cruz is smirking

We call my son Luke "Lukey Bear" too.

Jesus Christ heart wrenching. Every parent mourns, I don’t care who you are or where you come from❤.

The statements show it is the often the little things about a person that make a big impact on a character

The sad part of a person action is your not even the same person as you were at 17yr. Look how much you grew up look how much you have change. If you would had just let life pass you by , you would had realized the way you feel at a certain moment does not last for ever. Death does!! Death is forever. Emotions is just a moment in time that will pass. It’s just sad. 17 people forever gone

So sad ☹ 😢 😞

I know we live in the Best Country in the world! We also believe in the Justice system. However, I cannot wrap my common sense, my heart and my intelligence to give this Monster any rights to be defended!! I know the defense attorneys have a job to do, however O could not take this case under any circumstances. This Monster deserves LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE!!!! I really pray he gets it, and, may live a long and agonizing life. May God bless these Families..

Prayers for the victims and their families. This is so sad. May G-d comfort them and bring the redemption of the world soon.

How did Nikolas' parents miss this? I'm not saying it's their fault, it's still his, but these things never come out of absolutely nowhere. There's no way he became a scumbag overnight, his depravity was always there but ignored.

Dude looks so active like his having fun just out one in the forehead and save people’s tax money

I am so very happy the families of these murdered young people and adults, on the verge of adulthood, got to make Impact Statements! Not to resolve their grief, for that will never dissipate, but to give testimony to all the world that they too were part of a family, a community, a nation that and will be always a loss. I hope the defense team suffered through every word wondering what team they would be on if their child, husband were murdered. For Melissa McNeill, who fold her hands, and seemed to pray at the jury's decision of life in prison was shameful. I am, as an American Citizen, so insulted that this nation has made the murderer the victim and the victim's as mere bodies to be buried.

..fry

The tearful defense lawyer must be suffering a lot as she sits next to the height of evil! It appears to me that his chair may be less high that those next to him since he appears shorter. When he stands, he is as tall as his lawyers. They may want him to appear childlike as they have with his drawing, using “crayons”.

And the typical Narcissist's eyebrows

I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion. I never expected to feel this way, especially after watching those poor families pour their broken hearts out, but I felt so sad for the defendant. What he did is beyond words, but watching him look over at the families, hugging and comforting each other, while he sat there all by himself. not even his attorneys were looking at him or saying a word. He has absolutely no one by his side. It is weird to feel sympathy for someone that is so incapable of feeling even an ounce of remorse or pain, but I do. I still see a human being there that wishes someone, anyone would love him the way these parents loved their children. No one deserves to be unloved because they have emotional or mental issues. I know no one will agree but he didn’t just massacre those 17 people he also massacred any possibility he may have had of being loved or understood. I can’t imagine how much pain he would have been in to be so completely numb to the cries and suffering of others. How much rage he would have had inside that inflicting pain upon helpless children was the only thing he could think about. We need to do better about finding ways to love and accept the outcasts of the world or these types of horrors will continue to happen. I truly pray that we stop blaming guns or bombs or politics or terrorism or whatever for this insanity and look at our own failure to love and accept as the root of this disease.

Me gustaría que lo tradujeran en español, estoy viendo este caso desde el 14_02_2018, no entiendo el idioma ingles

These poor families, that monster broke all of these people and got nothing in return. He’s life is over, i want him to feel the same fright he gave his victims but knowing him, he won’t see the correlations. He’ll shack and cry asking “why me” instead of seeing how this was well over due. If you’re reading this, I don’t know what you believe in. But whether you’re agnostic, atheist, or religious. We all can agree he has what’s coming to him.

The defense crying 😢 oh yeah he’s in for a fun ride!!

If I was in that situation, I would've taken that opportunity to beat the living snot out of the coward that did this!

I get some people have a trouble past but, to hurt other people because of your personal history is not the answer and totally not acceptable I was hoping for his outcome to be the same, the death penalty. God forgive me….

Grims must read topic.... There was an episode on ... Black Mirror about these little metal robot dogs that was tracking and killing people. Now this thing was straight vicious, and the people was running for their very lives. Now every once in a while, somebody would go Rambo and maybe destroy one or two of the dogs but after they had to keep moving because more robot dogs would soon come. Never once in that show did any of the people say...Lets find out where all these robot dogs are coming from and start destroying those. And I watch as all of these people would eventually get pick off one by one. Didn't understand the mind-set then, still don't understand the mind-set now. ............GRIM

The victims family should be left in a room with Nick alone and let them do whatever they want to him. That would be justice

as i sit here listening to the statements i can't elp but to cry. Anyone with an assemblance of a heart would. i warched his sentencing a while back and saw that he got life and not death bc at the time of his crime he was a minor and the sate of Florida doesn't allow the death penalty to be carried out on minors. at first i was angry about that. but after i thought about it i was actually pretty happy about it. most child killers are killed in prison. If he would have been sentenced to death he would be in solitary confinemet, nobody could get to him. and he would most likely spend years wasting tax payer's money on appeal after appeal making those parents suffer even more. with life he will be put in with the general population for 7.5 - 10 hours a day. how long do you really think he will last? And after some of the comments here i'm amazed at how some of you feel sorry for the defendents lawyers. it seems that some of you have forggotten about the frizzy haired one at the very end, who made jokes and then flipped of the parents in the gallery. She was enjoying herself and the pain that everyone was feeling!!! Everyone deserves representation. it's part of our legal system. But to have lawyers like that, that is a slap in the face to the justice system. At least she has become one of the most hated women in the country, or was at the time of the incident. It's probably why she was now sitting at the far end of the table, where before during the whole sentencing trial she had been sitting next to him.

I wish MTG were watching this, but I'm certain she's not.

These parents deserved to be this angry but they also sound like the typical mentality of my ex Tom I broke up wiff 10 years ago. So mad I moved on and he still wasting money on me. Me and Robert are happy Tom let it go. 🤣🤣🤣🤣👄

Take the masks off for Christ sakes 🙄

The judge is hot

Dead man doodling.

I feel for those parents! Watching the Defense attorneys cry 😢 has to be hard. They have a hard job being his attorneys. I know I would never represent anyone like this !! I know someone has to this job. What a tuff day!!! I hope he gets what he deserves!!!

Luke’s mom 😭 I’m in tears. The moment she brought up the memory of kissing him goodnight at 5 years old and him wiping it off to get another one broke me. I have babies of my own and I can’t imagine the pain she and all the other families are going through. My heart breaks.

That creeps enjoying every moment of this. Ita disgusting they are even giving him any freedom to even look at the victims family's or at anything he wants to. Our country needs to stop treating people like this with any kindness or dignity

I can’t stop looking at the defense lawyer that has to sit next to the mass murderer. She is extremely emotional, and often turns her back to him. She can’t stop crying, and is scooting farther and farther away from the monster she has been hired to defend. She has a mountain of tissues in front of her. I wonder if she’ll be back tomorrow. 😢

Its sad this happened in Feb 14, 2018 and we still don't have a handle on School Security. 4 years later and we still remain ignorant

Attempting to do my make up before work while listening. Oh my goodness gracious. I'm so heart broken. As a parent, my daughter is the greatest joy of my life. I cannot picture a day without her. God bless the family, friends, and loved ones of these innocent fallen children.

I feel for his lawyer that keeps crying. The lead lawyer should have excused her

Look how he watches the victims families his face lights up ! Disgusting!!!

WTF is wrong with this young man..???

What a horrible piece of human! How can somebody have that much hate and destroy so many lives? He doesn't deserve to breathe one minute more.

This Is so sad. I have 4 children and only 1 left in high school and thankfully I live in ten buck too, but it could still happen. I would never allow my kids in a big city public school just because I'm so afraid. Here in Ga the school fights are way up and it's scary. I can not imagine how these poor families feel or how they have made it this far. It has to be only by the grace and love of God. I have cried on every statement and I just don't understand how cruz can sit there with no emotion what so ever. I understand he has mental issues and I pray that somehow God will show that young man that what he did is wrong. God will punish him and there will be no more punishment greater than that of God and I ask God to forgive me because I don't think I could sit in the same room with him. I don't hate anyone and I know he was bound to have issues after hearing about his birth mom but he was raised with a great family and I believe that not only the devil is to blame but the doctors that are suppose to know how to help someone didn't put forth more effort than changing damn medications. Mental health is real I have seen it and been through it myself and you can clearly see this young man is not normal and he needs to be punished and judged for what he took that is irreplaceable. As a Christian I have to forgive but if I was one of the parents I don't know that I could. That young man needs help. I am sorry for the families and send all my prayers and love to be with you all throughout the rest of your lives.

I'm from the UK can anyone tell mev who's paying for this murderer defence cos he seems to have a he'll of a lot of lawyers ???

Why is he that scrunched up? Looks like a retired old man…. and the glasses to match….

Grayson county deputy. B. Bennington electromagneticically harasses me but I'm not violent and he's a liar, about to lose the job he has because he can't represent that badge with any integrity

he thought he himsleve would be killed in the shooting, therefore he was also seeking suicide, he said in a video that he would die at that day and take many with him. The video was also kind of goodby message. He said I leave the world today behind.

This is indescribably tragic and heart breaking.

😡 give me 5 Minutes with him in a Room

4:33 22:30. 22:41 29:14

That mutant is eating this up!

Was he bullied at school??

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Why is this being televised?