Trayvon: Protests over the George Zimmerman verdict turned violent Monday night in Los Angeles when a group of youths broke away from a vigil, breaking windows and attacking bystanders. Several were arrested.

  An anonymous juror from the Zimmerman trial told CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night that, “I think George Zimmerman’s heart was in the right place.” She went on to say, “But he went above and beyond what he should’ve done. I think his heart was in the right place, but it just went terribly wrong.” Cooper asked, “Do you think he’s guilty of something?” She said, “He’s guilty of not using good judgment.”  Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, who had been on the phone with him just before he was killed, told Piers Morgan, “It was racial. Let’s be honest. If he was white. It was 7 o’clock. That’s when people walk their dogs.”

World: The man believed to be head of the vicious Zetas drug cartel has been captured by Mexican authorities, according to reports. Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, known in the trade as “Z-40”, was caught in Nuevo Laredo across the border from Laredo, Tx. The Zetas were formed by police veterans and became known for brutality, torturing and beheading rivals.

Second Acts: New York bad boys Antony Weiner and Elliot Spitzer are the leaders in their races for Mayor and Comptroller of NY City, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. The poll found that voters believe sexual scandal is much more forgivable than financial shenanigans.

The Tube: Actress Jenny McCarthy is joining the cast of ABC’s morning talkie “The View”. Expect her to be smart and funny. She was Playboy’s 1993 Playmate of the Year. McCarthy has an autistic child and has been a proponent of the controversial unproved theory that childhood vaccinations cause autism.

The Obit Page: Leonard Garment, who was White House Counsel to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, died in NY City at 89. Garment talked Nixon out of destroying the infamous incriminating audiotapes, urged the President to resign, and recommended to President Gerald Ford that he should pardon Nixon. Garment later went on to become a power-broker lawyer despite his association with Nixon.

Fired: The National Transportation Safety board fired the intern who confirmed the fictitious pidgin-Asian names in the Asiana Airlines crash to a San Francisco television station. Fox station KTVU has not announced firing anyone from their own staff and Asiana is suing them for damage to the airline’s reputation. One of the names was “Sum Ting Wong”, but no one at KTVU seemed to think so when they put four similar names on air.

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