Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Trayvon martin case

  • In a tense meeting Wednesday that highlighted growing tensions over the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, local officials in Sanford, Fla.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • As tensions between community leaders and residents in Sanford, Fla., reach a boiling point, the man leading the investigation into the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is being asked to step down.
  • (ABC News)
  • The Florida lawmakers who crafted the states controversial Stand Your Ground law said neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman should be arrested for shooting and killing unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. They got the goods on him.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • Frederica Wilson (D-Miami). Earlier in the day, Wilson spoke on the House floor about the case. I encourage the citizens of Florida and the citizens from around the world to continue to fight for justice for Trayvon Martin.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • SANFORD — Sanford city commissioners have voted no confidence in police Chief Bill Lee Jr., who has been publicly lambasted for his departments handling of the fatal shooting of Miami teenager Trayvon Martin.
  • (South Bend Tribune)
  • As the mother of two sons (and a daughter), I've become accustomed to the warnings attendant to young African-American boys as they mature into men. Don't talk back to police officers . . . for God's sake, don't run from them.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • but would be misapplied in the Trayvon Martin case. Martin, 17, an unarmed black teenager, was killed Feb. 26 in a gated town-house community in Sanford when he was shot by a crime watch volunteer as he walked home from a convenience store.
  • (Herald Tribune)
  • Last week, the fatal shooting of a black Florida teenager by a neighborhood watch captain had gained little media attention beyond the states newspapers, a smattering of mainstream media outlets and several prominent black journalists.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • TALLAHASSEE — The death of an unarmed 17-year-old and a police departments reluctance to charge or arrest the neighborhood watch captain who shot him has stoked a national debate about a 2005 Florida law at the center of the case.
  • (Bradenton Herald)

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