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mokasun: Trayvon Martin, 17, was killed on feb. 26th— it’s now March 20th and Zimmerman has still not been charged. The killing of Trayvon leads me to a few questions, most importantly, what made Trayvon seem so suspicious? The fact that Trayvon had a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea? The fact that Trayvon Martin was a young boy walking into the gated community? Or the fact that Trayvon Martin was a young, black, boy walking into the gated community? The 911 calls are chilling. “Are you following him?” the dispatcher asks. “Yes,” Zimmerman responds. “We don’t need you to do that,” the dispatcher says. The police say they do not have enough evidence to counter Zimmerman’s claims; despite the fact that as early as March 8, Sanford Police chief Bill Lee told HuffPost that Zimmerman disregarded a 911 dispatcher who told him to stand down and wait for the police to arrive. According to the Miami Herald, Zimmerman told the police that he had stepped out of his SUV to check the name of the street he was on, and that Trayvon sprang out of nowhere to attack him from behind as he was walking back to his truck. He said he feared for his life and shot Martin in self-defense. This COMPLETELY contradicts Zimmerman’s 911 call. “If you’re trying to use a claim of self-defense, you can’t be the one chasing, you can’t be chasing the person that you say is being aggressive against you.” Another 911 call includes screaming for help and a gunshot in the background. After the gunshot, the screaming stops. Why, if Zimmerman was really the one calling for help (which he claims he was) would he stop crying for help after he shot Trayvon? And even after the mother of Trayvon recognizes the screams as those of her son, why is the law still proving insufficient to salve her loss? What Trayvon’s parents are going through, is a true nightmare. When Trayvon’s father called 911, the police asked him to describe the boy, after which they sent officers to the house where the father was staying. There they showed him a picture of the boy with blood coming out of his mouth. Another witnesses, a 13-year-old black boy, recorded a video, recounting what he saw. The boy speaks low and deliberately and “has the heavy look of worry and sadness in his eyes.” He recalls hearing screaming, seeing someone on the ground and hearing gunshots. The video ends with the boy saying, “I just think that sometimes people get stereotyped, and I fit into the stereotype as the person who got shot.” Even if you take race out of the picture, Zimmerman still persued, and killed, a young, innocent, boy. “the #trayvonmartin story is heartwrenching, not just because an innocent boy was murdered and his killer remains unpunished— but because it demonstrates so clearly the burden that black men/boys face of being a constant suspect.” Walking down the street while black is not a crime, muder is. #Justice4Trayvon

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Andhra Pradesh Royal Earrings
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