Trayvon Martin: February 5, 1995-February 26, 2012
Today is the third anniversary of the murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. Two days ago, the Justice Department announced it would not bring federal charges against Zimmerman.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, told the Associated Press that she still believes George Zimmerman got away with murder (http://nypost.com/...).
“He took a life, carelessly and recklessly, and he shouldn’t deserve to have his entire life walking around on the street free. I just believe that he should be held accountable for what he’s done."
“Does George Zimmerman Have a Line He Wouldn't Cross?”
Does George Zimmerman have a line he wouldn't cross?
If he does, would it be a 15 year-old black boy or girl?
Would it be a child of 13, 11, 9, 7, or 3?
Would the black child have to be taller than five-feet-ten inches?
What if that child was five feet eight inches or five-feet-three inches or barely five feet? Would he still have attacked if he/she were a five-feet-two inch six year-old girl carrying a soda and a bag of skittles?
Would his defense attorney still be so smug and disrespectful?
What if our five-feet-two inch girl walking home carrying a soda and a bag of skittles wore a hoodless sweatshirt?
Would Zimmerman have accosted her?
Would he have shot her dead?
Is another self-declared neighborhood-watch armed-vigilante
setting his sights on another black child?
-- Bill Berkowitz, July 2013