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March 13, 2012 Leave a comment
The Nation Is Watching: the Killer of Trayvon Martin MUST Be Arrested (UPDATE)
March 13, 2012 10 Comments
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By NICK CHILES
UPDATE: the case in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch captain in the child’s Sanford, FL, community, has been handed over to the state attorney. Details, along with a petition demanding justice in Trayvon’s death, are at the end of this post.
Not only has George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old Neighborhood Watch captain who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, still not been arrested, but the more details that emerge in this crazy case, the more outrageous it gets. The Sanford police chief says that the police don’t have “probable cause” to dispute Zimmerman’s claims of self-defense. Neighbors say there have been complaints in the past about Zimmerman’s aggressive tactics. And, perhaps most disturbingly, when Zimmerman made the call to 911 about a suspicious person in his community, he reportedly told the 911 dispatcher that he wasn’t going to let the black teen get away because “they always get away.” Read more of this post
Black Ministers Aim to Register One Million New Voters On Easter Sunday
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The battle over new photo I.D. laws won’t be won or lost over a march through Selma, or anywhere else for that matter. Either the Justice Department can file suit against these new laws and win, or they can’t.
In the mean time, black leaders would be smart to get busy registering new voters, and that’s exactly what some black religious leaders are doing with their “Empowerment Movement”, which aims to register one million voters on Easter Sunday. Read more of this post
