According to Bao, the medical examiner, state attorney's office, and Sanford Police Department all felt that Martin "got what he deserved." Bao also...
Home[1] » Nation[2] » Crime[3] » Robbers Tell Man: ‘This is For Trayvon Martin’ Washington Metropolitan police are viewing a recent robbery in the diverse neighborhood of Adams Morgan as a hate crime after a group of black men allegedly robbed a white man in the name of Trayvon Martin. According to District of Columba police, the man was approached by three males early Saturday morning in the 1700 block of Euclid Street NW. Two of the men pushed him on the ground and kicked him before stripping him of his iPhone and wallet and yelled, “This is for Trayvon Martin.” The victim, who has not been publicly identified, suffered minor injuries. Police have yet to make any arrests. Tags: Adam Morgan » Hate Crime » Robbery » Trayvon Martin[4][5][6][7] '); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src = 'https://widget.crowdignite.com/widgets/2660?_ci_wid=_CI_widget_'+_CI.counter; script.async = true; // Ensure td elements align properly in two column rows script.onload = ...
Trayvon Martin‘s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, reacted Thursday night to a juror in George Zimmerman’s murder trial admitting in an ABC interview that she believes the former neighborhood watch captain “got away with murder.” As previously reported by NewsOne[1], juror B29 — or Maddy — claims that she felt pressured to find Zimmerman not guilty: “I was the juror that was going to give them a hung jury,” she said. “I fought to the end. “I felt like I let a lot of people down, and I’m thinking to myself, `Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?’” she said. “As much as we were trying to find this man guilty … They give you a booklet that basically tells you the truth, and the truth is that there was nothing that we could do about it.” The mother of eight children, who recently moved to Florida from Chicago, claims that she is “hurting as much Trayvon’s Martin’s mother because there’s no way that any mother should feel that pain.” But she doesn’t believe that Zimmerman got ...
Editor's Note: In an excerpt from an interview with Street Soldiers radio hosts Dr. Joe Marshall and Malcolm Marshall, Oakland-based civil rights attorney...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder faces a tough decision as civil rights group petition the Department of Justice to press federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, 29, who was found “not guilty” on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Saturday night by a jury of 6 women — 5 white and one Hispanic — for the Feb. 26, 2012 killing of unarmed Black teen, Trayvon Martin. NAACP President Ben Jealous released a statement making it plain that we are “not done demanding justice for Trayvon Martin”: “The most fundamental of civil rights—the right to life—was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin. We ask that the Department of Justice file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation,” said the NAACP in a petition released Saturday night. “Please address the travesties of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today.” On CNN Sunday, Rev. Jesse Jackson called the verdict “Old South justice” and ...
