If you live in America you will know of the Zimmerman trial, if not then I can only assume you've been living under a rock for the past year and a half. If you are from outside of America you may be wondering why the shooting of a teenager is getting so much media attention considering that in 2012 over 9,000 were killed with firearms in the United States. The reason for all the attention is that people believe that racism played a part.
If you don't know what happened, here's a rundown. Trayvon Martin was a black 17 year old who was staying with his father and his father's fiancée in the fiancée's house. The house was located in a gated community where George Zimmerman also lived. On the night of the 26th of February 2012 Trayvon went out to buy some skittles and iced-tea, on his way home he was spotted by Zimmerman who thought he looked suspicious. Zimmerman called the police to report the 'suspicious figure'. Zimmerman then preceded to follow Trayvon despite the police dispatcher telling him not to. A few minutes later Zimmerman and Trayvon would have a confrontation which would leave Trayvon dead. One witness reported to see Zimmerman on top of Trayvon during the confrontation, another phoned police when she heard screaming; that call has since been released to the public and you can clearly hear the screaming cut short following a gunshot - implying that it was Trayvon screaming.
What really set liberal America off though was the fact that police did not initially arrest Zimmerman. It was made worse when it was revealed that the police had performed a toxicology report on the victim, rather than the perpetrator, and looked into the victim's criminal record, rather than the perpetrator.
Eventually on the 11th of April 2012, Zimmerman was finally arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Today the jury found Zimmerman not guilty.
Racism is alive and well folks, don't be fooled.
If you don't know what happened, here's a rundown. Trayvon Martin was a black 17 year old who was staying with his father and his father's fiancée in the fiancée's house. The house was located in a gated community where George Zimmerman also lived. On the night of the 26th of February 2012 Trayvon went out to buy some skittles and iced-tea, on his way home he was spotted by Zimmerman who thought he looked suspicious. Zimmerman called the police to report the 'suspicious figure'. Zimmerman then preceded to follow Trayvon despite the police dispatcher telling him not to. A few minutes later Zimmerman and Trayvon would have a confrontation which would leave Trayvon dead. One witness reported to see Zimmerman on top of Trayvon during the confrontation, another phoned police when she heard screaming; that call has since been released to the public and you can clearly hear the screaming cut short following a gunshot - implying that it was Trayvon screaming.
What really set liberal America off though was the fact that police did not initially arrest Zimmerman. It was made worse when it was revealed that the police had performed a toxicology report on the victim, rather than the perpetrator, and looked into the victim's criminal record, rather than the perpetrator.
Eventually on the 11th of April 2012, Zimmerman was finally arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Today the jury found Zimmerman not guilty.
Racism is alive and well folks, don't be fooled.
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| Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed at just 17. Source: www.wikipedia.org |
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