As Americans we are bold, brave and unwilling to be pushed around. Our nation is a symbol of our story and how our determination made us the greatest country on the face of the earth. We are a family and just like every family we have our ups and downs and many times are separated by family disputes. Time after time just as soon as our nation begins to recover as a whole from one dramatic event, we open ourselves to be consumed by sectionalism and riots over events like the Fruitvale station shooting, the crisis in Ferguson and one of the most popular and still most debated events to this day the Trayvon Martin shooting.”
Trayvon Martin a Seventeen year old boy was gunned down on the night of February 26, 2012 in Sanford Florida while walking home from a local store. A call to 911 records the conversation between a neighborhood watch member (George Zimmerman) and the operator on the other end of the phone. Zimmerman claims to have been observing “a suspicious person” around the neighborhood where he lives. George Zimmerman ignores the operators order to remain in his vehicle and shortly after the unarmed teenage boy was shot and killed by Zimmerman who tells authorities that he acted in self-defense. Zimmerman was reported to have had wounds causing bloodshed from his nose and on the backside of his head. The very next day a missing persons report is put out by the father of Martin (Tracy Martin). The Sanford PD asks if the father can look at a picture to identify the dead body of his son. Some weeks later a medical fax was sent to the investigating officers on the case stating that the wounds to the nose and head to Zimmerman were caused by “other specified means”. The chief of police in return says that “Zimmerman has not been charged because there are no grounds to disprove his story.” The following day however, the detective on homicide suggests they charge Zimmerman with manslaughter. (www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/, n.p.) Trayvon Martin despite the disciplinary troubles he faced growing up was a very intelligent young man who was still finding his way and discovering exactly who he was in life. …show more content…
Martin was born into the world as Trayvon Benjamin Martin in 1995 on February 5. His mother and father four years down the road would face a divorce. Martin was enrolled in the Miami Gardens public schooling system in Florida. He struggled with his discipline during high school. Many times he had been suspended for various reasons such as vandalism, tardiness and possession of drug paraphernalia. Martin was found with some women’s jewelry that officers believed he had stolen. Martin was not charged for having the stolen jewelry and he had no juvenile record. (WWW.biography.com/people/trayvon-martin, n.p.) George Zimmerman is a man who had dreams of being a police officer and doing things to help his community as a young boy, but instead he grew up to become the exact opposite. He faced a charge in 2005 for “resisting officers with violence.” He was enlisted into an alcohol education program and in return his charges were dropped. Also in 2005 his soon to be wife filed a restraining order on Zimmerman because of domestic violence. Zimmerman reported “suspicious activity” with African American males to 911 over 46 times in only an eight year period. Zimmermans own cousin says to the Sanford PD “I know George. And I know that he does not like black people.” (Witness No.9) The same witness described him as being a “very confrontational person.” (WWW.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-releavent-past, n.p.) The Trayvon Martin case was a hearing like any other homicide case with a jury and in the end the 12 found the defendant George …show more content…
There was talk of weather the defense would use parts of Martins past disciplinary struggles in their argument. “Behavioral profiling is not racial profiling, but behavioral profiling can be just as discriminatory as racial profiling.” (Nelson, n.p.) On the twenty eighth of May in 2013 the court decides that the defense could not use anything about Martins past to support their argument. Months later Zimmerman is found not guilty for the crime of manslaughter because of the “Stand your ground law” in Florida. (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trayvon-martin-shooting-a-timeline-of-events/,
Trayvon Martin a Seventeen year old boy was gunned down on the night of February 26, 2012 in Sanford Florida while walking home from a local store. A call to 911 records the conversation between a neighborhood watch member (George Zimmerman) and the operator on the other end of the phone. Zimmerman claims to have been observing “a suspicious person” around the neighborhood where he lives. George Zimmerman ignores the operators order to remain in his vehicle and shortly after the unarmed teenage boy was shot and killed by Zimmerman who tells authorities that he acted in self-defense. Zimmerman was reported to have had wounds causing bloodshed from his nose and on the backside of his head. The very next day a missing persons report is put out by the father of Martin (Tracy Martin). The Sanford PD asks if the father can look at a picture to identify the dead body of his son. Some weeks later a medical fax was sent to the investigating officers on the case stating that the wounds to the nose and head to Zimmerman were caused by “other specified means”. The chief of police in return says that “Zimmerman has not been charged because there are no grounds to disprove his story.” The following day however, the detective on homicide suggests they charge Zimmerman with manslaughter. (www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/, n.p.) Trayvon Martin despite the disciplinary troubles he faced growing up was a very intelligent young man who was still finding his way and discovering exactly who he was in life. …show more content…
Martin was born into the world as Trayvon Benjamin Martin in 1995 on February 5. His mother and father four years down the road would face a divorce. Martin was enrolled in the Miami Gardens public schooling system in Florida. He struggled with his discipline during high school. Many times he had been suspended for various reasons such as vandalism, tardiness and possession of drug paraphernalia. Martin was found with some women’s jewelry that officers believed he had stolen. Martin was not charged for having the stolen jewelry and he had no juvenile record. (WWW.biography.com/people/trayvon-martin, n.p.) George Zimmerman is a man who had dreams of being a police officer and doing things to help his community as a young boy, but instead he grew up to become the exact opposite. He faced a charge in 2005 for “resisting officers with violence.” He was enlisted into an alcohol education program and in return his charges were dropped. Also in 2005 his soon to be wife filed a restraining order on Zimmerman because of domestic violence. Zimmerman reported “suspicious activity” with African American males to 911 over 46 times in only an eight year period. Zimmermans own cousin says to the Sanford PD “I know George. And I know that he does not like black people.” (Witness No.9) The same witness described him as being a “very confrontational person.” (WWW.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-releavent-past, n.p.) The Trayvon Martin case was a hearing like any other homicide case with a jury and in the end the 12 found the defendant George …show more content…
There was talk of weather the defense would use parts of Martins past disciplinary struggles in their argument. “Behavioral profiling is not racial profiling, but behavioral profiling can be just as discriminatory as racial profiling.” (Nelson, n.p.) On the twenty eighth of May in 2013 the court decides that the defense could not use anything about Martins past to support their argument. Months later Zimmerman is found not guilty for the crime of manslaughter because of the “Stand your ground law” in Florida. (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trayvon-martin-shooting-a-timeline-of-events/,