George Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty towards the Trayvon Martin case. Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman said that he shot Trayvon in self-defense. The state of Florida has a law stating “stand your ground”. Zimmerman was the only witness of the death of Martin.
The second source summarizes how Sandra Bland's family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Waller County Sheriff's Office The family and activists have raised questions over the traffic stop and whether Bland committed suicide. Cooper, 31, a businesswoman, said the family is concerned that authorities have been releasing information selectively, including dashboard camera videos from the police car of another officer who responded after Encinia stopped Bland. The intended audience of this article is the press and the police departments who lack watching over the people who are incarcerated. The family is concerned with the way the authorities have been handling the situation. The authorities are the ones who caused the problem and now
“Most juries in America have 12 jurors; Florida has six-person juries in all but death penalty cases” (Bloom, The Only Non-White Juror in the George Zimmerman Trial). The courtroom was enlightened on what happened the night of Martin’s death. Zimmerman had been following him, even after making a 911 call to police and being told that he did not need to shadow Martin. Later, a fight ensued between them where someone had been recorded screaming for help during a 911 call made by a neighbor. Throughout the course of the trial, this evidence was deemed it unlikely to truthfully identify the person the voice belonged to due to the extreme emotional state they were in.
CLEVELAND - Two months post the infamous Michael Brown shooting spectacle, yet another teenage boy gets involved with police officials. Responding to a 911 call, police officers approached the 12-year-old-boy in Cleveland’s Cudell Recreation Center, who was said to be “sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people.” The 911 caller said the gun was "probably fake," then added, "I don 't know if it 's real or not. " Deputy Chief Edward Tomba said Monday that he didn 't know whether that information was conferred with responding officers/
The year was 1955 when fourteen year old Emmett Till was murdered in cold blood by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. Emmett was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois to Mamie and Louis Till. He was spending the summer in Money, Mississippi with his extended family after relentlessly begging his mother for hours on end, until she finally agreed to the proposition. Mamie warned Emmett to be careful of the way he acted in Mississippi, because she knew how racially segregated it was due to the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the south at the time. It all started three days after arriving in Money with his uncle Moses Wright and multiple cousins.
On the subject of comparing today’s events of African Americans standing up for justice and before the 60’s when they were fighting for justice, I am going to talk about the Trayvon Martin story. Trayvon Martin was an African American teenager who was in a lot of trouble in school having been suspended three times and even was caught with drugs in his book bag by the principal of his school. After he had came from the store buying skittles and an Arizona iced tea according to George Zimmerman (the man who shot Trayvon) he had said that, "This guy looks like he 's up to no good, or he 's on drugs or something. It 's raining, and he 's just walking around. " After he had told this to the dispatcher, he ended up following Trayvon with the intent
In our society today, we can see how a majority of the protection of the law is biased towards Whites rather than Blacks. This can be seen through the recent Trayvon Martin shooting that occurred in 2012. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African-American male who was walking back from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida, where he purchased a pack of Skittles candy and an iced tea. Zimmerman, a white police officer, shot Martin dead on the basis that Martin was carrying a weapon. The shot from the office killed Martin and Zimmerman justified his actions by claiming it was an act of self-defense.
The Witch Hunt was based on false accusations and reputations made on certain people causing a series of harmful events. My article is the “Trayvon Martin Case: Is young, black and wearing a hoodie a recipe for disaster?” from the U.S. News. The Trayvon Martin Case occurred several years ago. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old boy who got shot by a community crime-watch volunteer in Florida (“Trayvon Martin Case: Is young, black and wearing a hoodie a recipe for disaster?”).
How would you feel if you testify in court to defend yourself but no one believes or cares what you have to say and you get convicted? If you felt angry, then is it fair for black men to experience this oppression in court or even everyday life. It was more common before the civil rights movement, but still relevant to today that black men are often oppressed. Tom Robinson, a black man, in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, was oppressed by being falsely convicted for rape. Emmett Till is a black boy who is also falsely accused of rape because he whistled at a white woman.
George Zimmerman Trial had an effect on American society and social norms because race, culture, and behavior toward social media. Everything started when Trayvon (17 year old boy) was walking around and George Zimmerman was watching him walking around the neighborhood. During that moment it was a George nightmare because he had killed Trayvon Martin for trying to protect himself from him. Now the family and other people are protesting, saying “ Justice For Trayvon”, but later on George Zimmerman was not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. What can I tell you about George Zimmerman?
In my opinion, it was handled the correct way. Had Garner not been yelling at officers and flailing his arms around I doubt any repercussions would of occurred. I am in no way condoning the killing of unarmed civilians by police officers but, an officers number one concern is going home to see his family every night. There is no magic radar that an officer can point at a suspect to determine if they have a weapon on them or not.
For example the Trayvon Martin case where the young man was killed because of racial profiling where the man that shot him though that he had a gun. He thought he had a gun because he was black and this case caused a lot of outrage in the community. Another instance was when a man named Oscar Grant was shot in the back by BART police even though he was on the ground, handcuffed, and unarmed. Even more unfortunate was that George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin was only on trial for one month before he was acquitted because the jury did not believe there was enough evidence to convict him. And the man who killed Oscar Grant, Johannes Mehserle, only served a few 11 months before he was released for
Zimmerman shot Trayvon, killing the teen, after he had supposedly been beaten to the point where Zimmerman had to shoot him. This teen’s killer was charged, unfortunately it was posthumous and he got
‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.’ On the 28th of August, in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial declaring to over 250.000 citizens that he had a dream. A dream that one day, all men and women, whether black or white, Jewish or Christian, would be treated as equals. More than fifty years later, King’s dream seems to be nothing more than that: a dream. Just last year, Eric Garner, a black man, is choked to death by the police force in Staten Island, New York.
The death toll among these police brutality victims is extremely alarming. Every year police in the United States kill hundreds of people—461 in 2013, according to incomplete FBI statistics based on self-reporting from local law enforcement agencies, and more than 1,000 in 2014 according to Champion, which combs through media reports. The fatal shooting in August of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in an interaction that began over jaywalking propelled the issue of police violence and excessive force into the national news cycle. The police response to subsequent protests similarly propelled the issue of militarized police into the national news cycle (Champion,
