Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Trayvon Martin shooting

  • Nearly two months ago, tragedy struck the central Florida community of Sanford.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida man accused of killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin asked the claims self-defense in the February 26 shooting death in this central Florida town of Martin, an unarmed black teenager from Miami.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • (CNN)-- The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and its galvanizing effect on African-Americans has often been compared to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.
  • (CNN)
  • In the wake of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a call to action to fight The New Jim Crow, or todays racism, is underway.
  • (Exponent)
  • He says there is a need to get guns off the streets, and that people should be taught to use every possible alternative before shooting someone.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • The parents of Trayvon Martin plan to be in Tampa later this week.
  • (Bay News 9)
  • watching them play football, when he first heard the name of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. "My phone just starts blowing up," he says in an interview.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The Trayvon Martin killing is a tragedy and his killer should be tried and convicted. Unfortunately, killings are an all-too-common occurrence in American inner cities.
  • (The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog))
  • ST. LOUIS —Despite an arrest this week in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, new gun-control measures aren't even being debated in Washington.
  • (Politico.com)
  • The shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida is reverberating today in an unlikely place: the executive suites of major corporations.
  • (Washington Post)

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