Mark O’Mara, the no-nonsense attorney for George Zimmerman, took his defense of Zimmerman out of the courtroom this week and deliberately infused race in a trial where racial profiling remains an emotionally explosive issue. O’Mara is trying hard to drum up support for Zimmerman in the court of public opinion, but I’m not buying it. […]
MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has found for the second time in a decade that the Miami Police Department engaged in a pattern of excessive use of force in shootings of suspects, including seven black men fatally shot by officers over an eight-month period ending in 2011. The department’s Civil Rights Division released […]
Sybrina Martin couldn’t listen to another word. Overwhelmed with emotion, she walked out of the courtroom Tuesday while famed forensic pathologist Dr. Vincent Di Maio told the jury that he believes Trayvon Martin was on top of George Zimmerman when Zimmerman shot Trayvon, confirming Zimmerman’s story that he was being beaten by Trayvon and was […]
I believe Tracy Martin. In an emotional testimony Monday, Martin took the witness stand in the trial of George Zimmerman, the self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain accused of murdering Martin’s unarmed son, Travyon, on a rainy night in Sanford, Florida last year. Zimmerman’s attorneys called Martin to the stand after a law enforcement officer testified Monday […]
Roland Martin talks with Patrina Peters about mothers losing their sons to gun violence and what needs to be done to fix this troubling trend.
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Friday at the end of the second week of testimony in George Zimmerman‘s second-degree murder trial. Defense attorneys now have their chance next week to call witnesses and introduce testimony. They called their first two witnesses late Friday. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder. He […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the George Zimmerman trial are heading into their weekend with a lot of courtroom drama and conflicting testimony to digest. Friday’s action-packed session saw the prosecution rest its case, and the judge reject a defense request to acquit Zimmerman of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The mother and brother of Trayvon Martin testified Friday that screams for help captured on audio of a 911 call came from the 17-year-old. Sybrina Fulton and Jahvaris Fulton took the witness stand during the trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in Martin’s shooting death. […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A friend who was on the phone with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin moments before he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman testified that she heard the Miami teen shout, “Get off! Get off!” before his telephone went dead. Rachel Jeantel recounted to jurors in Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial how Martin told her […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Several times in six months, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman called police to report suspicious characters in the gated townhouse community where he lived. Each time, when asked, he reported that the suspects were black males. On Tuesday, the judge at Zimmerman’s murder trial in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin […]
ATLANTA (AP)— Police say an armed man trying to rob customers outside an Atlanta shoe store was fatally shot by one of the patrons waiting in line to buy sneakers. WSB-TV reports the shooting happened Saturday morning in the city’s Little Five Points neighborhood, where people lined up outside Wish Clothing to buy new $180 […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP)- Police say a 5-year-old girl fatally shot herself when her mother locked her inside their home and went to the store. The New Orleans Police Department said in a news release the girl was home alone Sunday, somehow found her mother’s revolver, and accidentally shot herself in the head. The mother, 28-year-old […]
