WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor and comedian Bill Cosby says the debate over the killing of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer should be focused on guns, not race. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” aired Sunday, Cosby said calling George Zimmerman a racist doesn’t solve anything. Cosby says the bigger question […]
It was too much to expect from a country as consumed by hostility and jugglery as ours, but a saner society would have had a different take on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The overwhelming sentiment of any civilization deserving of the name would be a profound sorrow and alarm over the sudden and unnecessary violent […]
George Zimmerman has been arrested and is being charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. Special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charge at a news conference Wednesday, seven weeks after the homicide took place. Trayvon Martin’s parents, civil rights leaders and other people have portrayed the case as […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The man charged with second-degree murder in Trayvon Martin’s death has arrived at a Florida jail after turning himself in. George Zimmerman was logged into the jail in Sanford on Wednesday night, hours after a special prosecutor announced the charge against him. He’s expected to make his first court appearance on […]
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Now that George Zimmerman has been arrested and will plead not guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, there are new questions. The most important: Will an unusual aspect of Florida’s “stand-your-ground’ law allow Zimmerman to receive immunity and avoid prosecution? “As you know there was a lot of anxiety and anger, […]
Trayvon Martin’s mother says the encounter between her son and a neighborhood watch volunteer was an accident, not the shooting that left her 17-year-old son dead. Sybrina Fulton clarified her remarks Thursday to The Associated Press after she referred to what happened to her son on NBC’s “Today” show as an accident. Watch video below. […]
Appearing as agitated as they were red-faced, Hal Uhrig and Craig Sonner walked side-by-side to the podium late Tuesday, compelled by obligation and circumstance to admit to an overflow crowd of media members that George Zimmerman, their ultra-high profile and unarguably controversial client, had once again chosen to disobey a direct order and instead take […]
A Michigan teacher is claiming that she was fired because she helped students start a Trayvon Martin fundraiser in her class. The teacher, Brooke Harris, 26, is a non-union teacher at Pontiac Academy and was fired by the school without a problem. She was initially suspended by the school and then fired. Now, numerous organizations […]
The Sanford, Fla. police department’s sloppy handling of Trayvon Martin’s slaying isn’t the only example of how the lives of young black men are devalued in this society. Another example is the media’s fixation on his past; on whether his tweets, his street slang, or any of the stuff that black teenagers say or do […]
