I'm sure everyone has heard about this case. There are numerous links, so I'll post a few.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...shooting-death-of-florida-teen-trayvon-martin
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46781618
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-complicate-trayvon-martin-teen-shooting-case
Does this sound like a justified shooting?
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...shooting-death-of-florida-teen-trayvon-martin
In the wake of spreading public outrage, the Justice Department and the FBI have opened an investigation into the shooting of a black teenager by a Florida neighborhood watch captain who escaped arrest.
More than 435,000 people, many alerted by tweets from celebrities such as movie director Spike Lee and musician Wyclef Jean, signed a petition on Change.org, a social action website, calling for the arrest of the shooter, George Zimmerman.
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the FBI announced on Monday that they have opened an investigation into the shooting in Florida of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed when he was killed.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46781618
The family of a Florida teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer last month is speaking out, saying that the shooting was unprovoked —and racially motivated.
Trayvon Martin, 17, was killed by George Zimmerman in a Sanford, Fla., gated community on the evening of Feb. 26 as he returned from a trip to a local 7-Eleven. Martin and his father were visiting family friends there. Zimmerman claimed he shot Martin in self defense, and has not been charged with a crime.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-complicate-trayvon-martin-teen-shooting-case
Florida’s 2005 “Stand Your Ground” law, which says a citizen doesn’t have to retreat before using deadly force against an attacker, could throw a legal wrinkle into the case of a neighborhood watch captain who shot to death an unarmed black teenager.
Police in the central Florida town of Sanford have said that 28-year-old George Zimmerman says he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense during a confrontation in a gated community. Police have described Zimmerman as white; his family says he is Hispanic and not racist.
Does this sound like a justified shooting?