Summary Of The Trayvon Martin Case

Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17 year old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida. He was badly shot by George Zimmerman; a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman called 911 to report that there was “suspicious person” walking through the neighborhood. He was told to not do anything, but he did anyway. As he approached Martin, he attacked him and shot him straight to the heart. According to CNN, “Zimmerman acknowledges that he shot Martin, claiming it was in self-defense.” (“Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts”). When the case was taken to court George Zimmerman was found not guilty even after he

On the night of his death, February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was in Sanford, Florida on a visit to his father's fiancee and her son at The Retreat at Twin Lakes. As Zimmerman noticed him he called the police non-emergency number to report a suspicious person in community, describing Martin as a very suspicious guy reporting that he had his hand in waistband and was walking around looking at homes. Also, Zimmerman is quoted saying that “he is just walking around looking about in the rain”, and “This guy looks like he is up to no good or he is on drugs or something”(Wikipedia). Although the way he described him led to think of what view Zimmerman had of innocent, unarmed Trayvon who seemed like any other teenager walking about on the way

Trayvon Martin was a 17- year- old African America from Miami Gardens Florida. He was born Feb, 26, 1995 in Florida and he died Feb, 26, 2012 in Sanford, Fl. He was 5’11 and he had 3 siblings.

As I walk to the store to pick up snacks for the next half of the super bowl, I am trying to make it quick. I finally arrive at the store and quickly get my two favorite items, skittles and an ice tea. Thinking to myself that this is all I need, not knowing that it would be my last meal. On the walk back home, I have a feeling that I am being followed. I speed up. I turn around to find that a grown Hispanic man, mid-age, and heavily built is in fact, following me. In my head, I just want to make it home safely. Every move I make, he makes the same moves. Finally I turn around, quite nervous, to see if there was a problem. Next thing I know, we are on the ground fighting. Here I am, seventeen years old, up against a man

We are fools to think racism is something of the past. Racism is very much alive in this century as it was in the last century. The Rodney King trial and verdict will forever be identified as a moment in recent history that outraged the diverse residents of Los Angeles County and the rest of America. Not only did it expose the police brutality African Americans endure, but it showed the discrimination of a jury mostly made of white people. My family lived in Los Angeles during the late 80’s and into the 90’s, and they still remember how dangerous walking in the streets was during those years. The police did not only discriminate African Americans, they also victimized Mexican Americans. The Rodney King trial and verdict of 1992 generated riots across Los Angeles after four police officers accused of beating King were acquitted. The verdict revealed the unjust racial treatment towards African Americans and it became a symbol of police brutality and injustice that is still seen today.

The incident involving George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was one that caught the interest of many Americans. Trayvon Martin, a young 17-year-old African American boy, was shot and killed during a dispute between him and George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic man. Zimmerman was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the community and he called the police after Martin was acting very suspicious by looking into people’s windows. Zimmerman claimed he acted out of self defense and he also had head injuries. This case is such a big deal because many people believe that Zimmerman only shot him because he was an African American. One aspect in society that is a prominent issue is racism or racial profiling. This case shows the controversy over racial profiling in America. This also ties into the theoretical perspective of critical race theory. Critical race theory involves inequality related to racism. The George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case accurately represents the issue of racial profiling in society today.

Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” Obama makes a note about the people who have resorted to signs and symbols as a way to take a side, whether it’s a protest or in a jury. People will look for meaning in things like signs and books, or things more serious like security tapes, or forensic evidence. He also addresses African American men, saying, “There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store.” Obama takes into mind all the language, symbols, and stereotypes that African Americans face even to this day. Being a political figure, Obama would most likely interpret Campbell’s talk in a political way. There would be no favor to any certain topic that Campbell covered. Instead, Obama might consider the facts before crafting a response, as any smart political figure would do. He would be more likely to process Campbell’s talk emotionally. There is evidence of this in his speech about the Trayvon Martin shooting when he sympathized with the Martin family, and expressed his emotions about the tragedy multiple times. It’s hard to say whether or not his decision was influenced by race. On the surface, many people would say that his deeply emotional remarks could have been influenced by the fact that Martin was part of the African American community, but being the president requires a certain level of indifference when addressing

Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old murderer of nine, was arrested for his crimes in June. According to many Roof was just a very confused and mentally ill young man, but surprisingly he was completely sane when he committed these murders. When asked about his reasoning behind his actions, Roof had this to say, “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case... this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders...At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of

Attorney General Eric Holder earlier gave an address to the NAACP on the Zimmerman trial. His oration was likewise not aimed at binding wounds. Apparently he wanted to remind his anguished audience that because of the acquittal of Zimmerman, there still is not racial justice in America.

Trayvon Martin was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student. Walking back from a 7-Eleven to the Sanford, Florida townhouse of his father's fiancée on a dark and rainy February evening in 2012. He was carrying a bag of Skittles and an Arizona watermelon juice cooler as he headed along a sidewalk in the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhouse community in Sanford. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic man and a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, calls 911 to report "a suspicious person" in the neighborhood. He was instructed not to get out of his SUV or approach

At the same time you are gaining their trust and friendship in the process. Gorge Zimmerman saw something suspicious in his neighborhood so he called the police which was the right thing to do because he couldn’t identify Trayvon Martin and wanted to protect others from a possible bad situation. Zimmerman followed him so he could know exactly where he was going in order to intervene if the need arose to protect a neighbor. Zimmerman wanted to keep the peace in the neighborhood for everyone so they can sleep better and safer that night. Trayvon attacked Zimmerman after already showing signs of a hostile attitude. Zimmerman screaming for help and having no one come to his rescue left him feeling life threatened causing him to go on the defensive by shooting Trayvon in order to save his own life. It is an instinctive reaction in human nature to save yourself from a dangerous situation if you want to stay alive. I agree that the prosecutors shouldn’t have played the race card so strongly because blacks do in fact kill each other more than a white person killing them. Nugent is right we should teacher our children not to pursue and attack a person

Undermined is our conflict and overlooked is our pain. A man can kill an innocent black teen but the jury can set him free. Little boys learn to learn how to hide from the cops before they learn how to read. Blacks boys are treated as problems well before they are treated as people. They are losing a battle they are not prepared to fight. Are we living the same dream? Justice is colorblind, but has justice been given to those who deserve it? Mike Brown, Eric Gardener, Treyvon Martin. These black children, men, and women are afraid to be shot at for nothing more than the color of their skin. We teach our children that progress has been made but we every leap forward we take two steps back. Law enforcement is more aggressive. However, this mostly

Limitation has either held people back or opened their eyes for centuries. The Black Lives Matter movement could not have started if Black Americans anger torwards police had not boiled over from the shooting of Trayvon Martin. John Milton, when writing his poem “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”, showed the hardships, but also the opportunity of his new limitation. Plato said, “Society originates . . . because the individual is not self sufficient” (Plato 55). Many people believe that growing up requires accepting limitations, but these acts of humanity tell a different story. Growing up does not require accepting limitations, but it does require accepting the need for others to believe what the catalyst believes in order to create impactful change in a society.

Based on the stories from the articles attached above, we can conclude that the perpetrators of both Trayvon Martin and Vincent Chin's case violate Don Miguel Ruiz's "Four Agreements". The first agreement is to be impeccable with our words. The article on the Four Agreement explains that it means we must not "use our word against others in blaming, criticizing or gossiping." (Johnson, 2). The perpetrators in Vincent Chin's case violates this agreement when they blame Chin for their unemployment. The second agreement is not to take anything personally. The perpetrators in Chin's case break this agreement when they decide to find and follow Chin to nearby McDonald's after a previous altercation at a club. The third agreement tells us not to make

With no witness that night it was Zimmerman’s word against Trayvon's family. Because of his unfortunate death, he was unable to testify and tell his side of the story. Many found the verdict to be unfair and unjust which resulted in many riots and social unrest. The Trayvon Martin Foundation was established in March 2012, with the goal of increasing awareness about the effect of violence on families while scrutinizing racial and gender crime