Trayvon Martin Case

During the 1960 Civil Rights Movement, demonstrators were brutalized and killed, sometimes at the hands of law officers, whereas many slayings remain unsolved. “In some cases where local authorities failed to go after the attackers, or all-white juries refused to convict, the federal government moved in with civil rights charges.” Fifty-Two (52) years later in 2012 a murder of young unarmed African American teen Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman from Sanford, Florida, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and acquitted of manslaughter. The verdict sparked a heartfelt online message regarding the decision, which stated “essentially a love note to black people” which ended with “Black people. I love you.

Since the Ferguson Missouri Incident in 2014 America seems to have turned its attention to racial discrimination and abuse by police more than usual, especially in the case of African Americans and Latinos Americans. Police have been shooting unarmed African Americans without just cause. These police are unfairly being let of the hook do to them being law biding officers making their word stronger than others. Law officers have discriminated against many African Americans in the past, but now America seems to see the mistake they have been making for centuries. The racial discrimination has gone on for so long that it’s become a lasting disturbance in Latino and African American culture. “As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason.” Said Redditt Hudson of The Washington Post (2014). Racism has also

February 26,2012 on a rainy day Trayvon Martin was returning to his father's girlfriend's house in Sanford, Florida, after he went to the local 7-Eleven. He brought a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea for his little brother. As he walked home, the unarmed 17-year-old was on the cell phone with his female friend. Trayvon was spotted by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch, who was patrolling the gated community, at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, in his vehicle. Zimmerman called 911 to report what he described as Martin a “suspicious person”, telling the operator he looked like he was "up to no good, on drugs or something". Zimmerman was warned by the operator not to follow the teenager. But he did, getting out of his vehicle and taking

The brutality of the police force has been a long worldwide problem, but especially between the years of 2012-2016. Black people are being unjustly beaten and shot in plain sight for doing nothing while being unarmed. Journal of African American Studies “Blacks are viewed as deserving of harsh treatment in the criminal justice system” (482). “Black males with more “Afrocentric” features may receive longer sentences than blacks with less Afrocentric features like lighter skin and straighter hair”(482). Nowadays it is important to know about the police force. It’s important to know our rights as citizens and be careful around cops. Not everybody is good, but not everybody is bad also. In The New York Amsterdam News 21 people were killed by Chicago police in 2008. Entire families were being attacked. They believe it’s because of their skin color and how they are different. The year of racism started off with the world seeing the police murder of Oscar Grant. “The media have pushed people away from hearing the issue of police brutality, and it has fallen off of the radar screen.”(2) “You can’t give in. They will try to make an example out of you, try to break your spirit!”(2) African Americans say do not trust the cops with anything. “They will ruin you.”(2)

As I witnessed the videos and sound recordings of the police killings of these Black youth: Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Darnisha Harris, I, too, lost hope for racial equality and developed a fear of law enforcement that still exists to this day. These emotions are quite common amongst Black youth, yet the presence of such is

The organization I selected for my research paper is the Chicago Police Department, also known as CPD. This organization interests me because it directly affects me, not only as a member of the communities who seem to interact most with CPD, but also as someone who was born and raised in the city of Chicago. The Chicago Police Department’s mission is to serve and protect citizens of the city, yet this organization has been in the news for doing just the opposite. Recently, the CPD has been in the media for a number of unethical issues and their lack of diversity on the force. Thus I would like to explore how these areas affect the work of CPD and their relationship with various communities. With recent protests and the Black Lives Matter movement

Our society shows how racism and police officers are a focal point within our country. In the United States, many police officers demonstrate racist qualities. Research states that many police officers are only patrolling around predominately African American neighborhoods. People agree that police officers are just sitting in areas where African Americans live instead of just sitting anywhere and waiting for any crimes. (Martin, Trayvon. Racial Profiling). Polices are just waiting for African Americans to make a mistake. Most Police Officers haven’t changed their ways on racism. “Diallo was gunned down by NYPD officers while trying to enter his apartment building. The officers had mistaken Diallo for a suspected rapist—who was also black’’ (Martin, Trayvon. Racial Profiling). NYPD killed an innocent man because he was African American and he looked like the guy they were looking for. Therefore, this just proves police officers have not changed their racist

All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown caused the racial strain in this country to break.

Racism, known as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” (Oxford, 2013) When an individual mentions the word ‘racism’ almost all the time it will be referred to a black individual, not white nor any other race, but black. Over the years racism has repeatedly occurred whether it was said or done; some showed racism by the words they used, while others presented it by the racist acts they committed. Racism towards the black community has not only been shown by other races, but also by individuals who were there to keep them ‘safe’. Very contradictory yet true, that a black man’s worst

M-The case of Trayvon Martin vs. George Zimmerman. This was a case where a 17 year old African American, male was shot and killed within 70 yards of the home in which he was residing in at the time, located at Retreat at Twin Lakes Gated Community in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman was a 28 year-old Hispanic male, who was a neighborhood watchman for the Retreat at Twin Lakes Gated Community in Sanford, Florida.

A national problem that is affecting me personally is the issue of police brutality. I am an African American female living in a society where there is an overlooked where between my community and the police task force. Before I delve into this topic, I need the reader to understand that I know all policeman are not bad and that all African Americans are not innocent. The problem I am addressing is the apparent discrepancy of police officers assuming that just because someone has a darker complexion that means that they are doing something illegal.

Black on white or white on black crime will always happen until black and whites can come together as a whole and not individuals. After slavery there was a group formed name the Ku Klux Klan also know as the “KKK”. The KKK were very known for riding around on horses with whips or guns hanging others particularly blacks and burning down crosses and churches. Around the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan was ended but the crime between blacks and whites did not. February 2012 a black teenage boy named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch participant while walking back home from the store carrying a bag of skittles and a sweet tea. Since the Trayvon Martin shooting, multiple white police shooting amongst black victims have been

That cool, February night in Sanford, Florida Trayvon Martin never planned to die. Trayvon was 17 years old when he got shot by George Zimmerman.When trayvon got shot the man who shot him ran away so he want go to jail.So the police is looking for the man so they can put him in jail and go to court.Trayvon friend tyrek was walking with him when he got shot so he saw the man face.The police was seaching for the man and tyrek wanted to help to find trayvon killer but the police wounldn't let tyrek help with the case so they can find him easy.

Ever been blamed for homicide or been known as a bigot? Well George Zimmerman has, in the Trayvon Martin case. Many individuals do trust that George Zimmerman is a supremacist and a killer. Feelings and actualities are major factors in this case. Clearly George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, however despite everything he has pleaded not guilty.

Art is dead because artist are dying. On February 5th, 2012 a defenses boy by the name of Trayvon Martin was shot dead in the streets out of racist ideals. This was the spark that erupted the Black Lives Matter movement. A slightly edited version of the story unraveled on the daily news. Disappointment devoured my father’s face and he said with strain: “The only crime we commit is exciting” he had said. At the age of 12, I was befuddled by this use of “we”. Who are “we”? I would soon painfully find out that “we” is me, is black people.