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When Black People Are Target Practice
By Chauncey DeVega In this age of police thuggery, it seems that almost every few days brings another video recorded incident of white-on-black police violence and excessive force. Last week a white police officer in Mckinney, Texas was recorded pulling … Continue reading
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Tagged George Zimmerman, McKinney, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, police abuse, police violence, race, racism, Trayvon Martin
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George Zimmerman Gets Back 5 Guns Confiscated During Domestic-Assault Case
By Breanna Edwards George Zimmerman is back—personal arsenal and all. After being cleared of all charges in a domestic-assault incident, in which his girlfriend insisted that she was misinterpreted by the police, Zimmerman was free to pick up his confiscated … Continue reading
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Tagged AR-15, domestic violence, George Zimmerman, Glock, guns, Kel-Tec, Shooting of Trayvon Martin
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George Zimmerman’s wife pleads guilty to perjury
By Yamiche Alcindor The wife of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, has been sentenced to one year probation and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Corey, Florida, George Zimmerman, law, Perjury, Plea, Sam's Club, Shellie Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin
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Go away, George Zimmerman!
By Joan Walsh As Trayvon Martin’s parents headed to Washington for a protest commemorating the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, their son’s killer was touring the factory that produced the gun he used to kill their son, and posing for … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Sharpton, Florida, George Zimmerman, Jesse Jackson, Kel-Tec, Trayvon Martin
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Trayvon Martin’s parents on path to forgive George Zimmerman
It has been more than a month since George Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury of the murder of Trayvon Martin. In their first British media interview since the verdict, the teenager’s parents told the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan they are working hard to … Continue reading
The Hunt for the White Trayvon Martin
By Elspeth Reeve The hunt for the white Trayvon Martin has evolved since the case became national news, with a changing cast of victims and perpetrators, but the problem has remained the same: instead of countering the racial narrative of the … Continue reading
George Zimmerman Shops For Tactical Shotgun
George Zimmerman was on the hunt today — for a shotgun … TMZ has learned. Zimmerman went to Kel-Tec in Cocoa, Florida … a gun manufacturing company. We’re told he was asking questions about the legality of buying a shotgun — specifically, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cocoa Florida, George Zimmerman, Gun Culture, guns, Kel-Tec, Manufacturing, Shotgun
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A question of civil rights? Federal role shaped by decades of cases before Trayvon Martin
By Associated Press Almost as soon as George Zimmerman was pronounced “not guilty” in a Florida courtroom, the cry went up. The U.S. government must get “justice for Trayvon,” insisted protesters angry about the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager … Continue reading
I left my job over a computer-desktop hoodie
By Brenda Howard A year and a half ago, a news story exploded out of Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, an armed, 28-year-old man of mixed white and Hispanic ancestry, followed and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American. The tragic … Continue reading
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There Are No Two Greater Heroes Than Trayvon Martin’s Parents!
By Michael Skolnik I remember growing up and always hearing my parents and their friends talk about one pivotal moment in their lives. They remembered exactly where they were at that point. Exactly who told them the news. Exactly how … Continue reading →