Thursday, July 18, 2013

'If he was white he'd still be alive', Trayvon Martin's dad, Tracy Martin, says


RACE was a factor in the death of an unarmed black US teen by a volunteer watchman recently acquitted in his killing, the victim's father said.

Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot on the rainy night of February 26, 2012, as he walked through a quiet Florida community.

His shooter, self-appointed neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman, said he acted in self-defence. A jury acquitted him this past weekend .... http://www.news.com