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On April 11, 2012, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager. In support of the charges, the State filed an affidavit of probable cause, stating that Zimmerman profiled and confronted Martin and shot him to death while Martin was committing no crimes. [1] .
On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, who was visiting his father.
24 lut 2022 · The killing of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a stranger still reverberates 10 years later -- in protest, in partisanship, in racial reckoning and reactionary response, in social justice and social media.
24 cze 2013 · George Zimmerman walked into a courtroom in Sanford, Fla., this morning for the start of his long-awaited second-degree murder trial. The six jurors, all women, listened as each side laid out its...
22 paź 2024 · On July 13, 2013, after more than 16 hours of deliberation, the jury found Zimmerman not guilty. Martin’s death heightened a debate over the persistence of racism in the United States and in particular over the issue of racial profiling.
Opening statements began in the second-degree murder trial against George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman is charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Ray Suarez gets an update on this story with NPR's Greg Allen. Climate and environmental action used to be bipartisan. What happened? How will Trump change health care?
Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American.
