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Los Angeles Times/ - Politics, Dom, 01 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Civil Rights)
Inglewood town hall meeting on Trayvon
Martin draws local activists
As 1,000 protesters outraged at the shooting death of
Trayvon Martin marched in Florida’s Goldsboro
community Saturday, hundreds gathered on the other
side of the country for a town hall meeting in
Inglewood to discuss the unarmed teenager’s death.
The meeting, hosted by radio station KJLH-FM, was
titled “Black Men Standing Our Ground: Justice for
Trayvon Martin.” Speakers included John Mack of the
Los Angeles Police Commission, civil rights attorney
Connie Rice of the Advancement Project and actress
and musician Yolanda Whitaker.
Trayvon, 17, was killed Feb. 26 in Florida by
neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman,
who said the teenager looked suspicious because he
was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Zimmerman has
claimed self-defense in the shooting and has not been
arrested.
Trayvon did not have any weapons and was carrying a
bag of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea when he was
shot.
One speaker at the town hall meeting, attorney Brian
Dunn of the Cochran Firm, told the audience: “The
only thing that’s really unusual about this case is the
fact that people are finally paying attention to what has
been going on for years and years.”
“When we’re starting to talk about Travyon Martin,
what we’re seeing is -- not only by your presence here,
but by the national outcry -- people are getting tired of
this phenomenon, and I think that that cannot be
understated because this kind of thing happens all the
time,” Dunn said.
“But now I think people are starting to stand up and
realize that,” Dunn said, “this is not something that can
keep going on.”
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