Justice for Trayvon
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By Charles M. Blow, New York Times
America has heard the calls for justice from a Florida family.
A boy’s blood had been spilled on a rain-soaked patch of grass behind a row of mustard-colored condominiums by a man who had pursued him against the advice of 911 dispatchers. That man carried a 9-millimeter handgun. The boy carried a bag of candy.
Yet it seems, largely on the weight of his own word, the man who killed the boy was allowed to walk out of the police station that night without even a charge.
The boy’s body was taken to the medical examiner’s office and kept in a morgue. The man who killed him was able to return home.
The dead boy was Trayvon Martin. The man who killed him was George Zimmerman. The bullet that passed between them silenced a child but ignited a nation.
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