THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTIN

Abstract

Trayvon Martin was young 17 year old boy minding his own business when he was followed, gun downed and murdered due to racism by a neighborhood watch captain that did not listen to authority and took matters into his own hands causing the death of Trayvon. Although it has not yet to be proven that Trayvon and George did not have any conflict prior to the death of Trayvon there was still no reason to kill this teenager when he was proven to be unarmed, even if Trayvon had a motive and wanted to cause harm or death to Zimmerman there was no weapon with Trayvon at the time of the death. As we all know “stand your ground laws” gives people the ability to use fatal strength without having to deal with the reality of danger. According to the police and statements from Zimmerman he came up with a reasonable excuse to tell the police, even though Zimmerman clearly stated that he pulled the trigger on Trayvon he was not arrested at the time of the crime. As we all know that is stereotyping and being racist just assuming that a young black male just walking back to his father’s house from a corner store to buy a couple things should be classified as unsafe and possibly on drugs? It is time America wakes up to reality of life and see that some unpredictable so called neighborhood watchman that had possession of a firearm took his racist mentality to the extreme causing death of an innocent teenager.

THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTIN

It all happened one rainy day in February of 2012 when a young African American teenager by the name of Trayvon Martin was followed, gun downed and murdered in a gated community buy a neighborhood watchman, when he was walking home from a local corner store with a hoodie on talking on the phone with his girlfriend from buying an ice tea and bag of skittles at the time of his death. How can this young boy be priorly fighting with Zimmerman when he was on his cellphone with his girlfriend according to reports his girlfriend even heard the gun shots when Trayvon fell to the ground with his phone, not to mention Zimmerman stating that trayvon broke his nose and made lacerations to the back of his head hmmm where are medical records to back up Zimmerman story there isn’t any. As we all can see it has raised national news causing people to protest; singers to make music and talk about Trayvon death there also bind with his family for justice to be served, not to mention the Black Panthers have set a bounty out on Zimmerman and they will pay $10,000 for the capture of Zimmerman because they want justice to be served.

Trayvon Martin a young African American teenager that just turned 17 years old, played football for his local high school; has been expelled from school a few times and has a minor bad record some even say he possibly liked fighting, and maybe even smoked weed. Was he a really a thug just because he was only 17 and had tattoos and with few gold’s in his mouth, anything is a possibility but reality is he didn’t deserve to die.

George Zimmerman a 28 year old Hispanic male working as an insurance-fraud investigator was raised in a Catholic background. Zimmerman has a prior 2005 charge of with resisting arrest, violence and battery because he pushed an undercover police officer when the officer was arresting Zimmerman under aged friend at a bar, when he went to court for these charges he plead to take the pretrial diversion program, anger control classes, to avoid having the conviction. Not to mention less than one month later his fiancé filed for a restraining order making strong allegations of domestic violence. Zimmerman also has a record of stereo-typing African Americans. With his background of violence it clearly explains why when he was speaking to the law enforcement that he never followed there instructions. First of all he was in his truck following this young boy called 911 stating Trayvon looked suspicious and he was worried about the community due to prior break ins to be told officers are on their way and not follow this boy. Once conversation was finished he got out of his vehicle and made the decision to shoot and cause a young teenager his life and all we can call this crime is 2nd degree murder.

Many questions arise why he wasn’t arrested at the time of the crime he has a prior criminal past, and stated he pulled the trigger. How can you be in fear for your life when someone is just walking minding their own business not bothering you and you murder them. Not to mention does this man even have a firearm license and why would you be driving around with a loaded gun on you in the first place. As some may say Zimmerman is a lucky man he committed a murder and went to jail almost a month later not to mention the makers of angle soft toilet paper are paying for Zimmerman attorney fees. There are so many un-answered questions all we can hope for is that this raciest crime is handled accordingly so innocent people stop being murdered for no reason.

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