#HNNEducation: How #TrayvonMartin's MURDER impacted our children.

My son KJ

My son KJ dressed up the part. It was too emotional as I held that only rally outside the United States in Toronto Canada. Lawmakers, NBA players, name it, everyone has a hoodie. BUT nothing like the children in school lines, all over the planet holding the Skittles and ice tea, the snacks Trayvon went to the store to get.

Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida. Martin had gone with his father on a visit to the father's fiancée at hertownhouse at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford. On the evening of February 26, Martin went to a convenience store and purchased candy and juice. As Martin returned from the store, Zimmerman spotted him and called the Sanford Police to report him, saying he looked suspicious. 

Moments later, there was an altercation between the two individuals in which Martin, who was unarmed, was shot in the chest. Zimmerman was not charged at the time of the shooting by the Sanford Police, who said that there was no evidence to refute his claim of self-defense and that Florida's stand your ground law prohibited law-enforcement officials from arresting or charging him. Zimmerman was eventually charged in Martin's death and a jury acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder and of manslaughter charges in July, 2013.

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