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| Across US, people rally for 'Justic |
| Across US, people rally for 'Justice for Trayvon'
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-July-2013
5:33:45 AM |
| Crowds chanted "Justice! Justice!" as they rallied in dozens of U.S. cities Saturday, urging authorities to change self-defense laws and press federal civil rights charges against a former neighborhood watch leader found not guilty in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.
The National Action Network, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, a prominent civil rights activist, organized the "Justice for Trayvon" rallies and vigils on Saturday outside federal buildings in more than 100 cities one week after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated central Florida community.
The case has become a flashpoint in separate but converging national debates over self-defense, guns, and race relations. Zimmerman, who successfully claimed that he was protecting himself when he shot Martin, identifies himself as Hispanic. Martin was black
In Atlanta, speakers noted that the rally took place in the shadows of federal buildings named for two figures who had vastly differing views on civil rights and racial equality: Richard B. Russell was a Georgia governor and U.S. senator elected when racial segregation was practiced in southern U.S. states; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is the face of African-Americans' civil rights movement.
"What's so frightening about a black man in a hood?" said the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who now occupies the pulpit at King's Ebenezer Baptist Church. Martin was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, or hoodie, when he was shot.
In New York, hundreds of people - including Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and music superstars Jay-Z and Beyonce - gathered in the heat.
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