Just What Happened in the Trayvon Martin Shooting?
13 April 2012
An undated family picture of Trayvon Martin
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
"Tragedy." That word appears again and again in comments about the Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was seventeen years old and unarmed. A twenty-eight-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed him on a rainy night in February. He says he acted in self-defense. He says the teenager attacked him.
Trayvon Martin was black. The crime watch organizer, George Zimmerman, is white and Hispanic. Many accused him of racism. Many more denounced law enforcement officials for not bringing criminal charges. The United States Justice Department opened its own investigation.
This week, a Florida prosecutor, State Attorney Angela Corey, charged Mr. Zimmerman with murder.
ANGELA COREY: "Let me emphasize that we do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition. We prosecute based on the facts of any given case as well as the laws of the state of Florida."
On Thursday Mr. Zimmerman appeared before Seminole County Judge Mark Herr.
MARK HERR: "Mr. Zimmerman, you are here for your first appearances, a first appearance at this time for a charge of murder in the second degree. And you are represented by Mr. O'Mara? "
George Zimmerman appearing in court Thursday
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: "Yes sir."
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