Abcarian: The awful echoes of the Trayvon Martin tragedy in the trial of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery (via latimesopinion)
who was killed in 2012 in Sanford, Fla., under similar circumstances.
In fact, Trayvon was on his way back from a convenience store to the home of his father’s fiancée. He was armed with Skittles and a drink, and he was on his phone. The local police chief did not file charges against Zimmerman, saying there was no way to disprove his claim of self-defense. After weeks of political pressure, Florida’s governor appointed a special prosecutor, who charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder.I will never understand how a jury was unable to see that Zimmerman engineered the entire tragedy and was responsible for creating the situation that left Trayvon dead.
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