Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Trayvon Martin Killing

http://kellygallagher.org/resources/AoW%2029%20Trayvon%20Martin.pdf

Find 3 more articles on Trayvon Martin.  Highlight and annotate important information.  After that, answer the following question:

What do you think should happen next in this case?  Explain your prediction using evidence from the articles.

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  2. The next thing they should do in the Trayvon case is to arrest Zimmerman. One reason why they should arrest him is that he killed someone. He should get arrested because killing someone is never a solution even if he got attacked. If Trayvon did attack him he should have just been thrown in jail, not shot. Another reason why Zimmerman should be arrest is that he went against direct orders. He went against direct orders because he thought that Trayvon was “suspicious” just because he was wearing a hoodie, so Zimmerman should be arrested. The third reason why Zimmerman should be arrested is that Trayvon didn’t have any sort of weapon on him. Trayvon wasn’t planning to break in to anyone’s house or kill anyone because all he had was a bag of skittles, and his phone. He also didn’t pose any threat if he was just walking, talking on the phone to his girlfriend, and eating skittles. Later after this situation as progressed and started to go big, the Zimmerman supporters were trying to make Trayvon look like a bad kid because he got suspended for have pot at school but that is completely irrelevant to the murder. So I believe the next thing they should do is arrest Zimmerman for murdering a child, cops always get away with things like this and it’s time to change that.

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  3. A police surveillance video taken the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead shows no blood or bruises on George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who says he shot Martin after he was punched in the nose, knocked down and had his head slammed into the ground. George Zimmerman is innocent because Trayvon Martin started the whole thing plus Trayvon Martin had drugs in his backpack such as marijuana.
    The initial police report noted that Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and nose, and after medical attention it was decided that he was in good enough condition to travel in a police cruiser to the Sanford, Fla., police station for questioning. He was not arrested. George Zimmerman was not arrested because he is innocent due to the fact he did not start that in fact Trayvon Martin did.
    George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News. More evidence right here backs up that George Zimmerman is innocent therefore should not be arrested because this from a police source itself.

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  4. Zimmerman, from what I heard should be put behind bars for years for what he did to Trayvon Martin. He was walking to his girlfriend’s house with a bag of skittle and a can of ice tea, when Zimmerman attack him and then put a bullet in him. That is the story I was told and I think that what happen because the everyone is trying to put Zimmerman in jail. With big rallies, speeches and letter to the police. The biggest evident is the phone call to the cops where they told Zimmerman was told not to follow.

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  5. I think that they should easily be seeing that the neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman is
    the guy who has caused this all and should be going to prison. It is pretty easily noticeable that he killed
    Treyvon Martin because he even admitted to killing him because he had his hoodie up. Another thing
    the article said is that all that he was carrying was a bag of skittles and a tea. I personally feel like there
    is no reason to kill someone when you are not sure what they are up to or doing. And even though
    George has a friend who works for the police department and George was like a volunteer so he knew a
    lot but I still couldn’t believe his side of the story. The twist in the story I have a hard time believing is
    the fact that he works for the sheriff’s department. Because if you worked as a sheriff you probably
    wouldn’t lie on purpose because most likely you will lose your job. This is what I gathered out of this
    whole case and I still believe that Zimmerman is guilty.

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