The Justice Department and the FBI have
announced they will conduct a criminal probe of the killing of unarmed
17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ensuing police investigation that
allowed his killer to walk free. Martin, an African-American student at
Michael Krop Senior High School, was visiting his father in a gated
community in the town of Sanford, Florida, on February 26 when he walked
out to a nearby convenience store to buy candy and iced tea. On his way
back, Martin was spotted by the shooter, George Zimmerman, who had been
patrolling the neighborhood. Zimmerman has told police he was attacked
by Martin from behind. But in the tape of Zimmerman’s own 911 call to
the police, Zimmerman tells the dispatcher he is the one following
Martin. The Miami Herald reports Zimmerman had taken it upon himself to
patrol the neighborhood and had called police 46 times since January
2011 to report suspicious activity or other incidents. We play excerpts
of the 911 calls and speak with Jasmine Rand, an attorney who heads the
civil rights division at Parks & Crump Law Firm, which is
representing Trayvon Martin’s family. "I think we have all of the
evidence in the world to arrest him. And I think what the state attorney
is trying to do is to try the case and the investigation, and that’s
not the state attorney’s job," Rand says.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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