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First Annual Trayvon Martin Day Rallies Against Racial Profiling and Guns
Breitbart's California ^ | July 20, 2014 | Robert Wilde

Posted on 07/21/2014 2:25:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Saturday, 200 people marched through the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles protesting racial profiling and gun violence on the first anniversary of the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin.

The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents, carried banners and chanted, “What do we want?... Justice. What do we want?… Justice.”

According to CBS2 Los Angeles, the rally was organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation, which states on its website that its purpose is to “create awareness of how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support and advocacy for those families in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin.” The foundation’s statement obviously ignores the fact that the court did not find that Trayvon was murdered. Instead it ruled that George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter charges.

Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, announced that he was there for a reason: “It’s about being loyal to you guys because you have been so loyal to us.” Trayvon’s mother Sybrina Fulton added, “We want L.A. to know we stand with you. We understand, we support you.”

One lady at the rally said she was there because her dad was killed due to gang violence when she was four-years- old. Some came to express their solidarity and to speak out against racial profiling. “There are many people who wake up every day who don’t have the choice to decide how we are perceived by the world,” lamented Kenya Parham....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; blacks; california; guncontrol; kobebryant; racialprofiling; trayvon
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What "gang" did then married, gainfully employed, home-owning, tax-paying watch captain George Zimmerman belong to? The same one that Trayvon's father was involved with?
1 posted on 07/21/2014 2:25:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“carried banners and chanted, “What do we want?... Justice. What do we want?… “

Skittles?


2 posted on 07/21/2014 2:26:13 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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“Rally’s against racial profiling...”

Oh, you mean like what the media tried to to to George Zimmerman?


3 posted on 07/21/2014 2:27:12 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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Trayvon would be alive today if he didn’t start a fight with Zimmerman.

I wish these people would talk about that aspect of ghetto culture, which causes people to become violent over minor provocations.


4 posted on 07/21/2014 2:28:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents, carried banners and chanted, “What do we want?... Justice PURPLE DRANK. What do we want?… Justice PURPLE DRANK.”

Fixed it.


5 posted on 07/21/2014 2:31:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Is it just me, or is this really not such a good time for people in Cali to be whining for anti gun and anti profiling with the feds trying to bring bus loads of illegals-with gang members among them-to their communities...


7 posted on 07/21/2014 2:32:50 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents...

One wonders by whom (ultimately) might this event have been ..."community organized"?

8 posted on 07/21/2014 2:34:44 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Needs a counter protest involving a kill-dozer or two...


9 posted on 07/21/2014 2:36:50 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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"Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, announced that he was there for a reason: “It’s about being loyal to you guys because you have been so loyal to us.” Trayvon’s mother Sybrina Fulton added, “We want L.A. to know we stand with you. We understand, we support you.” "

He's making money...where's it coming from?

The foundation of donated money?

10 posted on 07/21/2014 2:44:09 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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11 posted on 07/21/2014 2:49:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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12 posted on 07/21/2014 2:53:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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I really don’t think there has been an event in the last decade that better illustrates the gap between left and right better than the respective responses to Trayvon and George Zimmerman.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 2:54:43 PM PDT by dirtboy
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They want justice for Trayvon? What do they want us to do - dig him up and shoot him again? (Stolen from another FReeper.)


14 posted on 07/21/2014 2:57:29 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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By all means, let’s rally against proven empirical evidence.

These cretins are ignorant writ large.


15 posted on 07/21/2014 3:00:20 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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“What do we want?... Justice. What do we want?… Justice.”

Justice was done- what YOU want is just-us!

16 posted on 07/21/2014 3:10:59 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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Obama abused the Office of The President to portray the victim in a Florida criminal case as the attacker and his attacker as the victim asserting among other things the Zimmerman trial was caused by “racial profiling”. Because it suited his political purposes he continued to perpetuate it. Allowing the episode to expand the racial division that has resulted in racial attacks on whites, hispanics, and asians many times rsulting in killings by blacks.

When and if articles of impeachment ever get drawnup should this misuse of the presidential office be included in them ?


17 posted on 07/21/2014 3:12:34 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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Trayvon got what he deserved, and no amount of trying to twist his demise into something it wasn’t will change matters. It’s time to move on, so people can not care in peace. We can only hope some knockout players will get the same treatment, allowing this national farce to get new moaners.


18 posted on 07/21/2014 3:17:22 PM PDT by pallis
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I do think that drugged up little Trayvon picked his victim poorly.

Trayvon was, is and will always be a thug on this earth.

May God have mercy.


19 posted on 07/21/2014 3:30:25 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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What an odd urn for St. Skittles


20 posted on 07/21/2014 3:31:13 PM PDT by MileHi
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