Bowie mom petitions for justice for Trayvon Martin

Washington Post ^ | 3-31-2012 | Avis Thomas-Lester

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When she woke up recently from a dream about her oldest son being shot to death as he walked home from 7-Eleven with a bottle of iced tea and Skittles, Maria Roach pledged to do something to help the mother who had lived her nightmare.

For days, Roach had been haunted by the slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He looked like an older version of her sons. He died in Sanford, Fla., near Orlando, where she and her husband lived until three years ago. Her heart went out to both of Trayvon’s parents, but as the mother of Max, 6, and Mason, 5, she felt a special connection with his mother, Sybrina Fulton.

She knew from experience that justice was not always swift or blind in the Sunshine State, so she took a stand on behalf of the slain teenager.

“I wrote a petition,” Roach said.

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Let me look up, again, that definition of neurotic oppotunism...

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Let me look up, again, that definition of neurotic oppotunism...