Posted on 07/15/2013 1:25:46 PM PDT by dragnet2
Hundreds of protesters fanned the sidewalk in front of the Texas Capitol on Sunday evening, criticizing the George Zimmerman verdict as proof that racism exists in the justice system.
Austin police and Department of Public Safety troopers estimated between 200 and 300 people rallied Sunday -- many of whom were wearing hoodies and holding print outs of Travyon Martin's face.
"This kid is dead and [Zimmerman] should've gotten time for it," said Alexander. "I wanted to let [my children] understand ... profiling or stereotyping can happen and how you can prevent it and walk away from it."
Dana Cloud, who also attended the Austin rally, said Martin's death demonstrates how racism is still "alive and well."
There's a need, Parker said, to probe the issues of race and profiling that weren't explicitly discussed in the courtroom.
"We need to have that uncomfortable conversation," Parker said.
The board of the Texas Crime Prevention Association, which includes law enforcement officers, issued a statement "We ask those participating in neighborhood watches and our citizens on patrol to be the eyes and ears of local law enforcement and not to confront anybody in any way, shape, form or fashion,"
"We are in a colored society and the negative piece is that race is not addressed enough," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at hispanicbusiness.com ...
Is this possible?
Well, there ARE T-shirts out there that say “Keep Austin Weird.”
Austin...’nuff said.
Hispanic business.com??
The Hispanics have finally spoken?
Has the White Business organization commented?
Oh, really?
At least they only brought hoodies. They could have had jars of urine and feces.
They are just Austinites being Austinites.
Weird and stupid.
All of this is orchestrated by the Obama admin.
Count on it!
Hundreds huh?
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Famously so.
These are probably all Californians who relocated to Texas....yuk yuk...
No, your protest is proof that still ignorance and stupidity is alive and well.
Possible strategy here to fight Amnesty
Plan the seed in the media that Amnesty will result in 20 million more George Zimmermans...
Well if people for the other side are too lazy to counter protest, then yes.
A story that was never about race, being made into a story about race by the people that are now protesting their own racism.
Austin...not really Texas.
the paid protester of the abortion thugs are still here so they are getting a little extra for this fiasco
This is the media, they are going in their shorts over this...salivating how they can rile up the stupid. Hey I have an idea: How about the protest Jon Corzine ripping off $1.6 billion and walking. Oh no, let’s pick on the fat black hispanic guy instead who didn’t exactly agree to having his skull cracked open.
Z profiled Martin as a potential criminal and as it turned out was he was almost dead-on (no pun intended).
A story that was never about race, being made into a story about race by the people that are now protesting their own racism.”
I was going to chime in but I don’t have to now...well said BTLD.
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