Was Justice Served for Trayvon Martin?
Angelica Euseary
On February 26, 2012, seven teen year old Trayvon Martin was walking home from a local corner store with skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea. He soon realized he was being followed by 29 year old, neighborhood watcher George Zimmerman. Zimmerman didn’t stop following the teen; instead he attacked him. In the end, Martin ended up shot and killed.
“When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that ‘this could’ve been my son’. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could’ve been me, thirty five years ago,” said President Barack Obama.
President Obama is absolutely right; this could’ve been anyone, any race, any ethnic group and the fact that Zimmerman got away with this child’s murder is idiotic.
After 17 months, Zimmerman was found not guilty of all charges. The jurors were all wrong when they gave this man his verdict. It doesn’t matter that Martin was black, and Zimmerman is white. What matters is how this man just got away with murder; he murdered a kid and its not right.
“Trayvon Martin’s case has exposed some people as monsters…not just Zimmerman but anyone who makes excuses for a man who kills an unarmed child,” tweeted Gabrielle Union.
People have been put in jail for years for drug possession and dog fighting, and George Zimmerman just gets a to kill a kid and not have to suffer any consequences? He took someone’s life and got away with it.
Trayvon Martin didn’t deserve to die. George Zimmerman should’ve minded his own business. He followed Martin and attacked him. This grown man ended up killing a teenager because he felt endangered. All Zimmerman had to do was keep walking because it was obvious that Trayvon Martin meant no harm to this man.
Martin didn’t speak to Zimmerman until he noticed him following him. After the teen spoke to Zimmerman, he attacked him and that’s how the brawl started.
Some may say that this verdict was fair; fair because Trayvon Martin did attack George Zimmerman. But did they ever stop and think of why Martin attacked him? This kid was fighting for his life. Zimmerman was trying to hurt him and he fought back, in self defense. George Zimmerman had a gun, and all this teenager had was a package of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea.
Let’s flip the switch: If Martin had wrestled Zimmerman, ended up with the gun, and shot/killed him, do you think he’d be charged not guilty because of ‘self defense’ for his murder?
We all know what George Zimmerman did was wrong, and it’s not fair that someone, an innocent teenager, had to die because of his ignorance. Zimmerman has gotten away with killing a person. Football player, Michael Vick served 23 months in a federal prison for dog fighting and George Zimmerman plead not guilty for following, attacking, killing a child? What type of justice system lets a grown man get away with murdering a human being but will put someone in jail for almost two years for fighting with dogs?
We need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture: A totally different outcome would’ve came about Martin was white and Zimmerman was black. Zimmerman would’ve been locked up and it wouldn’t have taken them a year and five months to come to their conclusion (verdict).
Another fact of matter is that gun violence is a big problem, not just in Florida, but world wide. Was George Zimmerman even licensed to have a gun? Will justice be served for Trayvon Martin? Is this the end?
Here is a graph showing how firearm violence has increased over the past three years.
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