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Hundreds to attend peace walk for Trayvon Martin
The Los Angeles Wave ^ | July 17, 2014 | Imani Crenshaw,

Posted on 07/17/2014 4:57:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

LOS ANGELES – Nearly 500 people are expected to converge on Crenshaw High School Saturday for the Trayvon Martin Foundation’s 2014 LA Peace Walk and Peace Talk, hosted by Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, organizers said this week.

Local activists and civic leaders will join young people at the quarter-mile march that will honor “the right that all people should be able to walk safely on their streets,” says local organizer Vanessa Bolden.

Martin, 17, was killed in February 2012 as he returned from a convenience after buying Skittles and a soft drink. George Zimmerman admitted killing Martin, but said he did so in self-defense. Zimmerman later was acquitted.

The symbolic walk around Crenshaw High will address safety concerns when it comes to people walking freely and safely in their communities, Baden said. It is one of several events being held nationally to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Zimmerman’s acquittal.

“Power 106” morning show host Big Boy is one of the celebrities invited to speak at the walk, along with Community Coalition head Marqueece Harris Dawson.

Following the Peace Walk, Big Boy and Dawson will help moderate a Peace Talk with several panelists, including rapper Nipsey Hussle and Temptation actress Jurnee Smollett.

The Peace Talk is intended to discuss ideas and strategies for stemming the tide of gun violence and racial profiling in Los Angeles and throughout the nation, Baden said.

The program starts at 10:30 a.m. at Crenshaw High, 5010 11th Ave. in Los Angeles. For more information, call (305) 600-8810.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; trayvon; trayvons
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1 posted on 07/17/2014 4:57:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Black KKK Rally to Kill Whitey is more like it....


2 posted on 07/17/2014 5:00:04 PM PDT by DisorderOnBorder (They are Illegal Aliens...not immigrants)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Robotrippin thug got what he paid for!


3 posted on 07/17/2014 5:00:57 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many rappers will be shot after the peace walk?


4 posted on 07/17/2014 5:02:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They'll be carrying the symbolic caskets of 10-30 Chicago kids who are killed every weekend, right?

Really inane. They cannot let this crap go, they cannot stop themselves from picking this scab, can they? It's all whitey's er, brownskins, er, short half-Jewish guys with dark skin's fault, right?

5 posted on 07/17/2014 5:02:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will they all be high on Purple Drank and smash people’s heads on the sidewalk?


6 posted on 07/17/2014 5:03:40 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Milking it for all they can.


7 posted on 07/17/2014 5:04:50 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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I can see the headline now “Shots fired and fights break out at peace walk...”


8 posted on 07/17/2014 5:09:25 PM PDT by isom35
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unite to Stop the Knockout Game!


9 posted on 07/17/2014 5:18:01 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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Who?


10 posted on 07/17/2014 5:20:40 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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Little Trayvon died?

Dude, that was like over two years ago.

11 posted on 07/17/2014 5:20:50 PM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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‘I can see the headline now “Shots fired and fights break out at peace walk...”

Funny, but it would never make the news.


12 posted on 07/17/2014 5:22:14 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: TigersEye

Don’t neglect to burn a blunt too.


13 posted on 07/17/2014 5:22:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The symbolic walk around Crenshaw High will address safety concerns when it comes to people walking freely and safely in their communities...”

Does it ever dawn on them that the only person in that confrontation that night that was in his own community was George Zimmerman? Didn’t he have a right to walk safely in his community?


14 posted on 07/17/2014 5:24:49 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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And how many peace walks were done for whites who’ve been murdered by blacks??


15 posted on 07/17/2014 5:26:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you do not read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers you are misinfo)
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Free Skittles, Lemonade soft drink, and a Knockout T-Shirt for walkers on the “Trayvon Martin Trail of Tears” peace walk. Walkers will be expected to donate $100 to the Trayvon Martin Memorial Innocent Black Child Gun Violence Fund administered by his beloved grieving parents, Inc.


16 posted on 07/17/2014 5:27:29 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Could Warren Buffet's oil trains be considered mobile Jihadist weapons of mass distruction?)
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I can see the headline now “Shots fired and fights break out at peace walk...”

No, that'll happen later on, after the family goes to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate.

17 posted on 07/17/2014 5:28:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps Trayvon shouldn’t have tried to mug the wrong guy.


18 posted on 07/17/2014 5:30:27 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Saint Skittles had been peaceful, he might still be alive.


19 posted on 07/17/2014 5:32:59 PM PDT by csivils
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Just don’t be wearing anything red around Crenshaw High, it is Rollin’ 60 territory, ie Crips.


20 posted on 07/17/2014 5:34:31 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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