Posted on 03/23/2012 10:38:26 PM PDT by dragnet2
Thousands took to the streets Friday night to show support for the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida teen who was shot to death last month by a neighborhood watch volunteer.
The Million Hoodie March began at 7:17 p.m. (the time that police found Martin’s body in Sanford, Fla. On Feb. 26) with nearly 8,000 participants (according to police crowd estimates) marching from 30th Street Station and down John F. Kennedy Boulevard to Love Park.
Participants wore hooded sweatshirts in support of Martin, who was wearing one at the time of his death. The case, which has caused a national uproar due to reports that Martin - who is black - was stereotyped for wearing the hoodie, has also resulted in an outpouring of support in the form of the “Million Hoodie March,” on social media and more.
"That didn't just happen in Florida it happened across the US, it happened everywhere. We all felt it," Bree Martin told NBC10.
Trayvon's shooter, George Zimmerman, a town watchman, says he shot the teen in self defense and that Trayvon looked suspicious. But police say Trayvon was unarmed, carrying snacks on his way to a basketball game. Zimmerman has not been arrested.
"That is not a good reason to shoot somebody - that's just wrong that he didn't go to jail," Jordan Gyabaah of Jenkintown said.
On Friday, President Barack Obama spoke about the incident, saying "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
No arrests were reported.
“That didn’t just happen in Florida it happened across the US, it happened everywhere. We all felt it,”
Yes, Obama said, “America has to do some soul searching”
Shouldn’t it be call the, “Thousands Hoodie March”?
Or the Million Skittles March?
bro luv
We are a sick nation.
Million Hoodie March. Evrything is now reality TV..
How about letting justice take its course.
This is what a lynch mob looks like!
This is what a lynch mob looks like!
This is what a lynch mob looks like!
This is what a lynch mob looks like!
What? you mean only blacks can kill blacks, but if anybody else kills a black, it is racial profiling, even if a hispanic kills a black? Ey caramba!
Self deleted my own post, it is late , and do not want to say something ugly.
This is the beginning of Black Spring in America... Lord have mercy on the uncle Tom’s of this world.
The facts don’t matter, not to the race histlers, not to the press, not to the politicians and not to these dimwits in the picture.
The Divider in Chief making a bad situation worse. As usual.
Yep. It is shocking when something like this happens. It’s not like he was in Mexico or something... Oh wait, Obama let his 13 year old go to the drug infested, murder and mayhem capital of the world, Mexico. I imagine if Obama had a son, he would have 25 Secret Service agents to guard him, so chances are the false sentiment is just that: FALSE. I despise Obama and everything he stands for.
He played the Race Card, plain and simple while every race pimp in America is trying to gin up a riot. The DA is sending it to the Grand Jury the U.S. DoJ is going to look into it and 0bama’s hand-picked AG, Eric Holder, is in charge of the DoJ. What more do the race hustlers want? A nation-wide riot that’s what and 0basturd is gave it a push.
Local event - They won’t wander too far from the welfare office.
I’m glad I don’t live in an area where this many hoodies could ever get together.
This is what several decades of reparations has bred.
“They won’t wander too far from the welfare office.”
The LA riot ended when mail carriers wouldn’t enter the area; since then we’ve switched to plastic, so the Dems can field their permanent underclass protesters for longer periods.
Target Rich Environment....
You mean this Philly?
Philadelphia mayor talks tough to black teenagers after ‘flash mobs’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/8/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after-flash-mobs/?page=all
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