Trayvon Martin’s mother organizes against racial profiling

MSNBC ^ | August 18, 2013 | Meredith Clark

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, made it clear on Meet the Press Sunday that she has turned her grief over the death of her son into action to stop racial profiling and “Stand-your-Ground” laws around the country.

“We’re going to all 21 states with stand your ground laws to make some change,” Fulton said to David Gregory, and while it won’t happen overnight, “we’re in it for the long haul. This is part of my life now.”

Fulton appeared on Meet the Press after NYPD Chief Ray Kelly defended “Stop-and-Frisk,” a practice that a federal judge determined violated the constitution and discriminated against minorities, who make up 90% of the stops.

“You have to give, not only civilians, but police officers, the right direction,” Fulton said. “You can’t give the authority, whether it’s a civilian or a police officer, the right to stop somebody just because of the color of their skin.”

When it comes to changing policies related to how young people of color are treated in America, Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump called for people to vote in the midterm elections and to lobby legislators to amend Stand Your Ground laws.

“Trayvon voters have a clear cause: capturing the passion over the devastating verdict returned in the trial of George Zimmerman and transforming these feelings into actions that can and will make a difference,” Crump wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post....

[VerySadAmerican]

Now police are doing the opposite of profiling. Watch a news report and they’ll say “Police are looking for the suspect”. And that’s all the info they’re gonna’ give.

[DeaconRed]

"She and the young man’s (No, Trayvon was no longer a boy.) father sent him 250 miles away from his home town, and the place of their residence, after he had been expelled from the Miami-Dade district’s high school. Now she wants to use her deceased son to push a notion to which his death bore no connection."

She is extending her 15 minutes and I am sick and tired of the low life parents making $$$ of their dead son.
I am still hoping that they file the civil suit so the REAL trayvon will be shown. Not the choir boy the LSM tries to push on US.
I am sick and tired of this crap. . . .

[Fresh Wind]

Guilt is a great motivator.

So is lust for money.

[Red in Blue PA]

So they basically want us all to ignore DOJ stats? Good luck with that.

[IbJensen]

I can’t wait to get to the Smithsonian to see Trayvon’s little hoodie on display.