Trayvon Martin's Mother Speaks at Racial Profiling/Stand Your Ground Gun Law Forum

phoenixnewtimes.com ^ | August 19, 2013 | Weston Phippen

[Tailgunner Joe]

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, spoke at a Phoenix forum about racial profiling Saturday, saying she has found purpose in her son's death, and new meaning in a Florida jury's decision to acquit the man who killed him.

"If [George Zimmerman] would have been convicted, then that would have been an end to the story," Fulton said. "And I would not be sitting here."

Fulton spoke to a crowd of around 100 people at Memorial Hall in Steele Indian School Park. It was part of a forum on racial profiling and a U.S. tour to decry the "Stand Your Ground" gun law that found her son's death justified.

"I never believed that the jury would not see that it was a murder," she says.

Fulton and the family's lawyer, Benjamin Crump, say they are using the loss to champion their latest effort to change Stand Your Ground laws in the U.S. with the "Trayvon Amendment," which, Crump says, would make it so that "if you confront someone, and if you instigate [a fight], you can't get away with murder."

Crump says the problem is not just that Zimmerman was found legally justified in killing Martin but, more important, the precedent it sets.

"Now every black and brown boy walking down the street has as target on their back, and this law says when you hit that target, it's okay."

Arizona and about 20 other states have Stand Your Ground laws -- or something similar to them -- which grants a person the right to use deadly force to defend themselves if they feel threatened, without requiring them to retreat. Fulton and Crump say they plan to travel to as many Stand Your Ground states as possible to catalyze discussion about the law.

[RetiredTexasVet]

And the Trayvon Martin Trail of Tears financial corporation continues to march on.

[TigersEye]

Live like a gangsta die like a gangsta. End of story.

[Uncle Chip]

Fighting against profiling and SYG is nothing more than justification for their trashcan tour.

They are campaigning for something that will never come to pass and it is not intended to otherwise they would have to go back to driving trucks and slapping keyboards.

[mr fish]

the parents are the biggest reason the thug is dead. they should be sued for the manufacture of defective equipment

[iopscusa]

And all those yellow-bellied worthless Republicans could not wait to unleash this black plague on the rest of the country w/ that anti-Constitutional Commie inspired un-Cibil Rites Act and $10 Trillion stolen from taxpayers to further corrupt the pitiful ignorant black society. We’d been better off to burn those $$s. The Commie Repubs joined the full on Commie Dims to ruin the entire Society, we should just put a wall around DC and Nuke it, matter of fact start @ DC and then nuke everything North and West of that HellHole!!

[DeWalt]

Ignorance at its finest. It plagues so many of their culture. And what makes it more astounding is, They revel in it.

[rlmorel]

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TIME'S UP.

[yadent]

Yup. If I want to lower my family’s probability of being a murder statistic by at least 45%, I will move to a locale with none to few black males between the ages of 15-40. Statistical probabilities are soooo racist..........

[windsorknot]

"Now every black and brown boy walking down the street has as target on their back, and this law says when you hit that target, it's okay."

Really? Seriously?

[boycott]

Note: I have been assaulted by a Negro. My sister has been assaulted by a Negro. And I had an uncle hit over the head with a 2x4, stuffed in a oil drum and burned to death by a Negro.

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I’ve looked down the barrel of a gun and been tied up during a robbery. I’ve had a knife pulled on me while my money being demanded.
None of these thugs were white.

I am starting to believe profiling is kind of justified. In fact, anyone that doesn’t is a blissfully ignorant fool. Statistics prove it.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

#1)"Justice was done." ..Yes it was
#2)" The thug-boy got his due for his actions." .. Yes , based on his character, behavior , not the color of his skin !
#3)"Fulton was criminally negligent in not parenting the punk." .. No ! She was already relegated to parent-visitor via divorce!
Travon's half-brother (out of wedlock) was born while Sabrina was still married to Travon's biological father.
While Sabrina was the biological parent, there was a second mother (step-mother) who brought Travon up right, and she is never mentioned!
Daddy was living with his latest girlfriend (#3)at the gated community, and didn't miss Travon until two days later (parental neglect?)
Daddy should be charged with (custodial) parental neglect, not Sabrina.

UNFORTUNATE Factoid : 78 % of black children today are born out of wedlock, or single-parent households; therefore they lack 2 parents for supervison
Therefore , with all these single-parent households , the children are raised unsupervised , or neglected , or raised by the values of 'the street'.
Thuggery will become more commonplace , until the "Professional Race Baiters"
realize the roots of the black youth problem IS WITHIN THIER OWN COMMUNITY , and not blameing any other community, or racial bias .
Inconvienient .. yes !
Honest .. Yes !
But it doesn't raise money , and it won't rouse the black grievence folks into emotional battle , .. BUT IT IS THE TRUTH !!
And the Professional Race Baiters won't look to themselves for the answers , perhaps the Religious and Church folks will

[Carriage Hill]

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#3: Didn't know that convoluted series of events. I've read it 3x and still can't follow the sequence; on 1st mug of coffee...

[CodeToad]

How come this stupid broad’s son didn’t run from Z? She claims people must run from their attackers and she claims Z attacked Trayvon.