George Zimmerman
- Mentored black children for free.
- Protested the SPD's lack of interest in prosecuting a guy that beat a homeless black man.
- Looked in on neighbors who had been terrorized by home invaders.
- Volunteered to spend time watching out for his neighbors.
- Helped rescue a family trapped in an overturned truck.
Trayvon Martin
- Suspended from school for fighting a school bus driver.
- Suspended from school for a baggie with pot dust and stolen jewelery in his backpack.
- Frequently engaged in Fight Club type street fighting.
- Wrote on the internet about getting 'codine' to make some 'fire ass lean.'
- Posted pics of himself smoking pot, sporting gold grills, flipping the bird, holding wads of cash, making gang signs and a gun he was selling.
- Posted explicit remarks about what he wanted to do to 'hos.'
- Posted to a friend that his friend should kill a guy who beat him in a Fight Club fight.
- Posted conversations about the fights he had been in including the fight with the bus driver. No regrets he was proud and boastful of it all.
"And the truth of the matter is, Emmett Till became a symbol for those times, as Trayvon Martin has become a symbol for this time. I mean, there are multiple Trayvon Martins whose names never make the newspapers or the headlines. The circumstances surrounding that allowed it to be, but there were multiple Emmett Tills. There were multiple lynchings. There were multiple, you know, young black boys..." - Oprah Winfrey
" We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin." - President of the United States Barack Hussein 0bama