Rochelle Gurstein on the Million Hoodie March
“When the speechmaking ended and the chanting died down, a minister led the crowd in prayer and a middle-aged woman wearing a turquoise hoodie, who when Trayvon Martin’s mother was speaking had silently cried and I touched her shoulder, now held my hand.”
- Rochelle Gurstein, Why Trayvon Martin’s Death Has Sparked a Call For Dignity
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“”He has his hand in his waistband,” George Zimmerman told the 911 dispatcher in Sanford, Fla., shortly before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. “He has something in his hand.” Presumably Zimmerman thought that “something” was a gun. But Martin was unarmed.”
-Timothy Noah, Trayvon Martin’s Imaginary Weapon
