Trayvon Martin rally: Student groups honor killed black teen
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[/media-credit]Members of various student groups are organizing a rally to protest the death of Florida teen Treyvon Martin.
Several student groups will don hoodies for a rally in honor of Trayvon Martin on Saturday.
Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., in February. Because the black teenager was unarmed and charges were not pressed against the volunteer, George Zimmerman, a public outcry has erupted.
The rally is being organized to end racism in the Salt Lake community, said Victor Puertas, a sociology student at Utah Valley University and an organizer for United for Social Justice.
“As a person of color, as a member of the Latino community, I support the black community and their struggle and the oppression that they encounter under this unfair system,” Puertas said.
The Black Student Union, the Asian American Student Association, the Muslim Student Association and the Revolutionary Students Union will be hosting the rally. Community groups are also getting involved, such as the Salt Lake Dream Team, United for Social Justice, Occupy SLC and the Industrial Workers of the World.
The rally will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Gallivan Center and will include a march to the Salt Lake City Public Library.
Editor’s note: The previous headline used “murder” but was changed to “killed” to reflect the lack of prosecution. Also, Trayvon’s name was misspelled.
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Oh look, the writer decided to go back through and edit the name so that it’s spelled correctly, without admitting her mistake. Nice correction, but next time own up to it, and do the research to prevent it in the first place.
Don’t injure yourself massaging your ego, Jesse. You aren’t that persuasive, certainly not convincing, and as for your credentials to weigh in on, I doubt if you made it through criminal justice 095.
Sure, conservatives are the only ones that think clearly. That must be why conservatives
accept scientific facts, theory, and research. Oh wait.
I think the patient people above who want to “wait for a little while” are missing is the extreme inequality you are proposing. Many murder suspects are arrested are far less evidence than there is against Zimmerman. Isn’t it important to you that even the COPS wanted Zimmerman charged? Isn’t that important? One more idiotic comment: ” there is no non-circumstantial evidence that Zimmerman committed a crime.” I sympathize with your lack of knowledge of criminal justice jargon for I was once 12 years old also, but Zimmerman has ADMITTED to shooting Martin. That’s just the tip top most obvious “non-circumstantial” piece of evidence. What the “Wait and see crowd” fails to understand is “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” is determined at trial; you arrest and put someone on trial when there exists “probable cause” (please Google these terms and educated yourself!). Police believed there was probable cause; most of America sees far more than probable cause already existing. The fact that Zimmerman has not been arrested despite a plethora of evidence that exceeds PC is a product of racism, or so it seems to me.
Jesse, you’ll have to be patient with those of us who are skeptical of the circumstances which you and many others seem to see as obvious. We were trained to base our convictions on facts, not allegations, circumstantial evidences, and certainly not on the race card. If there is enough evidence against Zimmerman, it won’t be the decision of the police department, or some protest group, it will be the office of the city or county attorney offering a decision on the probability of a successful prosecution and the use of the taxpayer’s money. So, now will you help us see the “plethora” of evidence which we have overlooked?
Mesaman, in regards to the evidence that amounts to probable cause, if you haven’t been able to see through the blizzard of sensational news and racial tensions to see it, then No, I’m sure I can not help you see them. You are, unfortunately, probably need a lesson in “probable cause” and other really basic concepts and I don’t have time to give you a Crim Justice 101. I think you lack basic criminal justice knowledge because you too are misusing useful and important jargon: “circumstantial evidence” is/are “facts” in a courtroom, the two concepts are not antithetical. I don’t mean to ‘zing you on a small point, but to me, it reveals how little you probably know about the criminal justice system. You are yet another commenter who has little real knowledge of how the criminal justice system works but has formed a strong opinion about whether it is working properly in this case. I think people with relatively little knowledge of how the criminal justice system works are even more swayed and persuaded by tangential allegations, racial politics, partisan politics, simple favoritism and emotion. That’s why we’re even having this ridiculous conversation about “circumstantial evidence” in a case where direct and unrefutable evidence is abundant.
This might help you see the evidence: http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/what-happened-trayvon-martin-explained As for where you should go to learn about “probable cause,” the most important concept to understand at this juncture, just Google it and read a few things about it.
Whatever happened to the notion of educating people about proper journalism. I know for a fact that you can’t call it murder until the cops have declared it as such. As of now, there is no non-circumstantial evidence that Zimmerman committed a crime. I would strongly suggest you get rid of the term “murder.”
What is this, the honorary lynching of a man by racially motivated group thinkers? It’s tragic enough that a young man is dead without U. students jumping aboard the racial vendetta bandwagon. Why would the Chrony allow itself to become a party to such ugliness? Excercise a little prudence before publishing incendiary terms like “murder”.
I’ve been reading a lot about this case in the news (which obviously brings problems based on the source and slants/biases)and it has given me very mixed feelings, none of which I find a comment board to be the appropriate sounding board for.
However, it really irritates me that this writer spelled Trayvon’s name wrong. Hopefully it doesn’t reflect the amount of research put into this article.
It’s not really a left vs. right issue. It’s more of a common sense problem from the writer. If Emily Andrews wasn’t a witness to the incident, then she has no idea what she is talking about.
Can we please all stop pretending like we were there and we saw what happened.
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Perhaps these radical students, whose knee-jerk reflexes might hit them between the eyes, would illuminate the rest of us with their facts and evidence in defense of Martin. The mere presence of Al Sharpton places justice on the racism table and does nothing to reveal indisputable evidence of “murder”.
Yeah, the Chrony using the word ‘murder’ is irresponsible and really, really crappy journalism. Not using the word “alleged”, and writing a story as if the facts have already been decided? Don’t you people had an editor to stop dumb stuff like this before it gets to print?
Yeah – this isn’t news, this is agenda-driven one-sided propaganda. Emily might be doing it on purpose, or she might just be a clueless dupe – but you can’t really take the Chrony seriously letting stuff like this out.
[Don’t you people *have an editor] – typo.
This is what the left does, jump the gun to promote their own agenda. Racial issues are only a part of their agenda. Look at the Sandra Fluke deal, that worked out well huh? Why don’t these people who are “rallying” wait for a little while for more evidence is shown. What is this “rallying” going to accomplish?
“As a person of color, as a member of the Latino community, I support the black community and their struggle and the oppression that they encounter under this unfair system,” Puertas said. Unfair huh? What system is he talking about? Kinda sounds like guilty until proven innocent to me. Liberalism is a mental disorder, people on the left can’t think clearly. Hence the title of this article suggesting that Martin was murdered when that has not been proven yet.