From NY To California, Protesters Hold Rallies To Protest Zimmerman's Acquittal In Martin Case

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK — From New York to California, outrage over the verdict in George Zimmerman's murder trial poured from street demonstrations and church pulpits Sunday as protesters spoke out against his acquittal and demanded federal charges on civil rights violations.

Protests were planned later Sunday in Boston, Detroit, Baltimore, San Francisco and other cities over the Florida case, which unleashed a national debate over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice. At least one protest in California hours after the verdict late Saturday ended with vandalism.

In Manhattan, congregants at Middle Collegiate Church were encouraged to wear hooded sweatshirts in the memory of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was wearing a hoodie the night he was shot to death in February 2012.

The Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, wearing a pink hoodie, urged peace and told her congregation that Martin Luther King Jr. "would have wanted us to conduct ourselves on the highest plane of dignity."

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/nation/215435031.html

[mainer]

1. Take those protests to Florida

That's where people need to be heard.

[HockeyMom]

2. If they have one in Florida, I will go

maybe I can suggest it to my local Dem Party.

[mainer]

3. If I were in Florida, I'd join you

This just makes me sick.

[bluedigger]

4. No they need to be heard everywhere.

I grew up in Maine and it could happen there too. Too many of my childhood friends think the verdict was justice for Zimmerman.

[mainer]

6. oh that's just so sad. Maybe I only hang with Dems

because I don't know a single one here in the midcoast who agrees with this verdict.

[bluedigger]

8. You don't know anyone who voted for LePage?

Because about a third of voters did. It's the same crowd, and they make up a good portion of the State. Maybe if you were a Somali immigrant in Lewiston, you know, the ones that aren't being burned out of their tenement slums downtown, you would have a different perception of the enlightened population. I love my home state, but it is not immune to the problems all around us. It just manifests quietly in kitchens while drinking Allen's, at the fish and wildlife club, and at the ballot box, because most people have never even met a black person, and believe the lies the media feeds them with a daily dose of urban crime news and dramas, determined that that will never, could never, happen here.

[mainer]

11. Does Maine have the same SYG law as Florida?

Doesn't that say something about Maine vs. Florida? It's Florida's law that allowed this shooting to go unpunished. Just by its laws, there's no way to equate the state of Maine with the state of Florida.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Outrage poured

The largest peaceful demonstration that article references is 200 people. Not directed at you - but at the Star Tribune. . . They HAD to make it bigger than it was.

I don't think protests will work. It won't undo what has been done.

[annm4peace]

12. Protests are just one action taken

they also met local officials., get petitions signed, meet with families.. etc.

and yes, I think there could have been 200 down there.

[another_liberal]

7. This is not over yet.

If a federal case is brought, and they don't appoint prosecutors as incompetent as those Florida gave Trayvon's case to, then Mr. Zimmerman may still have occasion to learn the true consequences of his pointlessly brutal and deadly actions.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Giving peaceful physical presence to demonstrations as a statement gives evidencve

that there are far more decent people in this country than there are vicious racists.

It's a statement which should be made now as a starting point, to rally the country to start moving against those who are trying to wreck it, and drag it back to the hell it used to be for minorities, and for Caucasian people of conscience.

[underpants]

10. They couldn't work "Peaceful" into the headline?

well of course not

[blkmusclmachine]

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