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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 03:24 PM Mar 2012

Trayvon Martin marchers to Sanford, Fla., police: 'We want an arrest. Shot in the chest'

Trayvon Martin marchers to Sanford, Fla., police: 'We want an arrest. Shot in the chest'



http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/31/10957310-trayvon-martin-marchers-to-sanford-fla-police-we-want-an-arrest-shot-in-the-chest

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Benjamin Justice lead a march and rally in front of the Sanford Police Department for Trayvon Martin on Saturday.

Updated at 1:27 p.m ET: SANFORD, Fla. -- Civil-rights leaders from the NAACP and other groups led thousands of other protesters on Saturday in a march to the city’s police headquarters to demand the arrest of the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous were among those leading the rally through Sanford’s streets, marching behind a huge yellow banner with the words “Justice for Trayvon.”

“We want an arrest. Shot in the chest,” marchers chanted.

With gospel music playing in the background, protesters were marching from a technical high school campus on 13th Street through a predominantly black neighborhood to the Sanford Police Station several blocks away. The throng stretched for blocks, weaving past homes, churches and small businesses, many of them boarded up.
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