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In reply to the discussion: I don't know. This Trayvon thing seems to be CONSUMING America [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)Is that NOTHING was happening. They could get no answers from the Sanford Police why the killer of their son was not charged. They could get no information on what was being done in an investigation. They knew from talking to people in the neighborhood that witnesses were not getting call backs from investigators when they were trying to share information.
Until the family went to Benjamin Crump and Crump approached Al Sharpton, the case was at a standstill.
So the system at that point was NOT working, except it was working the way it almost always had in Sanford for black people - not at all in the interests of justice.
All this family has asked from the beginning is a proper investigation and the arrest of the man who killed their son. If a black man had shot that teenager, no matter the color, he would have been arrested that night and still be in jail or bonded out while waiting for the result of an investigation.
That George Zimmerman was not arrested shows that the system was not working that night in February. That he still has not been arrested shows the system is still not working.
Any time there is a violent death, there needs to be an investigation before the admitted killer is allowed to walk free.