![]() And the world would remember Trayvon as a Black life that mattered. This would set in motion a sequence of events that would culminate more than a month later with Zimmerman's long-awaited arrest on a second-degree murder charge. Trayvon's story might have ended there, except for his father Tracy Martin who when he pressed the Sanford Police Department for more information about his son's death felt rebuffed. ![]() The newspaper said it was because Zimmerman had not been charged with a crime. The day after that the newspaper ran another short article identifying the teen, who was Black, but not his assailant, George Zimmerman, who was white and Hispanic. The teen's death generated four sentences the next day in the Orlando Sentinel. ![]() He was coming back from the store with Skittles and iced tea and wearing a hoodie to guard against the rain. _ Before Trayvon Martin represented a worldwide movement, he was a 17-year-old gunned down in the dark steps from his father's home. ![]()
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