Blue Byline » Nation of Islam http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Florida shooting highlights folly of “amateur hour” http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/03/21/florida-shooting-highlights-folly-of-amateur-hour/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/03/21/florida-shooting-highlights-folly-of-amateur-hour/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:25:56 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1534

The alleged shooting death of a Florida youth by a citizen watch volunteer has officially crossed over from tragedy to spectacle.

Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-0ld African-American, was reportedly shot after being confronted by Robert Zimmerman, an armed resident voluntarily patrolling the gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense, but the 911 tape and excerpts from Martin’s last phone conversation suggest otherwise.

As a result, Sanford, a suburb of Orlando, is currently hosting an armada of civil rights tourists, including the NAACP, the ACLU, the National of Islam and the Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights. The …

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