At next week’s special legislative session, lawmakers will address Virginia’s two-year budget, consider an eviction moratorium until April 2021, and debate a wide range of police and criminal justice reforms.
The group says they were chased into the street by bouncers after refusing to prepay for their meal and allege that they were discriminated against, according to the lawsuit.
As The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen put it in his column this morning, Trayvon Martin’s original sin was wearing a certain uniform: a hooded sweatshirt.
“The defense team has coordinated with the Sanford Police Department to ensure Mr. Zimmerman’s security when he turns himself in before today’s 2:30 PM deadline.”
The autopsy report shows that Trayvon Martin had “traces of THC – an ingredient found in marijuana – in [his] blood plus a positive test for cannabinoids in his urine.”
George Zimmerman, at a bond hearing last month (AP) A medical report compiled by George Zimmerman’s physician says that Zimmerman “was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after” he fatally shot Trayvon Martin. On February 26, the unarmed 17-year-old was walking home in a Sanford, Fla. gated community after buying iced tea…
On a warm spring day, hundreds massed outside the U.S. Supreme Court as inside, the justices began their long-awaited deliberations over Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law.
In response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, Bruce Springsteen has brought back his song “American Skin (41 Shots),” written after a 2000 incident in which four NYPD officers killed an unarmed Guinean immigrant.
A group demonstrators who attempted to deliver a petition today to the American Legislative Exchange Council asking it to stop promoting the so-called “Stand Your Ground” law were locked out of the think tank’s building.
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, a group of Howard University students and alumni are hoping a new YouTube video can spark a discussion about the racial profiling of young black men.
