Jasmine Rand, Attorney for Trayvon Martin Family, Interviewed About Case on Democracy Now!
democracynow.org - The Justice Department and the FBI have announced they will conduct a criminal probe of the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ensuing police investigation that allowed his killer to walk free. Martin, an African-American student at Michael Krop Senior High School, was visiting his father in a gated community in the town of Sanford, Florida, on February 26 when he walked out to a nearby convenience store to buy candy and iced tea. On his way back, Martin was spotted by the shooter, George Zimmerman, who had been patrolling the neighborhood. Zimmerman has told police he was attacked by Martin from behind. But in the tape of Zimmerman's own 911 call to the police, Zimmerman tells the dispatcher he is the one following Martin. The Miami Herald reports Zimmerman had taken it upon himself to patrol the neighborhood and had called police 46 times since January 2011 to report suspicious activity or other incidents. We play excerpts of the 911 calls and speak with Jasmine Rand, an attorney who heads the civil rights division at Parks and Crump law firm, which is representing Trayvon Martin's family. "I think we have all of the evidence in the world to arrest him and I think what the state attorney is trying to do is to try the case and the investigation and that's not the state attorney's job," Rand says. Towatch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for Democracy Now! interviews about ...
(no music) GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, USING THE 'STAND YOUR GROUND' LAW IN FLORIDA KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN, CLAIMING SELF DEFENSE. AN EXAMINATION OF THE TWIN LAKES GATED COMMUNITY ON GOOGLE EARTH REVEALS HOWEVER THAT GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS NOT STANDING HIS GROUND AND ACTIVELY CHASED DOWN TRAYVON MARTIN AND KILLED HIM, APPARENTLY IN COLD BLOOD, MAY TRAYVON MARTIN REST IN PEACE. MY CONDOLENCES TO HIS PARENTS, MAY YOU FIND JUSTICE. Video Rating: 4 / 5
