Wednesday, March 28, 2012

He was no angel but does that merit a death sentence

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120327_Jenice_Armstrong__TRASHING_TRAYVON__He_was_no_angel__but_does_that_merit_a_death_sentence_.html


    This article was about how the boy named Trayvon Martin was murdered while on a visit to see his father in Florida. This article states that the boy (Trayvon) was on his way back to his dad's fiancee's house. as said in the article "Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood-watch volunteer, noticed him walking through the neighborhood and dialed 9-1-1. A police dispatcher told Zimmerman not to follow Trayvon, but Zimmerman did anyway." then when the cops came they saw Trayvon laying there with a gunshot wound, But the man never got arrested.
    At first mostly all people were on the side of Trayvon, but as they found out that the only reason Trayvon was visiting his father was because he got suspended from school for having a bag with marijuana residue inside of it, some people changed their point of view about the killing of Trayvon. Now some people think that Trayvon may have provoked the man who shot and killed him, but still no one will actually know what happened before Trayvon got shot.
    The real question is, even if Trayvon provoked the man, did he have the right to shoot and kill him? I do not think the man had any rights to shoot Trayvon. The reason i say this is because when Zimmerman called the cops and told him about the situation they told him to stay in the car. But he took things in his own hands, he got out the car, followed Trayvon and killed him. Another thing I think is that even if he did provoke him, Trayvon still had no weapon on him, and no one should ever get away with murder no matter how good of an explanation you have for killing someone.
    

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