Martin’s killing was the latest in what some demonstrators described as a pattern of unarmed black men being killed, often by law enforcement. Last month, eighteen-year-old Ramarley Graham was killed by New York police officers in his grandmother’s Bronx home after they chased him. Officers claim they thought Graham was armed.
On Wednesday many demonstrators expressed outrage at the lack of successful prosecution of such cases. “This kind of thing happens all the time,” said Ray, 29, a resident of Bronx, NY. “It’s amazing someone could kill one of us and still not be prosecuted,” he explained. Another demonstrator, a 59 year old man from Brooklyn, said law-enforcement brutality continues because perpetrators “don’t get convicted, so they continue to behave in this way.”
Promoted through a viral social-media campaign, the “million hoodie march” aimed, at least in part, to collect signatures for a Change.org petition started by Trayvon’s parents demanding that Zimmerman face charges.
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