{"id":1437,"date":"2012-03-19T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2012-03-19T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:43:49","slug":"killing-of-fla-teen-trayvon-martin-becomes-national-story-about-race-with-911-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/killing-of-fla-teen-trayvon-martin-becomes-national-story-about-race-with-911-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Of Fla. Teen Trayvon Martin Becomes National Story About Race [with 911 audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that 911 recordings show how a white Florida man continued to follow a 17-year-old black boy even after police advised him not to \u2014 and captured the sound of the man killing the unarmed youth with a shot to the chest in what the gunman says was an act of self defense during a Neighborhood Watch patrol \u2014 Trayvon Martin&#8217;s family wants the FBI to take over the investigation into his killing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/03\/19\/148905661\/killing-of-fla-teen-trayvon-martin-becomes-national-story-about-race?ft=1&amp;f=1001\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/trayvonmartin_custom.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want answers from the police department about what happened with my son,&#8221; Trayvon&#8217;s mother, Sabrina Fulton, said during a tearful news conference on Friday. And as NPR&#8217;s Joel Rose reported on Morning Edition, the family &#8220;has lost faith in the Sanford [Fla.] police department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/03\/19\/148905661\/killing-of-fla-teen-trayvon-martin-becomes-national-story-about-race?ft=1&amp;f=1001\">Killing Of Fla. Teen Trayvon Martin Becomes National Story About Race : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that 911 recordings show how a white Florida man continued to follow a 17-year-old black boy even after police advised him not to \u2014 and captured the sound of the man killing the unarmed youth with a shot to the chest in what the gunman says was an act of self defense during a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[935,15,934,932,930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}