UNITED STATES – Protesters carried signs, chanted “Justice for Trayvon,” and clutched the hands of their children while they walked from Crooms Academy of Information Technology, the county’s first high school for black students, to the Sanford Police Department.
The march was organized by the NAACP and was one of several taking place over the weekend.
Martin was shot to death by 28-year-old George Zimmerman on February 26 as he walked from back from a convenience store to his father’s fiancée’s home in a gated community outside Orlando. (AP
From left, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Benjamin Jealous, President of the NAACP lead the march for the slain Florida teenager today in Sanford.
Marching for Trayvon
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