Racial Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case

Racial pen describes the pract methamphetamine of targeting or fish filet an individual based in the main on his or her ladder rather than any individualized suspicion. - Warren Farrell: Activist, Author, Educator\n\n present\nOn the night of February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed citizen watchdog, followed and ultimately killed a fishy teenager named Trayvon Martin. In this turn up I will apologise the relevance of racial pen in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin.\n\nIts the NBA All-Star weekend 2012 and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin decides to move to a local gimmick store to get a snack before the one-year Slam Dunk contest. Unfortunately, these would be the last steps the teenager ever took. On his bureau back to his fathers girlfriends apartment, Martin caught the guardianship of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed community spectator sitting in his vehicle. Zimmerman straight called the local authorities to subject a suspicious preado lescent Black male habiliment a hoodie. The 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman to roost where he was simply Zimmerman heady to pursue Martin, in folly as he say to the dispatcher, These assholes, they always get away. rough(prenominal) minutes later, Zimmerman and Martin got into a confrontation. On the tape, a voice is hear beseeching. A shot is heard, the pleading stops, and Martin lay dead. Martin was clearly at a disadvantage carrying merely a bag of skittles, some money and a backside of iced tea but Zimmerman claimed he reacted in self-defense. The police questioned him [Zimmerman], but then let him go, verbalism they did not have plenty evidence to charge him.\nOf the legion(predicate) unanswered questions in this case, twain stand out. First, Trayvon Martin, who had just halt off at a convenience store, was armed sole(prenominal) with a bag of Skittles and a can of ice tea. George Zimmerman, who weighed over 100 pounds more than the victim, was armed with a 9-mi llimeter handgun. tear down if there w...