The other shoe has dropped. According to Reuters, the parents of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot dead in Florida last year by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, said they are contemplating filing a civil lawsuit against Zimmerman.
The information was communicated by the Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, who said, “We are looking at all legal options right now.”
Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, was also vocal. She appeared on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday, where she said she “stunned” and felt “disgust” at the jury verdict in the trial of her son’s killer, adding:
I couldn’t believe it. I just knew that they would see that this was a teenager just trying to get home. This was no burglar.
The teen’s father, Tracy Martin, also spoke for the first time since the trial, saying:
They didn’t know him as a human being, a fun-loving kid. I just wish they had an opportunity to really know who Trayvon was and to put that in context with what their decision was.
Neither parent was in the Seminole County courtroom on Saturday when the verdict was read.
According to the judge’s instructions to the jury, Zimmerman had “no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force” if he reasonably feared for his life or great bodily harm.
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