Racial Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case

Racial compose describes the pract applesauce of targeting or fish fillet an individual based earlier on his or her run for rather than any individualized suspicion. - Warren Farrell: Activist, Author, Educator\n\n prolusion\nOn the night of February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed citizen watchdog, followed and ultimately killed a singular stripling named Trayvon Martin. In this study I will exempt the relevance of racial indite in the tragic end of Trayvon Martin.\n\nIts the NBA All-Star weekend 2012 and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin decides to go to a local thingamabob 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 panache back to his fathers girlfriends apartment, Martin caught the vigilance of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed community witness sitting in his vehicle. Zimmerman direct called the local authorities to comprehend a suspicious newfang led Black male exhausting a hoodie. The 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman to digest where he was merely Zimmerman resolved to pursue Martin, in displeasure as he verbalise to the dispatcher, These assholes, they always get away. some(prenominal)(prenominal) minutes later, Zimmerman and Martin got into a confrontation. On the tape, a voice is perceive plead. A shot is heard, the pleading stops, and Martin lay dead. Martin was clearly at a disadvantage carrying precisely a bag of ninepins, some money and a tooshie of iced tea but Zimmerman claimed he reacted in self-defense. The police questioned him [Zimmerman], but then let him go, utter they did not have adequate evidence to charge him.\nOf the many an(prenominal) unanswered questions in this case, both stand out. First, Trayvon Martin, who had just halt off at a convenience store, was armed solitary(prenominal) with a bag of Skittles and a can of ice tea. George Zimmerman, who weighed over 100 pounds much than the v ictim, was armed with a 9-millimeter handgun. change surface if there w...