Million Hoodie March Inspired by Trayvon Martin’s Murder (Video)

Million Hoodie March Inspired by Trayvon Martin’s Murder (Video)

Trayvon Martin’s murder inspired thousands of New York citizens of all races to participate in a “Million Hoodie March” on Wednesday, March 21, demanding the prosecution of shooter George Zimmerman. The throngs of protesters in central Manhattan, which included the grieving parents of Trayvon, also called for a federal or independent inquiry into the Sanford, Fla., police department’s actions in the handling of the case.

Martin, 17, a high school junior with good grades and a clean record, was unarmed and wearing a hoodie when he was fatally shot walking home from the store on Feb. 26. Martin’s parents told demonstrators chanting “we want arrests”  that they will keep fighting to get justice for their son. “My son did not deserve to die,” Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin’s father, said on Wednesday. He immediately thanked the hundreds of people who participated in a march in her son’s memory.

Many participants wore hooded sweatshirts in honor of the late Trayvon, whose call for justice has swelled exponentially around the country since the release of the 911 calls that shows Zimmerman was the aggressor in the fatal confrontation with Trayvon, instead of the “self defense” justification that he sold to the police and which officers bought quickly and easily.


Zimmerman has yet to be questioned or detained, but the investigators from the state of Florida and the U.S. Department of Justice are waging separate investigations into the killing.

Below is a video of the Million Hoodie March.


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