[ti:Just What Happened in the Trayvon Martin Shooting?]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
[00:08.92]"Tragedy." That word appears again and again
[00:13.25]in comments about the Trayvon Martin shooting
[00:17.18]in Sanford, Florida.
[00:18.97]Trayvon Martin was seventeen years old and unarmed.
[00:24.20]A twenty-eight-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer
[00:28.79]shot and killed him on a rainy night in February.
[00:33.68]He says he acted in self-defense.
[00:37.19]He says the teenager attacked him.
[00:40.76]Trayvon Martin was black.
[00:43.21]The crime watch organizer, George Zimmerman,
[00:47.18]is white and Hispanic.
[00:49.55]Many accused him of racism.
[00:52.17]Many more denounced law enforcement officials
[00:56.64]for not bringing criminal charges.
[00:59.39]The United States Justice Department
[01:02.57]opened its own investigation.
[01:05.69]This week, a Florida prosecutor,
[01:08.90]State Attorney Angela Corey,
[01:11.47]charged Mr. Zimmerman with murder.
[01:15.02]ANGELA COREY: "Let me emphasize
[01:16.26]that we do not prosecute
[01:17.47]by public pressure or by petition.
[01:20.27]We prosecute based on the facts of any given case
[01:24.07]as well as the laws of the state of Florida."
[01:26.97]On Thursday Mr. Zimmerman appeared
[01:29.28]before Seminole County Judge Mark Herr.
[01:32.04]MARK HERR: "Mr. Zimmerman,
[01:32.81]you are here for your first appearances,
[01:34.93]a first appearance at this time
[01:36.93]for a charge of murder in the second degree.
[01:39.23]And you are represented by Mr. O'Mara? "
[01:41.84]GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: "Yes sir."
[01:43.54]MARK HERR: "Remember your right to remain silent."
[01:45.36]The judge said there was enough evidence
[01:47.93]to move forward with the case.
[01:49.93]He told Mr. Zimmerman that he will be officially charged
[01:54.36]during an arraignment hearing on May twenty-ninth.
[01:58.19]A hearing is set for next Friday
[02:01.20]on the possibility of releasing him from jail on bond.
[02:05.70]Defense lawyer Mark O'Mara said
[02:08.91]Mr. Zimmerman would plead not guilty
[02:11.95]but he worries about getting a fair trial.
[02:15.18]MARK O'MARA: "We need to calm this down
[02:16.91]and this case needs to be tried in a courtroom."
[02:19.09]The shooting happened in the gated community
[02:22.36]where the girlfriend of Trayvon Martin's father lives.
[02:26.41]Tracy Martin and Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton,
[02:31.20]accuse Mr. Zimmerman of targeting their son
[02:35.14]because he was black.
[02:37.08]They led the protests to have him arrested.
[02:40.46]SYBRINA FULTON: "We just wanted an arrest and we got it."
[02:43.32]Police did not charge Mr. Zimmerman earlier
[02:46.47]because of a Florida law known as "Stand Your Ground."
[02:51.03]It says people have a right to meet force with force,
[02:56.17]to stand their ground and not turn and run.
[03:00.21]The Florida legislature passed the law in two thousand five.
[03:05.44]Many other states have similar laws.
[03:09.45]Supporters say these laws can reduce violent crime
[03:15.42]and protect citizens who are trying to defend themselves.
[03:20.50]But Daniel Gross with the Brady Center
[03:24.27]to Prevent Gun Violence told members of Congress
[03:28.32]that the Florida law needs to be examined closer.
[03:32.57]DANIEL GROSS: "In Florida, law enforcement authorities
[03:35.14]do not have the discretion to take away licenses
[03:37.47]to carry concealed weapons even from those
[03:40.25]who have killed unarmed people."
[03:42.10]Jeb Bush signed the law when he was Florida governor.
[03:46.04]He says it was not meant for cases like this one.
[03:49.82]JEB BUSH: "'Stand Your Ground' means 'Stand Your Ground.'
[03:52.10]It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back."
[03:55.16]George Zimmerman had called
[03:58.17]the 911 emergency services number
[04:01.55]to report a suspicious person.
[04:03.76]911 OPERATOR: "Are you following him?"
[04:05.30]GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: "Yes."
[04:06.68]911 OPERATOR: "We don't need you to do that."
[04:07.89]Mr. Zimmerman later told police that he fired(shot Mr. Martin)
[04:11.50]after the teen struck him and hit his head on the ground.
[04:15.63]President Obama commented on the case last month.
[04:19.89]He said when he thinks about Trayvon Martin,
[04:23.71]he thinks about his own children.
[04:25.91]BARACK OBAMA: "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
[04:28.01]Samantha Nolan is a neighborhood watch trainer in Washington.
[04:32.90]She tells volunteers never to chase anyone.
[04:36.87]In fact, she says the best way to fight crime
[04:41.20]is to just know your neighbors.
[04:43.94]And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
[04:49.41]I'm Steve Ember.
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