[ti:Racial Protests, Possible Civil Rights Charges in Zimmerman Case]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:In The News]
[by:www.21voa.com]
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[00:03.49]From VOA Learning English,
[00:06.32]this is "In The News."
[00:08.56]Americans continue to react to the decision
[00:12.34]in the murder trial of George Zimmerman.
[00:15.93]Last week, a jury in the southern state of Florida
[00:20.61]found that he was not guilty
[00:23.35]in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
[00:28.17]The unarmed teenager was killed last year
[00:32.45]in a struggle with the defendant.
[00:35.20]At the time, George Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer
[00:40.53]in his community in Florida.
[00:43.41]Trayvon Martin, an African American,
[00:46.40]was walking to the home of his father's girlfriend
[00:50.24]at the time of the killing.
[00:52.38]George Zimmerman is a white Hispanic man.
[00:56.46]He called police to report Trayvon Martin
[01:00.24]as a suspicious person in the neighborhood.
[01:03.48]He followed the teenager, although police told him not to.
[01:08.40]The two fought.
[01:10.00]Mr. Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense
[01:13.99]after he was attacked by the young man.
[01:17.17]Under Florida law, people can use deadly force to fight back
[01:22.90]if they feel their lives are in danger.
[01:26.63]Soon after the six woman jury reached its decision on Saturday,
[01:32.00]people used social media and public protests
[01:36.33]to express their opinion about the verdict.
[01:39.98]"No justice. No peace. Trayvon! Justice for Trayvon!"
[01:43.65]Many protests have been held across the United States since the trial.
[01:49.57]Hundreds of people demonstrated in Chicago, Illinois.
[01:53.95]They expressed opposition to what activist Dickey Gaines says
[01:59.08]was a predetermined verdict -- one reached before the trial.
[02:04.70]"Because there was a lot of people across this country
[02:08.39]that was in favor of George Zimmerman being acquitted
[02:13.92]by virtue of them donating money to his defense,
[02:17.05]so that was a clear indication early on people
[02:21.19]was in support of him being acquitted in this case."
[02:25.29]Casey David Cole Senior was one such supporter.
[02:29.87]He spoke to reporters near the Sanford, Florida courthouse,
[02:33.75]where the trial took place.
[02:35.94]"I'm here to express my opinion.
[02:38.13]I believe that George Zimmerman is an innocent man."
[02:41.58]For Chicago protester Bryan Burroughs,
[02:44.58]the case is clear in his mind.
[02:47.27]"Trayvon Martin was guilty of nothing
[02:48.71]but being black in a mostly white neighborhood."
[02:51.25]Activist Dickey Gaines says the ruling has not changed his belief
[02:56.72]that George Zimmerman targeted the teenager because he was black.
[03:02.10]"He focused on Trayvon because of Trayvon's skin color."
[03:05.78]Hans von Spakovsky works for the Heritage Foundation
[03:09.57]research group here in Washington.
[03:11.81]He says the legal action against Mr. Zimmerman should end now.
[03:18.08]"If the Justice Department continues to pursue this case when,
[03:21.86]one, he's been found innocent and,
[03:23.51]two, we know there's no racial animus
[03:26.74]which is necessary for a civil rights violation,
[03:30.03]that once again makes it look like politics
[03:33.01]is driving the prosecution, not justice."
[03:35.30]Racial inequality in the United States goes back centuries.
[03:40.79]The issue of slavery was a major reason
[03:44.68]for the nation's civil war in the 1860s.
[03:48.71]But discrimination continued after black slaves were freed.
[03:54.43]And racial tensions still exist.
[03:58.26]Greg Carr is chairman of Afro-American Studies at Howard University,
[04:05.14]a historically black college here in Washington.
[04:08.72]"One thing that's tangible that can come out of this verdict
[04:12.26]is a renewed commitment to addressing people,
[04:16.04]and not looking to the courts -- not looking to the law
[04:19.37]to somehow regulate or change people's hearts and minds."
[04:23.56]Mr. Carr warns that if a civil rights case
[04:27.10]were brought against George Zimmerman and lost,
[04:30.48]it would increase the distrust of many people.
[04:34.41]But if such a case were won, he says,
[04:38.11]Americans would look to the courts,
[04:40.94]not within themselves, for racial healing.
[04:44.97]And that's "In The News" from VOA Learning English.
[04:50.05]I'm Steve Ember.
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