NOT YET...

A child has been murdered,

children are murdered.

What makes this different?

Many things.

Keepin it real,

NO ONE HAD TO DIE,

NO ONE WOULD HAVE DIED

except

Zimmerman chose to not heed a direct order from a police officer who told him to stand down, to NOT pursue an individual

he deemed as suspicious

as a civilian who said he was the "chief of the neighborhood watch" in a neighborhood.

INSTEAD

this man Zimmerman

followed, pursued

and shot a kid point blank

with

a 9MM

and

killed him

although he was crying

"help me" on a cell phone.

A neighborhood watch?

No arrest?

Shot while black?

Hatred?

A police department not doing their job?

A kid wearing a hoodie?

A grown man playing vigilante?

Racism?

Self=defense? (NO)

Skittles?

Tea?

A Gated Neighborhood?

...

Meanwhile here in the DC area

a woman attacked and severely wounded a man

someone in what was a IHOP

and has been charged with a

HATE crime and is looking at

30+ years

for the attack.

And it made the news tonight

as I sit here still astounded

as I try to understand

why Zimmerman is free.

And yet,

the parents, friends, and the world

are now hearing the round a bout

the

aversions

the well he wasn't so this or that

and

the self defense

claims.

Really?

Where is the justice department?

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One thing is certain,

Many Many

of all shapes, ages, colors

Thousands are standing

UP

and we will not be silent

thousands are using social media,

in front of the steps of buildings, civic centers, churches, faith communities,

the Department of Justice,

Capital Hill

and

even the White House,

and

in Sanford Florida

and

Tampa Florida.

WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN,

Trayvon was murdered,

and I will join the many who now stand and are his voice, even though many are trying to discredit him, to dishonor his family

and his very young life

as they try to weave a web for a murderer

and justify a police department that did not do its job.

We are standing arm in arm on this wrong.

Black/White/Red/Yellow

"We all bleed Red"

~ ~ ~

I have heard that folks all over the world

are donning hoodies

and letting their voices be heard.

Yet he is still free.

The man who told the police

that he shot a child.

Now we hear from his friends, his attorney

and rednecks and bigots

and folks from everywhere

with opinions.

We hear about the

"Stand your Ground" law

and whether it applies

and

we hear from the "new Black Panther group"

now offering a bounty for Zimmerman,

And

we hear that they are not supported by

THE BLACK PANTHERS

nor many in the Black or African American

community.

BUT

have we heard

of an arrest?

HAVE WE HEARD

Trayvon's mother and dad

or their cries in the night?

...

Have we looked deeply in the eyes of our children

and seen the real possibility

that it could have easily have been them

in a hoodie walking out of a mall?

OR

have we thought

how very easy

it is for someone to pick us out of a crowd

decide we may in fact

look suspicious,

decide to pursue us

and then without reason, cause,

shoot us dead?

And if we stand UP

and should a whole bunch of folks

stand beside us

as the brothers and sisters we are,

and

demand justice...

Would we then really get it?

Only then to find out that once an attorney

gets involved

that stories and press will turn things into a circus

and try to talk about us when we are no longer on this earth and able to talk for ourselves?

Now a child is dead,

and

we are hearing such vile remarks

being made about him as they are stretching to find something to make him into something that he either was or was not.

From all pictures, and from teacher accounts he was an "A/B student", an athelete, a kid with great promise.

Now his Mother is seen on television

saying not only has my son been murdered but they are trying to kill his reputation

as someone reports he was suspended from school from perhaps marijuana?

WHO CARES?

What kid at 17 is not experimenting with something and what does that or what he has done or not done have to do

with the night he was walking in the neighborhood in a hoodie with skittles and a tea close to the home he was staying in?

...

Neighborhood watches are in communities everywhere across the nation.

It means that folks watch out for each other, for their homes.

It is not a license to kill, hunt, stalk, or pursue someone and then kill them.

It is a "WATCH" if it is active at all.

IF, and I say IF

anyone in a neighborhood sees suspicious activity, they typically call their police department and report it.

They do NOT call from their "watch point"

and say the things that Zimmerman said

and then go in pursuit

of a kid with a loaded

9MM gun intending to use it.

The tapes tell everything there is to hear,

all that was needed to make the arrest.

Also noted and heard on CNN

was the racial slurs

of this man.

At no point did the police nor Zimmerman talk about injuries sustained at the time,

nor a broken nose, nor remorse, nor tears,

none of it.

AND

as for tears, or pleas for help,

yes, we heard that...

Trayvon's mom heard and recognized her

baby's cries

and so did the girl he was talking to on the cellphone,

HELP ME

that was a kid while being pursued

and

as he was shot.

yes, we heard it,

we heard a Mother's voice as she said  that was my baby, she heard it, and probably still hears it vividly 24/7.

We are the people

who continue to stand

FOR JUSTICE.

Self-defense?

Who is Zimmerman and his buddies kidding?

Do they really think we believe that?

Have YOU loooked at his eyes, that of Zimmerman?

Have you seen him walk to the police department and turn himself in yet as he is so filled with remorse?

Have you looked at the smile, the eyes, the face of Trayvon?

Here's the deal:

and

I'm keepin it real,

Trayvon Martin

was shot close range

by a bullet loaded into a 9MM handgun

by

Zimmerman

who called the police in

Sanford FL.

He was known to them as he was a frequent caller, a man who is by their label

"white=hispanic"

and

was on his "neighborhood watch"

...

Note the word 'WATCH'

and when he told them he saw someone,

a "black someone who looks suspicious",

they told him to NOT pursue him

and yet he did.

And what followed was that he

at point blank range

shot and killed what he

KNEW TO BE A KID

who he outweighed by more than 100+ pounds

who was on a cellphone screaming

"help me" to his girlfriend.

It does not get any clearer than that.

And yes,

I believe with my gut and heart

it was a crime of hatred.

Where is the justice

and

why is it taking so long?

Trayvon belongs to the world now

as

does his family.

We will embrace them now,

as we join for justice.

Leave him alone, let his memory be left

with some dignity,

this man Zimmerman has raped them

and taken all that is sacred

when he murdered this child.

WE STAND FOR JUSTICE

FOR

TRAYVON MARTIN

STAND WITH ME

STAND WITH TRAYVON'S FAMILY,

FOR HIS MEMORY

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drses

www.sherryeshowalter.com