Sandford, Florida police chief Bill Lee stepped down temporarily on March 22 amid allegations that he didn’t handle the Trayvon Martin case fairly by not arresting George Zimmerman following the shooting on February 26. The state’s commissioner voted 3-2 to reject Lee’s resignation. According to the Associated Press, “the majority blamed the uproar surrounding Martin’s death […]

George Zimmeran, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed, Trayvon Martin in Florida is now asking the judge in the case to step down  after she revealed a potential conflict of interest. George Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, filed the request and said Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler revealed the potential conflict last week. Zimmerman was […]

Demonstrators pray during the Million Hoodie March in Union Square Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in New York. The march was in memory of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen shot and killed in Florida in February. Feb. 26, 2012: Fatal Shooting Trayvon Martin, 17, is shot and killed while walking through a Sanford, Fla., community where […]