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July 29, 2013

Trayvon Martin's Mother: Use My Son's Death to Challenge Racial Profiling, Gun Laws 
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The mother of Trayvon Martin is urging supporters to use her son's death
in the campaign against racial profiling and lax gun laws. Sybrina
Fulton spoke out Friday before the National Urban League in
Philadelphia.

Sybrina Fulton: "My message to you is: Please use my story, please use
my tragedy, please use my broken heart to say to yourself, we cannot let
this happen to anybody else's child."

Fulton's speech came two days after the lone person of color on the jury
that acquitted George Zimmerman came forward to say she believes
Zimmerman "got away with murder."

 

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