was wearing a hoodie >>> hundreds were there, saying there has been no justice for trayvon martinhe million hoodie march. martin was wearing a hoodie the night george zimmerman shot and killed him. >> i think trayvon martin brought a lot of young people into a battle that older people were used to fighting. they recognized this could be them. >> protesters are calling for the rest of the shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman. >> zimmerman shot martin and claimed it was self-defense. >> this is the story of a young person out at 7:30 at night being killed by a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain. >> trayvon was carrying skittles and a can of tea. zimmerman had a semiautomatic hauge. soon there was a confrontation. >> african-americans were looking at this saying this is in insane. >> united. >> justice. >> people talk about civil rights continuing, and that's a little problematic, because movements do end. but there is often a moment when there is a reset. and trayvon martin was one of those moments. >> not guilty in the shooting death of trayvon martin. >>

. ♪ [music] [crowd] we love trayvon martin!eff] hundreds were there, saying there's been no justice for trayvon martin. [crowd] justice for trayvon! [jeff] what was called the million hoodie march. martin was wearing a hoodie the night george zimmerman shot and killed him. i think that trayvon martin brought a lot of young people into a battle that, that older people were used to fighting. they recognized this could be them. [erica] protestors are calling for the arrest of the shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman. [louis] zimmerman shot martin on february 26th and claimed it was self-defense. [crowd] no justice, no peace! [yohuru] this was the story of a young person out at 7:30 at night, being killed by a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain. [kyra] trayvon was carrying skittles and a can of tea. zimmerman had a semi-automatic handgun. soon there was a confrontation, and zimmerman says he feared for his life. african americans were looking at this and saying, "this is, this is insane." -[crowd] trayvon!

a spotlight on controversial "stand your ground" laws previously invoked in the shootings of trayvon martinud arbery. >> we live in a highly gun-crazed culture. when people fear, it's reasonable for them to grab their firearms and protect themselves, that is one argument that will show up in the court. >> reporter: the man who shot ralph, 84-year-old andrew lester, charged with two felonies. first degree assault, and armed criminal action. he pleaded not guilty and is out on bound if you could saying some to him, what would it be? >> there's still time for the rest of us whose names are not lester to educate ourselves to coexist in harmony. and mr. lester, if he desires, can play a part in that if he wants to. >> reporter: before the incident, ralph was a passionate band kid. he played the saxophone and the clarinet. ♪ always a responsible big brother, he didn't think twice when his mother asked him to pick up his younger siblings. when you go back to april 13th, tell me what happened when you go to that address. >> well, i go into the driveway. i walk up the steps. i ring the door i see th

i mean, in the early 2010s, you know, there were a number of tragic killings, trayvon martin, eric garnerck lives movement. what was it about ferguson, where michael brown was killed, where you were very involved, that movement really ignited. >> when you think back about august of 2014, remember that they not only killed mike brown, but they left his body in the street for four and a half hours while his mother stayed with his body. people came outside just to see what happened and the police sicked dogs on protesters and the police were really violent immediately. we were in the street for 400 days. i think back in 2014, it was like 400 days. and yes, the protest began. it was pretty violent. it was illegal to stay still. i think we did it in solidarity with the 60s but, no, it's illegal to stand still. it's wild. >> you and your fellow leaders were credited with launching the civil rights movement of the 21st century. was there something you also drew from the predecessors of civil rights foot soldiers in their movement or was this about a movement all anew? >> no, for sure we understo

mother of trayvon martin attended the funeral. her son was shot. zimmerman, you stand-your-ground. let me go to this. earlier this, week you introduced an assault weapons ban. and large the effort of the house democrats to force their republican colleagues to act on gun control reform. you and your colleagues are using the discharge petition to force a vote on the house floor on these measures. can you talk to me about how you and your colleagues felt it is necessary to reach this point? where do you go from here? >> absolutely, we know that our colleagues have taken no other stance for gun violence prevention other than to say, morgan's, carrie, you can have a gun anywhere anytime, no accountability, no responsibility. one thing i will say is that having worked with countless number of victims and survivors people in this country are crying out for congress to do something about the scourge of gun violence. they are pleading with us. if our republican colleagues are not willing to take a stand and do what's right and also to make good on the oath that they took to protect and serv

. >> my main message is, is, to the parents of trayvon martin, you know, if i had a son he would lookike travon. >> the fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. some of this is the result of the legaling's of racial discrimination in this country. >> brian: all right, so intentional or not president obama actually did the exact opposite he fanned the flames of racial divide in this nation. that's not our opinion it's a fact. during obama's last year in office there was a poll done, cnn actually did it. majority of americans, 54% believed race relations worsened under president obama, a poll, including 40% of the block population and the number of americans who believed the criminal justice system treated black and whites equally actually decreased six points last year. now, a new york times poll that same year had similar results. nearly 70% of americans said race relations was generally bad. which, at the time, was the highest number since 1992 right when the rodney king riots happened in los angeles. so it's

elevate nazism and white supremacy, if people are telling me that, you know, george floyd and trayvon martinr. i mean, it just hit me inside the head. i think that number is bigger. >> let me put another poll number that gets to your point, michael steele. both black americans, worried you or someone you love would be physically attacked because they are black? 59%. i would argue chairman steele in april, to your point, that number is higher too. i am definitely among that 59%, and i never felt that way until june 16th, 2015, when donald trump came down that escalator, and within two minutes of his announcing that he was running for president said that mexicans were rapists and it only went downhill from there. april? >> agreed. >> at the end of the day, at the end of the day, all of us know who we are. we are people of, descendants of the african diaspora. but at the end of the day, we can be on this esteemed panel, but when we take off our makeup, our jackets, we walk outside, we are black people in america. we still haven't come to grips, in terms with who we are as people. we are still c

specifically or more generally when it comes to telling the story of the lives of people from trayvon martinto mike brown to freddie gray, all of whom seem in death to invite the of why they were killed. why is that a pattern? how does your work contrast with the specific alternate narrative of george floyd's life? thank you. thank you so much for the question. i may be a little vague in answering it, but i try to try to do my best. i think for us, where we're a journalist, we work at the washington post and our role often is to seek for the truth. and so we welcome other efforts that are interested in seeking truth, but when it comes to misinformation that counter to what we're trying to do. and so it's very to have everything look like it's on a level playing field. but one of the things we had to do in order to make this project work was do a lot of research, talk to a lot of people. they were more than 400 interviews. that's probably undercount of what we had to do to try put together this narrative. and so we wanted to be able to be able to stand on on this research and say that everyth

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i think the period from the killing of trayvon martin all the way through the present with george floyd beyond, i think the police killings have been the most jarring, challenging, difficult, defining issues that have occurred in this time that i've had a chance to lead the organization. because we're struggling with this, the rate of killings is unacceptable. the spike and rise in gun violence and mass killings is jarring. you know, it focus -- i focused on it in a very special way during two international trips i took in the last year. you go abroad and go to these countries, maybe not, quote, as prosperous as the united states in some cases, but then underneath, they don't have the gun violence problem. it's not an obsession. the fear, the security, the concerns, the way it impacts people's lives, that's been a tremendous, i think, challenge that's been a through line all the way through. when i got to new york, i remember distinctly, there was a movement to repeal the rockefeller drug laws. it was the beginning of this movement, if you will, for civil rights and social justice in th