a jury in sanford, florida has found george zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of trayvon martine saw the trial of zimmerman, we saw nothing come out of it. and 2012 was this, like, awakening moment. in my generation, it was the first time that we had seen a system fail so spectacularly in our lifetime. this whole system wants you to feel like trayvon was a criminal! [crowd] that's right! this whole system is wrong! and then we see coming out of california this hashtag of black lives matter. [sandy] black lives matter was started kind of spontaneously by alicia garza, who was an activist in oakland, who was just really pissed off at the acquittal of george zimmerman. i remember waking up in the middle of the night, like, sobbing. so, i started writing on facebook. and then patrisse put the hashtag there. "black lives matter". i think people were waiting for something like this. black lives matter, unfortunately, is something that we could've talked about a hundred years ago. and our communities needed it, and black folks who have allies in the world needed this, too. social media

be them. >> protesters are calling for the rest of the shooter, neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmermanot 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. >> we saw the trial of zimmerman. we saw nothing come out of it. in 2012 was this awakening moment. in my generation, it was the first time we had seen a system fail to spectacularly. >> this whole system was like trayvon was a criminal. this whole system is wrong. >> and then we see coming out of california this hash tag of black lives matter. >> black lives matter