Attorney: Zimmerman Must Be Held Accountable

The attorney for the family of a black teenager fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain said Tuesday that the boy was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when the confrontation began.

Published

about 1 year ago

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US

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United States

People

Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman

Places

United States of America, Florida

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shooting

Transcript

ScriptSANFORD, Florida(Benjamin Crump, Lawyer for Trayvon Martin's Family)("Well, what George Zimmerman said to the police about him being suspicious and up to no good is completely contradicted by this phone log, showing all day he was just talking to his friends. And in fact he was talking to this young lady when he went to the 7-11 and when he came back from the 7-11.// He kept pursuing Trayvon Martin and how do we know because this young lady connects the dots. She connects the dots. She completely blows Zimmerman's absurd self-defense claim out of the water//The justice department and the FBI have opened up an investigation. We will not stop, we will not rest until he is arrested.//It is really, really simple. It' about equal justice. No matter who kills somebody in America, no matter where it's at. They have to be held accountable. We can't be the beacon of hope and justice for the rest of the world if we don't have equal justice for everybody. Trayvon Marti's mother and father are not asking for an eye for an eye. They are just asking for an arrest.")