Yeah, except for that whole thing about attacking a man and bashing his head into the concrete at the moment he was shot. Where is NBC’s journalistic responsibility?
Via Hot Air:
Patrisse Cullors is one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, a movement which began after unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman nearly six years ago. Today, NBC News has published a piece by Cullors which repeats some false claims about Martin’s death, foremost among them that he was murdered in “cold blood.”
February 5th marks five years and 339 days since Trayvon Martin’s memorial service; it would also be his 23rd
birthday.The day is necessarily somber. Nearly six years ago, Trayvon’s death at the hands of white supremacist vigilante
violence indicated the beginning of an escalating attack on Black lives and demanded that this nation confront its
overtly racist past and present. The urgency of #Justice4TrayvonMartin turned into a global urgency to fight for
Black lives — one which persists today.What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white
majority’s public imagination of Black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are. Trayvon
Martin was a teenage boy literally walking in his own neighborhood doing what most teenagers do: Wearing a hoodie,
buying snacks and talking on his cell phone. His family and Trayvon would not know that his life would end that
night because a white vigilante would be empowered by his own racist beliefs and murder a 17-year-old boy in cold
blood.