'Don’t wait until it’s at your front door': mom of slain teen Trayvon Martin urges at UNL

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Kate Howard

LINCOLN — Sybrina Fulton told a Nebraska audience that her worst day was not the day she learned her son, Trayvon Martin, had been shot and killed.

The worst was a few days later, when she saw her 17-year-old laid out in a casket. Trayvon was dressed all in white, the kind of clothes he should have worn to his prom.

What she felt was not just grief, Fulton said.

It was injustice.

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CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Sybrina Fulton, wearing a T-shirt bearing a photo of her slain son, Trayvon Martin, speaks to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln crowd about his 2012 shooting death, which riveted the country.

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[chervilant]

1. Hard to believe it's been so long

since Trayvon was murdered by that psychopath. To date, we've witnessed increasing brutality and violence directed towards Black Americans (and activists from all walks of life). Militarized police are just the (sharp and deadly) tip of the corporate megalomania iceberg...

[tblue37]

2. KnR. nt