Trayvon Martin's mother: 'Don't give up' fight for justice
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Trayvon Martin used the 10th anniversary of her son’s death Saturday to urge those who sought justice for her family to continue to fight.
“I never do anything on the 26th, I never even plan anything on the 26th of February,” Sybrina Fulton said at the weekly meeting of the National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem.
She told an audience that included Sharpton and Mayor Eric Adams that she wanted to be there to support her supporters. Adams, a New York state senator at the time, was among several Black lawmakers who wore hooded sweatshirts to a 2012 legislative session to call attention to the 17-year-old’s death in Sanford, Florida.
Trayvon Martin had been wearing a similar sweatshirt when he was fatally shot on his way back from a store while visiting his father in a gated community in the Orlando suburb. George Zimmerman, a member of the community’s neighborhood watch, confronted the teenager and shot him after reporting him to authorities as a suspicious person.
Rev. Al Sharpton, third from left, president of the National Action Network (NAN), and Mayor Eric Adams, far right, stand next to Sybrina Fulton, center, the mother of Trayvon Martin, as she address a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of her son's killing, Saturday Feb. 26, 2022, at NAN's Harlem headquarters in New York. "Today is a bittersweet day," said Fulton, who with her family created the Trayvon Martin Foundation to raise awareness of gun violence. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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