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Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story focuses on the killing of Trayvon Martin that became a huge American talking point and helped spur the "Black Lives Matter" movement. The docuseries delves into the tragic event which the network describes as "a story about race, politics, power, money and the U.S. criminal justice system." [1]
George Michael Zimmerman (born October 5, 1983) is an American man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. On July 13, 2013, he was acquitted of second-degree murder in Florida v.
Several programs she directed, produced, or wrote were nominated for awards. These include Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (2018) [3] and Fyre Fraud (2019), [4] which were nominated for Emmy Awards, and Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017), which won a Peabody Award. [5]
In January 2017, Martin's parents (under Penguin Random House) published a book about Martin's life and death entitled Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin. [77] In October 2020, a street in front of the Dr. Michael M. Krop High School in Miami that Martin attended was named "Trayvon Martin Avenue". [78]
Rest in Power was written nearly five years after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, says the book is intended as a means to heal, to share with the world the Trayvon Martin his parents knew and loved, and to describe the impact Martin's death and surrounding events had on their lives. [1]
Two 9-1-1 telephone calls are released that were placed by Tracy Martin, Martin's father, on the morning after the shooting. [56] Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's attorney, releases a round of discovery evidence on his client's web site. It includes audio, video and written statements that Zimmerman gave to police. [57] [58] [59]
Rest in Power may refer to: Rest in power, variation on rest in peace, to commemorate a person whose death is considered unjust or wrongful; Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, a 2017 book; Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, a 2018 TV series
Natalie Aleta Jackson is an American trial attorney from Orlando, Florida.She is also known as an author and human rights activist. Her involvement in the Trayvon Martin case and her use of the #TrayvonMartin Twitter hashtag (considered by some a precursor to #BlackLivesMatter) has led to her being connected to the formation of that movement. [1]