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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]
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.
Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton at an event in 2012. Martin was born in 1995 in Miami, Florida, to Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, who divorced in 1999.At the time of the shooting, Fulton was a program coordinator for the Miami Dade Housing Authority, and Tracy Martin was a truck driver; they lived near each other in Miami Gardens.
Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old in Sanford, was stalked, confronted and then killed by George Zimmerman on his way home that Sunday in February 2012. Martin, robbed of a future, would be 27 years ...
'We can't stop,' Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father said at the time. 'If we stop, the world will stop. We've got to keep fighting.'
Trayvon Martin’s final night began with a convenience store run, a quick trip for candy and something to drink. “It was the thing that broke everybody, all at the same time,” said Nailah ...
After the acquittal in the Trayvon Martin murder case, the chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania said, "A lack of justice has resulted in a lack of peace", "Heavy hearts now lack peace because of the lack of justice in our nation", and "No peace because of no justice."
State of Florida v. George Zimmerman was a criminal prosecution of George Zimmerman on the charge of second-degree murder stemming from the killing of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. On April 11, 2012, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager.