Hello, it's Alonzo Bowden. Welcome to week two of who's paying attention.

There's a lot going on.

I will do my best to get to it.

Got to start with the Trevor Martin case.

If you're not familiar, in Sanford, Florida, 17-year-old kid, Trevor Martin, was coming home from a 7-11. He had skittles and a can of ice

tea, two weapons of mass destruction, no doubt. And this guy, George Zimmerman, who is the

overzealous head of some sort of neighborhood watch association, saw a black kid walk him through

the neighborhood and called the police, said it was suspicious that he was walking around.

The police dispatcher told him to leave the kid alone.

Instead, George Zimmerman followed him, got out of his car, started some sort of trouble with him, and ended up shooting and killing Trevor Martin.

Florida has what's called your stand your ground law, which basically we know that in the home, if someone breaks in, you can shoot them.

Well, Florida extended the law past the home, said you can be in public.

If you feel threatened threatened you can shoot somebody

so I guess George Zimmerman felt that once he got out of a car confronted the kid after

he was told to leave him alone there was some sort of skirmish suddenly he felt threatened

and shot him of course George Zimmerman's 28 year old manold man, Trevor's Martin, was a 17-year-old kid who

looked like a kid. Couldn't have been a threat. And it was murder. And fortunately, the federal

government is stepping in to investigate. Sadly, we have to go back to this. This was the 60s

in America where in the South,

black people would get killed and nobody would prosecute it,

and the federal government had to get involved.

Thought we had moved on, but apparently not.

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