Sunday Edition: Trayvon Martin, 10 Years Later with Don Lemon
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sunday edition of CNN Five Things. I'm David Ryan. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm ready. Okay, great. Don, I'd like to start with this. Who was Trayvon Martin? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, Trayvon Martin was a teenager living a teenage life. |
| 0:16.8 | You're probably going to hear a lot about Trayvon Martin this week. |
| 0:20.5 | That's because this Saturday marks 10 years since he was killed by George Zimmerman and I'll level with you guys I hadn't even graduated college yet when this happened |
| 0:29.5 | So I wanted to learn more about how this tragedy was perceived at the time and how it has shaped |
| 0:35.0 | the fight for social justice over the past decade. |
| 0:37.7 | But he was a kid, as far as we know, just doing what kids do on his way to the convenience store actually returning from the convenience store. |
| 0:45.7 | So I called up CNN's Don Lemon, the host of Don Lemon tonight. |
| 0:49.4 | He anchored much of CNN's coverage when this story first broke and he remembers it well. He began |
| 0:54.8 | by telling me what happened on that fateful night in Sanford Florida, February 26, |
| 0:59.9 | 2012. |
| 1:04.5 | George Zimmerman was out on a personal errand and ran across Trayvon Martin coming back from the |
| 1:11.4 | 711. |
| 1:12.4 | Hey, we've had some break into my... coming back from the 7-Eleven. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey, we've had some break into my neighborhood and there's a real suspicious guy. It's a retreat view circle. |
| 1:19.0 | So he calls 911 and he said there is this guy. |
| 1:22.0 | He looks suspicious. He looks like the guy that I've seen he's got his hand and his waistband. He's wearing a gray hoodie a dark hoodie. |
| 1:29.0 | This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just |
| 1:35.4 | walking around looking about. |
| 1:37.4 | Okay, and this guy, is he white black or Hispanic? |
| 1:40.5 | He looks black. |
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