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Photographer: Joe Dyer
Seattle Police Department Det. D. Cookie Bouldin protests
the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
Can we have more of hers at Occupy Wall Street?
The officer was simultaneously working at - while joining in - at a Sunday afternoon Seattle protest decrying the Sanford, Florida police department's handling of the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin. The Stranger reports in new information that Trayvon was murdered while serving a suspension sentence by his school district for possessing a plastic bag with trace amounts of marijuana. Shedding new questions, I would think, on school suspension policies, not anything else. The officer pictured above in a hoodie carrying Skittles is described as a beloved peace officer in the Seattle community.
For those just tuning into this story, Trayvon was wearing a hoodie and carrying an ice tea and skittles he had just purchased at a convenience store when he was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, a Mr. Zimmerman, spewing racist profanity. (And why protesters are dressed in hoodies carrying the same items.) Mr. Zimmerman was not arrested and he was even released by police still in possession of the murder weapon. Last this blogger heard, he was last seen driving out of the Sanford area in a Uhaul, and no one knows where he now wanders with his John Wayne. In Florida or some other state ..
The march had a huge rainbow crowd of hundreds, all ages, most wearing hoodies.
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Photographer: Joe Dyer
Children march in hoodies to protest police handling of Trayvon's murder.
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Photographer: Joe Dyer
Sunday afternoon Seattle demonstration decrying police handling of Trayvon Martin killing.
Here is an interesting and enlightening protest sign:
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Photographer: Joe Dyer
I wonder what Geraldo has to say about that?
More terrific and some very moving photographs of the march here at seattlepi.
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