Eight years after Trayvon Martin’s killing, attorney Benjamin Crump, a civil rights lawyer who previously represented the family of the teen and who now represents the family of Ahmaud Arbery, calls the similarities between the two cases “eerie.”
Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin would both be 26 years old if they were alive today. But the two young men never saw their 26th birthdays. The opportunity was taken from them. Arbery was shot to death in February while jogging down a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia. Martin was 17 in February, 2012 when he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch coordinator as he walked home in Sanford, Florida.
Crump notes that Arbery and Martin were both young and black and passing through white neighborhoods; neither was armed, and both were pursued by self-appointed vigilantes who shot them during a struggle. And both became litmus tests for attitudes about racial justice. Martin was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and an autopsy disclosed he had marijuana in his bloodstream, facts that became twisted into evidence he was “up to no good,” as the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, said in a call to 911.
“When you think of Trayvon Martin in 2012, it was not until the state police, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took over the investigation that you finally got an arrest,” Crump said. “It wasn't until the Georgia State Police got involved in the Ahmaud Arbery case, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, when you finally got an arrest.”
“We have to stay vigilant on making sure the prosecutors zealously prosecutes the killers of an unarmed black person,” Crump said. “We cannot take for granted that they're going to be as zealous in their prosecution of the killers of these young men as they would if the roles were reversed. And that is the great lesson that we have to give them all the supporting resources and documents.”
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