New Evidence Emerges in Trayvon Martin's Shooting

March 30, 2012 from Press TV

A new video released by the city of Sanford, Florida shows Trayvon Martin's shooter George Zimmerman leaving a police car. Zimmerman told police he shot Martin in self-defense after Martin broke his nose and slammed his head into concrete. But the attorney for the Martin family disputes his claims. Press TV's Colin Campbell reports from Washington.

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George Zimmerman

On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Martin was an African American teenager and 28-year-old Zimmerman is a man of mixed ethnicity (Latino and white American). Martin, who was unarmed, had been walking to the home of his fa... Explore this topic

Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin was an African American teenager who was shot and killed by 28-year-old George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman told police he shot Martin in self defense and was not arrested or charged with a crime. The case has sparked numerous p... Explore this topic

Shooting of Trayvon Martin

The shooting of Trayvon Martin took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was an African American teenager who was shot and killed by 28-year-old George Zimmerman, a man of mixed ethnicity (Latino and white American). Martin, who was unarmed, had been... Explore this topic

Sanford Police Department

The Sanford Police Department is a police agency in Sanford, the county seat of Seminole County, Florida. It employs 140 sworn police officers alongside 24 other employees, and its Interim Chief of Police is Richard Myers, the former chief of police in Colorado Springs, Colora... Explore this topic

Shooting

Shooting is the act or process of firing firearms or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets, and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range ... Explore this topic

Self defense

The right of self-defense is the right for civilians acting on their own behalf to engage in a level of violence, called reasonable force or defensive force, for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of deadly... Explore this topic

Sanford, Florida

Sanford is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Seminole County. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 53,570. It is a principal city of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which was... Explore this topic

Bobby Rush

Bobby Lee Rush is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving since 1993. The district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago; a minority-majority district, with its population percentage being 65% African-American, higher than any o... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capi... Explore this topic

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most ... Explore this topic

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