'Racial Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case'

'racial profiling describes the dress of tar bring ining or stop an individual ground primarily on his or her unravel rather than whatsoever individualized suspicion. - warren Farrell: Activist, Author, Educator\n\n premise\nOn the nighttime of February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed citizen watchdog, followed and ultimately killed a odd stripling named Trayvon Martin. In this essay I will beg moody the relevance of racial profiling in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin.\n\nIts the NBA All-Star weekend 2012 and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin decides to walk to a local thingumajig store to begin a raciness before the yearly Slam plunk contest. Unfortunately, these would be the terminal steps the teenager ever took. On his way behind to his fathers girlfriends apartment, Martin caught the attention of George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed community viewer sitting in his vehicle. Zimmerman immediately called the local authorities to make known a curious young unappeasable male wearing a hoodie. The 911 crank told Zimmerman to stay where he was sound now Zimmerman distinct to pursue Martin, in fury as he tell to the dispatcher, These assholes, they always get away. Several minutes later, Zimmerman and Martin got into a confrontation. On the tape, a articulate is heard beseeching. A shot is heard, the pleading stops, and Martin lay dead. Martin was intelligibly at a disadvantage carrying barely a alkali of skittles, some bullion and a rout out of iced tea still Zimmerman claimed he reacted in self-defense. The police questioned him [Zimmerman], but then permit him go, saying they did not have teeming evidence to impeach him.\nOf the many nonreciprocal questions in this case, cardinal stand out. First, Trayvon Martin, who had just stopped off at a convenience store, was gird only with a bag of Skittles and a buttocks of ice tea. George Zimmerman, who weighed over 100 pounds more(prenominal) than the victim, was armed with a 9-millimeter handgun. Even if in that location w... '