WASHINGTON (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton announced Tuesday that he will lead a national "Justice for Trayvon" day in 100 cities this weekend to press for federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.

Zimmerman's acquittal over the weekend in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin has touched off protests around the country. The Justice Department is investigating whether Zimmerman violated Martin's civil rights when he shot the 17-year-old during a February 2012 confrontation in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman said he fired his gun in self-defense.

"People all across the country will gather to show that we are not having a two- or three-day anger fit. This is a social movement for justice," Sharpton said as he announced the plan outside the Justice Department with several ministers.

The rallies and vigils will occur in front of federal court buildings at noon Saturday in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. Sharpton admits there are possible legal hurdles, but says "there is also a blatant civil rights question of does Trayvon Martin and the Trayvon Martins of this country have the civil right to go home."

Sharpton says vigils will be followed by a conference next week in Miami to develop a plan to address Florida's "stand-your-ground" law. The law gives people wide latitude to use deadly force if they fear death or bodily harm.

How much he stand to rake in?

Ignorance fanning the flames of hate.

All that he can. It's payday for Big Al.

Wasn't Zimmerman proven "not guilty"

People are so ignorant!

Protesters are not being arrested, police are leaving the scenes of the protests and motorists and pedestrians unprotected, people are being attacked, they are burning the American flag..... but that's justice?

Sharpton and Jackson are political pigs feeding at the trough of human suffering like a couple of gluttons!

What part of "NOT GUILTY" don't they understand? And Holder and Obozo now feeding the flames of racism and division once again to cover the scandals on their own a$$e$!

What a friggin joke! But nobody is laughing!

These people who are being mugged and murdered as "justice for Treyvon", are we going to have more national news coverage on their killers/attackers as well?

Oh, but that's justice....

Anything else after the verdict is just feeding the madness!

These idiots need to grow a brain and focus on the things that are serious issues...like arming Al Queada rebels, Benghazi, the NSA, monetary collapse, a lying administration, another pending war....

Get real!

Ain't no marches or protests going on within 1,000 miles of my home.

Maybe cuz rioteers have no idea who's packing and there is a majority of messicans here.

nope, he just wasnt proven guilty

in a criminal case the default if guilt is not proven 'beyond a reasonable doubt' its not guilty

there is no such thing as being proven not guilty,,,,,,

but there is such a thing as a civil case vs a criminal case,,,,one requiring a preponderance of evidence and another requiring a more stringent absence of a 'reasonable' doubt...

criminal activity is neither up nor down as a result of this verdict

people have the right to demonstrate in support or protest,,,just as zimmerman had the right to hunt down that boy,,,,,,

aint america grand that way?

Yeah, what fool would think that not guilty means "not guilty"?

Believe me there is a bif difference between not guilty and innocent :P

zimmerman's parents are in hiding due to receiving death threats. those crimes of terroristic threats are due to the verdict. crimes are being committed all over the country due to the verdict, so criminal activity is up as a result of the verdict, sheesh

first you said zimmerman followed that boy. then it was zimmerman profiled the boy. now it's zimmerman hunted down that boy. what's next? maybe you would have liked for zimmerman to have scalped him or taken a picture with his foot on martin's head

i served in the united states marine corps so that you could have the right to say and think those things, ain't america grand that way

You haven't bothered with reviewing the evidence, listening to the testimony, or following any of the comments made after the verdict have you?

If you had, you wouldn't embarrass yourself so badly by posting your "opinion" so blatantly as truth.

The jurors sat thru it all, saw the evidence, heard the testimony, and the verdict was decided after much deliberation of what they were presented!

1st vote was 3 not guilty, 2 manslaughter, 1 2nd degree. After reviewing the evidence for the 5th time, it was unanimously decided by all 6 jurors that there was no proof of anything but "self defense", that T HAD attacked Z, and Z's actions were justified. Innocent of ALL charges by a verdict of not guilty!

Deal with it!

none that I know of

but those who study law know that 'not guilty' doesn't mean 'innocent'

prove it,, prove crime is up as a result of this verdict, as in , there is more violence THAN USUAL since the trial,,, I call more delusion

for your convenience

follow: To come, move, or take place after another person or thing in order or time.

as in
'are you following him',,,,,'yes' 'we don't want you to do that'

profile: . a set of characteristics or qualities that identify a type or category of person or thing

as in 'these fing punks always get away'

hunt: 2. To make a search; seek.

as in,,
'I lost track of him so I drove around the other way'


yes, ,my story hasn't changed and these three points are one of few of zs that didn't either

he profiled him as a fing punk, he followed him in his car, he hunted him on foot,,,


questions?




if you served in the marines so I could have the right to say those things,, that's great,, I have a brother who continues to serve this nation in dangerous situations still today so that I can have my opinion too,,,

one which he agrees with,, yeah, sometimes AMERICNAS are great that way,, and sometimes they SUCK,,,,they are human after all

Z sucked in his actions that night and the jurors sucked in their duty to find him guilty of the manslaughter he committed,,,

to my knowledge one juror has spoken and HER OPINION was that Z was merely 'overzealous' and the other two who agreed with her were apparently persuasive enough for the others to cave in and agree,,,

even though they didn't really understand the charge of manslaughter that they could and should have been able to find him guilty of,,,

but

what has any of that to do with me being embarrassed about my opinion?

what part of them not being able to come to a decision of guilty makes any part of what I said untrue?

look msharmony, i don't know exactly what happened the night zimmerman met martin. since you have first hand information on zimmerman's thoughts and feelings, you are better off judging zimmerman. the thing i see in most of your posts is a personal attack on zimmerman. you dismiss the negative facts about martin and add at your leisure more and more negative stuff about zimmerman. i understand you have made up your mind. it just confuses me how you can post some very insightful things on the christian threads, and not even try to apply some of those things here. maybe your own experience has affected the way you see zimmerman, i don't know. godspeed, bulldog

How do you define. "Innocent until proven Guilty"?

that's what gets me - it was deemed self defense by the law at the scene and now he's been acquitted. I think it' s good the justice dept is getting involved, mostly though to end the nonsense.

this man has already been tried and unless there is a mistrial not sure what else they can really do. I mean is he caucasian or hispanic? if he's hispanic he's part of a protected group just like trayvon so the civil rights brouhaha is pointless.

if Zimmerman shot me or you, no one would be saying a word.


Would the Rev Sharpton being making noise if a white kid got shot? no? well, isn't that racism?

they don't have a right to hate rob plunder and harm others it's disgusting

sorry harmony - I know we usually agree on many things....but the antics in Cali...disgusting