How Did George Zimmerman Trial Affect Society

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George Zimmerman Trial had an effect on American society and social norms because race, culture, and behavior toward social media. Everything started when Trayvon (17 year old boy) was walking around and George Zimmerman was watching him walking around the neighborhood. During that moment it was a George nightmare because he had killed Trayvon Martin for trying to protect himself from him. Now the family and other people are protesting, saying “ Justice For Trayvon”, but later on George Zimmerman was not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. What can I tell you about George Zimmerman? Here’s the thing, people are accusing him for killing Martin. Before I start talking about how he has been being accused, I want to give you some background …show more content…

Martin got suspended for fighting too much with other students. Police arrest him because they found drugs in his book bag. It turns out all the information about Martin’s past, mostly involve him guilty because he was a good kid, he had lots of problems during his time. His parents keeping on saying that he is a good kid, but sometimes he was just stressful. Before everything started unsuspected, the fight, Travyon was talking to a friend name Rachel Jeantel. Trayvon was saying to Rachel that some man was watching him and was being followed. Jeantel was asking him to describe how the person looks like, but it was too late. She could hear him suffering from hearing punching noise, the wet noise she mentions about. She could even hear a noise from Zimmerman’s voice, but after that the phone shut off and could hear anything. (ALECexposed, 6) Back to Zimmerman story before everything had started. It turns out that he was with his neighbors. Then some how one of the neighborhoods was saying that they kept on seeing a man walking around the neighborhood. The man was wearing all black and was looking at peoples’ houses trying to look for something. So, Zimmerman started following Martin to see where he was going and calls the police to report a suspicions person. That when Martin was talking to Jeantel on his cell phone. Martin starts running that Zimmerman got over his car to …show more content…

Zimmerman killed Trayvon for a reason, turns out that Trayvon was attacking him and wanted to kill him with a gun. During the fight Trayvon grabbed him by the neck by pushing him towards the ground. During that moment George reacted fast that he was able to grab that gun that he suddenly shot Trayvon right in the heart. He was freaky out because he realizes that he had killed a boy and wasn’t expecting it. Zimmerman calls the police telling the police what had happened. The Police come and notice that there was a body on the floor (Martin) and see Zimmerman. Police question Zimmerman for about 5 hours, and they contact the family. The Police arrest Zimmerman for murder. Right always the parents find out what had happened and right away accused Zimmerman for the murder of their son. Before the parents found out Martin’s father was going to file a missing person the next day. Police and FBI go over the case of George Zimmerman. Police and FBI question the neighborhood, but everyone said that they didn’t see anything, but expect one person said that they saw what happened in part of the time. Jonathan Good could hear someone saying help from outside his house and when he goes got he see a dark sweatshirt person on top of a light color shirt or sweatshirt. Good goes running, towards his phone and calls 911, but during the moment he hear a gunshot. The only one that heard everything during the beginning of

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