My Feelings About the Trayvon Martin Case

          I just read the article "The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin" by Charles M. Blow. The article was about the Trayvon Martin case and how a lot of it was based on race. I think the whole case was very unfair because an innocent boy got shot for no reason, and the killer got off scot-free when all the evidence was against him.
          According to the article, Trayvon Martin was just walking to 7-Eleven to get Skittles and an iced-tea, when he caught George Zimmerman's eye. They got into a fight and Zimmerman shot Trayvon. Trayvon wasn't doing anything wrong and didn't deserve to get killed. The article states that "Zimmerman called the police because the boy looked 'real suspicious' (Blow)," but he was just walking home from 7-Eleven, causing no one harm. Zimmerman killed an innocent boy for no reason at all. This is really unfair because Trayvon didn't deserve to be killed.

           The killer, Zimmerman, didn't get punished for killing Trayvon. There was yelling, and three witnesses said they heard "the desperate wail of a child, a gunshot, and then silence  (Blow)." According to the article, "Zimmerman said he was the one yelling for help. He said that he acted in self-defense (Blow)," when other people said that Trayvon was the one yelling. Many people believe that Zimmerman is guilty, but he got off the hook with no punishment, which is very unfair. I think that even if Zimmerman was acting on self-defense, that gives you no reason to shoot the kid, because you could probably hold him down without killing him. Those are my reasons for why the case was unfair.

          Before I read this article, I knew about the Trayvon Martin case but didn't know all the details. After reading this article, I realized why everyone was talking about it and I realized how unfair it was, which is why I chose to write about that unfairness. Trayvon was innocent and the person who murdered him was not punished in any way,  which is not right.