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Trayvon Martin’s Mother: Use My Son’s Death to Challenge Racial Profiling, Gun Laws

HeadlineJul 29, 2013

The mother of Trayvon Martin is urging supporters to use her son’s death in the campaign against racial profiling and lax gun laws. Sybrina Fulton spoke out Friday before the National Urban League in Philadelphia.

Sybrina Fulton: “My message to you is: Please use my story, please use my tragedy, please use my broken heart to say to yourself, we cannot let this happen to anybody else’s child.”

Fulton’s speech came two days after the lone person of color on the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman came forward to say she believes Zimmerman “got away with murder.”

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