Who else remembers why the Trayvon Martin Case made National News?

[Junkdrawer]

Bonus points: Name the two government officials at the center of the controversy and WHY they were controversial.

[Junkdrawer]

1. How about the Florida law that we hotly debated for weeks and weeks?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Stand your ground

One was a DA refusing to file charges, the other the Sanford PD chief who resigned.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Chief Lee was fired. DA Wolfinger OVERRODE the recommendations of detective Chris Serino...

And THAT just scratches the surface of the stink. All forgotten.

Now we debate Zimmerman's innocence. Period.

[Enrique]

3. because the parents decided to make a stink about it

and they got a lawyer that helped them force the media to cover it.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Correct. I might word a bit differently.....

the parents decided to expose the stink about it

[Life Long Dem]

4. Sanford police releasing police reports

that caused a big uproar. Something triggered people in the report.

[gopiscrap]

7. Got killed by a vigilante gun toting fuckwad

[Egalitariat]

8. Because the first news reports incorrectly identified Zimmerman as a white guy