Trayvon Martin: Protesters leave Sanford police department

[EFerrari]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

By Rene Stutzman and Bianca Prieto, Orlando Sentinel

3:15 p.m. EDT, April 9, 2012

The Trayvon Martin protesters who forced the temporary shutdown of the Sanford Police Department reached an agreement with city officials to hold a community forum — ending today's five-hour demonstration.

Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte, Jr. agreed on an April 19 public forum to discuss concerns regarding the police investigation into the shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon and his killer, George Zimmerman.

The demonstrators who were blocking access to the Police Department moved away from the doors after Bonaparte, protest leaders, and acting Police Chief Darren Scott reached the agreement.

Officials said the Police Department will open at 3:30 p.m.

Today's Police Department shutdown was the first result of the Dream Defenders' act of non-violent civil disobedience. The Dream Defenders are a coalition of college students from across Florida who have marched and protested against the handling of the case by police

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-trayvon-martin-civil-disobedience-20120409,0,2396968.story

[d06204]

1. As long as it is peaceful...

...much respect!!

[independentpiney]

3. Why would it not be peaceful? They call for a return to the student non-violent civil disobedience

that played an imortant role in the 1960's civil rights movement

April 4th: DREAM BOOTCAMP: On the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated we will honor his legacy and learn from those who came before us by calling for teach-ins on Trayvon Martin, race, and non-violent civil disobediance.

April 6th: MARCH FOR THE DREAM: We will meet in Daytona, Fl, and like those students who helped lead the march from Selma to Montgomery we will march 3 days from Daytona, FL to Sanford, FL as we demand justice for Trayvon and an end to the Jim Crow system still alive in Florida.

April 9th: DEFEND THE DREAM: We will converge on Sanford, FL and engage in a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience. We encourage those who cannot make it to Sanford, to walk out, strike, sit-in and let those in power know that the people have risen to break apart the chains that have held down so many of us for so long.

The American Spring is upon us. With the Civil Rights movement as our compass, we must use every tool in our arsenal to destroy the “good old boy” institutions that perpetuate the destruction of our communities. Throughout history, young people have always been the agents of change. Our day is here. We must defend the dream, or it will die.

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2. I salute the protesters. The city should have taken the initiative to schedule this much sooner.

[Igel]

4. "Bianca Prieto."

Is that her real name?