[rain falling]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
MAN: I don't know who
George Zimmerman was before,
but now he's a scary person.
WOMAN: I need to leave.
Somebody needs to
get here quick.
I'm really scared.
ALL: [chanting]
Black lives matter!
MAN: Trayvon's death became
the Black Lives Matter movement.
WOMAN: Black lives should have
mattered throughout history,
but they have not mattered.
MAN: We're gonna speak up
and say our lives matter.
Stop k*lling us.
WOMAN: It's begging
the country to heal.
But this was just the beginning.
Another Florida teenager
sh*t to death.
MAN: Then Eric Garner happens.
MAN: Michael Brown
in Ferguson happens.
REPORTER: Chaos on the streets
of Missouri.
Sometimes people
get sick and tired.
[dramatic music]
SYBRINA: And this is one
of those times.
MAN: It was an uprising.
It felt like we were on
the precipice of revolution.
We cannot ignore
the realities of the current
state of America.
I think celebrities,
we have to use our platform.
REPORTER: Colin Kaepernick
criticized by fans
and on social media.
MAN: Black Lives Matter
activated some very angry
white racists.
Get that son of a bitch
off the field.
We're talking about the
ethnic cleansing of America.
REPORTER: 21-year-old
Dylann Roof opened fire,
k*lling nine church-goers.
DONALD: We have to be bigger--
[screaming]
Better--
[horn honking]
And stronger than ever before,
and we will make
America great again.
[screaming]
[crowd shouting]
JAHVARIS: Right after
the verdict,
I felt probably
the biggest letdown.
Shakespeare wrote,
"Et tu, Brute?"
But I had posted a tweet
saying, "Et tu, America?"
Because I trusted that
the system was going to work.
♪ ♪
And it didn't.
[crowds shouting]
LISA: I understand that
people have opinions
about whether stand-your-
ground had an effect
of the case of Trayvon.
News flash: stand-your-ground
law didn't apply.
That wasn't even a factor
in this case.
LISA: Those are opinions.
The reality is that
stand-your-ground played
a significant decisive role.
When the law changed at
the behest of Marion Hammer
and the NRA, that changed
the substantive law
of self-defense in Florida.
A person doesn't have
to assert stand-your-ground
to benefit from it because
it changed expressly
the jury instructions.
♪ ♪
The jury in George Zimmerman's
trial was instructed
about stand-your-ground.
The last set of instructions
it received before
it deliberated was that
George Zimmerman had a right
to stand his ground.
And that was one of the
last things the jury heard.
♪ ♪
After that verdict
came out in July,
one of the jurors went on CNN
and told Anderson Cooper
that they did not convict
George Zimmerman
because of, quote,
stand-your-ground.
WOMAN: He had a right to defend
himself because of the heat
of the moment
and the stand-your-ground.
In essence, the NRA had its
thumb on the scale of justice
in that jury booth.
♪ ♪
LARRY: After George Zimmerman
was acquitted,
Angela Corey gave a very
strange press conference.
There's so many people
to thank starting with
Sheriff Eslinger and his entire
Sheriff's office--
She was thanking people.
It was just very unusual.
And then she gave that
interview a day or two later
to Headline News,
and she didn't come off well.
One word to describe
the verdict.
Our system.
Disappointing.
♪ ♪
George Zimmerman.
♪ ♪
m*rder*r.
♪ ♪
Lucky.
♪ ♪
That angered a lot
of defense lawyers,
including Zimmerman's own
lawyers who felt that
was out of bounds.
Prosecutors charged him
with a crime
they could never, ever prove.
Uh, sometimes I can be
a little more blunt.
I think the prosecution
of George Zimmerman
was disgraceful.
He didn't know why he was
turned into this monster,
but quite honestly you guys
had a lot to do with it.
You just did, 'cause you took
a story that was fed to you
and you ran with it
and you ran right over him.
♪ ♪
WOMAN: Do you think
this verdict
will hurt race relations?
♪ ♪
This verdict still has nothing
to do with civil rights.
Civil rights needs to be talked
about but not in the context
of the George Zimmerman verdict.
MAN: Thank you.
Thanks.
REPORTER: Today, protestors
across the country
took to the streets, rallying
against what they believe
is a grave injustice.
OBAMA: I think it's important
to recognize that
the African-American community
is looking at this issue
through a set of experiences
and a history
that doesn't go away.
When Trayvon Martin
was first sh*t,
uh, I said that this could
have been my son.
Uh, another way of saying
that is Trayvon Martin
could have been me, uh,
♪ ♪
[crowd chanting]
OBAMA: There are very few
African-American men
in this country who haven't
had the experience of being
followed when they were shopping
in the department store.
That includes me.
PATRISSE: I think
it was important
for our country to hear
the nation's President
identify with someone who was
k*lled by a vigilante.
MYCHAL: And we looked
at Barack Obama--
first black President--
and we all just knew
there were always going to be
more Trayvon Martins than
there were Barack Obamas.
PATRISSE: After
Trayvon Martin was k*lled,
you basically are seeing
a community
at their breaking point.
[crowd chanting]
ANGELA: This was a time
when we had
to create justice for ourselves.
And I think that's what
movements do.
[chanting] Trayvon Martin!
Trayvon Martin!
PATRISSE: How does it not just
become another protest?
How do we make this thing big?
We needed a sustained movement.
We wanted to harness
that energy.
Black Lives Matter was
the demand that the world
affirm our dignity.
We started to circulate
it on social media.
I bought the domain name,
went to Twitter and Facebook
and launched the page.
It was this rallying call
that everyone could get behind
that very clearly and plainly
stated that black lives
indeed matter.
[chanting] Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
They may not matter
to George Zimmerman.
But they matter to us.
When he was acquitted,
he just jumped in his car
and took off.
He was just gone.
♪ ♪
DENNIS: I worked 30 years
for the sheriff.
I'm very familiar with the
area and how to find people.
I began searching
for Mr. Zimmerman.
Since the Trayvon incident, uh,
George has been involved
in a number of situations
where police were called.
WOMAN: 911, do you need
police, fire, or medical?
WOMAN: Hands up!
MAN: Keep coming!
♪ ♪
DENNIS: George was living with
a girlfriend.
They'd get into an argument.
George points a shotgun at her,
breaks some of her furniture.
MAN: Okay, all right,
step out this way for me.
You need help?
GEORGE: I have a bad back, so--
MAN: Need a little help?
GEORGE: No, no,
I think I'm good.
DANNY: Another girlfriend,
Brittany Brunelle,
was leaving George's residence.
A police officer pulls her over.
DANNY: They ask her
for a statement,
and she says, "Hell no."
She says, "I'm not crazy.
"That guy's gonna come k*ll my
whole family if I give you
a statement."
[dramatic music]
OPAL: Sadly after
Trayvon Martin was k*lled,
many others have come after.
WOMAN: Eric Garner
is originally confronted
for allegedly selling
loose cigarettes.
Watch your back, sir.
Please, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
Hold up, hold up, hold up.
Don't touch me, please.
Hang on.
Don't touch me.
[all talking at once]
MAN: Damn, man.
[all talking at once]
Give us your hands, buddy.
Put your hand behind your back.
REPORTER: The city medical
examiner ruled today
that the death is a homicide
caused by a police chokehold.
BENJAMIN: The chokehold
is outlawed in New York City,
but who cares about those
little policy procedures
if we can keep the status quo?
REPORTER: The police union
says Daniel Pantaleo
did nothing wrong.
He's the model of what we want
a police officer to be.
WOMAN: Eric Garner is k*lled,
and no one gets held
accountable.
Right to that expl*sive
grand jury decision--
no indictment for New York City
police officer in the death
of Eric Garner from a chokehold.
PATRISSE:
Lack of accountability
is the driving force
for us getting into the streets.
REPORTER:
Hundreds of protesters
shut down major highways
across the country.
[chanting] I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
AL: I remember when we
protested Eric Garner.
And I get a call--Michael Brown
in Ferguson happened.
An unarmed African-American
teenager was sh*t and k*lled
by police in the St. Louis
suburb of Ferguson, Missouri.
BENJAMIN: Two teenage boys
walking in the middle
of the day, broad daylight,
and the first thing
the police officer says
to them is,
"Get the **** out the street
or there's gonna be trouble."
He's running this way, he turns
his body towards this way.
Hands in the air,
being compliant.
He gets sh*t in his face and
chest and goes down and dies.
BENJAMIN: This happens again
and again.
And it's swept under the rug
again and again.
Not this time.
BENJAMIN: After
Trayvon Martin,
I'm starting to represent
a lot of young black victims
to try to establish a legacy
that their lives mattered.
SYBRINA: Sometimes people
get sick and tired
and they wanna do
something about things,
and they wanna try
to make a change
and try to make a difference.
And so this is one
of those times.
MYCHAL: Everyone reaches
a breaking point.
♪ ♪
And in Ferguson...
they had reached theirs.
[popping]
[explosions booming]
MAN: Oh, ****!
MYCHAL: Tanks, sn*pers,
tear gas.
These police looked like
an army.
The people were, like,
going to w*r.
I remember going out with
the gas mask on.
MAN: Stay down.
They're sh**ting real rounds.
♪ ♪
This was a cauldron of v*olence.
JOY-ANN: They were unleashing
militaristic terror
on civilian communities.
MAN: The Grand Jury
deliberated over two days.
They determined that no
probable cause exists to file
any charge against
Officer Wilson.
REPORTER: Mayhem on the
streets of Ferguson.
REPORTER: The National Guard
is on alert.
AL: The people that rioted
in Ferguson were the kids
that had had enough.
MYCHAL: This was a community
ready to fight back
in a very real way.
♪ ♪
There was a line from Trayvon
to the uprising in Ferguson.
ANGELA: That sense of outrage
continued to grow.
[police radio chatter]
They gonna keep k*lling us, man.
♪ ♪
They gonna keep k*lling us.
It ain't gonna never stop, man.
♪ ♪
REPORTER: Breaking news
from Cleveland tonight--
has d*ed from a g*nsh*t wound.
REPORTER: The 12-year-old
was at a recreation center
playing with his airsoft g*n
when he was sh*t
and k*lled by a police officer.
The Cleveland Police Department
sh*t that baby
and watched him die in the snow.
BENJAMIN: The family has many,
many questions
that need to be answered.
REPORTER: Outrage over this
incident stems from one
underlying worry that in the
eyes of the judicial system,
black lives don't matter.
[chanting] Hands up,
don't sh**t!
MAN: These are the things
that are happening to us
every day.
[screaming]
PATRISSE: Philando Castille's
girlfriend can't control
what's happening.
But what she can do
is make sure that
the world is watching.
I just need the world to watch.
I have control over this
medium, even though I don't
have control over
my real life right now.
m*rder*r!
[screams]
It's okay.
I'm right here with you.
Mmm.
BENJAMIN: And we all believed
that if we had video,
then that would all change
because they'll see it
with their own eyes
and they'll do something
about it.
Boy, were we naive.
Boy, were we naive.
Freddie Gray case,
Terence Crutcher,
Sandra Bland.
Alton Sterling doesn't even
get a trial.
They saw the video.
They said,
"Oh, that's horrible."
And they went back
to eating their dinner.
We cannot ignore the realities
of the current state
of America.
Trayvon Martin.
Michael Brown.
Tamir Rice.
Eric Garner.
It's time to look in the mirror
and ask ourselves,
what are we doing
to create change?
As an athlete, we have
the loudest voices.
Our message to our fellow
athletes was,
"What are we gonna do?"
It's time for us to do
something about it.
Colin sacrificed himself
for what he believed in.
REPORTER: Colin Kaepernick
has been blasted by fans
and on social media,
claiming he's disgracing
the flag and the m*llitary.
You know, this country stands
for freedom, liberty,
justice for all.
And it's not happening
for all right now.
PATRISSE: This is not new,
but what is new
is more awareness.
And this new awareness
challenges white people.
MICHAEL: It's very difficult
for white people to talk
about racism because we have
been brainwashed to be r*cist.
And we don't want
to accept that.
And we think we're not r*cist.
JEFF: Whites in America can
feel so tired of hearing
about this.
And the question is,
if you're that tired
of hearing about it,
how tired do you think you'd be
of living with it?
PATRISSE: So many white people
are questioning this country
in a way that they
hadn't had to.
But on the other hand,
Black Lives Matter challenges
white people's bubbles.
You know, my daughter was
watching that one night.
She's 12 years old.
She said, "Mommy, does that
mean my life doesn't matter?"
I mean, it's crazy.
PATRISSE: There
is this real fear.
I can say I believe
in world peace.
And I can get
"You are part of a t*rror1st
organization."
I just said I believe
in world peace.
So it doesn't actually
matter what I say.
It's what I look like.
This is a movement that, uh,
promotes the execution
of police officers.
PATRISSE: On the one hand,
it's laughable.
On the other hand,
it's frightening
because people actually
believe it.
It really becomes a political
sticking point.
Black lives matter.
White lives matter.
All lives matter.
Why do black lives matter
and not all lives matter?
Why can't it also be about me?
TRACY: Not all lives is
getting choked out for selling
a pack of cigarettes
on the street.
Not all lives matter
that you're 12 years old
and you're on the playground
with a toy g*n
and you get sh*t.
OPAL: We're actually demanding
that all lives matter
by asserting that black
lives must matter.
DONALD: I was watching the
head of Black Lives Matter
being interviewed
the other night,
and I said to myself,
"Give me a break."
All lives matter.
♪ ♪
MARC: You have white people
who are offended by the idea
of people saying black
lives matter.
GEORGE: Whites are afraid to
confront their own whiteness,
because if they're
gonna do that,
then they have to admit that
they're oppressors.
GEORGE: So then some of those
white people say
white lives matter.
HEIDI: White Lives Matter
engendered this backlash
among white people.
It's the idea that black folks
should never
assert their rights.
How dare they?
And Black Lives Matter
activated some very angry
white racists.
♪ ♪
REPORTER: Breaking news out
of Charleston,
South Carolina, tonight,
where there was
a tragic sh**ting
inside of a church.
Nine people have been k*lled.
REPORTER: 21-year-old
Dylann Roof has been caught.
HEIDI: And when he typed in
information about Trayvon,
he landed on the Council of
Conservative Citizens website
that said that black people
were slaughtering white people
in the streets and something
had to be done.
These are all basically lies
about the black community.
HEIDI: Donald Tr*mp went down
that escalator
and announced he was running
for President
one day before Dylann Roof's
sh**ting rampage happened.
And those same white
supremacists that trained up
Dylann Roof served as a pretty
large support base
for Donald Tr*mp.
Tr*mp during the campaign
tweeted out fake
black-on-white
hate-crime statistics--
the same propaganda that
motivated Dylann Roof.
I am officially running...
[cheers and applause]
For President
of the United States.
The American Dream is dead.
[somber music]
MAN: You know,
since the verdict was read,
there's this black cloud
that looms over
Sanford Police Department.
We've lost officers because
they couldn't keep up
with the stressors of the job.
Either they left,
or they're dead.
I've had three strokes,
which led to my retirement.
I suffered a heart att*ck.
I decided to resign.
I left the department about two
years ago in July of 2015.
I remember somebody called me
and said,
"Hey, I've been speaking
to Serino."
He's like, "Man,
I'm telling you, he's bad."
MAN: After the Trayvon Martin
case,
Chris was just different.
J: I heard that he was
having back surgery.
That's the one I always hear
people taking
hard-core opiates for.
The conditions were perfect
to pick up an addiction.
ANTHONY: Word trickled out
that we were responding
to his residence.
Just tough.
♪ ♪
MAN: And that was
on the day he d*ed.
MAN:
This case k*lled Chris Serino.
There's no doubt about it.
♪ ♪
MARC: The Trayvon Martin case
had local backlash.
But what I thought was
interesting was that there was
also a political backlash in
the 2016 presidential election
which we didn't foresee.
Florida's the largest swing
state in the country.
But we're the crazy person
at the party.
[warning bells ringing]
In Florida,
Trayvon Martin's case
inalterably changed
our politics.
These very kind of raw racial
issues came to the fore,
and that didn't benefit
the Democratic party
apparently as much
as it did Donald Tr*mp.
REPORTER: I want to turn
right now, though,
to the Tr*mp campaign.
He is in Sanford, Florida.
That is where Donald Tr*mp
is gonna take the stage
any moment...
MARC: In Florida, the white
turnout for Tr*mp
in certain counties
was unexpectedly large.
You watch.
You watch.
[cheers and applause]
MARC: We didn't expect him
to run up the score
the way he did.
But in hindsight,
it might not surprise us
so much that he did.
ANDY: You know,
Donald Tr*mp isn't part
of the establishment
in this country.
I think that he's willing
to stand up and say something
to get a conversation started
about what's actually happening
in this country.
REPORTER: Florida
g*n Supply is being sued
after the owner
declared his store
was a Muslim-free zone.
ANDY: And somebody came
to the back room and said,
"Andy, George Zimmerman
is on the phone."
And I said, "No way."
And I was honored that I would
receive a phone call, uh,
from George Zimmerman.
His initial introduction
is that of meek,
mild, humble, quiet.
The more you meet with him,
the more that charade
wears off.
He said, "Andy, I was just
doing this painting.
The Confederate Flag."
He said, "What I wanna do is
I wanna sell a limited number
"of these prints all signed
by me and we will give a lot
of the money to charity,
and we'll split the rest."
He's doing all this good stuff
and we're gonna donate
some money to charity.
I'm in.
I completely understand
that people think
the Confederate flag
to be a r*cist symbol,
but the vast majority
of people believe that it's
a symbol of heritage.
It's a symbol of our history
that people think is associated
with the South
and the South was fighting
for sl*very.
That's a common misconception
about what actually took place.
When you study the history,
that was one thing
that the w*r was about.
People don't go to w*r
for one issue.
Uh, I mean, I'm not a historian.
I--I mean, you're putting me
on the spot for something I--
You know...
Um--Um--The Confederate--
The, um...
In general,
the w*r was about tyranny.
Tyranny is any time
a government overreaches
and they control
a life too much.
♪ ♪
JEFF: What if we went back
to the guy who made
the Confederate flag,
William Thompson?
What he said is,
"The flag is a representative
"of the superiority
of the white race
over the inferior
colored race."
When you say, "No, it wasn't
about sl*very.
It was about states' rights,"
that's true.
But the states' rights that
they were defending
were the rights to own people.
♪ ♪
ANDY: When you're sitting
in conversation with George
and you refer to black people,
it's not black people
or the African-Americans
or, you know,
a different community.
It's monkeys.
And he literally
says those words.
"Oh, they're monkeys.
Oh, another monkey."
And one of the big party
tricks that George would do
is he would always have
a few bags of Skittles
in his pocket so that when
somebody mentioned something,
you know, like, "Hey, good job,"
George's response would be
take a bag of Skittles,
sign it, and hand it out.
♪ ♪
JOY-ANN: George Zimmerman goes
on to sort of exploit it
and turn this k*lling into
a perverse kind of fame.
He winds up auctioning
off the g*n
that k*lled Trayvon Martin.
REPORTER: And despite
a torrent of criticism
and one website removing
his auction,
NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports
Zimmerman is not backing down.
It's, I think, uncomfortable
to most people that George
is autographing g*ns,
autographing bags of Skittles.
He makes racial statements
to people.
I've heard 'em.
They're recorded.
The bar owner says--tells
the cops,
"Look, he comes in here
all the time.
"He's always got a g*n on,
always stirs up stuff.
I just want him gone."
According to another event,
a scuffle ensues,
the police come.
They stop this guy
down the road.
SYBRINA: Right now we rely on
a lot of politicians
to change laws,
and sometimes you have to be
a part of those changes.
Do you affirm the testimony
you're about to give
before the committee will be
the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
MAN: I do. Thank you.
SYBRINA: I remember going
and speaking in Congress
about stand-your-ground.
Our first witness
is Sybrina Fulton.
Ms. Fulton is the mother
of Trayvon Martin.
I just wanted to let you know
how important it is that we
amend this stand-your-ground.
None of us in this hearing room
were there that night.
We also know that
stand-your-ground was not
a defense that
Mr. Zimmerman raised.
MAN: It wasn't like
they were really ever
gonna consider anything.
LISA: Because
of the Republican Congress
funded by the NRA,
these stand-your-ground laws
were not repealed.
SYBRINA: Of course I was
very disappointed,
but I realized
that you can't give up.
You gotta continue this fight.
We had our time to grieve,
but it was time for us
to help somebody else.
And so we started
establishing programs.
Even though
I was hurting, myself,
on the inside, I felt obligated
to help other mothers.
The primary mission
of the Circle of Mothers
was to heal mothers,
was to help mothers,
to bring mothers
in the same room
so we can connect together,
so we can bond together.
Tracy handled the fathers,
'cause I think
that's his specialty.
TRACY: We're here
for the community.
The community
has been here for us.
Thank you all.
Enjoy the rest of the evening.
We gonna continue to be
the voice for the voiceless.
SYBRINA: Eventually, we were
invited by President Obama
to the White House.
It was an honor to meet
the first black president.
They were just bigger than life.
The initiative,
My Brother's Keeper,
came about
because of Trayvon Martin.
♪ ♪
In January of 2016,
Hillary contacted me to find out
if I would work
with her campaign.
That's where the mothers
of the movement came about.
We might be the seven
that are sitting here,
but it's so much bigger than us.
It's something that has been
placed inside us
that says you can't help your
son or daughters,
but you certainly can help
other children.
It felt natural,
and we campaigned for her
up until the election
and actually we were there
on Election Day in New York
at the Convention Center.
We were just so excited.
Once some of the results
started coming in,
it was very quiet.
It was very sad.
We didn't say anything.
When we thought that we had
came so much further,
we had not.
Hail Tr*mp, hail our people,
hail victory!
[cheers and applause]
SYBRINA: We have
a long way to go.
[cheers and applause]
My name is Sybrina Fulton.
My son who's in Heaven
was Trayvon Martin.
The Women's March was awesome.
It was refreshing to see
so many women standing up
for the same cause.
It was an honor to speak.
We will continue to stand tall.
Women's rights are human rights.
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
Donald Tr*mp has divided this
country so much.
We're more divided
than we have ever been.
A lot of people didn't even
know that that much hatred--
that much racism--was still
going on in this country.
So maybe it opened
some people's eyes.
JEFF: Donald Tr*mp represents
what we saw in action
in the Trayvon Martin case.
It's just that he's bringing it
out of the closet
and putting it right
in the fresh air
where everybody
can take a look at it.
[dark music]
HEIDI: There was a recent
"Washington Post"
ABC News poll that said
that 9% of people thought
it was okay to have
white supremacist
or Neo-n*zi beliefs.
If you expand that out
to the U.S. population,
that's 30 million people.
♪ ♪
[crowd barking in unison]
[shouting]
[chanting] Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
[overlapping chatter, commotion]
MAN: Sir, can I ask you which
group you're with?
America!
sh**t!
HEIDI: About half of the
organizations that were at
the Charlottesville protests...
[air horn honking]
Were groups that
were new from the Tr*mp era.
And that's sort of astounding.
Daily Stormer went from
one chapter to 30 chapters
during Tr*mp's run.
Groups like Identity Evropa,
Vanguard America--
these organizations,
they did not exist
until Donald Tr*mp
ran for office.
And many of them are
the millennial types
that earned their stripes
in the period
when Trayvon Martin's
sh**ting happened.
REPORTER: When did you get
into, as you said,
the racial stuff?
When the Trayvon Martin
case happened,
every single case it's some
little black assh*le
behaving like a savage and he
gets himself in trouble,
shockingly enough.
We're talking about the ethnic
cleansing of America.
At some point, we will have
enough power that we will
clear them from
the streets forever.
That which is degenerate
in white countries
will be removed.
[dark music]
[screaming]
WOMAN: Oh, my God!
[dark music]
♪ ♪
MAN: Medic!
[shouting]
And now we got bodies
to the ground.
[screaming]
[heavy music]
♪ ♪
DENNIS: After researching
George for a couple months,
I was alerted by the producer
of the show that George
was sending threats to him
via his text and his emails.
♪ ♪
And then George started
sending them to him
about me and my family,
saying that, uh,
he's gonna slam
my face into a wall
and he's coming to my house.
You might wanna let
Mrs. Warren know.
♪ ♪
And then two or three days
later, I started getting them
via text, via email,
and via my voice mail.
The voice mails that he leaves
are interesting.
They're cryptic.
He doesn't talk
on them specifically.
There's several where you hear--
it's like a xylophone
being played.
[melodic noises]
And it's slow at first,
then it starts going faster
and faster and faster and
faster and faster and faster,
and then it--call cuts off.
REPORTER: Tonight
George Zimmerman is back
in the news,
now charged with stalking.
REPORTER: Zimmerman
made alleged threats
to Dennis Warren,
a former member
of Florida law enforcement,
saying, "I know how to
handle people who F with me.
I have since February
of 2012."
Zimmerman is accused
of harassing
a private investigator who was
helping the producer
of a Trayvon Martin documentary.
REPORTER: He also allegedly
threatened
to feed the investigator
to an alligator.
REPORTER: Today in court,
Warren asked Judge Jerri Collins
for a restraining order
against Zimmerman.
All right? MAN: Thank you, Your Honor.
Thank you.
[heavy music]
DENNIS: Who knows what
he'll do next?
This man is a scary man
to be walking around drinking,
carrying a g*n on his side,
and wearing a bulletproof vest.
And, uh, that's just
common sense.
LISA: It's gotta be scary
to live in Florida.
[sirens wailing]
Just look at Parkland.
GIRL: To every politician
who is taking donations
from the NRA, shame on you.
[cheers and applause]
LISA: Those kids have really
articulated the core
moral issues.
[chanting] I will vote!
I will vote!
LISA: It's tremendous
seeing some hope
and some resistance to the NRA.
[chanting]
But even with this change,
no one yet is going to undo
these stand-your-ground laws.
♪ ♪
[chanting continues
in background]
WOMAN: You have
a right to vote,
and you can't just wait
until there's a big election
to get involved.
You have to get involved
in local elections.
You have to get
involved in state elections.
MAN: Because the NRA's power's
totally unchecked.
And the deck is just
repeatedly stacked in favor
of g*n owners like
George Zimmerman
and not an innocent black
teenager like Trayvon Martin.
PATRISSE: When you have
a network that's primary role
is to rally for the dead,
to rally for the grieving,
and to know that it's not gonna
end anytime soon,
it's pretty tragic.
REPORTER: Protestors flooded
the streets following
the death of Stephon Clark.
BENJAMIN: I continue to fight
all across America
to expose the legalized
genocide of colored people.
The solution is not gonna
happen in the courts.
The solution
is gonna happen in society.
♪ ♪
Trayvon serves as a beacon--
a light to all the people
out here so you guys'll never
have to go through the pain
and the hurt that these
guys went through.
TRACY: You can't
prepare yourself
for the loss of a child.
It's been six years,
but I smile every day
because I know God got him.
I know God got him.
[applause]
SYBRINA: This is about us
fighting for your children.
This is about you fighting
for your children.
'Cause I can stand before you
today and I can take off
a lot of things.
I can take off my earrings.
My pants.
My shoes.
My shirt.
But I cannot remove
the color of my skin.
The people are going to unite,
because we're all humans
and we have to live
in this world together.
♪ ♪
MYCHAL: Every single day
there's young black people
that we pass on the street
and we don't wonder about them.
Sometimes we don't
even see them.
They are invisible to us
until someone kills them.
Then suddenly we are all
invested in them.
We all want justice for them.
And the question is,
do we want justice for them
while they're living?
[somber, heavy music]
♪ ♪
SYBRINA: Every day I carry
a little piece
of my son with me.
♪ ♪
How people can just take a life
and just don't care
about how many people it affects
and about who he was...
♪ ♪
TRACY: I believe in God.
I believe in the Bible.
But I haven't found it
in my heart to even think
about forgiving.
If I have to go to my grave
being an imperfect soul,
I think I'll go to my grave
being an imperfect soul.
[heavy, somber music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Rest in power,
rest in paradise ♪
♪ If I could change matters,
I would spare a life ♪
♪ 'Cause lives matter ♪
♪ There's clearly nothing
as dear as life ♪
♪ You have become a symbol
in the spirit life ♪
♪ In America,
one tradition that lasts ♪
♪ Is black blood woven
into the fibers of the flag ♪
♪ Not addressing the problems
of the past ♪
♪ To nowhere fast,
but following the path ♪
♪ So-called "leaders"
on hire for the Klan ♪
♪ Still rapin' and settin'
fire to the land ♪
♪ Well, that's the climate,
how can I become a man ♪
♪ If survival is a triumph
and we got the underhand?
♪ Listen ♪
♪ One k*ller, one child,
one w*apon ♪
♪ The sh**t
was unthreatened, 71 seconds ♪
♪ So many
unanswered questions ♪
♪ I see reflections
of myself ♪
♪ I feel like in fatherhood,
we are connected ♪
♪ ♪
01x06 - Et Tu, America?
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Focuses on the k*lling of Trayvon Martin that became a huge American talking point and helped spur the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
Focuses on the k*lling of Trayvon Martin that became a huge American talking point and helped spur the "Black Lives Matter" movement.