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George Zimmerman Prosecution Petition Overwhelms NAACP Website
A NAACP petition calling for a federal prosecution of George Zimmerman collected 225,000 signatures in the hours after he was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, but the effort was temporarily cut short when the site crashed under the heavy traffic.
The rush to add to the petition — which had more than 350,000 signatures by noon today — was matched by the outpouring of anger on social media.
Protests, which police had feared could turn violent, were muted, but the rhetoric was impassioned and often framed around the issue of race. Zimmerman, 29, is a white Hispanic and Martin, 17, was black.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a statement that put the onus on gun laws.
“Sadly, all the facts in this tragic case will probably never be known. But one fact has long been crystal clear: ‘shoot first’ laws like those in Florida can inspire dangerous vigilantism and protect those who act recklessly with guns,” Bloomberg said. “Such laws – drafted by gun lobby extremists in Washington – encourage deadly confrontations by enabling people to shoot first and argue ‘justifiable homicide’ later.”
http://gma.yahoo.com/george-zimmerman-pr…ories.html
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-george-zimmerman-prosecution-petition-overwhelms-naacp-website
