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Patrick Mulchay, center, joins other congregants in song during a service at Middle Collegiate Church in New York on March 25.
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Rev. Raphael Warnock wears a hoodie during his morning sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on March 25.
Worshipers in cities nationwide were wearing hoodies to services Sunday to honor Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death last month by a neighborhood watch volunteer.
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and Middle Collegiate Church in New York were among the churches that honored the teen Sunday.
"I will also preach in a hoodie. We are doing this not for show, but to send a message that all humanity is sacred." the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock said in a statement posted on Ebenezer Baptist Church's website.
--Msnbc.com wire services contributed to this blog post.
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A man wears a hoodie before the start of a service at Middle Collegiate Church in New York.
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Congregants arrive at Middle Collegiate Church in New York on March 25.
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Sad.These people are losers.
Zimmerman upheld the law.
Martin attacked him and he shot in self-defense.
You aqre an ass. He upheld nothing but himself! He was told to leave the youn man alone and he didn't.....for that and lying I hope he rots in hell.....
It is those that are crying racism who are keeping it alive in this country, they feed off it, they feed off the dead, they feed off the chaos they create in the name of civil rights. When they take a tragedy like the Trayvon/Zimmerman case and get the whole country stirred up over the one issue of race it only feeds them and does nothing to bring any real change or hope to the issue.
They had to lie to get the attention of the public and then continue to lie to to keep it going, they used his parents grief and natural desire for justice to turn this into an EVENT so they could get rich off of it. The family's lawyer and the "civil rights leaders" lied about the material facts of the case even after it was shown to be false. Zimmerman's race, Trayvon's appearance and size, who was calling out for help on the 911 tapes, who was the on top of who, who was assaulting who and so on, even after being repeatedly proven wrong they continue to try and spin the facts to create this spirit of anger.
This is nothing short of a political stunt by the liberal left to try and bring some support to Obama, the problem is it is a very fine line they are riding, if they aren't careful they could inflame their new base the Hispanics, which is why they continue to try and make this a white/black thing for fear of upsetting them.
Zimmerman is innocent, he was acting in self defense, and nothing short of a video of the event will ever prove otherwise.
I think people are stirred up because an innocent person has been killed. I don't think they need aything but the truth to get them stirred up.
Just like the innocent unarmed white collage student shot by 3 armed racist black men in Mississippi.
Sure ! Should it matter what color their skin is?
Your right it shouldn't matter, I'm hoping that more people will get as fed up about the so called race issue and start to realize that those pushing the race issue in this case do not care about racial equality, they only care about what they can make or gain from creating an issue where there was none.
I see this as a kid being killed, who should not have been killed. I see where Zimmerman was not supposed to pursue Martin. And Martin was not who Zimmerman thought. This should never happen. We should do better than this.
These people haven't got the good sense to allow the emotional tensions to quell, rather they churn the pot of anger and race related hatred and suspicion. This young mans death is tragic, without question. But I also have to wonder why this young man, Zimmerman, felt the need to shoot; I seriously doubt that he did so without provocation and I am also sure it had absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH A DAMN HOODIE. Be aware people that people both white and black will take up this cause for reasons other than a peaceful resolution. The best example is the disgusting exploitation of a tragic event by our esteemed President Obama. His statements regarding "if I had a son he would look like" is probably the most shameful political exploitation of a families tragedy I have EVER heard in my entire life. I was shocked the first time I read the quote and I am still shocked by the blatant distasteful un-Presidential behavior by this Non-Presidential clown.
Wrong, Daniel Calc,
Catholic monks wear hoodies every day. That's why the church is so persecuted. ;)
Let's see if I got this right. In America, if my son wears a hoody and buys candy, my neighbor has a right to shoot him.
Nice to see what the colonized minds were doing in church when not drooling.
Go read up on the Knoxville Horror case & see just what liars & savages these people are. And just how did Zimmerman get a broken nose & a gash to the back of his head???????? Blacks are out to hang this man with no real proof of what took place. Blacks will believe their own in a mob mentality before they will ever believe anyone outside their own race.
As tho' it's just blacks who are enraged with this? I don't think so. It doesn't matter what color .. People should not be able to just kill for no reason!! And the hoodie should not have had a thing to do with it...that's profiling! :( Ban the bullet!! Too many shootings lately. THIS GUY SHOULD BE IN JAIL!
Because this crime was given a free pass by everyone, in authority from the non-arresting officers on up, by the authority of state officials and on up and by approving lawyers, even in many states. The evidence avoided is just about as destroyed as it can get, degenerated into hearsay, unacceptable to any judge who has any respect for the law. We have reached the fourth or fifth level of hearsay, excessive time, to allow innumerable false claims. A judge could easily rule that because there no evidence a crime has been committed that no one can be held accountable. There are two things (I, II), to done here that reach far beyond the emotion of personal or of respectful loss, what needs to done here is a hard thing to swallow.
I. The lawyers who created this law and the idiotic ideological group that sponsored this legislation, the legislators who pass this law, the governors who sign this into law. All should be deeply embarrassed to create a law here the rights of murder victim can be superseded by an easily falsified claim of self-defense. This possibility ipso facto of this law preempts by superficial application all the centuries of laws against murder, all the rights of due process and rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law, or even to be treated at all under the law. This single case, easily foreseen, easily fabricated, easily reassigned after the fact, full open to evidence tampering, and fully exposed to harmful disruption of civil order. This is prima fascia reason enough to have all lawyers remove from office for malpractice of law, of legislative and of executive governance. The public can be patient while these laws are changed, but these laws should be changed or repealed, but the public nationally cannot wait too long, and that public should take whatever action it needs when it concluded that the legal system is a fault, or by the actions of lawyers denied justice. The rights of all need protection, not just enhanced rights of the few who can exempt themselves.
II. The public has by its actions, and reactions and it inactions is completely complicit in the accepting this law, or allowing subsidy of supporting groups who created this law, and for electing, believing and reelecting to legislative branches officials who do not understand law period. The public by not educating itself for (it own) pubic protection, for delegating legal efforts in law to self-serving lawyers, for the public’s habitual neglect of laws and civil matters and by delegating representation so distantly, so irresponsibly and so uninvolved in matter of governance so as to attract attention to legal predators, opportunist, scam artists, and fabricator and rafter and pew shaking rhetoric.
The legal profession and the general public are so charged. These are in the category of indictments, this TM v. GZ case is a representation of this indictment. The ALEC and NRA sources’ sponsoring this law does not represent the legal system, because they are a one part of the public, and they are not held accountable but reward themselves by exempting themselves. If every murder case under this law were given the same exemption, we would have no laws, no government and no civilization, every person met or done business with could be claimed as threatening, with lunatic frequency, with suspended lateral frontal impairment, and done away with. In fact the police would not need to even arrive to a reported murder, the murder could leave a note saying sorry for the body, catch you later. Since there are no step to be made from this law and anarchy as they both mean the same thing. Life liberty gone, death is not happiness, rights to assemble peaceably impossible, right for arms as if you had a choice, due process exempted by violence, trial by jury full of holes, judicial hearing behind bullet proof glass, property rights at the point gun, and the right to deny everything with convincing prejudice. There is now just one law between American thirty two years off course, and the last chance for the country Tis to be.
why while protesting a law broken against a innocent victim we break another higher law that says to men dont cover your head while praying. This is the same in society while we stand for righteousness/social evils/mis deeds, we do it the unrighteous/violent /revengeful way.
We can only overcome evil with good.
Not by revenging the 3000 dead in the 'staged' sept 11 incident by killing/raping/torturing/wounding/devastating the land and displacing millions of people in Iraq, Pakistan, Afganistan and Libya. Is this morally right? Is this the character of a nation "built on the Godly foundations"???
I REALLY love it when I see people who are trying to come to the aid of George Zimmerman, EVEN THOUGH he was ordered-ORDERED, mind you-to NOT PURSUE Trayvon Martin by the 911 Operator. This man STALKED this kid, and if the "Stand Your Ground" Law WERE to be applied, it would be in Trayvon's favor DUE mainly in part of Zimmerman's actions and failure to OBEY the LAWFUL ORDERS given to him, to say NOTHING about showing up ARMED!!!!
This entire fiasco that has followed this horrible situation is seriously being blown out of proportion. I still believe that Trayvon Martin was "Standing His Ground" when he decked Zimmerman in the face. Zimmerman clearly followed this young man after the 911 operator told him NOT TO PURSUE him. Just as the handbook that pertains to being a neighborhood watchmen states that one should not try to pursue or apprehend a suspect.
Zimmerman had NO RIGHT to harass this child. And just because this child got the best of a grown man who didn't know how to mind his own business, does not constitute his killing. If a stranger were following me in their vehicle and then got out of said vehicle to confront me, I'm pretty sure I would be fighting until my last breath to make sure the s.o.b. did not hurt or kidnap me.
Not one knows what was going through this child's mind when he encountered Zimmerman. "Stranger Danger" comes to mind, and all the sick bastards out here that are molesting/kidnapping children/teenagers. Trayvon had every right to defend himself from this lunatic.
To all those that are coming to Zimmerman's defense; Put yourself in Trayvon Martin's place.
To all those that are saying that this is just another excuse for "black people" to riot, etc.; Look at the number of people who are not African American who are just as outraged by this event as "blacks." FYI: I'm brown and I am Trayvon Martin.