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Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Suspicion Nation The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It Author:Lisa Bloom On the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend?s home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. The public clamored for George Zimmerman to be arrested for the killing of Trayvon Martin. The July 2013 murder trial murder captivated the na... more »tion, as did Zimmerman's shocking acquittal.
In Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin?s death and made George Zimmerman?s acquittal by far the most likely outcome. A trial lawyer herself, Bloom details how the “winnable case was lost? through new in-depth interviews of key trial participants. The only nonwhite juror tells her story of loneliness and isolation during the trial. Rachel Jeantel, the state's star witness, reveals how poorly the state prepared her to testify and what went through her mind when she was on the stand. And a new examination of Trayvon's school suspensions raises troubling questions about racial profiling.
Suspicion Nation expertly captures a country divided over issues of race, gun laws, and violence.« less