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Trayvon Martin's friend keeps commitment to slain teen
Memorable witness from George Zimmerman's trial puts in extra effort, proves people wrong
In a Miami auditorium less than three miles from where slain teen Trayvon Martin is buried, his friend Rachel Jeantel on Friday was presented her high school diploma, fulfilling the promise she said she made him.
The moment was even more poignant with Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, looking on.
“Her coming is like having Trayvon there saying, ‘You did it. You proved people wrong,’” Jeantel told Yahoo News.
Jeantel was talking on the phone with Martin, 17, in the last moments of his life on Feb. 26, 2012. The unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, then 28, as the two fought on a dark neighborhood sidewalk in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The case roused a national conversation about racial profiling, self-defense, gun control, vigilantism, civil rights and more.
Zimmerman, the community’s volunteer crime watchman, was found not guilty during a nationally televised trial last July.
Trayvon Martin's friend keeps commitment to slain teen - Yahoo News
Good for her, I hope she keeps up the effort and goes to, and graduates from college!!!
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