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1. Trayvon Martin

   Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman. Martin had gone with his father on a visit to his father's fiancée at her townhouse at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford. On the evening of February 26, Martin was walking back alone to the fiancée's house from a nearby convenience store. Zimmerman, a member of the community watch, saw Martin and reported him to the Sanford Police as suspicious. Several minutes later, there was an altercation and Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest. Zimmerman was injured during the encounter and stated he had been defending himself; he was not charged at the time. The police said there was no evidence to refute his claim of self-defense, and that Florida's stand your ground law prohibited them from arresting or charging him. After national media focused on the incident, Zimmerman was eventually charged and tried, but the jury acquitted him of second-degree murder and manslaughter in July 2013. Martin was born in Miami, Florida, and attended both Norland Middle School and Highland Oaks Middle School, in north Miami-Dade County, Florida. He attended Miami Carol City High School in Miami Gardens for his freshman and sophomore years. At the time of the shooting, Martin was a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop High School in north Miami-Dade. Following Martin's death, rallies, marches and protests were held across the nation. In March 2012, hundreds of students at his high school held a walkout in support of him. An online petition calling for a full investigation and prosecution of Zimmerman garnered 2.2 million signatures. Also in March, the media coverage surrounding Martin's death became the first story of 2012 to be featured more than the presidential race, which was underway at the time. A national debate about racial profiling and 'stand your ground' laws ensued. The governor of Florida appointed a task force to examine the state's self-defense laws. Martin's life was scrutinized by the media and bloggers. The name Trayvon was tweeted more than two million times in the 30 days following the shooting. More than 1,000 people attended the viewing of his remains the day before his funeral, which was held on March 3, 2012 in Miami, Florida. He was buried in Dade-Memorial Park (North), in Miami. A memorial was dedicated to Martin at the Goldsboro Westside Historical Museum, a black history museum in Sanford in July 2013.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trayvon martin in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of trayvon martin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of trayvon martin in a Sentence

1. Ulish Carter:

   Black people will get extremely fired up and fight for a Trayvon Martin (the black teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida) or any time a white person kills a black person, or police kill a black person. You got rallies and marches and protests, you get your national leaders involved, but all these situations with blacks killing blacks, you're just as dead.

2. Sybrina Fulton:

   The Trayvon Martin movement was not created to incite hate or further racial divide, but rather birthed to raise awareness to the social injustices that exist across America with regards to senseless gun violence against our young black and brown boys; the movement also focuses on the growing disparities in the lack of prosecution of the actual perpetrators.

3. Tiffany Crutcher:

   I saw Trayvon Martin. I saw Mike Brown. I saw Philando Castile. I saw Tamir Rice, but never in a thousand years... would we have thought that we would be on their side of it. And my brother now, according to social media, is another hash tag.

4. Rahul Dubey:

   With Trayvon Martin, I would hear of these verdicts. And yeah, I would say to Rahul Dubey,' Oh my God, that's terrible.' And then I would get on my plane. I would book my meeting. I would still go to dinner.

5. Kendall Coffey:

   Nothing could be further from the truth. The value of his life is incalculable. The purpose of setting a bond is to validate the presumption of innocence, while assuring the defendant's presence at trial.” -On Trayvon Martin

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin