https://www.scmp.com/rss/307064/feed The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida in the United States. Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old African American high school student. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American, was the neighbourhood watch co-ordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder on July 13 triggering protests against racial profiling across... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Stephen Miller and his wife Katie are recognised as one of the most prominent couples within the Maga movement. Elle magazine in March 2020 called Katie “a poster child for Trump’s America”, while in August of the same year, Vanity Fair described the Millers as “Trump’s favourite young power couple” – beyond those involving his own children (Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle). Now, with president-elect Donald Trump securing key positions in his new... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3289480/meet-stephen-millers-wife-katie-mrs-smith-maga-whose-husband-tapped-lead-homeland-security-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3289480/meet-stephen-millers-wife-katie-mrs-smith-maga-whose-husband-tapped-lead-homeland-security-was?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:00:08 +0000 4/5 stars Adapted from the nonfiction book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, We Own This City is the latest series from David Simon to bring tales of cops, crime and corruption to the small screen. Best-known for his landmark shows The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Streets, Simon once again hits the mean streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a story about the underhand tactics employed by the police department’s Gun Trace Task Force. His typically sprawling and immersive narrative stretches... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3174924/hbo-drama-review-we-own-city-wires-david-simon-returns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3174924/hbo-drama-review-we-own-city-wires-david-simon-returns?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:15:14 +0000 St Louis County’s top prosecutor announced on Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of minorities. It was nearly six years ago that a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot Brown, a black 18-year-old. Civil rights leaders and Brown’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3095425/no-charges-policeman-who-killed-black-teen-michael?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3095425/no-charges-policeman-who-killed-black-teen-michael?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:26:22 +0000 Failure is not an option for any self-respecting superpower, but history’s guarantees for nations are few. For big as well as small, survival can prove a struggle. So, while humility might not be the top-ranked virtue of prudent superpowers, internalising at least a healthy measure of it would seem wise. A singular anniversary later this week, and a series of sad events this past week in the United States and elsewhere, make this point emphatically. On June 4, 1989, the government of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3087103/trump-and-us-should-focus-george-floyd-rather-hong-kong-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3087103/trump-and-us-should-focus-george-floyd-rather-hong-kong-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:00:19 +0000 George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch volunteer acquitted of homicide charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Central Florida, is suing Martin’s family, prosecutors and others involved in the case he claims rested on false evidence, according to a copy of the suit sent to the media Wednesday. Zimmerman is represented by Larry Klayman, a high-profile legal crusader tied to conservative causes and the founder of Judicial Watch before splitting with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3040669/george-zimmerman-sues-family-trayvon-martin-unarmed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3040669/george-zimmerman-sues-family-trayvon-martin-unarmed?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:09:04 +0000 George Zimmerman is looking for love. Unfortunately for him, Tinder will no longer host his search. The popular dating app removed Zimmerman, the neighbourhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Florida boy Trayvon Martin, from the platform, the New York Daily News reported. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the killing of the unarmed teenager more than six years ago. A Tinder spokesman confirmed in a statement to The Washington Post that Zimmerman’s profile had been removed. “At... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3006973/i-love-adventure-fishing-and-camping-dating-apps?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3006973/i-love-adventure-fishing-and-camping-dating-apps?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:40:24 +0000 George Zimmerman is believed to have sold the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin for US$100,000 at auction. Martin, an unarmed, 17-year-old black teenager, was shot and killed by Zimmerman during an alleged altercation in Sanford, Fl., in 2012. The case sparked outrage when Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, claimed that Martin was acting suspiciously and called police from his car to report him. However, before they arrived, Martin was shot and killed by Zimmerman, who claimed he was... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1947321/george-zimmerman-allegedly-sells-trayvon-martin-gun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1947321/george-zimmerman-allegedly-sells-trayvon-martin-gun?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 May 2016 07:30:30 +0000 Bidding for the gun used by a Florida neighbourhood watchman to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin hit US$65 million on Friday, as hoax buyers appeared to jack the controversial sale to astronomical levels. Nationwide protests erupted over the 17-year-old’s shooting in 2012, in what the watchman George Zimmerman said was self-defence but which the teen’s family and friends claimed was a murder driven by racism. Zimmerman’s trial and subsequent acquittal exposed deep racial fissures in US... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1944710/prank-bid-racist-mcshootface-puts-us65m-price-tag?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1944710/prank-bid-racist-mcshootface-puts-us65m-price-tag?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 May 2016 04:24:28 +0000 George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted last year of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin, says he's homeless, jobless and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Zimmerman, 30, made the comments in an interview screened by Spanish-language television network Univision, 10 days before the second anniversary of the shooting. Zimmerman was the neighbourhood watch volunteer who encountered the unarmed 17-year-old at a gated community in Sanford, in the southern US state. Zimmerman... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1429769/zimmerman-homeless-two-years-after-shooting-teenager-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1429769/zimmerman-homeless-two-years-after-shooting-teenager-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000 A juror said in an interview made available on Thursday that she feels neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn’t enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law. Zimmerman was acquitted earlier this month of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the slaying last year of the unarmed 17-year-old. The Miami teenager was shot and killed during a confrontation with Zimmerman. The... https://www.scmp.com/article/1291271/florida-juror-says-zimmerman-got-away-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1291271/florida-juror-says-zimmerman-got-away-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:05:18 +0000 Superstar couple Jay Z and Beyonce joined protesters across the United States on Saturday amid simmering anger over a not-guilty verdict in the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin. A call for nationwide vigils designed to press for federal action in the emotionally charged case drew thousands to one New York rally. Elsewhere turnouts were more modest, with the crowds drawn overwhelmingly from the black community, including in Miami where the slain 17-year-old’s father spoke. “The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1287662/jay-z-and-beyonce-join-us-protests-over-trayvon-martin-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1287662/jay-z-and-beyonce-join-us-protests-over-trayvon-martin-verdict?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jul 2013 06:20:22 +0000 "Wow" is what Joseph Jones of Baltimore said after watching US President Barack Obama's unexpected and deeply personal plea on race and crime on Friday. Like many African-Americans, Jones, who is the president of the Centre for Urban Families in Baltimore, felt a surge of pride, recognition and hope, he said, when he heard the first African-American president speak so candidly about race relations in the US. Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago Barack Obama "We've grown in our... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1287261/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-says-barack-obama-stirring-speech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1287261/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-says-barack-obama-stirring-speech?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 1. Orlando Sentinel For those who felt certain that George Zimmerman was guilty of murder when he shot Trayvon Martin, the verdict … is a bitter pill to swallow. The reaction has included an understandable measure of outrage, sorrow and cynicism. It's been a painful journey that isn't yet over. And make no mistake: Justice, for all its imperfections, was done. Zimmerman was afforded his constitutional right to face his accusers - the state - and was judged by a jury of his peers. All of that... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1287186/how-they-see-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1287186/how-they-see-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 US Attorney General Eric Holder has called for a rethink of "stand-your-ground" laws following the acquittal of a neighbourhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. Addressing the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), Holder acknowledged the passions stirred up by the Florida trial of George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty on Saturday of murdering Trayvon Martin. "Separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation's attention,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284842/holder-urges-rethink-us-self-defence-laws?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284842/holder-urges-rethink-us-self-defence-laws?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Protests across the US that erupted in the wake of a Florida jury's acquittal of George Zimmerman over the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin have largely focused on race. The civil rights activists who are calling for justice have stirred passions, in some places sparking violence that could easily spin out of control. President Barack Obama has rightly called for calm and restraint. But words alone are not what Americans need. In a country so riven by race, despite the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1284262/zimmerman-case-shows-danger-gun-toting-citizen-law-enforcers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1284262/zimmerman-case-shows-danger-gun-toting-citizen-law-enforcers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 A juror from the trial of Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman for the death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin said the six-woman panel was sharply divided when deliberations began. The jurors ultimately came to a unanimous decision, finding Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the case that has brought tough questions about racism in the US back to the fore. But in an interview on CNN, juror B-37, who was not named and was shown in deep... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284152/zimmerman-jury-evenly-split-first-juror-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284152/zimmerman-jury-evenly-split-first-juror-says?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 About the only thing that everyone agrees on is what Trayvon Martin was carrying when he died. There were his clothes, including a black hooded top with a badge pinned to it showing a picture of his dead cousin. There was his cellphone, on which he had been talking to a friend. In his pockets were a cigarette lighter, some earphones, a can of Arizona watermelon fruit juice cocktail, a little over US$40 in cash, a bag of Skittles he had just bought from a nearby 7-Eleven, and no weapon of any... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284151/skittles-symbol-dead-teen-trayvon-martins-innocence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284151/skittles-symbol-dead-teen-trayvon-martins-innocence?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The acquittal of George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watchman cleared of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin, spurred new calls for a federal civil rights prosecution and suggestions that the youth's family may bring a lawsuit. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) is pushing US Attorney General Eric Holder to pursue a hate crimes case against Zimmerman, its head said on Sunday on CNN's State of the Union programme. "There is reason to be concerned that... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283374/zimmerman-civil-rights-case-urged-after-acquittal-over-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283374/zimmerman-civil-rights-case-urged-after-acquittal-over-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 After his acquittal on murder charges, George Zimmerman may go to law school so he can help people wrongly accused of crimes like himself, friends said. After he was found not guilty of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin, one of the first calls Zimmerman, 29, made was to defence witness John Donnelly and his wife Leanne Benjamin. They got to know Zimmerman in 2004 when he and a black friend opened an insurance office in a Florida building where Benjamin worked. They grew close and the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283378/zimmerman-keen-go-law-school-help-those-wrongly-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283378/zimmerman-keen-go-law-school-help-those-wrongly-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Thousands protested across the United States on Sunday against the acquittal of neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman, a day after his trial for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin ended in Florida. Demonstrators rallied noisily, but peacefully, in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. In Los Angeles, police in riot gear were deployed on Hollywood Boulevard but the rally proceeded without incident. About 150 protesters blocked traffic on a freeway elsewhere in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283376/thousands-march-across-us-against-not-guilty-verdict-zimmerman?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283376/thousands-march-across-us-against-not-guilty-verdict-zimmerman?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Angry protesters marched in US cities after George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watch volunteer, was found not guilty by a Florida jury in the shooting death last year of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. Spontaneous marches erupted in cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta and Philadelphia, with reports of sporadic acts of violence. In a case that drew national attention for its implications on race and guns, yesterday's decision was made by six female jurors, all... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1282784/george-zimmerman-not-guilty-verdict-sparks-protests-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1282784/george-zimmerman-not-guilty-verdict-sparks-protests-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Before the jury in the George Zimmerman murder case brought back its verdict, the judge warned those in the court against any untoward displays of emotion or outbursts. Zimmerman stood at the defendant's table with his lawyers, and the verdict of not guilty was read. He seemed not to move a muscle until the jurors were taken out of the courtroom with the judge's thanks. Then, like a deflating balloon, the tension drained out of his face. A small smile began at the corners of his mouth and very... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1282372/florida-jury-finds-george-zimmerman-not-guilty-trayvon-martin-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1282372/florida-jury-finds-george-zimmerman-not-guilty-trayvon-martin-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:41:26 +0000 A forensic expert has backed George Zimmerman's account of his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, testifying in the neighbourhood watchman's US murder trial that evidence showed he was under the unarmed black teenager when he fired his gun. It was the latest in a series of blows to the prosecution, underscoring a widely held view among lawyers following the case that the state aimed too high in charging Zimmerman with murder. The forensic pathologist testifying for the defence cited the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1279650/defence-backed-over-shooting-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1279650/defence-backed-over-shooting-trayvon-martin?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The murder trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida man accused of shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, failed to choose a single juror on its first day of jury selection. Lawyers reviewed questionnaire's filled out by prospective jurors and did preliminary interviews, but it quickly became clear that finding a panel of six jurors plus four alternates could take a long time. More than 100 prospective jurors were expected to report to the court yesterday for the second day. The trial did not... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1258670/jury-selection-starts-george-zimmermans-florida-trial-killing-trayvon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1258670/jury-selection-starts-george-zimmermans-florida-trial-killing-trayvon?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000