Ben Crump, the lead attorney for theTrayvon Martin family has been fighting from day one to get justice for the 17-year-old high school junior who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26th.
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In an interview with News 10, Crump stands behind his assessment that the Sanford police treated Trayvon like he was the suspect, as opposed to the victim.
Crump says he has problems with how the Sanford Police Department handled the case from the very start:
“It’s awfully suspicious as to why a narcotics officer would come out to a homicide call. It’s almost as if they accepted George Zimmerman’s version of what he said on that 911 tape. ‘He’s up to no good. He’s high. He looks suspicious.'”
Crump continued saying:
“They ran a background check on Trayvon Martin, who’s dead on the ground, and they don’t run one on George Zimmerman. They do a drug and alcohol analysis on Trayvon Martin, but they don’t order one on George Zimmerman.”
He says what’s worse is that Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, wasn’t even notified of his son’s death that night.
Crump adds, “This is a townhouse community. They didn’t knock on any doors to say, ‘Hey did this person live here? Are you missing anybody?'”
The next day, a Sanford police officer showed Tracy Martin a photo of his dead son – only after Martin called police to file a missing person’s report for Trayvon.
Crump says Tracy Martin was given four reasons why Zimmerman wasn’t going to be arrested: Zimmerman was squeaky clean, a 4-year student in criminal justice at a local college, he was licensed to carry a firearm, and he was the captain of the neighborhood watch program.
Crump says police told Trayvon’s father, “It was for those reasons that they just couldn’t see how he could be the cause of this.”
The Sanford police have fumbled this case from day one and along with Zimmerman, they should be held to some accountability.
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