Martin Family Attorney: Parents Are In ‘Disbelief’ About The Verdict

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Travyon Martin’s family attorney, Benjamin Crump, said Sunday that the family is in “disbelief” over the jury’s verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of charges in the killing of their son. 

“They are still in disbelief about his death and now they are in disbelief about this verdict,” Crump said on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ “They are trying to make sense of it.”

“They want people to know that they’re going to continue to fight for the legacy of their son, that he had every right to walk home from the 7-Eleven and not expect to be profiled and followed by a strange man.”

Crump also said it would be “intellectually dishonest” to not acknowledge the “racial undertones in this case.”

 
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