Commentary On the 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, the media is still rewriting history. He is being depicted as an innocent young victim minding his own business who wasn’t a threat to anyone in Sanford, Florida, when George Zimmerman shot him. “The killing of this baby-faced, hoodie-wearing, unarmed youth at the hands of a stranger still reverberates 10 years later,” writes the Associated Press. It’s almost as if there wasn’t a trial, and that the evidence wasn’t clear and overwhelming. The anniversary is opening old racial wounds. AP is merely picking up where the media left off a decade ago. In 2012, NBC News deceptively edited a 911 call by Zimmerman to make it appear that he had volunteered Martin’s race. It turned out that Zimmerman only revealed Martin’s race when asked about it by the police operator. “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids,” President Barack Obama famously said at …
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