{"id":36558,"date":"2013-07-15T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36558"},"modified":"2013-07-15T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:00:45","slug":"will-there-be-justice-for-trayvon-martin-possible-future-legal-challenges-facing-george-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/15\/will-there-be-justice-for-trayvon-martin-possible-future-legal-challenges-facing-george-zimmerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Will There Be Justice for Trayvon Martin? Possible Future Legal Challenges Facing George Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130715Uprising\/2013_07_15_hutchinson.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130715Uprising\/2013_07_15_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/zimmerman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The NAACP launched a petition immediately after the Zimmerman verdict was announced, requesting that the Justice Department pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Within hours, over a hundred thousand people had signed onto the petition. That number has now jumped to half a million and counting. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced that it will consider whether or not to file federal criminal charges, and has already had an open investigation into the case since last year when Martin was killed. Martin\u2019s own family is reportedly considering a filing a criminal suit.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author and political analyst, his new e-book is called \u201cAmerica on Trial: The Slaying of Trayvon Martin.\u201d He is Associate Editor of New America Media and host of the Hutchinson report on KPFK. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/earl-ofari-hutchinson\/attorney-general-holder-h_b_3595568.html\">Click here<\/a> to read Hutchinson&#8217;s article about the Zimmerman case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAACP launched a petition immediately after the Zimmerman verdict was announced, requesting that the Justice Department pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Within hours, over a hundred thousand people had signed onto the petition. That number has now jumped to half a million and counting. The Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36565,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions\/36565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}