Reverend Jackson: ‘We Must Not Just Settle for Zimmerman’ (VIDEO)

Reverend Jackson: ‘We Must Not Just Settle for Zimmerman’ (VIDEO)

Reverend Jackson: ‘We Must Not Just Settle for Zimmerman’ (VIDEO)

George Zimmerman was behind bars Wednesday, forty-five days after he went free after shooting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman now faces the possibility of life in prison, but Reverend Jesse Jackson tells Laura Flanders of GRITtv that the mobilizing shouldn’t end.

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George Zimmerman was behind bars Wednesday night, forty-five days and countless rallies after he went free after shooting unarmed high school junior Trayvon Martin in a Sanford, Florida, gated community. Zimmerman now faces the possibility of life in prison, but the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has led some of those rallies, says that the mobilizing shouldn’t end.

"When Rosa Parks was arrested [for refusing to go to the back of the bus], if we had focused on the bus driver and not on the states’ rights law, we would have missed the point….  We must not just settle for Zimmerman, we must repeal the Stand Your Ground law."

 As luck would have it, Reverend Jackson and I were both at Ohio University as the news from Florida came in. Here’s what he had to say.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/11/2743569/george-zimmerman-charged-with.html#storylink=cpy

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