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Trayvon Martin rally at Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio at noon on Monday July 15 to go forward after Zimmerman not guilty verdict, local community activists outraged, Rev Al Sharpton upset too and called verdict "a slap in the face"

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Trayvon Martin, left, and his killer George Zimmerman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. Cleveland, Ohio-Cleveland area community activists will rally at noon on Monday, July 15 in front of the Justice Center on Lakeside Ave. in downtown Cleveland for justice for Trayvon Martin, whose killer  George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second degree murder on Saturday after stalking and  gunning down the unarmed Black teen last year in a  gated community in a Sandford, FL suburb.  (For more in

Accused killer of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin named George Zimmerman is out again on bond after being jailed for lying on a previous bond

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George Zimmerman From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newsblog.Com( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) SANDFORD, Florida-Accused teen killer George Zimmerman, who is facing a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly stalking and gunning down unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin earlier this year in a Florida suburb, was released on a $1 million bond Friday after his arrest and jailing previously for lying to the presiding judge in the case. Zimmerman's $150 thousand bond was revoked two weeks ago after the Florida Circuit Judge ruled that he had lied about his finances, including collecting monies in excess of $200 thousand from a White supremacist website. At that bond revocation hearing the judge said also that Zimmerman had a passport and might be a flight risk. But earlier this week that same White judge gave him a second chance. The seventeen-year-old Martin is Black, and Zimmerman, 28, is

The wife of George Zimmerman, the accused murderer of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin, arrested for perjury, Cleveland area Civil Rights, grassroots organizations have rallied for justice for Martin

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Shellie Zimmerman By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) SANDFORD, Florida-The wife of accused teen killer George Zimmerman, who is facing a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly stalking and gunning down unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin earlier this year in a Florida suburb, was charged on Tues. with perjury. Shellie Zimmerman was arrested without incident by Seminole County sheriffs at her home, authorities said. Her arrest follows the arrest of her husband, whose bond was revoked two weeks ago after a Florida judge ruled that he had lied about his finances, including collecting monies in excess of $100 thousand from a White supremacist website. The seventeen-year-old Martin is Black, and Zimmerman, 28, is White.  Shelie Zimerman is accused of lying at George Zimmerman's bond hearing about their finances. Sh

Zimmerman jailed again after judge revokes bond for lying about finances in case of alleged murder of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin, Black community quiets down, young Cleveland area activist groups like the Oppressed People's Nation continue the fight, seasoned greater Cleveland activist groups such as the Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc. and Peace in the Hood still monitoring the case.

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Trayvon Martin Anger over the killing of the Black teen has generated nationwide protests but has subsided in recent weeks  SANDFORD, Florida--Accused teen murderer George Zimmerman, a racist White volunteer community watchman who gunned down the unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin earlier this year in a suburban neighborhood in Sandford, Fl. and was charged in April with second degree murder after outcries of an  injustice  by the Black community and others, was jailed again on Sun. after a judge revoked his bond, saying he lied about his finances. George Zimmerman Florida judge Kenneth Lester ruled that Zimmerman, 28, lied about monies he got from a promotional website around the murder and last week revoked his $150 thousand bail, and ordered him to report to jail by the end of the week.  Meanwhile, not all is quiet on the Black front of a once enraged Black community on the celebrated case. "We will keep protesting until we ge