“a white Florida man”
From the New York TimesReaction to Ferguson Decision Shows Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice By MICHAEL WINES NOV. 25, 2014History isn’t written by the winners, it’s written by the writers of history.… For a person of color, she said, it is difficult not to view the Ferguson shooting as part of a continuum: the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, an African-American man, by a white Florida man who was later acquitted of murder; the 2009 fatal shooting of an Oakland black man by a white transit officer who was found guilty of manslaughter instead of murder.
