Sept. 1, 2013

Law and Order: SVU to Air Program Based on Trayvon Martin's Murder

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Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from TheNorthStarNews.com

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The television program "Law and Order: SVU" will air an episode in October based on the murder of an unarmed Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.

Actress Cybill Shepherd, who plays a vigilante character loosely based on Zimmerman, recently filmed a segment of the episode in front of a New York courthouse. Shepherd, ironically, was active in Memphis, Tenn.'s civil rights movement.

Meanwhile, Zimmerman visited Kel-Tec, a gun manufacturer in Coca, Fla., where he posed for pictures. Zimmerman apparently wants to buy a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun. He shot to death the 17 year-old Martin with a 9mm Kel-Tec pistol in February 2012.

An all-women's jury acquitted Zimmerman of Martin's murder. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell recently called the jury's verdict "questionable" and encouraged Obama to be more vocal about racism in the country.