trayvon martin was shot february 26 , 24 days later there is still no arrest. his mother says she cannot eat or sleep until zimmerman is behind bars . al sharpton is organizing a bill rally tomorrow night at the first shiloh baptist church in sanford. he is with us now. thank you for your time. what is the goal tomorrow?
>> i think we still must press for the arrest of this shooter. this man has not been arrest zd and almost a month now, coming up on a month.
>> a man that the police have 911 tapes where he says he was pursuing trayvon, and this man claims self defense when he was pursuing the victim. here is a man not even registered as a real watch person as you would call.
Members of Trayvon Martin's family plan to be among demonstrators in New York for a "Million Hoodie March," a reference to the attire the 17-year-old was wearing when he was shot.
"A black person in a hoodie isn't automatically suspicious. Let's put an end to racial profiling," the online protest page says.
More than 800,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org demanding the arrest of the shooter, George Zimmerman.
Martin was fatally shot February 26 while walking to the house of his father's fiancee in Sanford, Florida, after a trip to a convenience store. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader, said he shot the teen in self-defense.
Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged in the killing of the black teenager. A police report describes Zimmerman as a white male; his family says he is Hispanic.
people said they enhanced the tape and you have some who believe that they heard the racial slur . the bottom line , though, regarding evidence if the tape was edited, regardless of what words were there, that would be substantial. that is something that we saw in mississippi, other parts of this country, when police and authorities help in covering up if these allegations are true.
>> i think that's what is so chilling here, not only about the allegations of the tape but the whole case says we made a lot of progress in this country, but what does it say if we can put an african-american man in the white house and we can't walk an african- american child to the store to get skittles? i think that is what is really hit a lot of americans saying, wait a minute, we can't stand for this.
>> we know you will be in florida. we hope you can join us from there live as you will be with the family once again, and also tonight on politics nation reverend al will be joined by trayvon's parents tonight at 6 p.m . eastern time here on msnbc. thank you, sir.
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