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'Justice for Trayvon' rally held
More than 100 march locally
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The Justice for Trayvon March wraps up in front of the Bulloch County Courthouse at about noon Saturday. More than 100 people joined the march, which went from the Honey Bowen Building, then along South Main Street to the courthouse. - photo by JASON WERMERS/staff
More than 100 people gathered just before noon Saturday outside the Honey Bowen Building, marched about a mile along South Main Street and held a rally outside the Bulloch County Courthouse.Their cause: “Justice for Trayvon.” The organizers -- a group of Georgia Southern University students calling themselves “The Caucus,” -- set up the march and rally to support a nationwide push for more than 100 similar rallies. It was in response to the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer in a Sanford, Fla., neighborhood and Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal by a Florida jury.
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