Hundreds entered their third day of a round-the-clock sit-in at Florida Governor Rick Scott’s office Thursday to honor Trayvon Martin’s life and demand overhaul of the state’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and the racism that underlies it.
Organizers say their numbers have doubled since they launched the sit-in on “Takeover Tuesday.”
The protesters, who are with the Dream Defenders—an organization of African American and Latino youth working to transform system-wide inequality—are peacefully occupying the governor’s office waving signs that read “I am human” and “3/5 No More” and wearing shirts declaring “The Next Emmett Till.”
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