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フロリダ黒人少年射殺事件 Trayvon
【ワシントン】オバマ大統領は23日、フロリダ州で17歳の黒人少年が自警団の男に銃で撃たれ死亡した件について、
思い入れを込めて言及し連邦、州の警察当局が捜査に乗り出したことへの支持を表明した。
人種的な色彩の濃い事件について大統領が発言をするのは珍しい。
オバマ大統領は記者団に対し、「私に息子がいたらトレイボン（死亡した少年の名前）のような顔つきをしていただろう」と述べ、
被害者に対する個人的な思いをあらわにした。
事件の被害者は17歳の黒人少年、トレイボン・マーティンさん。
先月、フロリダ州サンフォードの郊外で事件は起きました。
By Erin McClam and Andrew Rafferty, NBC News
The father of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager shot to death in Florida last year, said Tuesday that the family will “never move on” and will fight to make sure his memory “won’t be tainted by this whole situation.”
On the anniversary of his son’s killing, Tracy Martin also said that lawmakers across the country must take a hard look at gun laws and who should get gun permits. He cited not just his son’s death but the elementary-school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
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“Why would you need a semiautomatic weapon to be hunting? That’s senseless,” Tracy Martin said on MSNBC.
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A color photograph of George Zimmerman with a bloody, swollen nose taken on the night he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last February was posted on the Internet on Monday by Zimmerman's legal defense team.
As the photo began to be circulated widely by the news media, lawyers on both sides disagreed about its significance to the second-degree murder case against Zimmerman.
"It's not a game changer," Zimmerman lawyer Mark O'Mara told Reuters. But O'Mara said the photo was significant in that it shows vividly the injuries Zimmerman incurred during his confrontation with Martin at a condominium in the central Florida town on Sanford.
On February 26, Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Martin who was walking to the home in Sanford where he was staying with his father.
Zimmerman's murder trial is set for June 2013.
Zimmerman claims he shot Martin in self defense during a struggle.
"Does it really show what happened that night to George? Yes," O'Mara said.
Attorney Ben Crump, who represents Martin's family, however said the photo adds nothing new to the case. Previously released evidence has indicated Zimmerman was hit in the nose during the fight with Martin.
"Trayvon Martin was defending himself. He had every right to stand his ground to defend himself," Crump said.
O'Mara told Reuters that prosecutors in May had given him a grainy black-and-white photocopy of the image which was taken in the back seat of a Sanford police cruiser. O'Mara said he received the digital image from prosecutors after repeated demands by his office and he posted it Monday on Zimmerman's defense website.
(Editing by David Adams and Cynthia Osterman)
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