BEREA, OH (WOIO) – Students around the country stood up and walked out of class on Wednesday. For many, it was a protest of gun violence in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. At Berea-Midpark High School in Berea, hundreds of students did the same thing. A lot […]
Police say up to 100 students who walked out of class Friday to protest the shooting death of Trayvon Martin ransacked a nearby Walgreens drug store. The North Miami Beach High students were walking peacefully before a group split off into the Walgreens at 163rd Street and 15th Avenue. Surveillance video shows the teens running through the aisles before a man identified as the school's vice principal orders them to leave the store.
In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before the show began. Sonner represents George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Florida resident Trayvon Martin in February. His appearance on O'Donnell's program would have been just the latest in a string of high-profile media interviews over the past several days, as he's attempted to shift the narrative surrounding the case. In previous conversations, Sonner has continually insisted that the shooting was motivated not by race, but was instead a matter of self-defense -- though the attorney has declined to answer several questions about the specifics of his client's defense.