{"id":13880,"date":"2012-04-09T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13880"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:14:01","slug":"hundreds-of-high-school-students-take-part-in-protest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13880","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of High School Students Take Part In Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, more than 500 students walked out of three Hillsborough County high schools. The students were demonstrating their support for<strong> Trayvon Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The march was an organized event with the knowledge and support of the school. <strong>Principal Owen Young<\/strong> said they had a discussion and the students raised about $200 before the march.<\/p>\n<p>At noon, with their leaders in the front, the students walked out of the school holding hands and carrying banners.<\/p>\n<p>The students were aware that Special <strong>Prosecutor Angela Corey<\/strong> announced that the Grand Jury hearing scheduled for Tuesday, April 10, will not take place. The Grand Jury would have listened to the facts and determined if <strong>George Zimmerman<\/strong>, 28, who admitted to shooting and killing the 17-year-old would be bound over for trial.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> is claiming self-defense in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to challenge them and let them know that this is for <strong>Trayvon<\/strong>. But, once it is over for him, then it\u2019s time for them to turn their attention to our own communities. We have to learn how to treat each other better and stop the violence that has taken place in recent months,\u201d <strong>Young<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that between 350 and 400 Middleton High School students took part in the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aerial Bellamy<\/strong> is a 10th grade student and one of the organizers. \u201cWe walked for a couple of miles because we want justice for <strong>Trayvon<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As<strong> LaYondra Lewis<\/strong>, a senior at Middleton spoke, you could hear the chants in the background. \u201cNo justice, no peace. We want justice for <strong>Trayvon<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Middleton High School, students at Hillsborough High School and King High School held demonstrations and protests marches as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Monday afternoon, more than 500 students walked out of three Hillsborough County high schools. The students were demonstrating their support for Trayvon Martin. The march was an organized event with the knowledge and support of the school. Principal Owen Young said they had a discussion and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}