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A provocative study of race, gun laws and regulations, and violence that exposes the way the state of Florida bungled the Trayvon Martin case through new interviews and revelations about the trial.Many thought the election of our own first African-American leader end the dialog about race in this country, which America had changed into a post-racial period of equality. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old young man walking to a friend's home having only his cellular phone, chocolate, and a berries drink was taken and killed by way of a neighborhood watch planner.The public, especially African-American journalists and activists, clamored for the press to focus on the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. The July 2013 trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the nation, as did his eventual and shocking acquittal. Any perception that we lived in a post-racial America was shattered.In her provocative and landmark audiobook Suspicion Country, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of them of the was a wonder: Our laws and regulations, culture, and blind places created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin's fatality and made George Zimmerman's acquittal by far the most likely final result. A trial legal professional herself, Bloom details the way the "winnable case was lost" through new in-depth interviews of key trial participants. The only nonwhite juror instructs her story of loneliness and isolation during the trial. The state's medical examiner explains a clinical theory he wanted to raise during his testimony but could not. Rachel Jeantel, the state's superstar see and the last person to talk with Trayvon Martin, unveils how poorly their state ready her to testify and what went through her head when she was on the stand. And a new study of Trayvon's college suspensions increases troubling questions about racial profiling up against the teenager at his own senior high school.As well as the injustice persists, as more shootings, especially of unarmed African Americans, plague our land. Gun privileges have been expanded to surreal extremes, as the U.S. gets the highest per capita firearm ownership rate on the planet and more firearm deaths than any other developed country. Despite the strides America has made, racial inequality persists in occupation, real estate, education, the press, and most companies. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every phase of our own unlawful justice system.The Trayvon Martin case was iconic. It obligated the country to stare unflinchingly into a family's grief and the biases of an land that created the conditions for it. Suspicion Country expertly catches the state of a country conflicted not only about the Trayvon Martin injustice but divided over issues of race, violence, and firearm legislation.
