Why Wasn't It Murder?

The Death of Trayvon Martin

© 2021 by Sam Wesley Denham, III

The Running

If it had been raining hard in Sanford, Florida, on the evening of February 26, 2012, the way the newspaper reporters and television commentators said it had, Trayvon Martin might still be alive. But it had rained only two-tenths of an inch all day, scarcely more than a drizzle. That’s why, sometime after 6 p.m…