Once in a while there is a story that so upsets me that I find it hard to write about it but it’s a breaking story. So I take the easy way out. I post an embed. And here is CNN’s Don Lemon’s report on a sad, tragic story of an African-American Florida teen who went out to buy candy for his brother — and was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.