Trayvon Marchers: ‘We Want an Arrest. Shot in the Chest”

The feet of marchers pounded the cracked pavement of Sanford’s 13th street — a road that runs through the heart of one of the oldest black communities in Florida — to reiterate that apathy won’t be an option for those moved and outraged by the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.

The Goldsboro community played host to a march and rally Saturday organized by the NAACP that brought together a coalition of national civil-rights organizers, community leaders, clergymen and droves of local residents who joined the chants demanding the arrest of George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin‘s death.

The Rev. Al Sharpton came to a podium outside Sanford Police Department headquarters amid raucous cheers from many of the roughly 1,000 participants. But he revealed few details about a plan he unveiled Friday for economic sanctions to force authorities to arrest Zimmerman.

Instead, he talked generally about sanctions against corporations that support and fund stand-your-ground laws, but didn’t name specific entities or outline strategies.

Everything is on the table for the nonviolent civil disobedience that could come in the coming days, he said.

It’s an “American paradox that we can put a black man in the White House but we can’t walk a black child through a gated area in Sanford, Florida,” he said.

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“We want an arrest. Shot in the chest,” marchers said Saturday en route to Sanford Police Department headquarters. “I am Trayvon Martin.”

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