IT TOOK forty-four days for Florida to arrest and charge George Zimmerman for the murder of African American seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. ..…

the successor of Helsinki and Americas Watch, and before that, the director of American Civil Liberties Union .. ..…

City governments across the country had to accept the disruption of business as usual, as, for example, and marchers New York City shut down most major bridges and tunnels leading into and out of Manhattan November, while police appeared powerless.. ..…