TU Students Hold Vigil For Trayvon Martin In Tulsa

Tulsa students held a vigil Monday to honor Trayvon Martin. He's the Florida teen shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain.

Martin was shot one month ago today. The Black Law Students Association says they are holding this vigil because no arrest has been made in the Florida case.

With hoodies over their heads, students at the University of Tulsa say this symbolizes what they feel is a lack of justice in the Trayvon Martin case.

TU's Black Law Students Association organized the vigil as part of a national initiative with all of its chapters to mark the month that's passed since the shooting.

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Trayvon Martin died after he was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Florida. Martin was unarmed, but Zimmerman says the teen attacked him and he shot in self-defense.

Police didn't arrest Zimmerman, saying the case fell under the "Stand Your Ground" law. In 2005, Florida was the first to adopt such a law, which allows a person who feels their life is threatened to use deadly force away from their homes.

"This could happen anywhere, it's not just a Florida issue," said TU law student Lesley Smith. "If we don't demand justice and stand up for people like Trayvon, who will?"

Since then, at least 20 states have approved the measure. Oklahoma's law matches the Florida one word-for-word. It reads in part: 

A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

The Oklahoma law goes on to say if the shooting was found to be justified, that person is immune from criminal prosecution or any civil suit.