Sgt. Ron King of Port Canaveral, Florida was fired after bringing shooting targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range on April 4.
According to the Huffington Post:
“Port Canaveral Interim Chief Executive Officer John Walsh told WFTV on Saturday that Sgt. Ron King was leading a target practice with two other Port Canaveral police officers and a civilian port employee when he pulled out the targets.”
The training session was held at a facility on Brevard Community College campus in Cocoa. Officer Walsh says King suggested the group use the targets and the men declined, telling King to put the targets back into his patrol car. The officers who were participating in the firearms training session, as well as King, were on duty at the time.
Port officials also told WFTV that King purchased the targets on the internet. Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, responded in a statement saying: “Using a dead child’s image as target practice is reprehensible.”
Since January 2011, King was employed with the Port Canaveral Police Department. According to officials, King has seven days to appeal his termination.
Port Canaveral is approximately 50 miles southeast of Sanford, where Martin was killed in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense. His trial is scheduled for June.
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