Mourners at the St Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford. The DoJ has not commented on demands to launch a civil rights inquiry. Photograph: Phelan M Ebenhack/AP Black leaders in the US expressed "outrage" Sunday over the acquittal of George Zimmerman on charges of murdering Trayvon Martin, demanding that authorities pursue a federal civil rights case against the teenager's killer. Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) – the US's largest black advocacy group – said the case in which Zimmerman, who is of mixed white-Hispanic parentage, followed then shot Martin dead met the benchmark for an inquiry by the Department of...
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