Film Tells Story of Racial Hoax Surrounding Trayvon Martin’s Death

A Trayvon Martin supporter displays her sign during a march on the way to a rally in front of the Sanford Police Department in Sanford, Florida, on March 31, 2012. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous were amongst the supporters demanding Zimmerman's arrest. Mario Tama/Getty Images

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The myth that black teen Trayvon Martin was a victim of racist violence was foisted on Americans by unscrupulous prosecutors in Florida who perpetrated “the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history” to frighten black Americans into continuing to vote for Democrats, according to a new film by documentary filmmaker Joel Gilbert.