A Trayvon Martin remark helped Arkansas woman Yelena Goforth-Buyalova get arrested after she directed it at two 8-year-old neighbor boys who were playing and making noise near her apartment.
A police
report and interview obtained by KHOG TV in Fayetteville said the woman told the noisy boys they "should be treated like Trayvon Martin." Goforth-Buyalova called the police herself because she wanted officers to deal with the noisy neighbors, but she was arrested and charged with harassment and disorderly conduct by the time the dispute was over.
"They're not respectful — they see that they can be loud at my windows," she told the local news station after last week's indicent.
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The young boys, who live in the unit above hers, were crying after she lectured them, and asked her to leave them alone. Among other things, she allegedly said they should be put in prison because they are black.
When confronted about these allegation in the police report, she denied having said them.
"I said such behavior should be punishable. I did not say because they're black."
Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in February of 2012. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in July 2013, and this month several organizations held events to protest the acquittal and address larger race issues on the one year anniversary of the decision.
TMZ reported that basketball star Kobe Bryant spoke at one such rally in L.A.'s Crenshaw neighborhood this past weekend.
"Players such as myself and others that have kind of a platform, our responsibility is more than just putting a ball in the basket . . . but helping [Trayvon's parents] have a platform," he told the gathered crowd from the podium.
"[L]ook at [Trayvon's parents] . . . what they had to go through as a family and what they've come out of . . . that's true adversity."
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