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    How Gayle King put a national spotlight on the killing of Trayvon Martin

    “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King recalls the editorial story meeting at her network in February 2012 when she first brought up the name Trayvon Martin. Days had passed since the unarmed 17-year-old Black teenager from Sanford, Florida, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator. When King raised it, she heard producers say it was a local story. But she knew it ...
    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2022 4 minutes
    A woman stops to photograph a portrait of Treyvon Martin, the 17- year-old who was killed by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012, made by Venice artist Jules Muck, known as MuckRock, on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, in Los Angeles on June 4, 2020.

    “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King recalls the editorial story meeting at her network in February 2012 when she first brought up the name Trayvon Martin.

    Days had passed since the unarmed 17-year-old Black teenager from Sanford, Florida, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator. When King raised it, she heard producers say it was a local story. But she knew it was something more.

    “I said, ‘I’m telling you this is not a local story,’” King recalled in an interview this week. “It was unheard of to me that this was just a kid walking from the store with his Skittles and his Arizona iced

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