A Florida judge has dropped a lawsuit from George Zimmerman against the parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old boy the former neighbourhood watch volunteer fatally shot almost exactly 10 years ago, a killing that helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement.
Mr Zimmerman, who killed the unarmed teen on 26 February, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, filed a defamation and conspiracy lawsuit in 2019 against Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, claiming that they, along with their book publishers HarperCollins, wrongly smeared him as a racist and sought to get him criminally charged.
