Justice Department, FBI to Begin Treyvon Martin Investigation

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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights division and the FBI will launch their own investigation into the killing of Trayvon Martin. The Justice Department released a statement saying that their investigation would be one independent of local Florida authorities. The Martin family’s lawyer, Ben Crump, said that public pressure was behind the federal investigation.

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