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The Justice Department has decided to step into the controversial shooting of an unarmed black teen in Florida.
The Associated Press reported that the feds will launch a probe into last month’s shooting in Sanford, Fla., by a neighborhood watch captain George Zimmeran, 28, of Trayvon Martin, 17. Zimmerman is white and Martin is black.
Zimmerman has claimed the shooting was in self defense.