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‘I used to be him’: Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler on why the Trayvon Martin case resonates with him

“I was a baby-faced, skinny, 17-year-old boy, and like a lot of black boys I got harassed by the police, by security guards, by neighborhood watch–types, followed around, stopped, searched. But I also got harassed by other young black men. … I became a prosecutor because I wanted to deal with both those problems. I wanted to help victims. I didn’t want to be a victim.” watch video