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Policeman fired for trying to use Trayvon Martin shooting targets

A police sergeant from Cape Canaveral, Florida has been fired after it was discovered he brought two shooting targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a training session last week.

According to WFTV two officers saw the targets in the back of Sgt. Ron King's vehicle and they informed the Chief of the Port Authority Police.

King was allegedly bringing the targets to a firearms training session in Cocoa, Florida at Brevard Community College.



Sgt. Ron King, of the Port Canaveral police department, brought two shooting targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a firing session while on duty






King had been with the police department since 2011. He allegedly purchased the targets from the internet.








Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, was killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. The case sparked a national outcry.




On the one-year anniversary of Martin's death a candlelight vigil was held in Sanford, which is less than 65 miles from Port Canaveral. Attendees were asked to wear 'hoodies,' which Martin wore the night he was killed.

The sergeant, who has been on the force since January of 2011, was on duty at the time.

He had purchased the two targets from the internet. It is not clear if they were used during the training session.

After an investigation from internal affairs, King was fired on Thursday.

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John Walsh, the CEO of Cape Canaveral Port Authority, spoke to WFTV and apologized to Port Canaveral and the family of Trayvon Martin.

'It’s something that we’d never want the Port Authority to be involved in and we truly apologize to the families for the pain that they even had to hear about something like this and had to relive their son’s death again.'

Trayvon Martin was fatally shot on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida in a case that sparked national headlines.


Sanford is approximately 65 miles from Port Canaveral.



Two officers reported to the chief of police about the shooting targets. King was fired last Thursday.




John Walsh (left), CEO of the Cape Canaveral Port authority, apologized to the family of Trayvon Martin while Ben Crump (right), attorney for the Martin family, released a statement condemning the targets.




Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder and his trial begins in June

en Crump, the Martin family attorney released a statement following reports of the targets.

'It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral Police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice. Such a deliberate and depraved indifference to this grieving family is unacceptable.'

WFTV went to King's home for a comment but he did not answer.

George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing Martin, is set to appear in court for a June trial on a charge of second-degree murder.

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