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AP NEW YORK - No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carr stanley cups ying no weapon.But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because he himself was holding a gun In the study, volunteers who held a toy gun and glimpsed fleeting images of people holding an object were biased toward thinking the object was a gun. Activists demand George Zimmerman s gun permitCalls grow to arrest gunman in Fla. teen slayingTwin investigations open in Trayvon Martin case stanley becher It s another indication that the brain shapes what we perceive in the world beyond the information that comes in through our eyes, said James Brockmole of the University of Notre Dame, who did the work with psychologist Jessica Witt at Purdue University. In a telephone interview, Brockmole stressed he had no inside information on the Feb. 26 shooting of 17-year-old Martin, who was shot and stanley canada killed in a gated community in Sanford, a suburb of Orlando. The neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, said he shot the teen in self-defense because the youth attacked him. The case has drawn outrage and protests, and the federal Department of Justice said Monday it will investigate.Brockmole said it s possible that Zimmerman s perception might have been skewed by being armed.Race may have also played a role. Martin is black; Zimmerman s family says he is Hisp Ovhm Lesbian Couple s Long-Awaited Day Arrives
Twenty people have been injured after an escalator malfunctioned and rapidly sped downward at a Rome metro station, leaving passengers in a jumble at the bottom, Italian officials say.Most of those involved in Tuesday night s horrifying accident at Repubblica metro station were Russian football fans on their way to attend a Champions League match between Roma and CSKA Moscow, a spokesman with Italy s F yeezy ire Brigade said.Fire brigade spokesman Luca Cari said that the caus samba rose e of the accident is still being investigated and that one person was seriousl nike air force y injured.In footage on social media, people can be heard screaming as dozens are thrown toward the bottom.On Twitter, Rome s fire brigade said those injured have been taken to a hospital.It also posted a picture of the escalator steps, which have been mangled due to the apparent malfunction.Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi posted aFacebook live videofrom the scene and said that she expresses her solidarity to the injured and that authorities need to understand what s happened.She said that it appeared that some Russian supporters were dancing and jumping on the escalator. |
