Black leaders in the Boston community reacted with tempered approval Wednesday after authorities criminally charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman with in the February killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In a national press conference Wednesday evening, Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey announced that Zimmerman was in custody and will be tried on the charge of second-degree murder. “We did not come to this decision lightly,’’ said Corey. “We will continue to seek the truth.’’

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zots

04/12/2012 05:36 AM

Reverend Rivers is right: the big issue facing the black community, especially in Boston, is the black-on-black violence, particularly in the Cape Verdean Community. Personally, I think it all has to do with drugs, and a long-standing tradition of mafia style drug control within the Cape Verdean Community in the Boston-Brockton areas.