For Mars Inc., the privately held company that owns Skittles, the tragedy presents another, more surreal dimension. Protestors carried bags of the chewy fruit-flavored candy while marching for the arrest of shooter George Zimmerman. Mourners pinned the bright red wrappers to their hooded sweatshirts at memorial services.
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Ironically Mars, Inc. had been a sponsor of ALEC, the political organization that has promoted the Stand Your Ground laws. Since the Trayvon Martin case, they as well as other corporations have dropped their support for ALEC:
Mars had been an exhibitor at ALECs 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans. Mars is the maker of Skittles, the snack Trayvon Martin had purchased before he was shot by George Zimmerman, whose arrest was delayed due to an NRA-backed gun law that became an ALEC model bill, the Center for Media and Democracy adds.
Martins death brought attention to Floridas GOP-sponsored Stand Your Ground law, which states that a person is justified in the use of deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.
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