On September 12, Miami-Dade police arrested a 17-year-old black teenager, Jamal Jackson, for the August 21 execution-style murder (see shocking video) of Hispanic-American Miguel Pilotos. The black-on-Hispanic killing in Opa-Locka, Florida didn't get much press when it happened.  Only after the suspect was arrested three weeks later did various news outlets release more details of the crime. Within those reports a familiar name appeared: Rod Vereen. Vereen was Trayvon Martin's pal Rachel Jeantel's lawyer in the Seminole County trial of George Zimmerman.  Now he's representing the Opa-Locka killer. Seminole County and Miami-Dade are 225 miles apart geographically, but symbolically, in the Martin and Pilotos cases, they are practically next-door neighbors. Before Trayvon Martin went to his dad's girlfriend's place in Sanford right before his death, he lived in Miami Gardens, a couple of miles from the Pilotos killing. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin,...(Read Full Post)