Special to the Daily News
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2014 7:45 am
New York summers (click here) are hot. In July, Western Kentucky University senior Demetrius Freeman, from Atlanta, a New York Times intern at the time, was enflamed enough by the Trayvon Martin march and protest to make a decision without the paper’s staff being aware....
...Six double-sided gallery stands feature 12 images of New Yorkers’ outcries over racial tension, vigilantism, police practices and gun laws rising from George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Fla., who shot and killed Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old black student, near his home.
“I’m sweating and dehydrated. I’m in shorts and flip-flops. It was intense, but it was grieving, a lot of grieving throughout the crowd. I just ...,” Freeman paused briefly while recalling his photo excursion. “I just wanted to get the emotion out to the world. I wanted to see how people reacted to that situation.”
As an intern at The New York Times, Freeman proved his worth by being at the right places at the right times....
