- Good job.
Knowing that it's been 10 years, it still feels like it's not.
Like, I can't believe it's been 10 years,
and I can't believe that he's still actually gone.
I met Tracy Martin, which is Trayvon's father,
when Trayvon was, I think, seven or eight years old,
and we instantly became instant buddies,
and we've coached together every single year.
We coached Trayvon up until he was 14?
Fourteen, 15, when he went into high school.
He just loved sports.
He loved different things.
He was always a loving kid.
He would give his last to anybody.
It didn't matter to him.
His heart was huge.
So, that was one of the things
I wish more people knew about him,
rather than what they were portraying in the media.
- Trayvon Martin was human. - Yes, yes!
- Trayvon Martin did matter.
- Tracy called me.
I told Tracy to file a missing persons report
and he did that and I told him,
when he hear something, to just call me back.
And he called he and he was like, "They found Tray,"
and I was like, you know, "Where was he"?
And then, he was like. He just told me.
He was like, "He's dead."
And I was like, "What do you mean?"
And then he told me he was killed.
They found out when he filed the missing persons report.
They came to show him the body of Trayvon
in the middle of the street, and that's when the whole events
started to unravel
and everything just started to play itself out.
It was shocking, and it didn't seem like it was real.
It was like I couldn't believe somebody I know,
yet alone Trayvon, was killed.
Like, I just wouldn't have never imagined anybody,
especially a kid close to me, you know, being killed.
So, it shocked me.
And then I had to tell my son about it,
and that was the hardest part.
Ten years ago, you didn't know there was anything
as being racially profiled.
It wasn't as big as it is now.
It wasn't as aware and out in the media as it is now.
But then, just hearing how it played out,
you knew he was racially profiled.
I definitely thought about it happening to my own kids.
I thought about it so many times they'd walk my neighborhood.
So, with kids, you know, on my team or kids that knew him,
you know, having to sit them down or taking the phone calls.
They're asking me, you know, "Was that Trayvon?"
"Yes." Explain to them what happened
and, you know, consoling them, you know,
because a lot of them knew him since he was,
you know, five, you know, six.
Been with him all the way up, you know, for so many years.
Go to school with him, you know.
And, you know, you had to sit down
and have that type of discussion
with another 16-year-old, 15-year-old,
you know, 17-year-old, telling them, you know,
"Yeah, your friend was, you know, killed,
and he's not, you know, going to be here."
- [chanting] What do you want? - [chanting] Justice!
- When do you want it? - Now!
- Because there was no Black Lives Matter 10 years ago.
Before he died, you never heard anything of the sort.
Same people, with his demise, when the story finally came out,
on how he was racially profiled, you know,
because he was a Black kid, to see the thousands
and thousands of people come together, you know,
in hoodies, you know, saying, "Hey, it could've been my kid."
The president of the United States himself said,
"It could've been my kid."
- But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin.
You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
And this is a tragedy. - I can say,
over the last 10 years that Trayvon has touched me,
as a person, as a coach, the way I deal with kids,
the way I talk to kids, the way I talk to my own kids.
It don't matter who line up in front of you.
Your confidence is here.
You can play against anybody.
You can cover anybody.
You want to reach out to them more.
Before, it'd just been like you'd tell the kid
to do something, and that was it.
Now, you know, you want to tell the kid to do something,
you actually want to hear their thoughts.
It's been 10 years, but it's been 10 short years.