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"A Port Canaveral police sergeant fired after bringing targets that resemble Trayvon Martin to a firearms training session now says he never told anyone to shoot the target.Port Canaveral terminated Sgt. Ron King over the weekend after investigating the incident.King spoke out on his own behalf in a video uploaded to YouTube.Video: Watch King's video on YouTubeIn the video, King first apologized to the Martin family and said he thinks they are being used in a political agenda. He also apologized to his fellow law enforcement officers.\u201CI refuse to sit by while others use the Martin family and myself to further their own political and career agendas,\u201D King said.Port Canaveral spokeswoman Rosalind Harvey said King brought targets showing a faceless silhouette of a person in a hooded sweatshirt, holding a drink and a pack of skittles, to a gun range where he led a training session for officers.King said the allegations are not what they seem.\u201CI take these allegations seriously,\u201D King said. \u201COthers are accusing me of something I just plain did not do.\u201DThe former sergeant insists he was using the targets as an example of a situation where a gun should not be fired. He said he never asked any officer to fire at the target in question.\u201CI referred to them as a no-shoot training aid,\u201D King said. \u201CUsing real-life situations in a training session is not uncommon.\u201DFollowing King\u2019s arrest, Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump issued a statement.\u201CAttorney Benjamin Crump, who represents Martin\u2019s family, issued a statement indicating the family\u2019s view of the situation.\u201CIt is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice,\u201D the statement said. \u201CSuch a deliberate and depraved indifference to this grieving family is unacceptable.\u201DKing insists the targets are an acceptable learning tool and that his termination is part of a political agenda to undermine the leadership of the police department."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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