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March 23, 2012 | | TRAYVON’S DEATH As thousands of protesters in the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed demand an arrest, some residents say the man who shot him focused too much on young black men, and question the role of racial stereotyping in the youth’s death. The Daily Beast’s Allison Samuels reports from Sanford, Fla. LEGAL Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a Defense Department official told NBC News on Thursday. The official charges are expected to be released Friday. Bales is accused of shooting and killing 17 Afghan civilians, including nine children, on March 11. Meanwhile, some have alleged that Bales was drinking when the massacre occurred. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the Army staff sergeant had been cited in a previous incident involving alcohol, and a previous background check revealed Bales had been arrested in a drunken assault case in 2002. FALLOUT French Prime Minister François Fillon said Friday that there had been no grounds to detain Mohamed Merah prior to last week, when he is suspected of killing seven people in three separate attacks. Fillon defended reports of security failures in the handling of Merah, who had been under surveillance in November but was never arrested. "We don't have the right in a country like ours to permanently monitor without judicial authorization someone who hasn't committed an offense," Fillon told French radio. Merah was killed in a firefight Thursday morning after a 32-hour standoff in Toulouse. LOUISIANA PRIMARY Santoum leads by double-digits in the Bayou State in a contest that could pose a turning point for the candidates before they head back north. As the delegate math gets complicated, The Daily Beast’s Ben Jacob’s reports on the all-out scramble to win Louisiana. PUNISHMENT European Union foreign ministers on Friday slapped sanctions on the wife of Syria President Bashar al-Assad. Asma al-Assad is among 12 other close relatives and government ministers to be slapped with a travel ban and has had her assets frozen in a bid to stop the regime's violent crackdown on the opposition. Asma Assad, 36, was born in the United Kingdom and has British citizenship, so EU officials said she could probably still travel to England. | | 
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