Photo ~ Rev. Michael Pfleger wears a hoodie in tribute to Trayvon Martin at St. Sabina Church on Chicago's South Side. Martin, an African-American teenager fatally shot in Florida by a man on neighborhood watch, was wearing a hooded sweatshirt when he was killed.

Father Pfleger memorializes Trayvon Martin with wooden statue, hoodie, Skittles at church altar

Churches all across the country paid tribute to slain teenager Trayvon Martin on Sunday, some by encouraging their parishioners to wear hoodies.

But Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish in Chicago, took things a step further. As seen on WGN’s “News at Nine” on Sunday, Pfleger spoke to his congregation with an unusual prop: Martin’s likeness was slumped at the church altar, complete with a red hoodie, a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Ice Tea.

“We got the power to tell the president, the governor, the mayor, the alderman to tell them what they got to do,” Pfleger said. “Don’t wait for them to tell you, you tell them. You’re the church. You’re the conscience. You’re the one that’s supposed to have God with you. If God is with you, then act like it, and stop begging and start telling what you want.”

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