The New Black Panthers are inspired by The Black Panthers revolutionary party, which took a militant approach to the championing of African-American equality between the 1960s and 1980s, but the two are not formally linked. Founded in 1989, and immediately rejected by
the original Black Panthers, the new party has been named by the US Commission on Civil Rights as a hate group.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential candidate, has described Mr Obama's comments on the killing as "disgraceful".
Speaking at the White House on Friday, Mr Obama had highlighted the teenager's race, by saying: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
In response, Mr Gingrich said: “What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It’s not a question of who that young man looked like.
"Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him?”
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to President Obama, described the comments by Mr Gingrich, who is an outsider for the Republican nomination, as "irresponsible and reprehensible".
He told CNN: “I don’t think there’s very many people in America that would share that reaction.
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