In our forthcoming book Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It (Maguire & Low, 2024), we revisit the tragic death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, a critical incident in modern urban security in the United States. On a dark, rainy February evening, 17-year- old Martin was walking on the grounds of Retreat at Twin Lakes, Florida, a gated community he was visiting when a neighborhood watch volunteer gunned him down. Initially, before the trial and acquittal of his killer, when the world first heard the cry “Black Lives Matter,” this tragic death provoked no outcry. Instead, newspapers reported on the tragedy of life in the gated community.