Perhaps the only good thing that will come out of this case is that the Florida legislature (with prodding from the Department of Justice) will be compelled to modify or even repeal its stand-your-ground law, which emboldens people to shoot to kill based merely on their subjective fears. Especially since the Sanford police seem to think that it’s okay to use deadly force even if that fear is not of personal bodily harm, but of Black kids just walking home in their own neighborhood.
(Vigilante killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin, The iPINIONS Journal, March 21, 2012)
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