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Apply to a woman has a known abuser she is facing, someone menacing her inside her own home. she is in her castle. castle doctrine means you dont have a duty to retreat. angela coreys explanation was she should have ran out the front door. no duty to retreat should mean no duty to retreat, but apparently it didnt apply here. >> let me go back to you, kevin. in terms of the broad use of stand your ground, it at the broad discretion of a prosecutor and a judge, right? i want people to understand a...

Ironically, there was a law against racial profiling in the state of illinois done by a man named barack obama when he was a state senator. so when we look at the state laws, and we look at how theyre applied, the federal government can look at the laws, but we also need to deal with the state law in florida and other states that have set up situations that come back to haunt us. its unimaginable that you have one set of laws in florida, another in new york, another in pennsylvania. i think weve...

From the empowerment movement thank you both for joining me. >> thank you, reverend. >> the activism that both of you involved with me in the beginning around these big issues and around this case, and now going forward has always been nonviolent. and we insist on that. but it also must deal with leading to real fundamental change. dr. richardson? >> you know, the change is critical. weve been here before. too often have we been where we are now. at a place of disappointment and frustration. wha...

This is not the end. this is just the beginning, that its a forward march for progress and we all need to participate. and certainly, ben, you have done a wonderful job and we really appreciate the work you have done. let me just say, though, the issue that people talk about is that this is double jeopardy if you were to prosecute it. it is not double jeopardy because the federal statute has different elements and different causes of actions that apply that do not apply in state court. so you ca...

Inflicted on us in this country. >> reverend richardson and pastor jamal harrison bryant, im happy to have both of you with us tonight, ministers and activists around the country will be in 100 cities in front of federal buildings this saturday, saying that we must deal with these state laws, and we must call on the justice department to look into the civil rights violation and this case. and they will be gathering around the country. thank you both for being here. ahead, the woman serving 20 ...

Theyre going to post on their website any time now, prosecutors fought to get in the prior non-emergency calls zimmerman made where in all cases he called about a suspicious person in the neighborhood, in all cases, in 100% of the cases. it was an african-american person. they got that evidence in. and then they never used it. they never used it on cross-examination of a witness. they didnt use it in closing argument. they didnt play it back. and they said in closing arguments this is not about ...

And it was inspiring, reverend sharpton, to say the least. she said oui come a long way. now we have to roll up our sleeves and work even harder to make sure this doesnt happen to anybody elses child, especially now that this verdict has been handed down. >> you know, over a year ago, you and i and others had talked about the federal government looking into not only this case, but the stand your ground laws. we had a meeting with the u.s. attorney right there in sanford, florida. this is nothing...

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