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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 don't have a duty to retreat. angela corey's explanation was she should have ran out the front door. no duty to retreat should mean no duty to retreat, but apparently it didn't 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 as egregious as this individual case, there is a systematic problem with this law and how it is st...

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 they're 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. it's unimaginable that you have one set of laws in florida, another in new york, another in pennsylvania. i think we've got to discuss all of that as we deal with the outcome of this case. >> from my point. >> absolu...

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. we've been here before. too often have we been where we are now. at a place of disappointment and frustration. what the black church has to do and the leadership must be an incubator for that frustration, and tran...

This is not the end. this is just the beginning, that it's 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 can in fact have a separate federal cause of action that is separate and apart from a state case, eve...

Inflicted on us in this country. >> reverend richardson and pastor jamal harrison bryant, i'm 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 years for firing a shot that hit a wall. yet others go free. how is this justice in america? that's...