Florida tries to repeal Stand Your Ground law as Trayvon Martin anniversary nears
Don't show me this message again✕ A state senator has introduced a bill to repeal Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows people to use guns and other deadly force in public in self-defence without first trying to retreat, as the country nears the 9th anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, which helped inspire Black Lives Matter protests. George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic man, shot Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in 2012 in, Florida, and was acquitted of second-degree murder under the law. "We know for a fact that Stand Your Ground promotes vigilantism, i...
Source: independent.co.uk