KQED McLaughlin Group July 21, 2013
Floridas quoteonquote stand your ground law and other self defense laws like it that exist in 26 other u. S. States. Laws that allow people who feel threaten to not run away, but rather to legally defend ones self even with deadly force if necessary. They are now under National Public scrutiny in the wake of the february 12,2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. An unarmed 17yearold male in sanford, florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman a Neighborhood Watch volunteer. Last week after 16 hours and 20 minutes of deliberations, a jury of five white women and one woman who appeared to be hispanic fou...