Florida lawmakers vote to expand ‘Stand Your Ground’
Florida lawmakers vote to expand ‘stand your ground’ law
people do not have a duty to try to retreat before using deadly force when threatened in public places.
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So basically, you can shoot whoever you want, and then say you felt threatened. Dead people can't talk, so as long as there are no other witnesses, you're good to go.
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Less than a week after Michael Dunn was not convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, a bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers passed a bill out of committee on Thursday that would expand the state’s controversial “stand your ground” law.
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Dunn, 47, was charged with murdering 17-year-old Jordan Davis outside a convenience store last year. Dunn said he feared for his life after he asked Davis and three other teenagers to turn down the music in their car. He claimed he saw a shotgun in their car and then fired 10 shots, three of which hit and killed Davis. No gun was found in the car.
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When Zimmerman, who is half Hispanic, was acquitted in the death of the black teen, civil rights groups pointed to a Florida self-defense case that turned out very differently. Marissa Alexander, a 32-year-old black woman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot at her estranged husband, who she said was threatening to abuse her. Activists said Alexander’s lengthy sentence showed that the states’ court system applied self-defense law in a racist way.
it's like they just take them at their word.
