stand your ground
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Florida Man Who Shot and Killed Black Man Over Parking Space Dispute in 'Stand Your Ground' Case Claims He Was 'Very Scared'
It was only a matter of time before the infamous “I feared for my life” came popping up as justification for shooting and killing a black man, and Michael Drejka’s iteration of the excuse is unsurprising. On Friday, in a jailhouse interview, Drejka spoke out for the first time after he fatally shot Markeis McGlockton…
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Alabama Pastor Says He's Going to Stand His Ground If Truck Is Vandalized With Racist Graffiti Again
A pastor in Gadsden, Ala., is fed up with racists after his truck was vandalized with bigoted graffiti, and says the next time it happens, he’s going to “stand his ground.” Pastor K. Solomon Williams, a preacher at Piedmont’s Mount Pleasant CME Church, woke up on Sunday and saw that his Ford F-150 was plastered…
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Judge of Characters: Stand Your Ground Only Works for White People
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law faced heavy scrutiny back in 2012 when George Zimmerman, a white-passing neighborhood watchman saw Trayvon Martin walking down the street minding his own business. Zimmerman deemed Trayvon scary and a “punk” and followed him. Their confrontation left Trayvon dead and his killer a free man. Stand Your Ground, which allows…
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Gunman in 'Stand Your Ground' Shooting of Black Man Had History of Raging About Parking Spaces, Locals Say
The girlfriend of a black man gunned down in a Florida parking lot last week says that not only was her boyfriend just coming to her defense in a heated dispute, but that the gunman “wanted someone to be angry at.” Regulars at the convenience store in Clearwater, Fla.,—including its owner—say that the gunman, Michael…
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The Stand Your Ground Law Protects Shooter Who Killed Black Man Over Parking Space, Sheriff Says
Two men, Markeis McGlockton and Michael Drejka, got into an argument in a convenience Circle A Food store parking lot in Clearwater, Fla., over a parking spot. It’s been reported that Drejka was arguing with McGlockton’s girlfriend about them being parked in the handicap spot without a proper tag. That argument ended with McGlockton, who…
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South Carolina Police Decline to Pursue Charges Against Man Who Fatally Shot Unarmed 15-Year-Old Over a Stolen Car
The North Charleston, S.C., Police Department has declined to pursue criminal charges against a man who went after and then fatally shot an unarmed 15-year-old boy in a car theft. Derrick Grant was killed Jan. 17 by 24-year-old Quadarrel Lamont Morton, who claimed that the teen repeatedly reached into the stolen car, the Post and…
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Miami Judge Rules New ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law Unconstitutional
An update to Florida’s controversial, seemingly for-whites-only “Stand your ground” law was deemed unconstitutional by a Miami judge on Monday. According to the Miami Herald, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch ruled that the lawmakers who modified the law this year to force prosecutors to disprove a defendant’s self-defense claim at a pretrial hearing was illegitimate. He…