Stand Your Ground Laws

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Peter Bernardo Spencer thegrio.com
March 16, 2022
The man who confessed to fatally shooting Jamaican immigrant Peter Bernardo Spencer during a camping trip will not face charges.
U.S. Supreme Court
February 21, 2022
In 2005, Florida became the first state to pass a "stand your ground" law, which allows citizens to use deadly…
November 12, 2020
Gov. DeSantis' proposal in Florida is in response to police brutality protests that took place this summer after George Floyd's…
April 2, 2014
MSNBC - Marissa Alexander will learn next month whether she will be allowed to seek immunity under Florida’s 'Stand Your…
March 20, 2014
MSNBC - Defenders of Stand Your Ground laws and other efforts to expand gun rights have for years invoked female…
March 7, 2014
VIDEO - There are 42 states with Stand Your Ground laws on the books but on Thursday, South Carolina's Black…
March 4, 2014
OPINION - A life sentence for a warning shot that injured no one is a miscarriage of justice...
February 18, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Phillip Agnew, the executive director of the Dream Defenders, joined MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes Monday…
February 18, 2014
MSNBC - Critics of Florida’s so-called Stand-Your-Ground law are using the recent verdict in the 'loud music' murder trial as…
February 16, 2014
MIAMI (AP) — Trayvon Martin's parents have expressed their support for the parents of a 17-year-old who was fatally shot…
February 3, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Agnew established the Dream Defenders after he led a many-man 40-mile march from Daytona Beach to Sanford,…
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A former U.S. airman is currently sitting in a Florida prison for what his supporters argue was…
December 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In March, Alexander will face a new jury at her second trial which was awarded after an…
November 29, 2013
OPINION - This holiday season, will African-Americans keep the black out of Black Friday?...
November 27, 2013
OPINION - Zimmerman's latest arrest has now re-energized the debate over gun reform...
November 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Only 35 percent of African-Americans in Florida support the concept behind 'Stand Your Ground' laws, but 66…
November 8, 2013
POLITICS NATION - In their first major legislative move since protesters took over the state house demanding the repeal of…
October 31, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - As the family prepares for the upcoming trial, theGrio was able to speak to Ron Davis, Sr.…
October 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The mother of a 17-year-old boy shot by a suspicious neighbor told a panel of U.S. senators…
October 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, is telling a Senate panel Tuesday that states must clarify…