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