African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground”
self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in
the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric
Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans.
Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand
Your Ground” claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black
percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have
been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites.
Nonetheless, prominent African Americans including Holder and “Ebony
and Ivory” singer Stevie Wonder, who has vowed not to perform in the
Sunshine State until the law is revoked, have made “Stand Your Ground” a
central part of the Trayvon Martin controversy.
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