“Had McGlockton been the one to pull out a gun, there is no way stand your ground would have been extended to him, a man of color. He would have been charged with murdering a white man. The disturbing reality is that stand your ground perpetuates the cycle of African American men taking bullets from self-appointed vigilantes.”
– Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump in Why the days of ‘stand your ground’ self-defense laws may be numbered [via theguardian.com]