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‘License to kill’: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ gun laws are fuelling random shootings and racism across the US

Josh Marcus reports on a growing body of laws making it easier to ‘shoot first and ask questions later’

The Independent UK

‌El Video Del Dniversario De Trayvon Martin Genera Controversia Sobre La Edición Engañosa

‌El New York Times acusado de calumniar y provocar tensiones raciales con una edición engañosa en el video de Trayvon Martin.

Zenger

Trayvon Martin Anniversary Video Sparks Controversy Over Misleading Editing

New York Times accused of slandering and stirring racial tensions with deceptive editing in Trayvon Martin video.

Zenger

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Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death

The Independent UK

Black Lives Matter 10-year anniversary: Why was it founded and what has changed?

The international movement took off after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012

Evening Standard

White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor is arrested in Florida

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says a Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday

The Independent UK

Sheriff probes 'self defense' claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids

A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud

The Independent UK

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'Stand Your Ground' Laws Are Back in the News, but It's Not Clear Why

The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.

Reason

Wrong-place shootings put 'stand your ground' laws in the spotlight

They were shot after pulling into the wrong driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car in a parking lot.

Los Angeles Times

Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire

In suburban Detroit, it was a lost 14-year-old looking for directions

The Independent UK

Ralph Yarl shooting: Can a doorbell ring justify a ‘stand your ground’ shooting?

A Missouri law allowing people to defend themselves in their homes could come into play in the shooting of a Black 16-year-old in Kansas City

The Independent UK

Can a doorbell ring justify a 'stand your ground' shooting?

A Missouri law allowing people to defend themselves in their homes could come into play in the shooting of a Black 16-year-old in Kansas City

The Independent UK

2 shootings at mistaken addresses have renewed the focus on 'stand your ground' laws

Stand your ground laws have proliferated in the years since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed in 2012. Research shows the laws have led to an increase in firearm homicides.

WEKU

Why the Ralph Yarl shooting is reigniting the ’stand your ground’ debate

From Trayvon Martin to Jordan Davis to Ralph Yarl, why “stand your ground” is the go-to defense after shooting a Black teen.

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Salon

Greg Abbott's rush to pardon a murderer

From Kyle Rittenhouse to George Zimmerman, Republicans reveal a lot with the accused killers they support

The Guardian - UK

‘Black kids deserve to grow old’: collage legend Deborah Roberts on unjust America

She has spent decades capturing what life is really like for Black Americans. The artist talks about Tyre Nichols – and why she wishes she could move on from this relentless subject matter

Tribune News Service

These law students see Supreme Court Justice Jackson as an ‘inspiration’

TAMPA, Fla. -- For the first time in its 232-year history, a Black woman holds a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Miami Herald

Parkland mass shooter finally faces judgment. Jury selection to begin on Monday

MIAMI — More than four years after he gunned down 17 people at a Parkland high school, Nikolas Cruz is finally set to face judgment in a Broward County courtroom.

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Los Angeles Times

How Gayle King put a national spotlight on the killing of Trayvon Martin

“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King recalls the editorial story meeting at her network in February 2012 when she first brought up the name Trayvon Martin.

Orlando Sentinel

10 years after Trayvon Martin’s killing: Town's police build trust with ‘baby steps’

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the weeks following Trayvon Martin’s shooting death a decade ago, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Sanford demanding that the city reform its police department, which had long faced accusations of racial bias from members of the Black community.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trayvon Martin, 10 years later: Unarmed teen’s death changes nation

The killing of Trayvon Martin — a baby-faced, hoodie-wearing, unarmed youth at the hands of a stranger — still reverberates 10 years later: in protest, in partisanship, in racial reckoning and reactionary response, in social justice and social media.

The Independent UK

Trayvon Martin anniversary: Up to 18,000 killed under ‘racist’ stand-your-ground laws since 2012. Why has nothing changed?

In 10 years since shooting of teenager, the laws, purported to protect the public, have done the opposite, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

George Zimmerman: What became of the man who killed Trayvon Martin

George Zimmerman has tried to claim he was the real victim of the Trayvon Martin tragedy

The Independent UK

After Trayvon, Ben Crump became civil rights go-to lawyer

Before Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and other Black people died at the hands of white police officers or self-appointed vigilantes, there was Martin Lee Anderson

The Independent UK

Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton on decade of fighting for racial justice: ‘I can’t give up’

Sybrina Fulton has devoted life to trying to bring about change, writes Andrew Buncombe

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