Ministers Form National Task Force to Repeal ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws

[SecularMotion]

Source: Afro.com

Enough is enough, says Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes, noting the list of young Black people dead or in jail in states where “stand your ground” laws are in place.

“Our young Black boys are being senselessly killed just for being Black teenagers,” said Holmes, who on March 25 announced the formation of the National Pastor’s Task Force, a nation wide coalition of 40 Black ministers who want to repeal or revise “stand your ground” laws.

“We have begun the fight in Florida and pledge to carry it across the nation,” said Holmes, pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Fla. and vice chairman of a Florida task force created in the wake of the shooting death in February 2012 of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

The coalition’s call for repeal of state laws allowing lethal force in self-defense is the latest organized opposition to “stand your ground” laws. On March 23, the Congressional Black Caucus issued a similar call.

Read more: http://www.afro.com/sections/news/national/story.htm?storyid=82066

[lamp_shade]

1. I wish MLK was still alive.

[jwirr]

2. Good it is about time. That law is an open invitation to murder.

[cui bono]

3. Not to mention the black woman who was not able to use it

when she didn't even kill anyone.

The only reason that law exists is for racists to be able to kill minorities with impunity. Get rid of it.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R²

[SoapBox]

5. Bravo.

[Jake Stern]

6. Sadly, about the only thing that will change SYG

is when some GOP governor's or billionaire RW donor's child gets whacked by someone who successfully uses SYG as a defense.