stand your ground

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Before the killing of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood stalk-negroes-man George Zimmerman, most people had never even heard of “stand your ground” laws. Yet, they had been on the books in Florida for nearly seven years at the time Trayvon was killed for minding his own business while being Black. Now, if you think that since that tragic day in 2012—when a Black teen was killed senselessly by the monster-slash-craven coward who got away with it—America grew a conscience, realized the harm these laws have the potential to create and decided a sweeping policy change was in order, then you just don’t know America. Related Stories STL laws didn’t decrease after Trayvon’s death, they increased to the point wh...