Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin announced Friday he will hold hearings on so-called “stand your ground” laws passed by states, interjecting Congress in the ongoing controversy surrounding the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

The hearings, to be held in September, will address concerns from Democrats that laws allowing the use of deadly force in the face of a physical threat have altered the legal meaning of self-defense. Hispanic neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman successfully argued against a second-degree murder charge by insisting he shot Martin, a black youth, because he felt his life was in danger.
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In what is sure to be a politically charged setting, the hearings will also tackle “when racial profiling and ‘stand your ground’ laws mix,” according to a release from Durbin, D-Ill, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Civil rights advocates have called for an investigation by the federal Justice Department into whether race played a role in the death of Martin, who was not carrying a weapon and was returning home after a trip to a convenience store when he was approached by Zimmerman.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/dick-durbi...article/2533270

For crying out loud, has the whole world gone crazy? First our black president moans and groans about his childhood and now the senate is getting into the act of trying to usurp Florida's stand your ground laws. Maybe Zimmerman should have just let the black teenage thug beat him to death.
According to everything I've read today, it was the right thing to do.

They're pushing hard, Olivia, real hard!

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Who cares. This is Turban grandstanding so that he can solicit donations from the stupid and mentally defective. It will result in nothing and actually give the GOP some ammo against the Rats in '14 by showing that the Left is actually pro criminal. F you Turban.

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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin announced Friday he will hold hearings on so-called “stand your ground” laws passed by states, interjecting Congress in the ongoing controversy surrounding the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

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