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African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans. Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand Your Ground” claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites. Nonetheless, prominent African Americans including Holder and “Ebony and Ivory” singer Stevie Wonder, who...

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY George Zimmerman found not guilty Here are my own feelings regarding this highly publicized trial, which I followed the trial closely...each day. The jury clearly looked at the evidence, which was overwhelming for the defense and Zimmerman. Zimmerman's nose was broken and his face was bruised and bloodied after the confrontation. He had cuts and bruises on the back of his head. He had grass stains on the back of his shirt and pants. Treyvon had no injuries from the fight, except the gunshot wound. There were scrapes on his knuckles. And he had grass...

A citizen with a “concealed-carry” handgun license shot out a tire on a car full of fleeing shoplifters, then followed them in his own vehicle Wednesday morning, helping Azle police apprehend four people who were subsequently charged with robbery. Police officers from at least three agencies caught up with everyone in a neighborhood behind Allsup’s convenience store off Highway 199 west of Azle. Four accused shoplifters had been spotted by employees of Albertsons grocery store and were attempting a getaway with less than $50 worth of miscellaneous items when they were spotted by a citizen in the parking lot. The...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Two gunmen opened fire in a Brooklyn diner Saturday morning, wounding eight people before pistol-whipping a patron and fleeing with cash and jewelry, police said.</p> <p>The two men had been sitting in the Galaxy Diner at about 5:15 a.m. ET Saturday when they got up and started shooting, police and witnesses said.</p>

MIDI - I AM WOMAN I am rabbi with a gun…I will be victim of no one So you terrorists are warned, don't mess with me I will shoot you if I must…you'll be the one who's turned to dust On the streets of Brooklyn, you are gonna see So you can bet the whole farm…there won't be another Holocaust This time we'll stand up…too many people we've lost We're committed, we will defend ourselves We are strong…I'm set to lock and load…I am rabbi I am rabbi with a gun and…I am never gonna run and It is...