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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1172565" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=1]Blacks benefit from Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ law at disproportionate rate[/h]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">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.<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">But approximately one third of Florida “Stand Your Ground” claims in fatal cases have been made by black defendants, and they have used the defense successfully 55 percent of the time, at the same rate as the population at large and at a higher rate than white defendants, according to a Daily Caller <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/fatal-cases" target="_blank">analysis of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times. </a> Additionally, the majority of victims in Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases have been white.</span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">African Americans used “Stand Your Ground” defenses at nearly twice the rate of their presence in the Florida population, <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.html" target="_blank">which was listed</a> at 16.6 percent in 2012.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/#ixzz2ZJGCdTzO" target="_blank">Florida blacks benefit from Florida 'Stand Your Ground' | The Daily Caller</a></span></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1172565, member: 12952"] [h=1]Blacks benefit from Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ law at disproportionate rate[/h][LEFT][COLOR=#000000]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.[LEFT][COLOR=#000000]But approximately one third of Florida “Stand Your Ground” claims in fatal cases have been made by black defendants, and they have used the defense successfully 55 percent of the time, at the same rate as the population at large and at a higher rate than white defendants, according to a Daily Caller [URL="http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/fatal-cases"]analysis of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times. [/URL] Additionally, the majority of victims in Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases have been white. African Americans used “Stand Your Ground” defenses at nearly twice the rate of their presence in the Florida population, [URL="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.html"]which was listed[/URL] at 16.6 percent in 2012. [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] Read more: [url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/#ixzz2ZJGCdTzO]Florida blacks benefit from Florida 'Stand Your Ground' | The Daily Caller[/url] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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