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“Do you think Trayvon Martin received justice?” State of the Union host Candy Crowley requested Arizona Senator John McCain on Sunday morning, in a dialog that eventually resulted in McCain recommending that the a lot-criticized Stand Your Ground rules be reviewed within the many states which have them on the books.
McCain first affirmed the validity of the jury’s verdict. “I trust the judgment of a jury of his peers,” McCain stated. “Nobody that I know of have said that this case was once incorrect, that it was corrupt, that there used to be the rest improper with the gadget of justice.”
“But you have in mind how it can be considered, as the President mentioned, thru a prism of the historical past of injustice?” Crowley pressed.
“Absolutely, I will see that,” McCain stated. “I will be able to additionally see that the Stand Your Ground regulation could also be one thing that has to be reviewed with the aid of the Florida legislature or another legislature that has handed such rules.”
Stand Your Floor, Florida’s permissive self-safeguard regulation, was once initially invoked with the aid of George Zimmerman within the shooting of Martin, though his security ended up not using it in his trial. For the reason that verdict the legislation has come underneath heavy scrutiny, with public figures like Stevie Surprise threatening to boycott all states with equivalent so-known as “fort doctrine” regulations.
“Do you suppose the Stand Your Ground in Arizona is worth looking at again?” Crowley asked.
“Sure I do,” McCain said. “I’m confident that the participants of the Arizona legislature will, because it is a very controversial rules.” (It seems that he’s by no means met the Arizona legislature.)
Watch the interview below, via CNN:
