Trayvon's mom: Stand Your Ground helped Zimmerman 'get away with murder'
The mother of Trayvon Martin said Monday that she believed Florida’s Stand Your Ground law played a role in son’s shooting death, but she wasn’t ready to back a boycott of the state for not changing the self-defense law.
“The thing about this law is I just think it assisted the person who killed my son to get away with murder,” Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the 17-year-old from Miami Gardens said at a National Bar Association event in Miami Beach.
“I think we have to change these laws so people don’t get away with murder,” she said, adding that her son was unarmed and peacefully walking back to his dad’s place when he was pursued initially by George Zimmerman.
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“I can’t say that I’m in support of it, (boycott) but not in support of it,” she said. “But I think people have a right to free speech. And if that’s their way of showing how they feel, to express themselves about the verdict, then I think that’s something they can do.”
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