this administration is determend to leave us defenseless
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Holder: "Stand Your Ground" allows, encourages escalating violence
Laws like "Stand Your Ground" undermine innocent Americans' safety "by allowing - and perhaps encouraging - violent situations to escalate in public," Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon, three days after George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager spurred civil rights protests across the United States.
Delivering remarks to the NAACP's annual conference in Orlando - 30-something miles from where Zimmerman, claiming "self-defense," fatally shot Trayvon Martin - Holder acknowledged that "as passionate civil rights leaders, as engaged citizens and, most of all, as parents," his audience members remained "deeply - and rightly - concerned about this case." Calling the teen's death "tragic and unnecessary," he stressed that his department will consider "all available information" in determining whether to pursue federal criminal charges against Zimmerman.
Holder reiterated President Obama's statement following the verdict that "we are a nation of laws, and the jury has spoken." But "separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation's attention," he continued, "it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.
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Holder: "Stand Your Ground" allows, encourages escalating violence - CBS News