suffered damage to multipl organs and had her splee removed. but according to her family, she is now in stable condition this trio of shootings all taking place within a matter o days has reignited a conversation around what w consider to be self-defense in this country from much of u.s. history, tha idea, rested on somethin called the castle doctrine a legal notion that your hom is your castle and therefore, you have th right to use, yes, deadly forc to defend it in recent decades, in many states have taken things eve further, implementing so-calle stand-your-ground laws it those lost eight even when person is outside of their home, they can use lethal force in situations where they ar scared for their life. the modern wave of these law can be traced back to florida, we re two decades ago, after intense lobbying efforts fro the nra, the state passed th first ever stand-your-ground law in 2005. harvard historian, carolin light, traced how america made
racist, we really need to look at the racial outcomes of thes laws because they encourage an really lead to the kinds o flash in a section few shootings that we ve bee seeing here, which hav profoundly disparate racia outcomes so, do you believe that tha people who feel emboldened whe they know these laws are on th books? they are conscious of it and i fact are more likely to shoo people in the states well, again, i don t know - i wrote a book called dying of witness that look at the racia politics of gun laws i missouri, in particular. but also, and the book wit these self-defense golden laws and the frame around these valence is the change we have something called the castle doctrine, which is wher all this came from the idea, again, which i centuries old is that a man ha a right to defend his castle but when we change the
such force to be necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful force by such a person based on your reading of this law. does the apparent gunman here have any protection under missouri law? okay? the use of force statute. the castle doctrine the stand your ground action under the laws and missouri are completely inapplicable to this case, because there has been no conversation not from the suspect not from the victim and not from law enforcement that ralph your euro at 13 at 16 years old ever posed a threat. to this shooter. how have courts in the past and your experience defined that key term there of reasonably what is the precedent here for deciding when that forces reasonable when it s unreasonable? the court
charged with murder. perry a u.s. army sergeant was driving for uber back in july 2020 and says his vehicle was suddenly surrounded by black lives matter protesters. one of whom he claims pointed an ak-47 his way. witnesses say that s not true and his weapon was pointed down the whole time. [gunfire] yet, perry says he fired in self-defense. killing 28-year-old garrett foster a u.s. air force veteran. foster s family now feels a sense of justice. we are happy with the verdict. governor greg abbott, however, is not. his administration believes this is clearly a case of self-defense and nobody should be criminally charged. we have strong stand your ground laws. the castle doctrine in texas, which expands to if you are in your automobile or anywhere. they also accuse democratic d.a.s of playing politics. legislature needs to address malicious prosecutions and prosecutors who are not doing their jobs, who are not
sleeping in bed and they have a gun by their bedside and somebody kicks down the doors and starts coming in, they re going to grab their gun. absolutely. and probably start shooting to defend themselves. i mean in most states i mean you look what happened with trayvon, what was justified in the killing of trayvon. but you have stand-your-ground laws outside but then you add the castle doctrine to that. you are inside your home. somebody can i have just got to say i think most second rights defenders and supporters would say the same thing. you don t want to step in my house because if you step in my house, and i have heard them say this, i have said this. if you step in my house at nice and you kim down the door, i don t have to ask questions. i defend my house. that s the law, rev. that s the established law,