The upshot is, if you're in Florida and your are black, you can be killed for playing loud music.
"Mistrial in Jordan Davis murder case revives debate on race and self-defense" PBS Newshour 2/17/2014
Excerpt
GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Over the weekend, the verdict in another Florida murder case raised hackles in the continuing debate about race and self-defense.
Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old Jacksonville software developer, who is white, was convicted on three counts of attempted murder. But a mistrial was declared in a separate charge that he murdered 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was black.
In November 2012, Dunn pulled into a gas station where four teenagers were parked in an SUV listening to loud music. After an argument, Dunn fired 10 bullets at the SUV. Three of the teens, who were unarmed, were not hit, but Davis was and later died.
We take a closer look at the verdict now with Judith Browne-Dianis, a civil rights lawyer and co-director of The Advancement Project, a civil rights organization, and David Weinstein, a former state and federal prosecutor in Miami-Dade County. He’s now a partner at the Clarke Silverglate law firm in Miami.
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