A Missouri bill proposes to expand the state’s “stand your ground” law to give shooters and other attackers the benefit of the doubt when they say they were acting in self-defense. During a state Senate committee hearing, Kansas City Democrat Barbara Washington butts heads with the bill sponsor, Washington Republican Ben Brown.
[mo1standyourground1] :20 “….the state level.”
(as said) “This is something that’s been universally applied in red states, blue states, and it hasn’t created issues, hasn’t prevented prosecutions,” says Brown. “Sir, it has prevented prosecution. In California, they just arrested a gang member on the federal level because this could not allow the Los Angeles County prosecutor to arrest them on the state level,” says Washington.