Democratic National Committee chairwoman and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is calling for the repeal of her state’s Stand Your Ground laws in the wake of the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin last month.
The Hill reports:
"Trayvon Martin’s death is a tragedy and that has rightly spurred a national conversation and calls to action," Wasserman Schultz, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement posted on her website Friday and circulated on Twitter Saturday.
"This case is further evidence that Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground Law,’ which passed in 2005, needs to be repealed. The failure of the Sanford police to further investigate this crime as a result of their interpretation of this law is an injustice to Trayvon’s family and to all Floridians," she said.