Left Standing 0
The legal concept of “standing” refers to whether someone has enough of a stake in a situation to file a tort.
At Philly dot com, Elmer Smith looks at a different standing: who has standing to “stand his ground”:
Would the most permissive self-defense law in America have been wide enough to cover an unarmed 17-year-old black kid in a hoodie who was walking through a predominantly white neighborhood at night?
Think on that, then try to convince yourself that race had no part in this killing or in the police reaction to it.
